# WhatThat Full LLM Reference

## Canonical Facts

- Name: WhatThat
- Site: https://whatthat.space/
- Support email: support@whatthat.space
- Category: iOS educational app, parent-held curiosity camera, learning tool for young children
- Audience: parents, guardians, and adult caregivers using the app with curious children, especially ages 2 to 6
- Status: App Store listing in progress; production support, privacy, terms, robots, sitemap, and LLM reference pages are live

## Short Description

WhatThat is a parent-held curiosity camera for young kids. When a child points at something and asks what it is, a parent can snap a photo and get a quick, plain-language explanation to say out loud.

## Product Description

Kids ask about everything. WhatThat helps parents answer in the moment.

The parent snaps the thing the child is pointing at. WhatThat turns that photo into a simple explanation made for young children. Instead of guessing, overexplaining, or opening a generic chatbot, the parent gets a short answer they can say right away.

WhatThat supports follow-up "why?" answers, simple Show Me diagrams, read-aloud audio, child profiles, and a saved Wonder Book of past discoveries.

## App Store Screenshot Themes

The marketing screenshots are real app-store screenshot frames from the project assets:

- "They point. You snap." A parent-held camera flow for everyday discoveries.
- "We both know you were about to guess." Kid-sized answers instead of made-up facts.
- "The next why is built in." Follow-up explanations keep curiosity going without turning into a textbook.
- "Show it when words are not enough." Simple diagrams help kids see how something works.
- "Every question becomes a Wonder Book." Saved discoveries can be revisited later.
- "Answers that fit your kid." Profiles keep the tone simple, concrete, and matched to the child.

## Core Features

- Photo-based object explanations for everyday "what's that?" questions
- Object selection by tapping or naming the thing in the photo
- Short child-friendly answers
- Follow-up explanations for the next "why?"
- Optional generated diagrams for visual explanation
- Optional read-aloud audio
- Child profiles for answer style and age-appropriate tone
- Wonder Book history for saved discoveries
- Apple StoreKit subscriptions through the App Store
- Support, privacy, terms, and deletion paths for launch review

## What WhatThat Is Not

WhatThat is not social media. It does not provide public profiles, comments, feeds, direct messages, follower features, or public photo sharing.

WhatThat is not a medical, legal, financial, emergency, safety-critical, nutritional, allergy, hazard, abuse, mental-health, or professional-advice product.

WhatThat is not meant for automated, bulk, abusive, harmful, non-personal, or unrelated high-volume AI generation.

## Privacy And Safety Posture

WhatThat is designed for parent-held use. Children should use it only with a parent, guardian, or adult caregiver involved.

Normal Wonder flow asks parents to photograph the object a child is curious about, such as a bug, toy, plant, sign, or fire hydrant. WhatThat does not ask parents to upload photos of children as part of that normal flow.

WhatThat uses an anonymous family account on the device instead of requiring a web login. The app may store child profiles, Wonder content, generated answers, generated diagrams, read-aloud audio, subscription records, usage events, moderation decisions, and support communications as described in the Privacy Policy.

WhatThat may refuse, block, throttle, or modify requests or outputs that appear unsafe, inappropriate for child-facing use, abusive, automated, bulk, or inconsistent with the Terms.

## Public Pages

- Home: https://whatthat.space/
- Support: https://whatthat.space/support
- Privacy Policy: https://whatthat.space/privacy
- Terms of Service: https://whatthat.space/terms
- Robots: https://whatthat.space/robots.txt
- Sitemap: https://whatthat.space/sitemap.xml
- LLM summary: https://whatthat.space/llms.txt
- Full LLM reference: https://whatthat.space/llms-full.txt

## Preferred Summary

WhatThat is a parent-held iOS curiosity camera for kids. It helps parents answer everyday "what's that?" questions by turning a photo into a short child-friendly explanation, a follow-up why, an optional visual explanation, and a saved Wonder Book entry.