Questions parents ask

Pukki is a voice-first AI encyclopedia for curious kids ages 3 to 12. Your child asks a question out loud, and Pukki gives a short spoken answer made for their age. This page answers what a parent is likely to ask before trying it.

What is Pukki?

Pukki is an app your child can ask why. They tap one button and ask out loud. Pukki answers in a few short, spoken sentences made for their age, and its words appear on screen as it speaks, so early readers can follow along. You see what they wondered about, with ideas to explore together.

What ages is it for?

Children aged 3 to 12. A parent or legal guardian sets Pukki up, and children never have an account, an email address or a password of their own. You give each child’s age and choose how much detail you’d like in their answers.

How does my child use it?

By talking. One tap, then they just ask, ums and all: Pukki waits while they find the words. There is nothing to type and nothing to scroll.

You can hand over your own phone in Kid mode, which keeps a child on Pukki’s screen and takes your PIN to leave. Or pair your child’s own phone with a code from yours.

What do I see as a parent?

Short summaries, in Pukki’s words, of what your child was curious about, and the answer Pukki gave. Never recordings. On an answer you can ask Pukki to explain it for a grown-up, or to suggest questions to ask your child back, and some summaries come with an idea to explore together.

Is Pukki an AI friend?

No, on purpose. Pukki answers a question and then gets out of the way: short answers, not endless chat. It ends most answers with one short question about the same topic, which you can turn off. No streaks, no secrets, no “I missed you.” The relationships in your child’s life should be with people.

Are the answers always right?

No. Answers are written by AI and can be wrong. Pukki is made to explain the world simply. It is not a source of medical, legal, safety or other professional advice, and it is not a replacement for a grown-up.

What happens with personal or difficult questions?

They come to you. Before a question reaches the AI that writes the answers, Pukki’s server checks it for the clearest signs of a topic a grown-up should handle, such as a child being hurt. Pukki does not answer those. It asks your child to talk to a grown-up instead. The AI is also told to pass such questions to you.

So that you know what to talk about, you see what the question was about, never your child’s own words. A question about someone hurting your child is not kept at all.

What does Pukki hear, and what does it keep?

Pukki listens only while the microphone button is active. Your child’s question is turned into text on the phone; the recording never leaves the phone and is not saved. The text goes to Pukki’s server and to OpenAI, which writes the answer. Pukki asks OpenAI not to store it; OpenAI may still hold it for up to 30 days to detect abuse. The answer is spoken by a voice that runs on the phone.

Before your child’s first question is sent, Pukki shows you what happens to it and asks for your agreement. Summaries and answers are kept for 90 days so you can see what your child was curious about. If you switch it on, each question Pukki answers is also kept for 13 months, with no link to your family, to improve Pukki; it is off unless you turn it on.

There are no ads and no third-party tracking, and you can delete a child or your whole account at any time in Settings. The Privacy Policy sets all of this out in full.

What does it cost?

Pukki is a paid service, with a monthly and a yearly Family plan sold as App Store subscriptions. The price, in your currency, is shown in the app and on the App Store before you buy. Where offered, the yearly plan starts with a free trial.

One plan covers your phone and up to four children’s phones, with up to 150 questions a day for the whole family. The Terms of Use have the detail.

What do we need to use it?

An iPhone or iPad with iOS 26 or later, a microphone and an internet connection. Pukki listens and answers in English, in the variant your device is set to, such as British or American.

Pukki is coming to Google Play; there is no Android version yet. Until Pukki is on the App Store, the App Store buttons on this site open the waitlist.

Who makes Pukki?

Pukki is made by Veronika, its founder, in the Czech Republic. The Terms say who provides it. Write to support@pukki.ai, or to privacy@pukki.ai about your family’s data. If you already use Pukki, the Support page says where things are in the app.