Coming to the App Store
Inky Club
An ocean-loving app for ages 6–8
Stories, games and colouring with Inky the octopus and B3TR Bear — built so that caring for a beach feels like play. Made by the same 501(c)(3) that runs the cleanups.
What it is
Inky Club is a small, calm iOS app for children aged six to eight. Inky and B3TR Bear take them along to the shoreline: a story to listen to, a sorting game to play, a picture to colour in.
A child can open it and play straight away — no sign-up, nothing to type, nothing sent anywhere. That first stage keeps their progress on the device itself. If you later want it saved across devices, you make an account with your own email address and set up a profile for them: they never make one, and they never sign in.
Inside the app
Narrated stories
Short read-along adventures, voiced out loud, so a child who is still learning to read can follow every word.
Recycling sort game
Plastic, metal, glass, paper — catch what washes up and put it in the right bin. The same sorting we do on a real cleanup.
Colouring
Inky, B3TR Bear and the creatures they meet, ready to be coloured in. Pictures stay on the device.
Safe by design
Some of this is what the app does not do. The rest is what it does with the little it keeps, which for a parent is the more useful half.
No ads, and built for the Kids Category
No advertising of any kind, and no ad, analytics or crash-reporting SDK in the app — the build will not compile one in. Inky Club is designed for the App Store Kids Category and Google Play’s Families programme, and built with children’s privacy law in mind: every claim on this page is one the app’s own code is held to.
No camera, photos or location
The app never asks for the camera, the photo library, or where anyone is. There is no way to upload anything into it at all — a colouring page is saved on the device.
Parent-controlled
Anything that leaves the app — a link, a purchase, the newsletter — sits behind a grown-up gate.
Your child never signs up
The account is yours, made with your own email address, and you give permission on a plain screen before any profile exists. Your child never has an account and never signs in.
What a profile holds
A nickname you choose, a birth year and an avatar from a fixed set, plus the progress they have earned. No real name, no photo, no address, no exact date of birth, no school.
Badges, not a leaderboard
Children earn Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum for listening, colouring, playing, and real beach clean-ups a grown-up confirms. Platinum is the one that has to be kept up: two confirmed clean-ups a month, or the badge eases back to Gold. It never falls below that, and the progress behind it is never taken away. There is no leaderboard, no currency, and no other child to be measured against.
Delete it whenever you like
One profile, or the whole account, from the Parent Zone — and it does not come back. We keep a single record that you gave permission, because we have to be able to show that we asked.
It deletes itself if unused
If nobody opens a profile for 18 months, we delete it. Two emails come first — about a month before, and again a week before — and either one has a link that keeps it.
One company, two things
Nothing your child types, draws or plays is sent to another company. The only things shared are your email address and your child’s nickname, with the company that delivers those emails — and that mail goes out with open tracking and link tracking switched off.
A look inside
Six screens from the current build, in the order a child meets them.
Coming to the App Store
Inky Club is in development for iPhone and iPad. There is no download link yet — the newsletter is where the release gets announced.
Coming soon to iOS
Meet Inky off the screen
The octopus from the app, as a plush. Every purchase goes back into community beach, river and park cleanups.
Coming soonFor grown-ups
B3TR Beach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Volunteers clean up beaches, rivers and parks, log GPS-verified photo proof of the work, and earn B3TR token rewards on VeChain for doing it.
Inky Club is the front door to that for younger children — the same habits, at the age they are learning them, with none of the wallet-and-blockchain machinery attached.
Hear when it launches
One email when Inky Club reaches the App Store — a sign-up for grown-ups, on another page. This page collects nothing: no forms, no tracking.
Newsletter sign-up