Built like a bedtime, not like an app.
Most children's apps are built to hold attention. This one is built to let it go. Everything below is a design decision you can verify, not a marketing promise.
You set the shape of the night
Before the child begins, you choose the night's allowance — how many friends get helped. The session winds down by itself and finishes at My Sleep Time. There is nothing for a child to unlock, buy, or binge; when the moonlight comes, the meadow is done for the night.
Privacy is structural
The app runs entirely offline. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising SDKs and no internet requirement at all. It cannot collect your child's data because there is nothing in it that collects — see the privacy policy, which is short because there is genuinely little to say.
Calm by craft
Volume sits low. Cuts are slow. Colours dim as bedtime approaches. Voices soften. The same journey happens in the same order every night, because predictability is what small children find restful. The app is deliberately boring in the exact places entertainment apps are deliberately not.
Purchases
New lands are one-time purchases made through the App Store by an adult, behind the platform's own parental controls, and are never shown or suggested inside the child's experience. The free meadow is not a trial — it is complete.
Questions
Write to us at craig@circlethemoon.app — a person reads it.