--- title: "Explora: Life-Size at Home · Life-size animals in the living room. · Kid Secure Games" description: "Explora puts life-size animals, dinosaurs, vehicles and planets in your living room through the camera. Each one stands at its real size and comes with three facts read aloud. Kids can take a photo, measure things in hands, steps, centimetres or inches, and roll a ball down a ramp on the real floor. Works offline, no ads, no account, pay once." canonical: "https://kidsecuregames.com/explora" last_updated: "2026-10-21" --- # Explora: Life-size animals in the living room. Coming soon to the App Store Tap the floor and an elephant shows up at its real height, facing your kid. Walk around it, stand next to it, hear three facts, then measure the table in hands. Devices iPhone and iPad Languages English, Spanish Rated 4+ Network Works offline App Store: soon Gorilla 1.7 m, as tall as a fridge Kangaroo, 1.6 m, as tall as a grown-up. Exhibit 1 · true scale ## Always its real size It lands at its real height, facing your kid. There's no pinching it smaller. If the room is too small, tap Toy size and it shrinks to a tenth. Scroll down and the view climbs the tape. Eight of the 33, drawn to the same scale. Swipe the chart sideways for the elephant and the giraffe. 1. 0.25 m Cat as tall as a ruler 2. 0.6 m Dog as tall as your hip 3. 1.1 m Emperor Penguin as tall as you 4. 1.6 m Kangaroo as tall as a grown-up 5. 1.7 m Gorilla as tall as a fridge 6. 2.5 m Ostrich taller than a door 7. 3.2 m Elephant as tall as a basketball hoop 8. 5.5 m Giraffe as tall as a two-storey house ### As tall as you Tap Size and a see-through figure at your kid's height stands next to the animal, so they can see exactly how far up an elephant goes. Their height comes from their profile. Some things won't fit in any room. The blue whale is 25 m long and the brachiosaurus is 13 m tall, so they start at toy size, a tenth of the real thing. The Moon, Earth and Saturn are labelled as scale models. Exhibit 2 · in the room ## Tap the floor It shows up wherever you tap, at its real size. Up close, it towers over you. At the far end of the room, it fits on the screen. Try it here: pick one and tap anywhere on the floor. Fact: An elephant uses its trunk like a hand to pick up food. The elephant is standing on the floor at real size. 1. ### Find a flat floor Good light and a clear patch of floor help the phone see where the ground is. Then tap the floor. 2. ### It drops in, facing your kid Walk around it and stand next to it. Size puts a figure at your kid's height beside it. Toy size shrinks it to a tenth, right where it stands, for a small room. 3. ### Three facts, read aloud Tap Facts and the app reads the next one out loud and shows it in big letters. There are 33 to meet: animals, dinosaurs, vehicles and space. Exhibit 3 · the collection ## Thirty-three things to stand beside Every card gives its size in words a kid can picture, worked out from the real measurements. 1. Fits in your hands: anything under half a metre. 2. As tall as 3 doors: the app counts a door as 2 metres, so a 5.5 m giraffe is three. 3. 4.5 m long: long animals are measured nose to tail, and anything over 6 m in buses. - 16 Animals A giraffe in the living room Cat, Dog, Emperor Penguin, Kangaroo, Gorilla, Lion, Horse, Giraffe, Elephant, Polar bear, Hippo, Crocodile, Blue whale, Great white shark, Ostrich, Eagle Free: the first five, cat, dog, emperor penguin, kangaroo, gorilla. - 6 Dinosaurs A T. rex taller than the house T. rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Pteranodon With the unlock - 6 Vehicles A fire truck by the sofa Bicycle, Car, Fire truck, School bus, Excavator, Plane With the unlock - 5 Space The Moon on the table Astronaut, Moon rover, Moon, Earth, Saturn With the unlock - Home: your kid's height first, then six tiles. - Dinosaurs, measured nose to tail. - Vehicles, from a bicycle to a plane. - Space, with the Moon, Earth and Saturn marked as models. Exhibit 4 · field kit ## Measure the room, then build in it Measure · free, every unit ### Measure in hands or steps Tap two spots on anything and the app tells you how long it is in hands, steps, centimetres or inches. The second mode measures your kid and finds the animal closest to their height. 10 hands A table 1.2 m long. Hands and steps go by your kid's own hand length and height, set in the parent area: 12 cm and 110 cm here. 1. Hold the phone at your feet and tap Mark 2. Now hold it at the top of your head and tap Mark 3. **You are as tall as a penguin** How tall am I, the second mode: your kid's height, and the animal closest to it. Build · 4 pieces free, 20 unlocked ### Roll a ball down a real ramp Put a ramp, a box and a ball on your real floor, let go, and watch the ball roll down and knock into things. Pick a piece, then tap the floor. With LiDAR, the ball also bumps into your real furniture. Without it, the pieces land on an invisible floor where you first tapped. Exhibit 5 · how it's made ## Built from simple shapes There are no big 3D files in Explora. Every animal, dinosaur and vehicle is a short list of balls, boxes, cylinders and cones, measured in metres, and the app puts them together at the right size when it appears. That's how 33 of them fit in a small download. In your room, every part is painted wood with the grain showing through, so it looks like a big wooden toy. The drawings on this page come from those same lists. 1.1 m The penguin's recipe: 20 lines, in metres. penguin parts, feet on the floor, facing your kid 1. ball 0.55 × 0.85 × 0.5 2. ball 0.4 × 0.65 × 0.3 3. sphere 0.32 4. ball 0.16 × 0.14 × 0.1 × 2 5. cone 0.08 × 0.14 6. sphere 0.04 × 2 7. ball 0.07 × 0.45 × 0.18 × 2 8. cylinder 0.08 × 0.15 × 2 9. ball 0.14 × 0.05 × 0.22 × 2 10. sphere 0.026 × 2 11. sphere 0.009 × 2 12. ball 0.055 × 0.026 × 0.015 × 2 13. ball 0.07 × 0.012 × 0.015 × 2 14. ball 0.23 × 0.16 × 0.045 15. ball 0.25 × 0.37 × 0.025 16. ball 0.036 × 0.27 × 0.1 × 2 17. ball 0.06 × 0.012 × 0.13 × 2 18. ball 0.008 × 0.012 × 0.11 × 2 19. ball 0.008 × 0.012 × 0.11 × 2 20. ball 0.02 × 0.085 × 0.01 Before every update, I check that all 33 stand on the floor and come out within three percent of their real size. Kept on this device ## What the camera sees stays on the screen The camera picture is only there so your kid can see the animal standing in your room. The app doesn't record it or keep it. Shutter Nothing is saved until your kid taps Photo. Photos The photo goes into your own Photos library. The app can add pictures there, but it can't see the ones you already have. Network Nothing is uploaded. The app never goes online. Downloads Nothing gets downloaded later. All 33 come built into the app. People No account, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. ### What it runs on - **Devices** Any iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later. For iPhones, that's the iPhone XS or XR and newer. - **LiDAR** The depth sensor on Pro models. Optional. It makes measuring more accurate, lets the sofa hide the animal, and gives the ball real things to hit. Free and unlock ## Free to explore, one unlock for the rest You pay once. There's no subscription. What is free and what the unlock adds Feature Free Unlock Profiles and photos Unlimited Unlimited Measure, both modes and every unit Yes Yes Animals 5 of 16 All 16 Dinosaurs, vehicles, space No Yes Build pieces 4 20 Measuring is always free, in both modes and every unit. The unlock adds the other 28 animals, dinosaurs, vehicles and space things, and raises Build from 4 pieces to 20. Questions ## Before you ask **Which iPhones and iPads work?** Any iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later. For iPhones, that's the iPhone XS or XR and newer. You don't need LiDAR (the depth sensor on Pro models), but with it, measuring is more accurate and your furniture can hide the animal as you walk around it. **How big is the download with 33 things inside?** Small. There are no big 3D files. Each one is a short list of simple shapes (balls, boxes, cylinders and cones) that the app puts together at the right size when it appears. **Are photos saved anywhere I don't control?** No. The Photo button saves a picture of the screen to your own Photos library, and that's the only place an image ever goes. Nothing is ever uploaded. Explora · iPhone and iPad ## A kangaroo on the rug, at 1.6 m. Coming soon to the App Store. Works offline, no ads, no account, and you pay once. App Store: soon --- Page: https://kidsecuregames.com/explora The whole studio for agents: https://kidsecuregames.com/llms.txt