Introducing Lexy: The Ultimate Learning App for Neurodivergent Minds

A good specialist reading tutor costs €50–80 an hour. Most families cannot reach that, and most schools cannot stretch to one-to-one support. So the children who need patient, personal help the most are usually the ones who go without it. Lexy exists to close that gap.

What Lexy works on

Lexy supports phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Those five strands are the ones reading research keeps returning to, and a programme that skips any of them tends to leave a reader stranded somewhere between sounding out and understanding.

Move at your own pace through limitless games and sessions. There is no class to keep up with and nothing that runs out after a fortnight, which matters when progress is uneven — as it usually is.

Lessons that fit the reader, not the year group

Daily lessons are tailored to your needs, and goals are based on age — supporting early and adult literacy alike. An eight-year-old and a thirty-year-old working on the same phoneme should not be handed the same words, and they are not.

Our phonics tracking system is unique to each user. Lexy keeps track of which sounds a reader has already mastered and which ones consistently trip them, and pitches the next word at the edge of what they are ready for. Get one wrong and the next attempt is scaffolded rather than simply marked incorrect.

It speaks, because reading out loud is the point

Every prompt is spoken aloud in Lexy's voice — for a lot of children it is the feature they use most. Words are broken into decodable chunks rather than dropped in whole, and the pacing is deliberately unhurried. A tutor that never sighs and never rushes is doing something a stretched adult, however loving, cannot always manage at the end of a long day.

Personal touches keep users engaged. Celebrate hitting milestones! The XP, streaks and medals are built to encourage and never to punish — nothing in Lexy takes something away because a child had a bad week.

What the first week tends to look like

The first session is short on purpose. Lexy works out roughly where a reader is before it starts stretching them, so early sessions can feel easy — that is deliberate, and it is usually the point at which a child decides whether this is another thing that makes them feel stupid or not.

After that, ten or fifteen minutes a day does more than an hour at the weekend. Little and often is how phonics knowledge consolidates, and it is also the only schedule most households can actually keep. If a day gets missed, nothing is lost — the streak is there to encourage a habit, not to guilt anyone into one.

For teachers and schools

Supporting students, teachers and parents via our integrated school management system. Teachers can see where a class is collectively stuck rather than inferring it from a pile of worksheets, and parents get a view of what their child has actually been practising.

Built by someone who needed it

Lexy is made by Kevin Murphy, a dyslexic developer, over seven years of mostly solo work. Type is set in OpenDyslexic, the approach draws on multisensory structured literacy in the Orton-Gillingham tradition, and the accessibility decisions were made by someone who has been on the other side of them.

It is used in more than 120 countries, holds 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, and was awarded 5 out of 5 and certification by the Educational App Store.

What it costs

The core tutor is free, with no ads, ever, and no selling of children's data, ever. A child's right to read should not depend on a parent's wallet. Premium unlocks additional practice for families who are able to give something back.

Lexy is available on iOS and Mac. If you are at the beginning of this — a teacher's comment, a parent evening, a suspicion that has been growing for a while — it costs nothing to start.