# Word Wagon - Duck Duck Moose — user reviews > 23 indexed App Store user reviews of Word Wagon by Duck Duck Moose LLC, rated 4.30/5 from 36 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-wagon-duck-duck-moose/id436716368/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-wagon-duck-duck-moose/id436716368.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 25 · 4★ 5 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (3 of 23) ### 5/5 — BEST APPS !!! *2011-11-13* We have everyone of your apps and my son has special needs . He has Apraxia and he has gotten so much enjoyment from all of your apps. We can't say enough about them, We recommend them to everyone when they ask about what kind of apps we have on our sons IPad!!! ### 5/5 — Almost Perfect! *2011-09-11* What We Liked: Word Wagon is a fast favorite of my five-year-old and even my three-year-old likes to take the red wagon out for a spin! The playfulness of this app is found in the character interactivity, when tapped they say several different things – many humorous, and Moz can even put on special shoes that make him run faster through the available words. The fluid, child friendly navigation means that children feel entirely in control of the learning experience. They can change the topic their words come from, they can have Moz run past any words they don’t wish to spell There is no list of words they MUST conquer, instead this is a playful, friendly exploration of spelling that is very developmentally appropriate. The colors and characters are both charming and engaging – this is one app whose play value just never seems to run out! What We Didn’t Like: Word Wagon is only a half-step away from being perfect for children just being introduced to words in my opinion. I like that there is a phonics component built into this app, but it would be perfect if on the phonics level (level 2), the letters would actually prompt Coco to say their phonetic sounds when tapped rather than their names. That would make the connection between phonemes and spelling with them a lot clearer. Overall: Word Wagon HD is a fun and playful introduction to words and how letters come together to form them. Ideal for familiarizing young children with the names of many common objects and their spellings, this educational app is one your children will count as a favorite. Disclosure: I received a promo code to download this app for free. All opinions are honest and my own. ### 5/5 — Love It!!! *2011-08-15* This app is great! Aesthetically its a 10. Well designed and easy to use. App works great for kiddos with speech delays as it not only teaches them how to spell words but it breaks them down sounds by sound. I highly recommend this app for anyone with children Pre-K - 1st or 2nd grade OR with a child with special needs and/or speech and language delays. Definitely worth the $1.99. Duck Duck Moose is one of my favorite app developers! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Incomplete *2019-09-21* The app itself has a nice layout, however it has inherent problems that are restricting and distracting to kids. 1. Drag is unforgiving for kids. The kids are expected to drag it all the way. 2. Word assembly requires kids to gather letters in orderly fashion. For example, N-U-T must be placed in the same order left to right. Why not allow kids to build however order they like? 3. The tweety helper bird and the mouse are too distracting from the original intend of the game. It has so many weird functionalities when kids touch them which are totally not needed and distracting. Parents should be able to disable them in the preferences. 4. Other apps link should be accessible only parents. My son enjoys it but he sees himself restricted and distracted by the arrangements of the app. ### 1/5 — Inferior to alternatives; busy *2014-02-18* And it has pop ups... ### 2/5 — Not very helpful *2015-11-04, version 2.0.2* Children learn with lower case letters not capital letters. Waste of money ### 2/5 — Can't handle multiple touches. *2014-12-28* This app has a good concept but it's poorly executed. If you're dragging a letter around the screen and touch the screen with multiple fingers the letter flickers randomly between the multiple touches. Makes it almost impossible for my 2 year old to get the letter to the correct place. Other drag and drop games she plays do not have this problem so it's obviously fixable. ### 2/5 — Keeps freezing up? *2013-07-23* Great concept of game and very vibrant colorful grapHics. But keeps freezing up and shutting down. App needs debugging. ### 3/5 — Lack of excitement *2017-01-23* Downloaded and tried it out myself before letting my kids use it. It is lacking some excitement. I think my kids will stop using it after 15 minutes, but will see... ### 3/5 — Sound issue! *2013-04-22, version 1.1.2* This is a great app then the sound went off please fix by Thurs. I want to present this app to my Kindergarten team so we can use it in the classroom can not do that if there is no sound please fix thanks! ### 4/5 — Needs one extra feature *2018-06-22* I love this app for my daughter who is 13 and has a developmental disability. We want to recommend it to others in our community but it needs to have one additional feature before we can really spread the word. Please consider a setting that would allow us to turn off the requirement to “build a word” in letter order. Thank you! ### 4/5 — Cannot be saved *2011-09-04* Very good app for kids to learn phonics and spelling. My 3 year old was very motivated until she found out that the pretty stickers that she earned disappeared after restarting the app. Please fix it! ### 4/5 — Good, but not as excellent as Park Math *2011-05-17* I think Word Wagon is a good app, but not nearly as amazing and worth the price as Park Math. Word Wagon has similar features as PM,but not the variety of activities. Word Wagon let's you chose to work on letter sounds, names, or sound spelling (at two levels). This allows for some differentiation, but I think the app lacks variety. While the focus might change, the activity is the same across all levels- pulling letters into squares to form the word. In the easy levels the words letters are displayed, in the harder the child has to guess on their own. Another drawback is that the word does not need to be built from left to right. As I said I love Park Math by this developer, but I wish I would have passed on this one... There are many apps that are available that do the same lesson, are free or cheaper or customizable. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Bug on scooter page *2022-01-24* My 4 year old likes this game but whenever he spells scooter it crashes. ### 5/5 — Great! *2020-09-26, version 2.2.2* Free amazing my two year old and 5 year old are learning and they think it’s a treat! I can’t believe it’s free my eldest who is 8 has a disability it’s helping her under stand letters so I recommend this app ### 5/5 — Great Program *2019-06-11* Gives my daughter something todo that is educational and there are no hidden cost. ### 5/5 — Great for spelling practice *2013-09-16* I use this app for my ESL students who are working on spelling and phonics practice. I love the different options of words and that the kids can switch between the lower and upper case. The use of pronunciation for the letter sounds is great for the students and very helpful. Would highly recommend this app ### 5/5 — Love this app *2013-05-02* The app makes the child spell the word correctly and uses the phonics to say the word! My daughter loves it! ### 5/5 — Learning is fun! *2012-05-03* My toddler is learning to spell and having a great time doing it. Thank you for a wonderful app. ### 5/5 — Best Educational Apps for toddlers and pre-k!! *2012-01-26* We are so glad we found the duck duck moose Apps!! We recommed ALL of them- they are incredibly well done, educational, interactive, user friendly, and fun. We've done extensive research on educational apps for our kids and these are really top notch. No glitches in these apps and your kids will learn!!! We can't say enough and look forward to seeing MORE!!! ### 5/5 — Three year old loves to play this almost as much as angry birds *2012-01-17* My little boy loves this app. I just wish you could enter your own words. ### 5/5 — 4 levels of play that will keep my kids learning through age 6 *2011-12-27* This game has four levels. My 2-year-old can easily do levels 1 & 2 (dragging scrambled letters to thier matching counterpart and making a word). My 4-year-old, who's learning to read now, enjoys level 3 which only gives you the letters but no other hints on how to spell the word. I'm glad there's another level after this to keep challenging her. In general, the app is a great reinforcer for letter recognition, spelling and reading development. This app is WELL worth $1.99. ### 5/5 — LOVE this app! *2011-11-27* My 2 year old daughter loves this app...and I love it because it's teaching her letter recognition, etc. There are similar drag and drop spelling programs out there, but none have the fun of this one..as soon as we downloaded it she completely ignored all of the other ones we had installed! I love that the game sounds out the word after it's spelled and the constellation star game after they've spelled a few words correctly is great..I think that's what keeps my daughter coming back for more. We have almost all of the DDM apps and as far as I am concerned, this one is another home run! --- *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 2026-06-06.*