# Alphabet Sounds Word Study — user reviews > 18 indexed App Store user reviews of Alphabet Sounds Word Study by This Reading Mama, LLC., rated 3.40/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alphabet-sounds-word-study/id1000174930/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alphabet-sounds-word-study/id1000174930.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 9 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — No Sound *2020-05-12* Ugh! I have an iPad Air 2. iOS version 13.4.1. The other reviews are accurate. The sound does not work. ### 1/5 — No Audio! *2018-01-24* I just purchased your app. There is any sound. Please advice how I can fix this or please refund my account. Jen ### 2/5 — SOUND???? *2017-09-02* is there supposed to be any sound? checked the app volume, my phone volume, even re-downloaded, and i can't hear anything! pls fix! ### 2/5 — How did they miss that 'K' and 'C' make the same sound? *2017-05-09* In "one of these things is not like the other" game, the goal is to pick the word that starts (middles, ends) with the different SOUND. Not letter, but SOUND. Each word is shown by a picture, you press the picture and it says the word, you pick the word that starts with the different SOUND. Great -- except that the app seems to think that "k" words make a different sound than "c" words -- like a set "cookie", "cat", "cake", "kick" and the answer is 'kick" . You can't skip it, there's no way to say "stop showing me this sound", it's just wrong. Also wish there was a way for parents/teachers to choose a focus phoneme, or control in any way which sounds come up. I like the games (apart from the fatal flaw of C & K) , especially the sorting games. I was hoping to use this to help my kid learn to sort "b" and "d" , two letters a lot of kids have trouble with, but there is zero control over what comes up. Really wanted to like this but it stinks. ### 2/5 — Major flaw *2016-02-19* No audio. Where do I sign to get a refund? ### 3/5 — Needs an update *2020-03-26, version 2.0* The sound on the app doesn’t work. ### 3/5 — Great App *2017-08-10* This app is great, but it continuously freezes. My child will complete one activity and try to do more or go back to the main menu, but the buttons no longer work, it just freezes. 🙁 ### 3/5 — No audio *2016-02-15* Seems like a great app but I don't have any audio!! ### 3/5 — Please fix the bug *2015-09-07, version 1.2* It otfen hangs after a few "more sorts". It is actually a wonderful app. (running on iOS 8.1) ### 4/5 — Love it *2019-04-27* Our family loves this app. (3&6years) We haven't had any issues with sound at all as some reviews mentioned. ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — ABC time *2019-05-07* My kids love to play this app. I love that the kid gets to go shopping and place items in the shopping cart with the initial sound. You can have them shop for items for two beginning sounds or three. Plus there are other activities like learning formation of the letters. This is a game my kid asks to play! ### 5/5 — Great app *2019-05-03* We homeschool our children and this app has been great for our Preschool aged child to help him with letter sounds ### 5/5 — Such great learning! *2019-05-03* My 5 year old loves using this app. I love that it doesn’t have any popular characters or is super flashy. ### 5/5 — Love *2019-04-26* I love this app for my struggling readers! I’m a 2nd grade teacher and this app keeps my kiddos engaged and having fun while learning! ### 5/5 — Great! *2019-04-26* This app is one of my students' favorites! I especially used it to help reinforce beginning, middle & ending sounds. I recommend this app to anyone who has a child/student that needs a tool to help reinforce that concept. ### 5/5 — Great! *2018-08-28* Love this app and all the others from "this reading mama" for my kiddos! ### 5/5 — Great app *2018-05-27* This is a great app for kids to work on phonemic awareness & basic phonics! I am a special education teacher, and we have used this app to give struggling students a little extra practice that is engaging and fun. The students love it, and their ability to segment sounds improved in a few weeks! ### 5/5 — Love it *2018-04-12* Concentrates on the sounds with fun games. Works great for us. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-27.*