# Little Speller - Three Letter Words LITE - Free Educational Game for Kids — user reviews > 123 indexed App Store user reviews of Little Speller by Innovative Investments Limited, rated 4.30/5 from 43 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/little-speller-three-letter-words-lite-free-educational-game-for-kids/id434789689/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/little-speller-three-letter-words-lite-free-educational-game-for-kids/id434789689.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 33 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Little Speller? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Highly customizable for individual learning needs - 🎓 Excellent for early readers and spelling learners - 🎨 Clear, uncluttered pictures and visual design - 🎤 Ability to record custom voice pronunciations - 📚 Great for special education and autism support - 🆓 Free app with no annoying ads - 🎯 Multiple difficulty settings for different age groups - ⚙️ Easy-to-use customization interface - 🎉 Engaging and fun for children - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Suitable for wide age range (toddlers to school-age) **Cons** - 🐛 Occasional app crashes and freezing - 🔤 Uses letter names instead of letter sounds - 🖼️ Some word-picture pairings are unclear or inaccurate - ⏱️ Navigation requires returning to home screen between words - 🎨 Limited animated graphics compared to other apps - 🌍 Strong American accent may not suit all users - 📱 Some display glitches with overlapping letters - 🔊 Audio overlap issues during gameplay - ❌ Allows spelling in wrong order without correction - ⚠️ Black screen errors and app crashes reported **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and freezes during use - Black screen errors preventing app access - Faded screen icon showing 'waiting' status - Letters overlapping and difficult to select - Letters not returning to original position after selection - Audio sounds overlapping during gameplay - Wrong word displayed with incorrect picture - App won't delete properly from device - Blank screen after accessing options menu - Sound functionality not working **Most requested features** - Letter sounds instead of letter names for phonemic awareness - Blank spaces option for increased difficulty - Previous/next buttons for faster navigation - Four+ letter word options - British English accent option - Sight words and longer word lists - Rhyming word organization feature - Multiple language support (e.g., English/Spanish) - Ability to toggle words on/off within lists - Consonant and vowel visual indicators - Word stays on screen until user is ready to proceed - Require sequential spelling order as standard option ## Newest reviews (16 of 123) ### 4/5 — Fun *2016-01-27* I was going to buy my four year old a 'word whammer' I think this is fun, encouraging and I added in my own words and pictures. ### 4/5 — Little Speller *2015-08-18* Great for CVC words. Different options provide a chance to differentiate to suit the development of the child. ### 4/5 — Great app! *2014-06-30* Useful for kids ### 5/5 — One of the best educational app for kids.. *2014-03-29* No annoying adds and no tricks to buy the full.. Thanks for the app. ### 5/5 — Great app!!! *2014-03-05* It works well ### 5/5 — Great great great!!!!! *2014-02-21, version 2.0* This is wonderful! ### 5/5 — Customize with your own voice! *2014-02-16* I especially like that I can record my voice instead of the generic voice. For example, every time Levi has an "L" my voice says "L like in Levi" and all the reward sounds are fun and animated and meaningful to him in a voice he knows and loves. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2014-01-22, version 2.0* What a great tool! We are using every week to help with kids spelling words. ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-01-20, version 2.0* Excellent helper for phonics study and early reading! ### 5/5 — Little speller *2014-01-11, version 2.0* The best, my three year old is spelling. ### 5/5 — Great! *2014-01-04, version 2.0* This is an awesome app for beginning and struggling spellers. The photos help children associate the images and words. ### 5/5 — Three letter word makers. *2013-09-21* Very good app the little enjoys it very much. ### 5/5 — Love it *2013-09-03, version 2.0* Love the app. Really helps the kiddos and its fun for them ### 5/5 — Fun and educational *2013-08-23* Great app! My 3 and 5 year old love it! They play all the time....during their fun iPhone time and learning iPhone time. Great way to introduce reading and spelling. Fun pics and good variety. One suggestion is to do rhyming words on order so kids can learn that for rhyming words you only change the first letter. Makes it easier to learn lots of words. ### 5/5 — Great App *2013-07-19* Very intuitive for kids! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2013-06-24, version 2.0* I love that you can customize it. My son loves it and he is learning. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Should be okay but so bad *2021-04-06* It should be an easy app, but they screwed it up so bad. The main issue is that no matter what letter you pick up first it will say the first letter of the word. For example in the word Car if you pick up the R it will always say C. So pretty useless ### 1/5 — Can't use the app *2014-08-14* We are unable to use this app at the moment. The screen icon shows up faded and says "waiting". It won't download anything and it doesn't come up with a 'x' so I can't delete it either. Please help :) ### 1/5 — No stars *2013-05-15, version 2.0* Having to go back " home" Everytime finish with a word....is really annoying . ### 1/5 — ...... *2012-10-11, version 2.0* Some of the pictures that they choose to go with the words aren't really the best choices. For instance, the word cot is paired with a picture of a crib, the word 'can' is paired with a soda can. Also, it would be nice if they sounded out each letter as it is being selected and when saying the word. ### 1/5 — Blank screen *2012-07-02* Installed and wanted to check out before purchasing full version. App worked a few times then just a blank screen. Not great reviews from your paid version. Waste of time... ### 1/5 — Annoying pop up ads *2012-01-30* Very annoying pop up ads promoting other apps. Some noticeable bugs and otherwise pretty ordinary... ### 1/5 — Not very good *2011-11-10* The problem I found with this app is that it allows the child to enter the letters in the wrong order and then praises them for it. At school, they will have to do it in the right order so they should be doing it with this app. ### 2/5 — JW *2011-10-23* Very strong American accent. Would say no good for English babies. Brill idea though. ### 3/5 — Not phonemic *2013-11-16, version 2.0* Nice app, but would give it 5 stars if it gave u the option of saying the letter sounds instead of the names. Phonemic awareness is a precursor of reading, knowing the letter sounds is key. ### 3/5 — Only one quibble *2013-08-10* This app is very simple and clean and does a great job. It has many options to customize the game. However, I do wish it had the option to turn off the letters in the boxes where you put the letter blocks. In other words, it would be great to have the word picture, audible voice prompt, scrambled letter blocks and BLANK SPACES WHERE YOU PUT THE LETTER BLOCKS. This would give another level of difficulty and opportunity for learning. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Lasana *2023-06-09* Jackson 6 ### 5/5 — Please update for ios 15 *2022-02-03* Please update for ios 15 ### 5/5 — Excellent! *2016-03-15* My daughter LOVES it!!! Great app!! ### 5/5 — Knowledge *2015-12-16* Nice apps ### 5/5 — Excellent *2015-08-10* This app is perfect for beginners, who are learning letters and letter sounds. It helps kids form simple words. ### 5/5 — Easy to use *2015-04-08* Easy for kids to use and for me to customise the words and pronunciation. ### 5/5 — Great App *2014-12-28* Great educational app for my 4-year old. ### 5/5 — Update other apps for iOS 7 *2014-07-25, version 2.1* We really like this app, but have outgrown it and would like to see sight words, three letter paid version, and four letter words updated for iOS 7. I hope you can do this soon. ### 5/5 — Grasshopper apps are the best! Awesome for kids with autism. *2014-07-23, version 2.0* I get all of the Grasshopper apps, because they've taught my child with autism things I'd been trying to teach her for years. Would be great for any child trying to learn new words, or having trouble spelling. ### 5/5 — Super app! *2014-04-15, version 2.0* My grandson has recently shown an interest in putting letters together to form words, so this couldn't have come at a better time! He loves it! --- *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 2026-08-30.*