What is Pukki?

Pukki is a voice-first AI encyclopedia for curious kids ages 3–12. Your child asks out loud, and Pukki gives a short spoken answer made for their age.

Answers are written by AI and can be wrong. This page is the facts in one place, for a parent deciding whether to try Pukki and for anyone writing about it.

The facts

What it is: An app a child can ask why. They ask a question out loud and hear a short answer made for their age.
Who it is for: Children aged 3 to 12. A parent or legal guardian sets it up, and a child never has an account of their own. More
How a child asks: One tap, then they ask out loud, ums and all. There is nothing to type and nothing to scroll. More
The answer: A few short spoken sentences, pitched to one of five age bands. Pukki’s words appear on screen as it speaks. There are no pictures and no links.
Detail: For each child you choose Shorter, Just right or More detail.
A question back: Pukki ends most answers with one short question about the same topic. You can turn that off.
What you see: Short summaries, in Pukki’s words, of what your child wondered about, and the answer Pukki gave. Never recordings. More
For you, on an answer: Explain it to me, Ask them back, and on some answers an idea to try together.
Not an AI friend: Pukki is written to answer, not to befriend. No streaks, no “I missed you.” More
Questions for a grown-up: Pukki’s server checks each question for the clearest signs of a topic a grown-up should handle. Those are not sent to the AI: Pukki asks your child to talk to a grown-up. More below
Who writes the answers: An AI model from OpenAI, following Pukki’s instructions. Answers can be wrong.
What is sent: The recording never leaves the device and is not saved. The question’s text, your child’s age, the device’s English and their last two questions with Pukki’s answers go to Pukki’s server in Frankfurt and to OpenAI in the United States. Privacy Policy
What is kept: Summaries and answers for 90 days. With your agreement, each question Pukki answers, as it was asked, for 13 months with no link to your family. Those cannot be picked out and deleted later. More
Cost: A paid subscription, monthly or yearly, sold through the App Store. The price is shown in the app and on the App Store before you buy. Where offered, the yearly plan starts with a free trial. More
One plan covers: Your own device and up to four children’s devices, with up to 150 questions a day for the whole family.
What you need: An iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later, a microphone and an internet connection. Pukki speaks English only.
Where to get it: Pukki is not on the App Store yet. Until it is, the buttons on this site open the waitlist.
Who makes it: Veronika, its founder, in the Czech Republic.
Contact: support@pukki.ai, or privacy@pukki.ai about your family’s data.

What it looks like

The six screens from Pukki’s App Store page. The names, questions and answers in them are examples.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: Just ask. Pukki explains. Short spoken answers for curious kids. Pukki, a soft rainbow cloud, a speech bubble with a child’s question, “Why do bees dance?”, and one microphone button with the handwritten note “out loud, no typing!” — The child’s side: one button, and a question asked out loud.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: See what they wonder. An iPhone showing the parent’s Home for a child called Adam: “Adam has been wondering about the Moon, bees, and fish”, a Together card, “Make Moon phases”, and the latest questions. — The parent’s Home: what your child has been wondering about.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: Keep exploring together. A card, “Make Moon phases”, above a drawing of a parent and a child holding a ball up to a lamp: the lamp is the Sun, the ball is the Moon. — An idea to try together, from one of their questions.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: See the full answer. An iPhone showing one question, “Why the Moon seems to change shape”, Pukki’s answer in full, and three rows: Make Moon phases, Ask them back, Explain it to me. — One question opened: Pukki’s answer, Ask them back, Explain it to me.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: Answers made for their age. The question “Why do bees dance?” over Pukki the cloud, then two answers: at age 6, “A bee who finds flowers flies home and dances”, and at age 8, “It’s called the waggle dance.” — One question, answered for a six-year-old and for an eight-year-old.

Pukki app screenshot. Headline: You stay in control. Set their age, choose how detailed answers are, turn follow-up questions on or off, lock Kid mode with your PIN. An iPhone showing a child’s settings page. — A child’s settings: age, detail, follow-up questions, Kid mode.

For Pukki’s own words, see nine questions answered at five ages.

Why voice

Pukki is voice-first because a child can ask “why” years before they can type it or read the answer.

So there is one button and nothing to read. A child asks the way they talk, and Pukki waits while they find the words. Its own words appear on screen as it speaks, so an early reader can follow along.

How Pukki differs from a general chatbot

Pukki’s answers come from the same kind of AI as a general chatbot. The difference is in how a child reaches it and what happens around the answer.

One question, one short answer. Each is pitched to the age you set, and Pukki carries only the last two questions forward.
No account for the child. A child never signs in, types or browses.
You see what they wondered about. Summaries and answers, on your own device.
Some questions come back to you. Pukki does not try to answer everything.

The two are set out together in Pukki and a general AI chatbot, side by side.

The questions that come to you

Some questions are not Pukki’s to answer, and it tells your child so.

What your child hears. “Ask a grown-up to help with this one.” When a child sounds as if something is wrong: “That sounds hard, and it is not your fault. Please tell a grown-up you trust about it today.”
What you see. The day and what the question was about, never your child’s own words. A question about someone hurting your child is not kept at all.
Bodies. Under nine, questions about private parts, periods and how babies are made go to you. From nine, Pukki answers them plainly.
What your family believes. Pukki never says whether Santa or the tooth fairy is real, or what is true about God and heaven. It says families think differently and points your child to you.
The limit. The server’s check looks for the clearest signs, and the AI is also told to pass such questions to you. No check catches everything.

When Pukki gets it wrong

Pukki’s answers are written by AI, and some will be wrong.

Every answer you open in the app has “Answer not right? Tell us”. We keep a few hundred test questions across every age band and run Pukki against them when we change how it answers. On this site, nine questions show Pukki’s own answers beside their sources, with every correction marked.

Pukki is not a source of medical, legal, safety or other professional advice, and it is not a replacement for a grown-up.

What a child cannot reach

From Pukki’s screen a child cannot browse the web, follow a link or buy anything.

In Kid mode, Pukki opens to the child’s screen and nothing else. Getting to the parent’s side takes a PIN you chose. Kid mode locks Pukki, not the whole phone. A child’s own paired device opens straight to Pukki, with no sign-in and no parent area.

Who makes Pukki

Pukki is made by Veronika, its founder, in the Czech Republic. The Terms say who provides it, and her note on why Pukki is not an AI friend is on the home page.

If you are writing about Pukki, support@pukki.ai is the address for pictures and answers.

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