Terms of use.

01 Accepting these terms

By installing or using Little Orchid, or by using this website, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the app.

Little Orchid is intended for primary-school children but is designed to be installed and configured by an adult. If you are under the age of majority where you live, you may use the app only with the involvement of a parent, guardian or teacher, and that adult accepts these terms on your behalf and is responsible for any purchase. If you are that adult and you set the app up for a child, you accept these terms for both of you.

These terms are supplemented by our Privacy Policy, which forms part of them. Where you obtained the app from a store, that store's own terms also apply to the transaction.

02 Your licence to use the app

We grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to install and use Little Orchid on devices you own or control, for personal, family, or ordinary classroom teaching use.

You may set up as many learner profiles as your plan allows, and use the app with your own children or the pupils you teach. You do not need a separate licence per child in a household.

The app is licensed, not sold. We keep all rights we do not expressly grant here.

03 What you may not do

• Extract, scrape, decompile or otherwise separate the bundled content — the curriculum pack, the audio recordings, the stroke templates, the radical data or the font — in order to republish, redistribute, resell or build a competing product from it.
• Reverse engineer the app except to the limited extent that applicable law expressly permits and cannot be excluded by agreement.
• Remove, obscure or alter any copyright, licence or attribution notice.
• Sell, rent, sublicense or share access to a paid subscription outside your own household or the class you teach.
• Use the app unlawfully, or in a way that infringes someone else's rights.

Nothing here restricts your normal use of the study material with the children in your care — including writing the characters out, or reading the example sentences aloud in a lesson.

04 The free tier

Without paying anything you get the first four lessons of every level from Primary 1 to Primary 6, all six practice modes, the full handwriting pad with stroke checking, the mistake book, one learner profile, and a daily budget of seven new words and sixty reviews per level. It works offline and does not expire.

The free tier exists so you can judge the app on your own child before paying. We may adjust what it includes for future releases, but we will not retroactively remove access to content you have already paid for.

05 Little Orchid Plus, billing and cancellation

Little Orchid Plus starts with a 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers, then becomes an auto-renewing subscription at $2.99 SGD per month. It unlocks the complete Primary 1–6 curriculum, the optional Higher Chinese characters, adjustable daily study limits, unlimited learner profiles and the parent progress view.

• Who charges you. Google Play, not us. Google Play shows your trial eligibility and the $2.99 SGD monthly price before you confirm.
• When. For an eligible trial, the first charge is made after seven days. Otherwise, payment is charged when you confirm the purchase and again at the start of each renewal period.
• Renewal. It renews automatically each month until cancelled. Cancel before the trial or current billing period ends to avoid the next charge.
• How to cancel. In your Google Play subscription settings. We cannot cancel it for you, and uninstalling the app does not cancel it.
• After cancelling. Access continues until the end of the period you have paid for, then reverts to the free tier. Your learners and their progress remain on your device; only the locked content becomes unavailable.
• Restoring. Use “Restore purchases” in the app on any Android device signed in to the same Google Play account.
• Where. In-app purchase is available in the Android app. iOS is coming soon; the web build is study-only and cannot take payment.

06 Refunds

Because Apple and Google process the payment, refunds are handled under their policies and requested through them — Apple's “Report a Problem” or Google Play's refund request flow. We do not hold your payment and cannot issue a refund directly. This does not affect any statutory rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded.

07 The curriculum — what it is and is not

Two different kinds of material sit in the app, and the distinction matters:

• The character lists are authoritative. Every card is a Singapore MOE 生字, taken verbatim from the official 《欢乐伙伴》 / 《欢乐伙伴 2.0》 lists — the 2024 syllabus for Primary 1–2 and the 2015 syllabus for Primary 3–6 — including each character's 识写 or 识读 classification.
• Everything built around them is enrichment. The teaching word for each character, the example sentence, the English translation and the pinyin annotation were generated and then checked, not published by MOE. The example sentences in particular were drafted by a language model and then validated — structurally by automated gates, and by human review that replaced 136 sentences and 518 teaching words. That process reduces errors; it does not eliminate them.

So: the app is a study companion, not a textbook and not an assessment tool. We do not warrant that the enrichment material is free of error, nor that it matches your school's sequence, your teacher's word choices or any particular examination. Where a lesson list for a term has not been confirmed, the app says so rather than inventing content.

Your child's textbook and teacher remain the final curriculum reference. If the app and the school disagree, follow the school, and please tell us so we can fix it.

Progress figures, memory-heat scores, badges and the orchid are motivational and diagnostic aids computed from your child's own practice. They are not a prediction of examination results.

08 No affiliation with MOE

Little Orchid is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, approved by or connected to the Singapore Ministry of Education, any school, or the publishers of 《欢乐伙伴》. References to MOE syllabuses, character lists and textbook titles are factual references identifying the source of the character lists, made for the purposes of description and study. All trademarks and publication titles belong to their respective owners.

09 Optional device features

The read-aloud speech check is optional, is off until a child taps it, and depends on a speech recogniser provided by your operating system. It may be unavailable, inaccurate, or — depending on your device and settings — may process audio on Apple's or Google's servers under their terms. Read §06 of the Privacy Policy before enabling it. Its encouragement is never a substitute for a teacher's ear, and the app always offers honest self-assessment instead.

Daily reminders are scheduled locally by your device and may not fire if the operating system restricts background activity or you deny the notification permission.

10 Your data and your backups

Learner data lives on your device and we hold no copy. That is a deliberate design choice with a consequence you should plan for: if you lose, reset or replace the device without exporting a backup, the progress cannot be recovered — not by you and not by us, because there is nowhere else it exists.

Export a backup from the Parent tab before changing devices, and keep the file somewhere private: it contains learner names and progress in readable form. Restoring with “Replace everything” erases the learners currently on the device, which the app warns you about and names first. You are responsible for your own backups.

11 Availability and changes

Because the app works offline, it keeps working without us. We may nonetheless release updates that change, add or remove features, correct content, or adjust what the free tier includes. We may stop distributing the app or supporting a platform or operating-system version; if we do, copies already installed continue to work for as long as your device supports them, and you can still export your data.

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will raise the version and effective date at the top of this page and note it in the app's release notes. Continuing to use the app after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop using the app and cancel any subscription.

12 Intellectual property

The app, its interface, artwork, the orchid illustrations, the written copy, the example sentences and translations, the compilation and arrangement of the curriculum pack, and the Little Orchid and 小兰华文 names and marks are owned by Little Orchid or licensed to it, and are protected by copyright and other laws. The MOE character lists themselves are not ours and are used as described in §07 and §08.

If you believe something in the app infringes your rights, write to [email protected] with enough detail to identify the material and we will investigate promptly.

13 Third-party content and licences

Little Orchid bundles work by others, with gratitude. These notices are part of these terms, and the licences below govern those components rather than this agreement.

The app's Credits screen carries the complete, machine-generated list of open-source components and their licence texts as shipped in that build, which is authoritative if it differs from this summary.

14 Disclaimer of warranties

The app and this website are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, and accuracy or completeness of content.

In particular, and without limiting the above, we do not warrant that the app will be uninterrupted or error-free, that it will run on every device or operating-system version, that the enrichment content described in §07 is free of error, that it aligns with your school's teaching sequence, or that using it will produce any particular educational or examination outcome.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or of statutory consumer guarantees. Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any right or remedy you have that cannot lawfully be excluded, and in that case the exclusions above apply only to the extent permitted.

15 Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, opportunity, or educational outcomes, however caused.

We are also not liable for loss of learner data where you had not exported a backup, given that the app stores data only on your device and tells you so.

Where liability cannot be excluded, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the app or these terms is limited to the greater of the amount you actually paid us or through a store for Little Orchid in the twelve months before the claim arose, or SGD 50.

Nothing in this section limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

16 Termination

You may stop using the app at any time and uninstall it; that also deletes its local data, so export a backup first if you want to keep the progress. Cancel any subscription separately in your store settings.

We may suspend or terminate your licence if you materially breach these terms — in particular §03. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (§12 to §18) do so.

17 Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Singapore, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. You and we submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore.

If you are a consumer resident elsewhere, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer-protection laws of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts where that right cannot be excluded.

Before starting formal proceedings, please write to us — most issues, especially content errors, are faster to fix than to litigate.

18 General

• Entire agreement. These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the app, and replace any earlier understanding on the same subject.
• Severability. If a provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force and the unenforceable part is read down to the minimum extent necessary.
• No waiver. Not enforcing a right straight away is not a waiver of it.
• Assignment. You may not assign these terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, provided your rights are not reduced.
• Third parties. Apple and Google are not parties to these terms and have no obligation to you under them; they are, however, entitled to enforce any store terms that apply to your purchase, and are intended beneficiaries of §03 and §14 to §15 to the extent their store rules require.
• Language. The English version of these terms governs.

19 Contact

[email protected] for anything about these terms, a content correction, or a licensing question. Privacy requests: [email protected].