# The Phonics App — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of The Phonics App by Phonics Folk Ltd, rated 4.80/5 from 100 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-phonics-app/id6742649576/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-phonics-app/id6742649576.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 89 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (16 of 36) ### 5/5 — Outstanding! *2025-06-15, version 1.5* I can’t recommend this app highly enough, it’s exactly what adults & children need to learn phonics! Without all the gimmicky screen stuff so ideal for low screen users. I have recommended this to everyone I know & I will continue to!! Phonics without the pressure of watching a whole course is ideal for a busy parent. To be honest, I’m learning so much along side my child! Thank you so much!! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-04-29, version 1.4* So helpful for phonics learning ### 5/5 — Excellent resource *2025-04-25, version 1.4* Very useful simple app to help early years reading skills. Recommended. ### 5/5 — I love this app! *2025-04-10, version 1.4* I love this app! Thank you miss Mabel!! My child is loving this! It’s the only thing that gets them reading! Really recommend this for any parent teaching their child to read. ### 5/5 — Very useful *2025-04-09, version 1.4* Really good ### 5/5 — App makes phonics make sense! *2025-04-01, version 1.4* As a mum with no prior phonics experience the reading roots app has supported my daughter to be able to read simple CVC words and words with digraphs having just turned 4! Thank you! 🙏 ### 5/5 — Brilliant Phonics App *2025-03-25, version 1.4* A lovely, easy to use app that makes learning phonics fun and stress fun. The videos are super helpful and the clean design keeps kids focused. With a few small updates, it’ll be even better, even though it’s already a brilliant tool for building reading confidence! ### 5/5 — Happy parent *2025-03-17, version 1.3* Very simple application easy to use yet covers all what we need for phonics . ### 5/5 — Bexie *2025-03-16, version 1.3* The best reading aid ever. I love it. ### 5/5 — So helpful, an excellent guide to understand Phonics *2025-03-13, version 1.2* Finally an easy guide to Phonics! As a neuro-diverse parent this app is a lifesaver and brilliant in deciphering the mysteries of Phonics. Highly recommend. ### 5/5 — Simple and effective! *2025-03-11, version 1.0* A fantastic app which takes you through the stages of phonics step by step. Easy to use for both parents and children. 10/10 ### 5/5 — Fantastic phonics app for Kids! *2025-03-11, version 1.0* Engaging colourful and easy for kids to use and parents helping. This app makes learning to read fun and the clear sound effects and progress tracker work really well. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Amazing help for me and my daughter *2025-03-10, version 1.0* My daughter has been really struggling with her digraphs and I was lost in how to teach her. This app is brilliant and helped us both so much! ### 5/5 — Simple lessons, excellent teacher *2025-03-10, version 1.0* This app is a great introduction to phonics that helps parents engage children who are showing signs of wanting to learn how to read. I was hopeless at stringing letters together and telling the different between a c and a k. No mote. Download today! ### 5/5 — Amazing app to teach littles to read! *2025-03-10, version 1.0* Really well designed app - it's not overly complicated so easy for my child to operate themselves and Miss Mabel's voiceover is so helpful. It's simply designed so it's not overstimulating and I'm so looking forward to using it more! ### 5/5 — TD *2025-03-10, version 1.0* I’ve been looking for an app like this for years - so clever - ready in my pocket to help my kids learn to read at home or on the go. Love it 🚀 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Adult female Sabina *2025-08-15* I love this **Developer response:** We are so glad to hear you love our app Sabina. Is there any reason you only have us one star? Thanks! ### 1/5 — Schwa *2025-08-03, version 2.1* Teacher and parent to a keen 3 year old. Thought this app would be a great way to help introduce the sounds and give my son a solid foundation for starting his reading journey. Unfortunately, a lot of letters are not pronounced correctly as they have the schwa for example, the letter g is pronounced g-uh. Look up schwa for clarification. This type of basic pronunciation error at the foundation stage of reading will cause all sorts of reading and spelling problems later down the road. Good concept, wanted to love it but some real errors on the pronunciation means I will not be using it. ### 1/5 — Pointless without subscribing *2025-03-10, version 1.0* I was really excited for this app and was on the wait list. But it’s pointless without subscribing and paying monthly or yearly. What a disappointment. I’d have happily paid for the app, but I think a subscription is too much! ### 4/5 — Very good, but… *2025-11-21* The narrator has just the slightest British accent. The phonics on vowels ‘o’ and ‘u’ in particular are slightly off compared to American accents and it causes some confusion with my son. We worked through it. Overall it’s a very good app. If they fixed those two vowels for American english or gave a couple accent options to choose from I’d give it 5 stars ### 5/5 — Thank you *2026-07-14, version 2.4* We used the Phonics App to help my daughter with her year 1 screening. It was brilliant and she gained full marks on her assessment. Thank you so much ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2026-06-04, version 2.3* Great app, my 3 year old is reading lots of cvc words now. ### 5/5 — Five stars *2026-05-09, version 2.3* Excellent resource for teaching my 3 year old phonics sounds! I’m so happy I found this. We do five minutes at a time just to get familiar. Excited to keep using. Just wanted to share an idea, if we could have an option to open up pictures for each of the letter sounds. So when we see the s and click on it and hear sssss there should be an option to click and see a few things that start with ssss like snake or sand or socks. That would be super cool. Such a great app regardless and great to give screen time while still learning 😍 ### 5/5 — Simple & to the point 💕 *2026-03-20, version 2.3* Love this app as a tool to help our child on his reading journey. We had a previous app that had games and all sorts of flashing lights which I found distracting. I felt like it took a while for us to really dive in and a lot of the time we’d avoid sitting down and using it with him. What I love about this one is that it’s simple and to the point. We can pick it up anytime and practice 5-10 minutes or whatever suits us. I believe these consistent micro sessions add up and have contributed to his overall progress rather than having big one off practice sessions - that we’d ultimately put off. It also helps someone like me who doesn’t need to add to the mental load, I don’t need to think or plan, we just pick it up and ‘do’. For context, he is 7 and this has really complimented his reading. We are now going to commence with our 5 year old as she has started showing interest. Thank you! ### 5/5 — A supportive app *2026-03-16, version 2.3* My daughter enjoys the phonics app which has in turn helped her confidence both with phonics, words and sounds. There are some sounds which are different to what she does at school but we are mindful of that. The main point is she wants to do it and enjoys the variety and the flexible nature of going through the sections and picking and choosing what she wants to work on. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Filly *2026-01-16, version 2.2* This is so helpful thank you ## Most praised reviews (4 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best App *2025-11-12, version 2.2* My son has learned how to read. All thanks to the app, it's fantastic, excellent value for the price. And excellent customer service ### 5/5 — Amazing phonics *2025-10-09, version 2.2* I really love this app because it helps my child understand phonics really well! ### 5/5 — Brilliant app *2025-08-05, version 2.1* My son is enjoying so much and it's really helping him ### 5/5 — So brill *2025-08-02, version 2.1* Just loving this app getting my kid ahead it’s so good --- *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 2026-09-03.*