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Features Reference
Complete documentation of everything Sollingo can do.
This page covers all features in detail. For a faster walkthrough, see the Getting Started Guide.
Table of Contents
- Courses
- Lessons and Challenges
- Hearts
- XP and Points
- Quests
- Leaderboard
- Shop
- Chores
- Parent Dashboard
- TV Time
- Pro Subscription
Courses
What it does: Sollingo offers 5 language courses — Spanish, French, Italian, Croatian, and Japanese — each broken into units and lessons of increasing difficulty.
How it works:
- Visit the Courses page
- Select any course to make it your active course
- Your active course is highlighted; switching is instant and never loses progress in the course you switch away from
Benefits:
- Learn multiple languages in parallel without losing progress in either
- Course selection is per-user, so each family member can study a different language
Lessons and Challenges
What it does: Each lesson is a sequence of challenges — multiple-choice questions and “select” / “assist” style matching exercises — that test vocabulary and grammar for that unit.
How it works:
- Open the Learn page and pick the next available lesson node
- Answer each challenge in the lesson
- A correct answer advances the progress bar and adds XP; a wrong answer costs a heart
- Completing the lesson shows a results card summarizing XP earned, and — if it was a flawless run — a celebration
Benefits:
- Bite-sized lessons fit a few minutes at a time
- Immediate feedback on every answer, right or wrong
Hearts
What it does: Hearts are your lives within a lesson. You start each lesson with a set number of hearts (typically 5) and lose one per wrong answer.
How it works:
- Running out of hearts blocks starting new lessons until they refill on a timer, you buy a refill with gems in the Shop, or you upgrade to Pro
- Pro removes the heart limit entirely
Benefits:
- Encourages careful answers without making mistakes punishing beyond the current session
- Gives a natural stopping point for shorter study sessions
XP and Points
What it does: XP (experience points) is earned for every completed lesson, with bonus XP for a perfect run.
How it works:
- XP accumulates per user across all courses
- Total XP determines your position on the Leaderboard
Benefits:
- Simple, visible measure of overall progress
- Powers the leaderboard and some quests without needing a separate scoring system
Quests
What it does: Quests are short-term goals (e.g. “Earn 20 XP today”, “Complete 3 lessons this week”) shown on the Quests page, each with its own progress bar.
How it works:
- Quests refresh on their own cadence (daily/weekly)
- Progress updates automatically as you complete lessons
- Completing a quest grants a reward, typically gems for the Shop
Benefits:
- Gives structured, achievable short-term goals beyond “do a lesson”
- A gentle habit-forming nudge without pressure
Leaderboard
What it does: The Leaderboard page ranks learners by XP earned in the current period, showing the top 10 and — if you’re not in the top 10 — your own current rank.
How it works:
- Rankings update automatically as XP is earned
- Purely informational — there’s no penalty for not competing on it
Benefits:
- Optional motivation for competitive learners
- A shared view for families who want to see how everyone’s doing
Shop
What it does: The Shop page is where gems (earned via lessons and quests) are spent.
How it works:
- Hearts refill — instantly restore hearts instead of waiting
- Pro upgrade — the entry point to subscribe to Sollingo Pro
Benefits:
- Gives gems a clear, immediate use
- Keeps the upgrade path visible without being intrusive elsewhere in the app
Chores
What it does: Chores let parents turn real-world household tasks into hearts a child earns.
How it works:
- A parent creates a chore from the Parent Dashboard and assigns it to a linked child
- The child sees and completes the chore from the Chores page, then submits it
- The parent reviews pending submissions and approves or rejects them from the dashboard
- Approved chores add hearts to the child’s account; the Chores page keeps a running history
Benefits:
- Connects language learning motivation to responsibilities outside the app
- Manual parent approval keeps oversight in human hands, not automated
Parent Dashboard
What it does: The Parent Dashboard is the family-management hub — link children, see their progress, manage the chore-approval queue, and review each child’s virtual wallet.
How it works:
- A parent links a child account from the dashboard
- Linked children appear in a list with their active course, hearts, and wallet balance
- Chore approvals and TV Time review happen from the same dashboard
Benefits:
- One place for a parent to see the whole family’s activity
- Each child keeps their own login — the dashboard is visibility and approval, not remote control of a child’s account
TV Time
What it does: TV Time converts lesson performance into minutes a parent can allow a child to spend watching TV.
How it works:
- Completing a lesson adds minutes to the balance; a perfect (no-mistake) lesson earns more than one with errors
- The TV Time page shows the current balance, a “how it works” explainer, and a transaction history of minutes earned vs. minutes a parent has marked as watched
Benefits:
- Gives lesson completion a tangible, kid-relevant reward beyond points on a screen
- Parents retain full control over how the earned minutes are actually used
Pro Subscription
What it does: Sollingo Pro is a $9.99/month subscription (billed via Stripe) that removes the hearts limit — no waiting, no gem-spending to keep learning.
How it works:
- Upgrade from the Shop page
- Subscription is managed through Stripe’s customer portal, linked from the same page
- Cancel any time; access continues until the end of the current billing period
Benefits:
- Removes the only real gate in the app for households that want uninterrupted study sessions
- Everything else — all 5 courses, chores, TV Time, quests, leaderboard — is already included free
