Comparison

Phonics Playtime Premium vs ColourTrainer

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

Head to head
About

Phonics Playtime Premium

Engaging games make learning phonetic sounds fun for young children and educators. Master over 2000 exercises across 10 activities, with adjustable difficulty and progress tracking.

Highlights
  • 10 unique phonics activities
  • Over 2000 exercises
  • 3 difficulty levels per activity
  • Sticker rewards for achievements
  • Child-friendly interface
  • Play by phonics group or quick game
  • Accurate phonics pronunciation
Features
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Explore over 10 exciting Jolly Phonics activities that turn phonics learning into a playful adventure, perfect for young learners and teachers alike. Just like our other phonics apps, Phonics Playtime is designed to help children master phonetic sounds instead of just focusing on the alphabet. By completing exercises and practicing different phonics groups, Phonics Playtime enhances your child’s cognitive skills through engaging and playful experiences. With over 2000 unique exercises carefully crafted to teach various phonics sounds and groups, Phonics Playtime allows children to complete activities within specific phonics sets or tackle randomized exercises at easy, medium, hard, or mixed difficulty levels. Phonics Playtime is optimized for iPad and iPhone devices running iOS 12.0 or higher. Features: • 10 unique phonics activities, each with 3 levels of difficulty. • Over 650 phonics pictures and 800 phonics words categorized by difficulty level. • Earn fun stickers for achievements on the sticker board. • Child-friendly interface with large buttons and simple navigation. • Choose to play by phonics group or jump into a quick play game. • Fully voiced with accurate phonics pronunciation by B.J. Rowling, cousin of J.K. Rowling. • Toggle between lowercase and uppercase phonics letters. • Based on the renowned Jolly Phonics system by Jolly Learning Ltd. • No in-app purchases, everything is included! • Vibrant graphics with support for all iOS devices running 12.0 or higher. Included Activities: • Find the Phonic. • Which Phonic Did You Hear? • Sort the Phonics Words. • Unscramble the Word. • Which Word Sounds Like ___? • Find the Odd One Out. • Match the Pictures with the Right Shadow • Find the Missing Phonic. • Pop the Phonics Balloons. • Which Word Did You Hear?

About

ColourTrainer

Features
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Explore color through short exercises, playful games and a daily challenge. Learn color names, compare tones and build your own mix. THREE TRAINING PATHS, TWO GAMES • Spectrum Explorer helps you practice neighboring color families and the boundaries between them. • Tone Specialist develops your eye for differences in lightness, chroma and hue within a color family. • Color in Motion brings those skills into animated scenes with shapes and ducks that fly, swim and walk. • Flip & Match is a color-memory game with six board sizes, Easy through Extreme difficulty, varied color families and a seed in every completion summary. • Color Slice challenges you to slice fruit in one to three target colors. Try changing palettes, four difficulties and games lasting 1, 2 or 5 minutes. A DAILY CHALLENGE BUILT FOR VARIETY Build your Daily Mix from Spectrum, Tone and Motion exercises. Optionally add a one-minute Color Slice game, a Flip & Match game, or both. Shuffle training and games, or choose separately whether each game stays at the end. Select 10–100 training rounds, revisit recent runs and share challenge seeds with friends to try the same mix with newly arranged questions and objects. LEARN A NEW COLOR EVERY DAY Discover the Color of the Day, its family, digital values and closest CSS color. Browse and search the offline color atlas, then add the Color of the Day widget to your Home Screen or Lock Screen for a new name each day. MADE FOR COMFORTABLE PRACTICE • Training answers are untimed and include an “I cannot tell” option. • Color Slice offers stationary, untimed play with VoiceOver or Reduce Motion. • Adjustable session lengths and saved progress. • Display and environment reminders that stay informational. • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support. • Ten interface languages. • Offline exercises, atlas and saved statistics. FREE TRAINING, OPTIONAL SUPPORT Every exercise, Daily Challenge, color guide and widget is free. An optional supporter purchase unlocks four permanent daypart wallpaper sets—Morning, Day, Golden Afternoon and Moonlit Night. Each set includes Lock Screen, Home Screen and two 16:10 desktop designs. Supporters can share or save the wallpapers and the optional Home support prompt is removed. All supporter tiers unlock the same benefits; repeat tips are optional and grant no additional features. ColourTrainer is educational software, not a medical, diagnostic or calibrated color-measurement tool. Color appearance can vary with the display, its settings, ambient light and viewing conditions.

Screenshots

Phonics Playtime Premium4 screens
ColourTrainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ColourTrainer at Free against Phonics Playtime Premium's $1.99. ColourTrainer also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 25 months). Phonics Playtime Premium's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ColourTrainer is free to download; Phonics Playtime Premium costs $1.99 up front. ColourTrainer sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Phonics Playtime Premium asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Phonics Playtime Premium ships an update every 25 months, ColourTrainer monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 4 level
Phonics Playtime Premium versus ColourTrainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPhonics Playtime PremiumColourTrainer
Price$1.99Free — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 25 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBram Van DammeRafael Crespo Nunes

In-app purchases

None

Phonics Playtime Premium

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

ColourTrainer

One-time6
  • Supporter · Small$1.99
  • Support again · Small$1.99
  • Supporter · Standard$3.99
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  • Support again · Standard$3.99
  • Supporter · Generous$8.99
  • Support again · Generous$8.99

Questions

Is Phonics Playtime Premium free?
Phonics Playtime Premium costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ColourTrainer free?
ColourTrainer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Phonics Playtime Premium or ColourTrainer have ads?
Neither Phonics Playtime Premium nor ColourTrainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Phonics Playtime Premium or ColourTrainer?
Phonics Playtime Premium ships an update every 25 months, and ColourTrainer monthly. Most recently, Phonics Playtime Premium was updated on November 2, 2026 and ColourTrainer on October 31, 2026.

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