Phonic Flashcards vs Name That Cutting Pattern
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phonic Flashcards
This educational app helps young children build a strong foundation for reading and spelling by teaching phonics. It uses interactive flashcards with professional voiceovers and includes engaging games to reinforce learning.
- Interactive phonics flashcards
- Professional voiceovers for phonemes and words
- Multisensory word-building game
- Picture-word matching activity
- Phonological awareness quiz
- Reward arcade games
- Multiple voice accents
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We've been making educational software for twenty years, and this is by far the best educational app we have ever made. We wish every child could use it before they start school. Why are Phonic Flashcards better than regular flashcards? Because when you learn with Phonic Flashcards, the phonemes (letters and digraphs) are sounded out! The word "fish" becomes "fff" "i" "shhh", with all words and phonemes recorded by a professional voice artist, helping to build a solid phonics foundation for reading (and spelling) success! All our apps are designed to maximize learning outcomes, while also being super easy to use. Parents do not need a degree in order to use Phonic Flashcards to teach their child how to read. Phonic Flashcards makes a great classroom activity for literacy centers, as well as for one-on-one teaching and assessment, and also whole-class instruction when teaching short vowel sounds. Ages 4-7 plus remedial Includes 200+ flashcards, mainly common nouns. Each interactive card features a picture, which you can tap to hear a fun sound effect. Choose whether to have the words voiced, sounded-out, or both! Tap the letters and digraphs to hear each phoneme. Blend them together to sound-out the word. Hide the picture to administer a reading test. Begin with the sounds of the alphabet. Next learn to read CVC words, focusing on each short vowel sound. Then progress on to 4-5 letter words with blends and common digraphs. Choose a phoneme/sound from the "Digraphs Menu" which includes: ck, sh, ch, th, ng, oo, ee, oa, ou, ai, ea, oi, oy, ow, aw, ir, ar, or, and ur. Full details of all of the Word Lists can be found at: www.phonicflashcards.com As well as FLASHCARDS, there are three additional activities: SHADOWS - a multisensory word-building game which is visual and tactile, while also reinforcing phonemes. MATCH UP! - simply involves matching words with pictures. Turn off the sound cues to test word recognition. WHICH WORD? - a game-show style phonological awareness quiz, to test students on initial sounds and rimes. Upon completing each activity, children are rewarded with a simple tap-tap style arcade game of their choice, Frog Hop or Fish Food. Please refer to the PDF Guide (found at www.phonicflashcards.com) for full details of all the activities, and "How to teach your child to read using Phonic Flashcards". The Phonic Flashcards app requires no setting up, apart from choosing your voice accent the very first time you use it. There are USA, UK and Australian speech options. (You may change voice accent at any time in ‘Settings’ via the cog icon on the front screen.) We care about your child's privacy. This app contains: no ads, no in-app purchases, no sharing of data, no tracking of your location, and no links to social media. If you like our apps, please support us by reviewing and/or rating them in the app store! If you have any suggestions to make our apps better, please contact us directly via our website (www.phonicflashcards.com)
Name That Cutting Pattern
This app helps students tackle challenging multi-syllabic words by breaking them down into manageable syllables. It provides supplemental support for common English word-cutting patterns to improve reading fluency.
- Syllable segmentation for multi-syllabic words
- Support for common English cutting patterns
- Improved reading fluency
- Supplemental educational tool
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Multi-syllabic words can be challenging for students to read. However, if you cut the word into syllables and read one syllable at a time, then the multi-syllabic word is more manageable. There are several common cutting patterns used in English and this app will offer supplemental support with those cutting patterns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Name That Cutting Pattern at weekly against Phonic Flashcards's every 8 months. Name That Cutting Pattern also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Phonic Flashcards's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Phonic Flashcards costs $0.99 and Name That Cutting Pattern $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Name That Cutting Pattern holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phonic Flashcards has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Phonic Flashcards ships an update every 8 months, Name That Cutting Pattern weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phonic Flashcards | Name That Cutting Pattern |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Harvey | Edwards Insight, LLC |
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Phonic Flashcards
Name That Cutting Pattern
In-app purchases
Phonic Flashcards
No in-app purchases
Name That Cutting Pattern
No in-app purchases
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