Bella’s crowned rabbit head links to the Bella and Pan home page.

Changelog

1 Build
  • 1.5.3 (268)

A chalk button for math help

  • Open animated math help with a chalk button on iPhone and iPad. A matching Close button returns to the question.
  • A short introduction points out math help once per Adventure. If help is still unused, one reminder can appear after a later wrong answer.
  • Opening help stops further reminders for that Adventure. Answer timing pauses while the introduction or reminder is visible.
  • Updated the family guides to explain the new help controls and reminders.
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New voices and help exploring My Scores

  • Added a plush swipe guide to My Scores, with larger guidance on iPad. It appears after the room opens and fades when you interact.
  • Each visit to My Scores now starts with the fireplace centered, ready for you to look around.
  • Refreshed the plush thumbs up celebration in the Adventure and Apple Watch game.
  • Added nine character voice cues to the Adventure for reunions, farewells, repairs, retries and optional math help.
  • Character laughter now varies without repeating the previous recording for the same character.
  • Added ground particles at Bella and Pan’s feet after they arrive on the opening hill.
  • Removed the sign and cottage wobble from the opening scene, and made chimney smoke fuller, wider and faster.
  • The Chapter One farm has new day and night artwork: silly glasses for the sheep, plus a cow and calf in the paddock.
  • Reduced the family credit and animated heart by 20 percent on larger screens.
  • My Scores opens from the trophy button. The house and sign on the opening screen are now decorative.
  • Replaced counting pictures in math help with animated written calculations. Gold markers highlight the next operation, and number splits show smaller calculations.
  • Centered math help calculations and instructions in portrait. Wide landscape cards place them in separate columns, including Kiko and Brooklyn’s challenges.
  • Added separate chimes for opening math help and returning to the question. Replay and dragging the progress bar keep the usual click sound.
  • Replaced the incorrect answer sound in the Adventure and the Apple Watch game.
  • Added optional visual math help across all three Chapters and four Difficulties on iPhone, iPad and compatible Macs. The Apple Watch game is unchanged.
  • Tap the question mark to turn the question card over and follow moving counters, equal groups and written calculations for the current question. Help also covers Kiko and Brooklyn’s challenges.
  • Replay the explanation or drag its progress bar to revisit a step. Choose Try it to return to the same question and answer choices.
  • Help pauses answer timing without changing attempts, Coins, score rules or saved progress.
  • Added optional iPhone vibrations for correct and incorrect answers, including Kiko and Brooklyn’s challenges.
  • Turn Vibration on or off in Sound, independently of music and sound effects.
  • New Adventures now score up to 1,000 points: 700 for Math, 200 for Coins and 100 for Pace.
  • Correct retries still earn Math and Coin points, but no Pace points. Earlier saved Adventures keep their original scoring rules.
  • Kiko and Brooklyn now start their conversations and special questions automatically in Chapters One and Two. Tap or click to move through dialogue sooner.
  • Apple Watch scores reserve 100 for a flawless round with exceptional answering speed. The precise ordering of saved scores stays unchanged.
  • Every new Expert round on Apple Watch now includes at least one question combining two operations.
  • Added Apple Watch haptic feedback for correct and incorrect answers and completed rounds.
  • My Scores on Apple Watch now keeps your best ten results for each Difficulty.
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Five questions with Bella on Apple Watch

  • Bella now winks and laughs as the game opens on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Her head stays centered as her expression changes.
  • Simplified the Apple Watch Difficulty picker with smaller instruction text and no page dots.
  • On smaller Apple Watches, the game title and question counter now fit within the header. Difficulty selection and score screens use compact layouts.
  • Watch scores now use whole numbers out of 100 on the completion screen and in My Scores. Saved results and rankings stay intact.
  • Added your local rank beside the score at the end of a Watch round, comparing results within the same Difficulty.
  • Added gentle swaying and turning to the house behind the Watch game.
  • Expanded new Apple Watch rounds from three to five questions. Correct answers advance automatically after a celebration, and unfinished rounds keep their original questions.
  • Bella now winks, laughs and tilts her head on Apple Watch. A plush thumbs up celebrates correct answers, with sound feedback for answers and completed rounds.
  • Made Watch results clearer, with grouped score, answer time and attempt details, plus Difficulty tabs in My Scores.
  • Play Again now returns to Difficulty selection on Apple Watch so you can choose your next challenge.
  • Added a Bella mini game for Apple Watch, included with the same purchase. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert and solve three questions per round.
  • Watch scores reward accuracy, with a small bonus for answer time. My Scores compares your best results within each difficulty.
  • Continue an unfinished Watch round with your questions, attempts and answer time preserved. Watch rounds and scores stay separate from the iPhone and iPad Adventure.
  • Added circular and rectangular watch face complications showing Bella and your round progress. Tap to open the Watch game.
  • Moved Chapter One’s starting path higher on the hillside while keeping later encounters and saved progress intact.
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A closer look at our story

  • Corrected character shadows on the opening screen so they keep their proportions in portrait and landscape, by day and by night. Shadows no longer cut off before the screen edge.
  • Kept the opening screen’s butterflies in front of Bella and Pan, so they stay visible as they flutter past.
  • Expanded the About story with original drawings and earlier Bella and Pan designs, following their journey into the plush characters you know today.
  • Made Bella and Pan larger on the opening screen, with clearer names to help you choose your adventurer.
  • Filled the nighttime opening scene with fireflies, curling wisps and twinkling lights, softly glowing flowers and glints on the water.
  • Gave the opening screen’s heart a gentle double beat and soft glow.
  • Refreshed butterflies with rose, coral and peach dotted wings, with two more fluttering near Bella and Pan on the character-selection screen.
  • Added daytime butterflies to the opening meadow, with varied sizes and scattered resting spots around Bella and Pan.
  • Refreshed drifting leaves in the opening scene and Chapter One with stronger detail and gentler turns.
  • Made leaves scale more consistently across screen sizes, with hilltop gusts that rise into view and settle behind the grass.
  • Clarified the About and Parents introductions to highlight math challenges from Kindergarten through 5th grade (U.S. K–5).
  • Bon Bon’s conversations now begin automatically in Chapters One and Two, and she joins your party when the exchange finishes.
  • Gave land travel a gentler pace, with soft dust puffs and refined ground shadows beneath Bella, Pan and their friends.
  • Made Pebble Village’s foreground scenery easier to see through as your party passes behind it.
  • Refreshed butterflies with six colorful wing variations and independent fluttering, and removed the exclamation marks above characters.
  • Refined the arrangement of the returned toys and friends in Chapter Three’s homecoming, and added butterflies along the departure path.
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An adventure that unfolds

  • The opening scene keeps moving while preparing a day or night change or adapting to a rotated screen.
  • Refined story wording in all five languages so conversations fit both day and night, with clearer wording about the toys on their journey home.
  • Fixed an answered question card briefly reappearing after collecting coins in Chapter Three, keeping the transition to the next question clear.
  • The adventure now follows the children’s missing toys and stuffed animals. Help Bella, Pan and Bon Bon find Clawz, who admits taking them, apologizes and helps bring them home.
  • Refreshed day and night maps with dropped toys near Tappy’s lair, toy-filled cargo at Clawz Cove and aboard the ship, and a new homecoming scene.
  • Updated both Bella’s and Pan’s sailing illustrations, along with story introductions, conversations and character descriptions in all five languages. Adventure Coins remain rewards for math progress.
  • Give each completed Adventure a name of up to five letters or numbers before saving your score. Names stay on your device and appear alongside your results in the House and Adventure History.
  • Redesigned score cards with clearer details and a side-by-side layout in landscape. Previously saved scores stay unchanged.
  • Reduced pauses on the purple loading screen during the introduction and when returning from an Adventure.
  • Added Expert alongside Easy, Medium and Hard, with the 2–12 times tables, exact division, parentheses and order of operations. Expert gives more time for coin and Pace bonuses.
  • Tap the Difficulty shield during play to choose another difficulty and restart with a new Adventure. Completed scores stay saved.
  • Expanded the Parents guide with four skill-based starting points and a worked order-of-operations example. Chapter progress now groups your difficulty, location and progress together.
  • The app is now simply called Bella and Pan.
  • Refreshed the welcome, intro, and purple loading screens with magical particles that spread outward and grow as they travel, including when you return from an Adventure.
  • New layouts for iPhone Duo, with controls that adapt as you open, close or rotate the display.
  • Brought Bon Bon, Kiko, and Brooklyn into clearer focus during conversations and challenges, with brighter sparkles and livelier attention markers.
  • Polished the glass question panels and made challenge text and Chapter progress bars larger on iPad.
  • Refined Bella and Pan’s opening-screen reactions: tap to choose and greet a character, then tap again for a laugh.
  • Refined scenery layering in Chapters One and Three, kept the opening fence visible, and added stronger ripples around the docked ship.
  • Added English, Spanish, Polish, German, and French for written instructions, story text, and on-screen place labels.
  • Choose your language from the opening screen and keep your saved adventure progress when you switch.
  • A new welcome screen helps you choose your language before the story begins, with a suggestion based on your device language.
  • Added flags and a two-letter language code to make your current language easier to spot.
  • Soft twilight and drifting pixie dust now accompany the welcome and story introduction, and the opening scene keeps moving while you browse its menus.
  • Kept the original voices, music, and scenery signs unchanged.
  • Made buttons respond across their full visible surface, including New and Resume, so you can tap comfortably beyond the text or icon.
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A warmer home for your adventure

  • Improved saving and recovery of unfinished Adventures so you can return to your progress more reliably.
  • Made Top Scores, champion trophies, and personal bests compare Adventures played with matching difficulty and scoring rules.
  • Added Adventure History browsing for every saved result, keeping older scores and their original details even when they no longer qualify for current rankings.
  • Clarified the Parents guide to explain how Adventure scores are calculated.
  • Refreshed Bella and Pan’s House with richer textures, softer lighting, and improved character movement as you look around.
  • Made scores clearer to read and added a day/night switch inside the House.
  • Gave the flower-framed adventure crest a softer look and smoother animation.
  • Improved clock rendering and fixed crest image loading on Mac.
  • Refreshed game controls with gold and pearl buttons, a clearer timer, and a slim gold Chapter progress marker.
  • Added playful laughter and animated reactions when you tap Bella or Pan on the opening screen.
  • Made the Parents section easier to navigate, with more comfortable tap targets.
  • Look up! Number-shaped clouds fill the day and night skies above Willow Valley, Saltwind Coast, and Goldtide Sea.
  • Carried the refreshed scenery into the opening scene, Chapters, About, the journey home, and the views through your Home windows.
  • Updated the app’s listing name to Bella and Pan: Math Adventure, with clearer details about addition, subtraction, multiplication, and offline play for ages 5 and up. The same complete three-Chapter adventure is included, with no ads or in-app purchases.
  • Brought the Characters page to life: tap Bella, Pan, Bon Bon, Kiko, or Brooklyn to hear them laugh and see their playful reactions.
  • Made every Explore page open full-screen on iPhone and iPad for a consistent browsing experience.
  • Refreshed the Bella and Pan branding across the opening scene, About, and Support.
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Our family story, a softer world

  • Gave math questions a fresh look with translucent cards, delicate vines, and flowers.
  • Added playful answer buttons and clear dots showing your progress through each Chapter.
  • Refreshed Kiko and Brooklyn’s challenges and made question entrance animations consistent across all three Chapters.
  • Made the full surface of answer and Resume buttons respond to taps, including the space around their labels.
  • Updated the in-game About introduction video to loop automatically, with a tap to pause or resume.
  • Added a video introduction from Simon and Brooklyn, and refreshed the About story with the drawings, stuffed animals, and offline adventures that inspired Bella and Pan.
  • Made the About story easier to read on iPhone and iPad, with roomier layouts and simpler navigation in landscape.
  • Renamed The World to Chapters and gave its maps more room to explore, especially on iPad in landscape.
  • Clarified how to tap or click through dialogue in Parents and Support, and improved device details when contacting Support from a Mac.
  • Refreshed day and night scenery across all three Chapters with softer lighting and more natural colors.
  • Updated Saltwind Coast’s paths and structures.
  • Cleaned up the edges of Bon Bon’s animations.
  • Made correct-answer celebrations larger on iPad.
  • Refreshed Bella, Pan, and their friends as well-loved stuffed animals, with new character artwork and animations throughout the adventure.
  • Added updated loading illustrations and a new Bella app icon.
  • Refreshed widgets and House decorations with the new character artwork.
  • Gave character pages more room on iPad.
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A warmer welcome, a richer Home

  • Made tapping to advance dialogue more reliable across all three Chapters.
  • Improved audio handling throughout the adventure.
  • Reduced the space used by character animations while keeping Bella, Pan, and their friends looking and moving just as before.
  • Added tap sounds when choosing Bella or Pan, entering Home, and closing the Explore menu.
  • Made drifting leaves scale with your screen and stay consistently sized when you rotate your device.
  • Gave the iPad app on Mac a landscape 4:3 window.
  • Fixed Home and music-player rendering on Mac, along with audio preparation when entering Chapters.
  • Fixed audio setup when opening Home from the adventure’s final score screen.
  • Refreshed clock and calendar widgets for your Home Screen.
  • Brought the day and night hills around Bella and Pan’s home into harmony.
  • Added playful loading messages and clear progress while the adventure gets ready.
  • Smoothed loading into the opening scene and its character animations.
  • Made the opening scene’s tilt response more responsive when holding your device upright.
  • Clarified character selection and polished correct-answer celebrations.
  • Refined Bon Bon’s interaction marker so it stays neatly positioned and consistently sized.
  • Support for iOS and iPadOS 26.
  • A redesigned Home with Bella’s drawing table, Pan’s worktable, wall-mounted scores, and an interactive music player.
  • A refreshed opening scene with independent hill-and-house parallax, coordinated character entrances, and softer shadows.
  • Updated coastal scenery and character signs.
  • A reworked Chapter Three arrival at Tappy’s lair.
  • Expanded dialogue explaining how Willow Valley’s shared treasure helps mend bridges and care for neighbors.
  • Refreshed Pan breathing animation and stronger curved-board presentation.

· Official release

Bella and Pan™ is on the App Store!

Our handmade math adventure is now available for iPhone and iPad. Join Bella and Pan in Willow Valley and let the adventure begin.

Download Bella and Pan on the App Store
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A cozy Home for your scores

  • Added a Home for My Scores, with fireplace ambience, room decor, and a room you can pan to explore.
  • Welcomed Bella and Pan into Home with an illustrated loading page, staggered entrances, and laughter when tapped.
  • Added Difficulty filters and Top Scores pages, with your latest Adventure highlighted at its exact rank.
  • Let Chapter introductions play their complete nature sound, with a gentle fade at the end.
  • Refreshed Chapter artwork, informational maps, day and night fence details, and drifting leaves and petals.
  • Simplified character shadows while keeping grounded shadows and the ship’s waves, buoyancy, and animated sails.
  • Updated the website’s Chapter One scenery and story illustrations, keeping the opening focused on Willow Valley with parallax, tilt, and animated explorers.
  • Refreshed Pan’s breathing animation on the website.
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More life across the Adventure

  • Added playful laughter and hop reactions when tapping characters in Chapters One and Two, with easier-to-tap targets.
  • Refreshed Bella and Pan’s walking, Bella’s flower-light spell, and Pan’s relaxed breathing animation.
  • Added explorer-specific Chapter loading illustrations, matching score portraits, and refreshed Bella app and launch artwork.
  • Refined challenge cues and character sizing for Kiko and Brooklyn, plus Bon Bon’s day and night foreground.
  • Added daytime birds and nighttime bats to the Landing, with Bella and Pan appearing in sequence.
  • Refined Chapter loading transitions and kept Pan’s full breathing pose visible in Characters.
  • Brought every Characters profile to life with unique idle movement and character-specific greetings.
  • Expanded the story of Willow Valley, Tappy’s missing treasure, and its journey home across dialogue, voices, and World details.
  • Gave Chapter story illustrations and narration more time on screen, with varied messages between scenes.
  • Added more expressive character reactions and expanded Clawz’s Chapter Two performance.
  • Refreshed the Landing with new day and night hill artwork, naturally varied Treasure Trail coin glints, and closer Bella and Pan placement.
  • Expanded the Chapter Three homecoming with both explorers, spoken welcome dialogue, and the complete seven-character finale.
  • Improved explorer selection on iPad with larger characters, comfortable spacing, and clearer grounding.
  • Refreshed the website with new Chapter illustrations, a new Bella navigation portrait, and an updated Willow Valley social preview.
  • Added an optional music control to the website Landing, with playback that follows you as you explore.
  • Expanded BK + Dad’s opening story with floating Bella and Pan portraits and roomier Chapter navigation.
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Voices and presentation

  • Added new voices for Bella, Pan, Tappy, Kiko, Brooklyn, Bon Bon, and Clawz across the Adventure.
  • Updated character groups throughout the Adventure after Biscuit’s departure.
  • Refined Saltwind Coast’s opening, Chapter-ready dialogue, and Tappy’s landscape finale.
  • Made transitions between Chapters and scenes feel faster and smoother.
  • Kept Math Time consistent from the first question through the final score.
  • Refined travel through the world, Kiko’s route, and the Completion Summary.
  • Made explorer selection feel more immediate and refreshed the Landing hill, shadows, and rotating Chapter crest.
  • Added warm day and cool night reflections to the Landing’s Treasure Trail coins.
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The complete three-Chapter Adventure

  • Opened Goldtide Sea and the complete Chapter Three voyage from Saltwind to Willow Valley.
  • Refined the pirate ship, flags, water, mist, voyage effects, homecoming, and final score.
  • Reworked questions, retries, answer choices, and correct-answer celebrations across every Chapter.
  • Added Adventure Window widgets and aligned character artwork across the app.
  • Refreshed the Bella and Pan crest, Chapter introductions, informational maps, and Landing atmosphere.
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Interaction and presentation

  • Made character encounters easier to spot with clearer tap cues and steadier character scale.
  • Added Tappy’s greeting and farewell audio and refined Chapter dialogue timing.
  • Simplified launch presentation, question retries, coin feedback, and score navigation.
  • Rebuilt the Landing reveal with responsive day and night depth, atmosphere, and grounded shadows.
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Saltwind Coast

  • Expanded the Adventure into a complete second Chapter across Saltwind Coast.
  • Added Biscuit, Tappy, Clawz Cove, Driftwood Bridge, Saltbough Wood, and the coastal finale.
  • Introduced live day and night transitions, richer foliage, Landing parallax, and layered town depth.
  • Refined audio, saved progress, cumulative scores, and the Chapter-to-Chapter handoff.
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Willow Valley finale

  • Polished the Dragon’s Lair finale, takeoff choreography, audio, and ending camera.
  • Improved question retries, landing actions, saved-progress feedback, and Kiko’s encounter.
  • Made Our Story freely draggable in landscape and refined the launch and score presentation.
Early app development

From the browser to iPhone and iPad

Willow Valley’s paths connect mushroom houses, river crossings and a mountain lair.
Willow Valley, where the adventure begins. Current world illustration.
  • Started an iPhone and iPad prototype with offline play and on-device scores. Apple app development then moved into its own project.
  • Introduced Bella and Pan explorer selection and the opening math-question gameplay.
  • Added Bon Bon encounters, rewards, and the journey trail.
  • Expanded map exploration with lantern lighting and richer scenery.
  • Added saved adventures and local score history.
  • Introduced selectable math difficulty.
  • Added confirmation before replacing a saved adventure, keeping completed scores safe.
  • Refined character animation, dialogue, and question feedback.
Web beginnings

The adventure began on the web

  • Bella and Pan began as a web app, with a painted map and math answers that moved the explorer along the trail.
  • Introduced Bella and Pan as the starting explorers, with coins, reward cards and surprise encounters along the path.
  • Bon Bon joined the journey with conversations and encouragement. Bella gained spell-casting animations, Pan practiced archery, and Bon Bon cheered and waved.
  • Added end-of-adventure scoring and a shared browser leaderboard, with coins, correct answers, streaks and math time contributing to the result.
  • Added day and night scenery, a sun/moon switch, glowing village windows and fireflies.
  • Introduced Our Story, sharing Brooklyn’s drawings, family worktable photos and the playtesting behind the game.
  • Added Kiko’s optional math challenge and Gooey’s final question guarding the treasure path.