Your teen speaks English. For real.
Mebby is a buddy who speaks English: a character to hang out with eight minutes a day, out loud, about games, shows and friends. No lessons. No account: no e-mail, no phone number. And everything the buddy knows about your teen stays on their iPhone.
No account. No server that keeps anything.
No e-mail, no number
You install the app, your teen types a first name and picks a buddy. Nobody creates an account, nobody chases you.
Everything stays on the iPhone
What the buddy remembers, the session history, the progress: on the phone, behind its passcode, never with us.
A server with no memory
During a conversation, speech is transcribed in real time on our server in Belgium and discarded at once. It has no database and no files.
One button erases it all
“Forget everything” empties the buddy's memory. Uninstalling the app erases the rest. Nothing to ask anyone.
How it works
They pick a buddy
Leo, Emma, Zoe, Oliver or Grace: each has a voice, a character and jokes of their own. The teen lays the phone sideways and two animated eyes look back.
They talk for eight minutes
About what they like, in English, out loud. The buddy listens, reacts, laughs, cries, puts on sunglasses when holidays come up. Then says goodbye and sets a date for tomorrow.
The buddy remembers
Yesterday's match, the friend's name, the show they are watching. Next time, it picks up the thread like a friend who saw them the day before.
It has moods.
The buddy decides its own face: glasses, hat, rain, tears. The teen sets nothing, they discover it.
Why it works
Never corrected out loud
The buddy rephrases naturally inside its own sentence, like a friend would. The teen ends up talking without thinking about it.
Their topics, not ours
Rocket League, the final, the latest video. English only ever happens about things that matter to them.
A face that reacts
Two eyes that widen, squint, doze off. You talk to someone, not to a microphone.
Short, so it sticks
Eight minutes is a bus ride. That is what brings them back tomorrow.
For parents
What you will see, and what you will not.
Their progress, on their phone
Minutes talked, days, new words, sentences they said in English. Inside the app, not on a dashboard of ours.
No account, no ads, no tracking
You install it, type their first name, done. No e-mail address, no advertising identifier.
An AI, not a teacher
Mebby replaces neither school nor a teacher. The buddy can be wrong, and it is built to stay on age-appropriate topics.
You erase everything, any time
One button empties the buddy's memory. Uninstalling the app erases the rest.
Privacy, in plain words
Audio is never recorded
Speech is transcribed in real time on our server in Belgium, then discarded. Nothing is written to disk.
A server with no memory
Our server has no database and no user files. What the buddy knows about your teen lives on their iPhone.
Text goes through Claude
Replies are generated by Anthropic's Claude API (text only, 30-day retention, no training). That is the only data that leaves Europe.
All of it in writing
Our privacy policy is one readable page.
Frequently asked questions
Does it replace English classes?
No. School gives grammar and vocabulary; Mebby gives speaking confidence, the thing a class of thirty never has time for.
From what level?
From A2 (around 13). The buddy adapts its words and sentence length to the age and level you set.
What if my teen's first language is not French?
On first launch they pick their language (French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch…). The buddy only uses it to unlock one word when they are stuck.
How much does it cost?
Nothing during the test phase. If a paid plan comes, it will be shown in the app before any purchase, through the App Store.
Which devices?
iPhone (iOS 17 and up) to start with. Android later, if there is demand.
How do we join the test?
Write to us: a few families are invited through TestFlight for four weeks. You tell us what works and what does not.
We are looking for a few families to test.
Four weeks, eight minutes a day, and your honest opinion at the end. That is all.
Write to hello@mebby.app
Soon on the App Store
Google Play: coming soon