Children’s learning app Grogo has received the 2026 National Parenting Products Award (NAPPA) for Best App for Kids, its second year winning a NAPPA (in 2025, Best App for Learning).
The subscription-based app serves kids and teenagers from grades 2-12 (ages 6-18, reading required). The app works as a learning interruption, or brain break. Parents can select apps that can be interrupted at set intervals (such as 15 or 30 minutes) with Grogo’s gameified series of questions. (Note that ‘gameified’ mostly means including a 3D animated character).
Grogo includes over 30,000 different AI-generated (and “triple-verified”) questions across eight different subjects: math, science, language arts, history, pop culture (missed that one school!), as well as financial literacy and civic life. Difficulty adapts to each child’s response, to keep questions engaging without being frustrating.
With 15-minute intervals, Grogo generates up to 18 learning breaks per day, with up to 126 questions, right on the same screen.
The app takes seconds to install and setup. An optional parental dashboard, installed on parental devices, reveals how many breaks the user has taken and completed, as well as how well they’re performing to their grade level in each subject.
“Two NAPPA awards in two years means two independent groups of parents and child development experts looked at Grogo and said it works, not just as an educational tool, but as something kids actually engage with,” said Richard Marra, Jr., Co-Founder and CEO of Grogo. “That validation matters to us because it mirrors what we hear from the families using the app every day. Grogo changes the relationship between kids and their screens. This summer, for any parent dreading what three months of unstructured screen time does to their child’s learning, we want them to know there’s a better option.”
“Every parental control tool on the market is built on the idea that screens are something to be rationed,” said Brad Brinegar, Co-Founder and CMO of Grogo. “We built Grogo on a different belief: that screen time is already happening, and what matters is what happens inside it. The NAPPA Best App for Kids award tells us that kids agree, and that’s the hardest vote to earn. Parents shouldn’t have to spend the summer being the screen-time police. Let Grogo build healthier screen time habits while their children keep growing.”
A free 7-day trial is available at Grogo.com. Limited time pricing begins at $19.99 per year, or $1.99 per month (or $29.99/$2.99 per month for multi-children family plan). The app is available on iOS and Android mobile devices.
