Le Cartable Fantastique

Name

Le Cartable Fantastique

Legal name

Le Cartable Fantastique

Website

https://cartablefantastique.fr

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Special Education Accessibility Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (61171)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Executive Functioning & Behavioral Support Tools (ADHD, SEL/Behavior Tracking, Routines) (EDAFAKAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Student Activity Materials & Manipulatives (Hands-on Learning Kits) (EDACAJAG), Reading & Literacy Intervention Materials for Learning Disabilities (Dyslexia, Decoding, Comprehension) (EDAGAMAH)

Keywords

• Special education software
• Dyspraxia learning tools
• Assistive education plugins
• Educational accessibility software
• Adapted school resources

Headquarters

HQ city

France (specific city not disclosed)

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Sale of Physical Mathematics Kits: Physical mathematics kits are sold for €12 per unit (or €20 for two units, i.e., €10 per unit for 2+ kits) to parents, rehabilitation professionals, and others outside the Education Nationale. Shipping fees of €14 apply for 1 or 2 kits in mainland France. This is a low-cost physical product revenue stream supplementing the free digital tools.
2. Donations: The organization accepts donations from the public through its website to support the ongoing development and distribution of free tools. Donations are a key funding source that enables the free distribution model.
3. Institutional Funding and Partnerships: Le Cartable Fantastique is funded through partnerships with institutional and corporate sponsors including the French Ministry of Education (Ministère de l'Education Nationale), Fondation FDJ, Caisse des dépôts, Fonds Autosphère, Klésia, and Crédit Agricole. This institutional funding supports the development of tools and the free distribution model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Le Cartable Fantastique develops and freely distributes accessibility software and physical kits that enable children with dyspraxia (developmental coordination disorder) to read, write, calculate, and do geometry in mainstream French schools. Its core offerings are LibreOffice and Microsoft Word plug-ins providing reading, writing, mathematics, language, and adaptation toolbars, complemented by the Cahiers Fantastique online exercise platform, OneNote-based digital agendas, and physical mathematics kits. The tools are co-designed by cognitive science researchers and teachers and distributed free to individual users, teachers, and families.

Product overview

Le Cartable Fantastique is an association that provides educational compensation tools for dyspraxic (developmental coordination disorder) students, developed through collaboration between cognitive science researchers and teachers. The core offerings are two productivity plug-ins — the LibreOffice Plug-in and the Word Plug-in (Ruban Word) — each available in three versions: Primaire/Primaire+, Collège/Collège+, and Adaptateur. These plug-ins add toolbar-based accessibility features for reading, writing, mathematics, language learning, chemistry, electricity, and content adaptation. Supporting products include a Microsoft OneNote-based digital agenda and daily notebook, printable or purchasable mathematical kits (templates for operations, numeration tables, and multiplication tables), and a cloud-based exercise platform called Les Cahiers Fantastiques for creating nine types of digitally adapted exercises. Content resources include a CE1 French exercise bank (Les Fantastiques Exercices) developed with the French Ministry of Education, an accessible book library, and supplementary tools such as color-coded writing sheets, reading rulers, standalone conjugation and multiplication-table applications, and an online text transformer. The organization also provides computer adaptation guidance and tutorials for GeoGebra geometry software.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Les Cahiers Fantastiques: An online platform for creating digital exercises adapted for dyspraxic students

Products and services

• Plug-in LibreOffice du Cartable Fantastique LibreOffice plug-in adding accessibility toolbars (Lire, Écrire, Mathématiques, Langues, Chimie, Électricité, Adaptation) to compensate for motor and visuo-spatial difficulties of dyspraxic students. Available in three versions (Primaire, Collège, Adaptateur) for Windows, Mac, and Linux, compatible with LibreOffice 25.2.5.2.
• Plug-in Word du Cartable Fantastique (Ruban Word) Microsoft Word plug-in providing the same accessibility toolbars (Lire, Écrire, Mathématiques, Langues, Chimie, Électricité, Adaptation) as the LibreOffice version, in Primaire+, Collège+, and Adaptateur+ versions. Compatible with Office 2019, Office 365, and Windows 10.
• Plateforme des Cahiers Fantastiques Web-based platform (cahiersfantastiques.fr) for creating and using digital exercises adapted for dyspraxic students, supporting nine exercise types including clickable words, multiple choice, color coding, drag-and-drop labels, and fill-in-the-blank. Exercises are usable online or downloadable for offline use.
• Agenda Numérique OneNote Microsoft OneNote-based digital school agenda organized by month with daily pages for homework, audio recording for students who cannot type during class, and per-zone variants (A, B, C, Corsica) plus a universal 365-day version.
• Cahier du Jour OneNote Daily OneNote notebook where students print completed work from Cahiers Fantastiques, Word, and GeoGebra into one unified digital notebook, organized by school month, with teacher annotation capability in OneNote.
• Kits Mathématiques Physical or printable kits containing operation templates, numeration and conversion tables, addition and multiplication tables, and number houses for use with a dry-erase marker in a transparent sleeve. Available free as printables or as a purchasable cardstock version.
• Les Fantastiques Exercices Français CE1 Curated CE1 French grammar and conjugation exercise bank developed in formal partnership with the French Ministry of Education, designed for dyspraxic students first and then adapted for the rest of the class; available as digital exercises and PDF/Word worksheets.
• Bibliothèque du Cartable Fantastique Library of adapted books (fables, stories, fairy tales, legends) presented with adapted text size, spacing, and color-coding to facilitate reading for dyspraxic readers.
• Règles de Lecture Printable and laminatable reading rulers in various sizes designed to help dyspraxic students follow text line by line and avoid confusing adjacent lines.
• Feuilles et Fiches d'Écriture à Lignes de Couleur Color-coded writing sheets (four-color and two-color versions) in A4 and A3 formats that help dyspraxic children orient themselves on the page, available as printables and downloadable Word templates.
• Application de Conjugaison Standalone conjugation application allowing students to display verb conjugations by selecting a verb and tense, usable independently of word processors and also via the LibreOffice and Word plug-in toolbars.
• Application Multi Tables Adapted multiplication tables learning application designed specifically for dyspraxic students to practice and memorize multiplication tables.
• Application Tables d'Addition Windows taskbar-pinnable application providing quick access to addition tables, complementing the LibreOffice plug-in's mathematics toolbar for primary school students.
• Transformateur de Textes en Ligne Online text transformation tool hosted on cahiersfantastiques.fr that modifies text appearance by adjusting line colors, highlighting, and letter spacing to improve accessibility for dyspraxic readers.
• Tutoriels GeoGebra pour la géométrie Set of 22 tutorial slideshows with summary sheets for using GeoGebra free geometry software to teach geometry concepts to dyspraxic students without physical rulers, compasses, and protractors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Dyspraxia affects as many children as dyslexia, making this a significant educational challenge for a large population of French students

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale (French Ministry of Education)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLe Cartable Fantastique developed the 'Fantastiques Exercices' program (a comprehensive database of French grammar and conjugation exercises from CE1 to 6ème) in formal partnership with the French Ministry of Education. This partnership enables official distribution of the tools through Education Nationale channels and lends institutional credibility to the resources.
• CANOPÉ (Réseau Canopé)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCANOPÉ (the French national network for educational resources) holds physical mathematics kits for local distribution. Families and schools can contact their local CANOPÉ branch to check availability and obtain kits in person, supplementing the direct mail distribution.

Scale indicators1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Inclusive Technology: UK-based vendor of switches, eye-gaze devices, and learning software (e.g., HelpKidzLearn, ChooseIt! Maker) used in special schools. Comparable as a developer of tools specifically designed for students with motor and learning difficulties who struggle with mainstream classroom materials.
• Crick Software: UK-based maker of Clicker, a word-processor add-on for primary and special-needs students that provides reading, writing, and multimedia support. Most directly comparable product: a literacy/learning-support layer that sits on top of standard word-processing software, just like Le Cartable Fantastique's LibreOffice and Word plugins.
• Texthelp: UK-based developer of Read&Write and EquatIO, accessibility overlays that integrate with Word, browsers, and Google Docs to provide text-to-speech, vocabulary support, and writing aids. Closest international peer for Le Cartable Fantastique's plugin-based literacy and writing compensation for students with learning difficulties.
• Don Johnston: US-based assistive technology provider whose products (e.g., Read:OutLoud, Co:Writer, Start-to-Finish) help students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other learning disabilities read and write. Direct peer in the special-needs literacy/writing accommodation category that Le Cartable Fantastique serves.

Broad incumbents

• Bordas: Major French educational publisher producing textbooks and digital resources aligned with French national curriculum. Serves the same Education Nationale teachers and students, making it comparable on distribution channel even though its product (curriculum publishing) is broader than Le Cartable Fantastique's accessibility plugins.
• Hatier: French educational publisher with extensive primary and secondary textbook, exercise, and digital-resource catalog. Comparable as a curriculum-aligned content provider serving French public schools, overlapping on teacher adoption channels if not on dyspraxia-specific features.
• Speechi: French digital-education vendor selling interactive boards, classroom software, and teacher tools to schools. Broader portfolio than Le Cartable Fantastique but reaches the same French K–12 institutional buyers and complementary in the same classroom technology stack.

Emerging players

• Lalilo: French adaptive literacy platform used by teachers in primary schools, with a similar K–3 reading-accommodation angle. Overlaps with Le Cartable Fantastique on French primary literacy but targets general classroom readers rather than dyspraxia specifically.
• EvidenceB: French adaptive math platform that differentiates exercises per student and integrates with primary curricula. Adjacent in delivering differentiated math instruction to French schools, partial overlap with Le Cartable Fantastique's adapted mathematics tools.
• Kwyk: French online math practice platform used by collège teachers and students. Partial overlap with Le Cartable Fantastique's mathematics compensation work in the same French secondary-school segment, though targeted at general math practice rather than dyspraxia-specific accommodation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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