# Word Magic — user reviews > 83 indexed App Store user reviews of Word Magic by Anusen Inc, rated 3.50/5 from 190 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-magic/id293630633/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-magic/id293630633.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 80 · 4★ 25 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 28 · 1★ 30 ## What do users think of Word Magic? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great learning tool - 🌟 Engaging for kids - 🎨 Colorful and attractive - 💡 Rewarding and motivating - 🚀 Intuitive interface - ✅ Good for early readers - 💯 Makes learning fun - ✨ Good for spelling practice - 🏆 Stickers and ribbon rewards - 👨‍🏫 Useful for classroom **Cons** - 👎 Too basic for older kids - 🗣️ Poor pronunciation - 🔊 Unbalanced sound levels - 🚫 No way back to menu - 🔄 Repetitive words - 🤔 Confusing for some - 🔠 Limited word length - 😵 Halloween backgrounds - 📉 Not phonics based **Commonly reported bugs** - App frozen - Flute card issue - Misspelled 'fishes' - Crashes - Can't read letter combinations - Can't change game modes **Most requested features** - Increase complexity/add more levels - Add more words - Add timer function - Option for UK English voice - Volume control - More advanced words/version - Option to turn off timer - Correct pronunciation errors - Add phonetics support - More animation - Track progress - Randomize missing letter position - Longer words - Phonetic sounds for wrong answers - More levels with longer words - Add more pictures - Visual cues for correct answers - Improve user interface - Add two-vowel words - Option for random missing letter position ## Newest reviews (12 of 83) ### 4/5 — Word magic *2013-02-11, version 4.6* Great app, i noticed a few words were pronounced wrong-eg. CLOVER was said like CLUVVER and a few times there has been no sound for the words but other than that really awesome ### 3/5 — Ok, but could improve *2012-07-22* My biggest concern is the accent of the reader is a bit hard to understand for US English. There is a picture as well, but think they should have correct audio cues to learn as well. ### 4/5 — Great learning game *2012-03-30* Good game. Could do with a timer function. ### 3/5 — There are some pronunciation errors *2011-07-03* As someone in the speech therapy field, the mispronunciations are hard to listen to...I've encountered several, i.e. Tree sounds more like twee; three is also incorrectly pronounced. I suppose I could turn down the volume but I think the auditory feedback is important for the children. Rerecord a different child saying the word correctly for five stars. ### 4/5 — Good app for kids learning to read *2011-04-10, version 4.1* Two of my kids love this app, one is 6 and is just learning to read at the kindergarten level. My 4 y.o. Really likes it too, and it is challenging for him. My other 6 y.o. Is already reading and she thinks it is boring. So, this is a great app for early readers. ### 5/5 — great for my 3 year old! *2010-09-23* This is a great program perfect for my 3 year old. Both my husband and I sit at home and work with her on her spelling, sounds, identification of letters, etc. She has gotten amazingly good at her spelling and is learning things that I'm sure she might be learning in kindergarten. She loves it because she thinks it is just a game, and we love it because it makes home schooling her easy & fun! Thanks anusen! ### 4/5 — Good app for preschooler/kindergarteners to learn spelling *2010-09-19, version 0* My 4-year old likes this app and I can see she is learning from it from doing the spelling exercises. It makes her stop and sound words out so she can figure out how to fill in the blank. ### 5/5 — Great and Useful *2010-08-29* Word Magic is a cool app that was very useful to my kid to check his current spelling skills, and expand beyond his current level. The app has a great collection of words, and has several configurable settings including level, rewars sound, word length and many others. Great app for a ridiculously cool price! ### 4/5 — Nice app for kids *2010-08-25, version 0* Nice game for kids. Awesome graphics and a pleasing kids voice sounding the words out. My 5 year old enjoyed it very much. ### 4/5 — 'Concerned Educator'..... Give me a break!!! *2010-06-27* Who the ...... ' H_ll '....... is this....'Concerned Educator' ? ---------------- a e u i ----------------- I like the program. Is it the best, I would have to say yes, it's the best available in this format for this age group. Do I like the multi-cultural accents, not really, but, that's the world in which we live. I just 'TEACH' my son the pronunciation I prefer. Could it be better, yes! My beginning 2nd grader burns through these words in no time at all. I would like to see more advanced words and would pay money for the more advanced version. I would really like to see 'Concerned Educator' put out a better app. Where are your apps listed? ### 3/5 — Great effort *2010-06-11, version 0* Great effort atleast u got it right vs lots who write reviews and do nothing. I am sure you will improve this . My 6 year old loves the app . ### 4/5 — It's good but pronunciation needs work! *2010-06-10, version 0* This is a great game for the kids and mine have really enjoyed it. My only complaint is the pronunciation of a lot of the words is very poor, which sometimes makes it hard for them to spell it! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Basic *2017-08-22* My son is 7 and this app is way too basic. ### 1/5 — Word Magic *2012-10-22* App has frozen! Granddaughter loved playing it too! ### 1/5 — Options to increase complexity *2011-07-17* There should have been options to increase the complexity beyond level 2.The words are repetitive ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2010-07-31* The concept is good but I found the pronunciation to be terrible - flat and mechanical. In many cases it sounded nothing like the word so that defeated the purpose. ### 1/5 — Not phonics based! *2010-05-31, version 0* This was clearly not designed by an educator. Initial sounds are not bad, but the medial and ending sounds have zero relationship to phonological awareness. No knowledge of vowel pairs is being taught. Very poor examples are the words moon, bear, and bird. the o, e and i do not make their short sounds in these words. They work as a pair. The i in bird is an r-controlled vowel. Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. This app will confuse and frustrate young children as they enter kindergarten. ### 1/5 — Word Magic *2009-01-08, version 0* Fantastic game for Key Stage 1 children. Clear and bright four and five letter CVC(consonant/vowel/consonant) and CVVC words. Colourful picture cues and instant praise or friendly prompt if incorrect letter is chosen. Perfect for Reception and year 1 children. ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2014-09-23* There is no way to get back to the main menu once the game starts. The words keep repeating over and over. Not very useful. ### 2/5 — Word magic *2013-05-31* I suppose this might be a good game...if the sounds were to come up. ### 2/5 — For kindergarten level only *2012-12-12* The maximum length of word is 6 letters, and there are limited number of words. Not good for First grade or higher level. ### 2/5 — Queen bee *2011-05-13, version 4.4* Something is wrong with the flute card. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Intuitive, instant, no inner delays *2011-11-02* This is an app that entertains and teaches instantly yet is likely to remain a favorite for no short amount of time. No social networks, scoreboards, layers of narrative, etc. It gets right to the business at hand and makes it fun for both child and adult (who probably won't be required for the tot to derive full benefit from the game). One of the best values in apps. ### 5/5 — Very good app *2011-09-14* I use this app everyday in my classroom for spelling practice. Its a great app and it also has other spelling games. ### 5/5 — Akillam *2011-08-15* Please either up the complexity or develop another version for 1 St and 2nd standards ### 5/5 — great *2011-07-10* makes them think ### 5/5 — Love it *2011-06-28* This is one of our favorites! Nice levels to grow with ### 5/5 — Question *2011-05-29, version 4.5* Does anyone know how to turn off the timer??? ### 5/5 — Phonetics support added *2011-02-22* Thanks for all the support for Word Magic. Starting from 4.0 we are planning on making several enhancements. As a first step, we had added support for phonetics in the preferences. We have retained the old layout as default. In the upcoming versions, we will default it to phonetics. Thanks to Maynee Desandies - our local teacher who had helped us in adding phonetics support for Word Magic. ### 5/5 — Fantastic app! *2011-01-24, version 3.9* Great learning app! There are other similar apps like this one, but they are not as good. Perfect learning tool for our preschooler! The stickers and ribbon rewards are an extra bonus feature, it motivates our little one. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2010-11-16, version 0* My daughter loves this game, it's perfect learning tool... She especially loves the stickers and awards.. Great job ### 5/5 — Simply Superb! *2010-10-27* I bought this app for my 4 yrs old son. He loves this apps a lot and it helps him to imporve his spelling kills and I am seeing very good improvement in reading skills as well. It's really more worth what I spent. It can't be expalined in words. You will feel it!!! Great Job. Love to see more words, pictures and more levels. Keep it up. --- *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 2026-09-01.*