# Bukvyk: read Ukrainian — Alphabet, syllables and tales > Alphabet, syllables and tales (iPhone/iPad app by Anton Kozionov.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bukvyk-read-ukrainian/id6810298513 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Anton Kozionov](https://appshunter.io/developer/6810298515) - Category: Education, Games, Family, Word - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 57 MB - Languages: Ukrainian - Released: 2026-10-17 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is Bukvyk? BUKVYK teaches children to read Ukrainian — from a single letter to a whole story. A child starts with sounds and syllables and ends up reading a bedtime tale alone. Thirteen games, each one step along that road. GAMES • Alphabet and syllables — letters and syllables in order, with voice • Find the pairs — a memory game • How many syllables — count the syllables in a word • Shared syllable — one syllable, three words • First letter — which letter does the word start with • Find the picture — read the word, pick the picture • Build the word — assemble a word from syllables or letters • Sort it out — read the word and drop it into the right jar; tilt the phone and the words roll • True or false — does the sentence describe the picture • Which word — put in the missing word • Finish the rhyme — a word that both rhymes and makes sense • Short stories — read a story told with pictures • Odd one out — three from one pile, one from another BEDTIME TALES Seventy tales written for this app. Each is about a character who tries three ways and finds a fourth: a tortoise in a hurry, a dragon with no fire, a whale who wanted to reach the sky. Turned page by page, like a book, with questions after the last one. Six tales are open from the start. VOICE Every word, syllable, sound and letter name is recorded — seven hundred takes. A child touches a picture and hears the word; touches a letter and hears its sound, not its name. The voice is synthesized, but never on the fly: each take was made and chosen in advance, so a word sounds the same on every screen and with no connection at all. FOR PARENTS A separate screen shows what is actually hard: which letters the child mixes up, which words they stumble on, how much they read today. Difficulty in each game follows the child on its own — there is nothing to set up, and you can still look and adjust it on that same screen. Fifty-seven stickers for milestones. They are holographic: tilt the phone and the shimmer follows your hand. WHAT IS NOT HERE • Advertising — none, anywhere • Accounts and sign-up • Data collection — nothing about you leaves the phone • Hearts, penalties and anything else that rushes a child The games work without a network. It is needed twice, and only when you decide: when the store processes a purchase, and when you tap to download the pack of animated covers and narrated tales. The pack is fetched as a plain request by file name. FULL VERSION One purchase, forever. No subscriptions: the content is finished, and charging every month for the same thing is not honest. The purchase sits behind a parental gate. Making mistakes while learning to read is normal, so there is no red anywhere in the app. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Повна версія | $9.99 | one-time | ## Is Bukvyk safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Bukvyk. ## Is Bukvyk legit? Bukvyk: read Ukrainian has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bukvyk is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.4 — 2026-10-28 At the highest difficulty level a child only ever met part of the word list — words of three syllables or more. There are now 438 words there instead of 180: the two-syllable ones that were missing have been added. ### 1.1.3 — 2026-10-26 We corrected one sentence in the True or False game so that it reads naturally in Ukrainian. The voice recording was redone to match. The credits now have a separate section for methodology: our thanks to the teacher whose work shaped the letter order and the closed syllables. ### 1.1.2 — 2026-10-22 The alphabet can now be browsed in the order your child actually learns the letters: the primer order, A to Z, or starting with the letters that look like English ones. Closed syllables have appeared on the syllable page, in pairs the way a primer teaches them: АН above НА, АР above РА. The button below flips to the next three, and in word mode it shuffles the pictures. Background music now fades while a word is spoken and comes back after it. A gadfly has been added to the letter Ґ. ### 1.1.1 — 2026-10-20 The credits now list every author of the music and sounds. ### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-17 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Bukvyk | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [TheraTales: Bedtime Stories](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/theratales-bedtime-stories/id6764606317) | — | Free | Education | | [Sleepy Friends: Bedtime Story](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sleepy-friends-bedtime-story/id6815920302) | — | Free | Education | | [Кіт, привіт! 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