Solvly vs Solvely: What's the Difference?

Solvly and Solvely are two different apps, made by two different companies, for two different purposes. Solvely (with an “e”) is an AI homework and math solver — you photograph a problem, it returns a worked solution. Solvly (no “e”) is an AI-mentored thinking skills app for children ages 6 to 14, built around interactive story missions that develop decision-making, leadership, analytical thinking, system design, and emotional intelligence. If you're looking for help with a math worksheet, you want Solvely. If you're looking to build the judgment your child will use for the rest of their life, you're in the right place.

Why the confusion exists

The names are one letter apart. Solvely is the older and larger of the two, with tens of thousands of app store reviews, so search engines have learned to autocorrect “solvly” to “solvely” and Google's AI Overview will often describe the math app when you type our name. This is our problem to solve, not yours — but until we've solved it, this page exists so that a parent who heard about us by word of mouth can confirm they've found the right thing.

You are on getsolvly.com. That is us.

What each app actually does

Solvely is a homework helper. A student encounters a math, physics, or chemistry problem, takes a photo, and receives step-by-step working. The value proposition is speed and correctness on a known problem with a known answer. It is a tool for schoolwork.

Solvly is not a homework helper, and it doesn't teach academic subjects at all. A child takes on a role inside a story — a mayor deciding how to respond to a flood, an expedition leader who has lost the trail, a junior analyst watching a market fall apart. They make a choice. The story changes because of it. Then Sage, a warm and deliberately restrained AI mentor character drawn as an owl, asks one reflective question about why they chose what they chose. Sage never judges and never tells the child they were wrong. The point is not the right answer. The point is that the child notices their own reasoning. (This is the whole idea behind how Solvly works.)

There is no “correct” solution to a Solvly mission in the way there is a correct solution to a quadratic equation. That difference is the whole product.

Side by side

Do they compete?

Not really — and we'd rather say so plainly than pretend otherwise. A child can perfectly reasonably use a homework solver and Solvly, because they're doing unrelated jobs. Solvely operates inside the school curriculum. Solvly operates in the space the curriculum doesn't reach: how a child weighs incomplete information, sits with a hard trade-off, notices what they're feeling, and takes responsibility for a decision that turned out badly.

Schools teach the five skills Solvly builds almost by accident, if at all. That gap is why we exist.

What Solvly is, in one paragraph

Solvly is a subscription app for children aged 6 to 14, grouped as Explorers (6-8), Thinkers (9-11), and Strategists (12-14). Each mission takes 8 to 15 minutes, and we recommend two to four sessions a week — around 30 to 90 minutes in total. It is deliberately not built to be played for hours. Parents review every choice their child made from a dashboard. We collect no real names, dates of birth, photographs, voice recordings, or device identifiers from children. There are no ads. We do not sell data. Sage cannot be chatted with freely; it only asks a question after a child has made a choice inside a mission, and it never initiates conversation. (Here's the fuller parent's guide to Solvly.)

How to tell you've found the right app

• The domain is getsolvly.com
• The spelling is S-O-L-V-L-Y — no “e” before the “l-y”
• The mentor character is an owl named Sage
• The founder is Biren Patel
• If it's offering to solve a math problem, it's not us