About nooklet
nooklet is a calm, private place for parents to keep what their young child says and does, built by someone living the same reality, not a behaviour-tracking company.
Who’s building it
nooklet is made by Kristaps Karlsons, a software engineer based in Latvia. My son is three, and autistic; he learns language in whole chunks: scripts and echoes rather than single words. The tools available to families like ours either treat children as collections of behaviours to be measured, or lock the frameworks parents actually use inside PDFs, spreadsheets, and scattered posts. nooklet is the calm, capable tool those should have been.
Why it exists
Parents who want to remember what their young children say, run predictable routines together, and coordinate with the people in their child’s life don’t need a clinical-feeling app. They need something warm and capable that takes the work seriously without medicalising it, and that doesn’t force one school of language theory on anyone. nooklet is built around the parent, the child, the family, and the moment.
What nooklet stands for
- Local-first. Your child’s data lives on your device, not our servers.
- Private sharing. Family sync is end-to-end encrypted; the relay never sees your journal or your keys.
- On-device AI. Transcription, suggestions, and patterns run on your phone, are labelled, and never train on your child.
- Descriptive, never diagnostic. It reflects what you observe; it doesn’t score, rank, predict, or compare children.
What nooklet will never do
- Sell your data, run ads, or aggregate across families.
- Train AI models on your child’s voice or words.
- Diagnose, screen, or claim to be a medical device.
- Gamify your family’s life with streaks, badges, or scores.
Who it’s for
nooklet can be useful for many families, including families of autistic children, gestalt language processors, AAC users, and children who simply benefit from predictable routines and familiar voices. It is not a diagnostic, therapy, or behaviour-modification tool.
Contact
Questions or feedback? [email protected]. For privacy specifically, see the privacy notes.