Comparison

Smile and Learn vs Poco

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Smile and Learn

This app offers over 10,000 educational games, videos, and interactive stories for children aged 3-12. It focuses on developing multiple intelligences, cognitive abilities, universal values, and academic content through engaging activities and personalized feedback.

Highlights
  • Over 10,000 educational activities
  • Interactive games, videos, and stories
  • Focus on multiple intelligences
  • Develops cognitive abilities
  • Teaches universal values
  • Covers academic subjects
  • Foreign language learning
Features
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Smile and Learn Education: learn through play Smile and Learn Education is an educational app for children with thousands of games, interactive stories, videos, quizzes, audiobooks, and learning activities in several languages. Designed for families and schools, Smile and Learn helps children work on curriculum-based content, core skills, languages, coding, math, reading, creativity, emotions, and much more in a safe environment adapted to different learning paces. Turn learning into a fun and personalized experience With Smile and Learn, children can explore a wide range of educational content while playing, reading, watching videos, solving challenges, and discovering new topics at their own pace. The app supports learning at home, at school, or as part of a personalized learning plan. What will you find in Smile and Learn? * Thousands of educational games, stories, videos, quizzes, audiobooks, and activities in one app. * Games to develop attention, memory, language, comprehension, logic, and creativity. * Interactive stories and audiobooks created with an educational approach. * Educational videos to explain key concepts in a visual and engaging way. * Activities for math, language arts, science, emotions, art, yoga, coding, and languages. * Content available in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, and neutral Spanish. * Resources designed for learning at home, at school, or as support for personalized learning. * A safe environment for children, with no ads and no access to social media. * Information for families and schools about time spent, progress, and learning development. Personalized and inclusive learning Smile and Learn makes it possible to adapt the experience to each child. The app includes settings such as difficulty level, font type, and a calm game mode with no time pressure. The stories also include pictograms to support reading comprehension and help children with different educational support needs, such as autism, ADHD, Down syndrome, or intellectual disabilities. Languages, reading, and core skills All content is designed to help children learn in an active and motivating way. They can practice languages, solve challenges, listen to stories, watch educational videos, work on cognitive skills, and reinforce school learning through a visual, safe, and fun experience. For families and schools Smile and Learn is designed to support children in different learning contexts. Families can use it at home to encourage learning through play, while schools can use it as a digital resource to reinforce educational content and support different learning needs. Subscription Smile and Learn includes a selection of content available without a subscription. To access the full catalog of games, stories, videos, and activities, you can activate a subscription through the App Store. The subscription renews automatically and can be managed or canceled from your App Store account settings before the next renewal. Help Do you have a question or problem? Contact us at support@smileandlearn.com Privacy Policy and Terms of Use https://www.smileandlearn.com/politica-de-privacidad/

About

Poco

Features
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Spanish as it's spoken in Spain: real grammar in real contexts. Pick your situation, from daily life to your profession, and learn what you'll actually say. Description: Poco teaches the Spanish people actually speak in Spain. Built for those who live, work, and build their lives here. CHOOSE WHAT YOU LEARN Pick a life context (Health, Food & Dining, Daily Life, Work) and a grammar topic. Poco builds lessons where every phrase is something you'd really say: at the doctor's, at the bank, ordering coffee. REAL GRAMMAR, MADE PRACTICAL From ser/estar to subjuntivo, grammar is taught through situations, not tables. Short fill-in exercises, instant feedback, mistakes return until you master them. SPANISH FOR YOUR PROFESSION Professional packs for beauty salons, medical aesthetics, dentistry, hospitality and IT. The vocabulary and phrases your workday actually needs. BUILD YOUR OWN VOCABULARY Save any phrase from lessons. Review them anytime. Pin the ones you need most. SMALL LESSONS, LASTING HABIT Five-minute sessions, daily streaks, and streak freezes that forgive a missed day. Interface in English, Russian, Ukrainian and German. Spanish content: Castilian (Spain). Free to start. Poco Pro unlocks unlimited lessons, all professional packs and unlimited saved phrases. Subscription auto-renews; cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://getpo.co/privacy

Screenshots

Smile and Learn4 screens
Poco4 screens

Verdict

The call

Smile and Learn and Poco are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Smile and Learn sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.49 per month and Poco sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Smile and Learn versus Poco: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmile and LearnPoco
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (28 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings28 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB99 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmile & LearnDaniil Lugovskyi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Smile and Learn

Subscriptions1
  • Join premium subscription1 Month trial$6.491 Month
2 purchases

Poco

Subscriptions2
  • Poco Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Poco Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Smile and Learn free?
Smile and Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Poco free?
Poco is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Smile and Learn or Poco have ads?
Neither Smile and Learn nor Poco shows ads.

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