BaoBeiTalk is a storybook app for one- to four-year-olds that names the world gently, in English, Bahasa Melayu and Mandarin, then leaves a little silence for your child to fill.
iPhone and iPad · iOS 17 or later · Seven days free
English is everywhere. On the tablet, in the shop, in every song. Mandarin lives in one room of the house, usually the one 婆婆 is sitting in. Bahasa Melayu is somewhere in between.
So most Malaysian children grow up hearing three languages and speaking one. By the time anyone notices, the habit is years deep. BaoBeiTalk is a small, quiet way to put more of the other two back into an ordinary day.
A hundred and fifty-three words, thirty-seven sentences, thirty-two stories and three songs. Each one in English, Bahasa Melayu and Mandarin. It says the word, makes its sound, says something about it, then stops talking.
Real words, real lines, straight out of the app.
A question is a test. A child who cannot answer one learns that talking is a test too.
No what's this?, no can you say it?, nothing to get right. BaoBeiTalk names things and leaves room. Some days nothing comes back. Then one day they say 猫 in the kitchen, about a cat that is not in the app.
What your child hears is you, not a stranger. Every word, sentence, story and song can be re-recorded in your own voice. It matters most for the languages a synthetic voice does badly, and for the words that only exist in your family.
Nothing to sign in to, and nothing to sign up for.
Nothing your child does is uploaded anywhere.
Every word, story, song and recording works offline.
No stars, no streaks, no badges, nothing to get wrong.
Every one stays ended. Nothing counts down into the next.
It stops the app rather than nagging, and never mid-sentence.
Then a subscription, weekly, monthly or yearly. The App Store shows the price in your own currency. Cancel any time in Settings.
For ages 1–4 · English · Bahasa Melayu · 中文
It is not trying to be the app your child uses most. It is trying to be the fifteen quiet minutes where they hear their grandmother's language from someone who loves them.