# Phonics Ninja — user reviews > 63 indexed App Store user reviews of Phonics Ninja by Innovative Investments Limited, rated 3.50/5 from 41 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phonics-ninja/id1156244787/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phonics-ninja/id1156244787.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 19 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 3 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Phonics Ninja? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun and engaging for kids - 💡 Great for learning phonics - 🚀 Helps with spelling tests - ✨ Customizable lists for practice - 🎯 Good for sight word practice - 💯 Effective for beginners - 🌟 Makes learning fun - 📚 Useful for literacy centers - 🎯 Good for drilling - 🎉 Kids love it - 💡 Great for auditory discrimination - 🚀 Helps with fluency - 🌈 Colorful and fast-paced - ✅ Positive feedback loop - 💡 Errorless learning approach - 🥳 Kids have a blast - 🚀 Great for RTI students - 💡 Good for combining sounds/letters - 🎯 Targets fluency in sound-letter associations - 🥳 Fun way to review sounds - 💡 Focuses on sounds for beginning readers - 🚀 Makes drill work fun - 💡 Increases phonemic awareness - 🎯 Great for practicing blends and digraphs - ✅ Sounds are mostly spot on - 💡 Customizable settings for learning - 🚀 Motivating for reading students - 💯 Great for special needs students - 💡 Good for introducing phonics - 👍 Easy to use - ✅ Good for warm-ups - 💡 Great twist on a favorite game - 💯 Great job! **Cons** - 🐛 Sound not working - ❌ No sound at all - 🐛 Sounds not clipped correctly - 🐛 Incorrect pronunciation of blends - 🐛 "uh" sound added to consonant sounds - 🐛 "q" pronounced as "kw" - 🐛 Some syllables odd - 🐛 Pace too much for some children - 🐛 No penalty for random guesses - 🐛 App gives no direction/introductory lesson - 🐛 Many sounds not articulated accurately/clearly - 🐛 Not enough feedback - 🐛 Some errors in digraph pronunciation - 🐛 Vowel sound added to end of phonemes - 🐛 "fl" sounds like "fla" - 🐛 "p" sounds like "pa" - 🐛 Incorrect markings on some sounds - 🐛 Some blends pronounced with short "a" sound at the end - 🐛 Needs more features like combining sounds - 🐛 Could use specific words for articulation - 🐛 Not perfectly accurate - 🐛 Some blends pronounced with an added vowel sound **Commonly reported bugs** - Sounds are not working - No sound at all - Some sounds are not clipped - Incorrect pronunciation of blends - Incorrect pronunciation of digraphs - Incorrect pronunciation of "q" - Added "uh" sound to consonant sounds - Added vowel sound to end of phonemes - Incorrect markings on some sounds - Some blends pronounced with short "a" sound at the end **Most requested features** - Make it more similar to Fruit Ninja with a penalty for errors - Add more features like combining sounds to create words - Include specific words that target articulation sounds - Fix how letters are presented (e.g., only 'c' or 'k' for /k/ sound) - Count both letters correct if presented together - Add dark mode option - Improve pronunciation of blends - Remove the added "uh" sound after consonant sounds - Fix pronunciation of "q" - Allow shutting down all in each category for beginners - Add more levels or content ## Newest reviews (10 of 63) ### 4/5 — It is engaging but there are issues *2020-08-13* When the app asks for the /k/ sound it throws up both the c and the k. The k is right but the c is wrong. Either fix how you throw the letters up and only have the 1 letter or count both letters correct. I am sure this is true for some of the sounds for vowels. ### 4/5 — Cute phonics app *2017-03-31* Cute phonics app for young children ### 2/5 — Great game, bad phonemes *2017-03-28* I only played a few sounds, and immediately spotted a problem that many teachers don't recognize. Consonant sounds do not have an "uh" after the sound. It is "b", not "buh". But other than that common problem, what a great idea! ### 5/5 — Love it *2017-01-12, version 1.1* Great app to help combine sound development with letter recognition. ### 4/5 — Sounds *2016-12-30* The thing I find with most apps of this nature is that the vowel sound is added to the end /buh/ vs /b/ or /gruh/ vs /gr/. We should not be teaching kids to sound out words /buh/ /a/ /duh/, bad-because we do not read that way and it is confusing my dyslexic children who are learning to read. When they go to blend the word they do not recognize the word because of the vowel interference.....buh-a-duh vs b-a-d. Is there any way to clean up your sounds? ### 5/5 — Seems good *2016-12-01, version 1.1* My grandson seems to like this, and so far, it has my approval. Colorful, fast paced and keeps a positive feedback. ### 3/5 — David Hendrey *2016-11-28* The pronunciation of some phonemes are not quite right, but good that the teacher or pupil can voice the phonemes. One definite mistake is that "q" is voiced as "kw" whereas it should be "k" ### 4/5 — Would be great for a child at a higher level *2016-11-25, version 1.1* My child has significant special needs and the noise and pace of this game is too much for him. I do think it would hold the attention of a child who loved video games! ### 5/5 — Fun App!! *2016-11-19, version 1.1* Your student will have a blast chopping the letter(s) that match the given sound. You can adjust the settings to only present sounds the student has learned. Pick individually from a list of letters, digraphs, blends, and vowel teams. ### 5/5 — Great errorless learning! *2016-11-09* I am refreshed by the way this app adjusts so kids will take in correct information no matter what their learning style is. I have a student who will choose every option because he has great iPad skills. But he really needs phonics too. This app only says the sound for the requested phonics and if the student chops the wrong ones it just says nothing, but does not make a negative sound, which can get discouraging. Then it adjusts so more of the desired letters appear, guaranteeing that the child will have to swipe the right sound and get the input of the sound and symbol as they play. All along having fun and feeling successful. Thanks Alligator Apps! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Sounds aren’t working *2025-03-29* The sounds are not working. There are absolutely zero sounds upon opening the app, and playing the game. That makes this app useless. VERY dissatisfied. ### 1/5 — Sound not working *2023-09-04* Why isn’t the sound working for phonic or abc ninja? ### 1/5 — There’s no point to this game *2020-05-01* Should be a free app ### 1/5 — Don’t buy this app *2020-04-21* The app gives no direction, introductory lesson, and many of the sounds are not articulated accurately and clearly. This would be fine if it were a free app for your kid to kill time using but not useful for learning phonics or to supplement phonics lessons at home/school ### 1/5 — Some errors. *2019-10-11* There are some errors for how some of the digraphs are pronounced. I would not use this if you are wanting your child to learn phonics. These little errors now can effect the child later on when reading becomes more difficult. ### 1/5 — Sound problems... *2019-09-21, version 2.0* The game worked well at the start, but now the sound won’t work...Why is there no sound?? The app is useless without it. ### 1/5 — Mr *2017-10-12* No sound at all. ### 2/5 — Sounds aren’t working *2025-01-29* The sounds are not working ### 2/5 — Sounds are not clipped! *2022-11-12* Some sounds are pronounced correctly but many…especially the blends are not clipped. BL is not pronounced /bluh/. It should be just /bl/. I won’t be using this or recommending it until this is changed. ### 2/5 — Not enough feedback *2022-06-26* My students enjoy this game but there is no penalty for random guesses please make it more similar to Fruit Ninja … only allow a few errors before game over. We have to teach them to recognize accurate connections of sound/symbol relationships, not random guessing! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great app! *2020-12-04* It helps me very much with my spelling tests and it’s a fun way to help kids like me with spelling. big five stars! thank you for making this app and make more apps like this one. thank you for reading and bye ### 5/5 — Tremendous *2020-01-08* This is a great app for parents to use as an easy sight word practice. Tends to make the word practice painless. Also love the customizable lists you can create as your child adds new words. ### 5/5 — Perfect for beginners *2019-02-26, version 2.0* My first grader was struggling This helped him a lot make sense of sounds It was also simple and fun to play ### 5/5 — Good for drilling *2018-03-28* Good as literacy centre activity ### 5/5 — Fun!! *2017-05-24* Fun app for kids learning sounds!! ### 5/5 — Kids love it! *2017-05-15* My kids love it at first but bore easily. I would like it to add more features like combining sounds to create words. Also could use specific words that target articulation sounds! ### 5/5 — Mrs. T *2017-04-07* Love the game, the kids will listen intently to win the game, ### 5/5 — Fantastic! *2017-03-26* It's great to have an app to allow students to work on discrimination of what sounds the letters make! It's also wonderful that those pesky vocalic "r's" are included. ### 5/5 — Love, love, love *2017-03-03, version 1.1* I love this app. My students in RTI love using it and compete with each other to see who can go the farthest. It teaches them sounds and does it quickly to help with fluency. Thanks for the great app! ### 5/5 — Great learning app *2017-02-14, version 1.1* Makes phonics fun for my little guy! --- *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 2026-08-31.*