Comparison

Read and Count vs Pointsmax

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

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About

Read and Count

This app helps preschool children learn essential early education concepts. It covers the alphabet, numbers, shapes, colors, and more through interactive activities. Designed to make learning fun and engaging for young minds.

Highlights
  • Alphabet learning (A-Z)
  • Number recognition and counting (0-100)
  • Geometric shapes and colors
  • Opposite words and animal sounds
  • Musical instruments and means of transport
  • Sign language alphabet
Features
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If your child is starting preschool learning, this app can help. In our application your child learns the alphabet, vowels and consonants, syllables, numbers, sign language, addition and subtraction, geometric shapes, colors, opposites, animals, fruits, musical instruments, means of transport, more than 1000 words and much more ! ALPHABET Complete and illustrated alphabet from A-Z, children can learn to speak and write each letter. Activities to recognize the letters of the alphabet, learn some words that start with each letter, practice writing letters, organize letters, learn lowercase and uppercase letters, organize letters in alphabetical order and much more. VOWELS AND CONSONANTS Introduces the group of vowels and the group of consonants to children. Activities to learn how to separate groups of vowels and consonants and where to use each letter. NUMBERS Children can also learn to speak and write the numbers from 0-100 and even count on fingers from 0-10. Various activities to practice writing numbers, counting on fingers, organizing numbers, counting objects and much more. SIGN LANGUAGE Contains the entire alphabet in pounds. Learn to recognize the signs and identify each letter of the alphabet. ADD AND SUBTRACT Addition and subtraction in a simple and easy way to learn. Count on your fingers to learn to add, they are additions and subtractions in various ways. GEOMETRIC SHAPES Teaches how to speak and draw the main geometric shapes giving examples of objects that have these shapes. Here you learn to identify which geometric shape some objects have, to draw shapes, and to use and assemble geometric shapes. COLORS There are 12 colors, the most popular, with several variations of the same color and 2 examples of each, and now you also learn the mixtures of the main colors. Learn what colors are and their mixtures and identify the colors of objects. OPPOSITE WORDS Learn the antonym of words, there are 36 examples of words and their opposites. Activities to connect the opposite images, identify which is the opposite of each word and form pairs of opposites. ANIMALS Children can learn the animals' names and the sounds they make. There are 60 animals with illustration and 4 photos of each one. In the activities you learn to identify the animal by the sound it makes and by the name. You can also link the many different photos of each animal. FRUITS Meet 30 different fruits with illustration and several photos of each one. Exercise to link the drawing of the fruit with the real photo of it, color it, click on the correct fruit and assemble the fruit. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS There are 30 musical instruments. We teach the name of each instrument, with a real image and the sound each one makes (2 sound examples for each instrument). Learn to recognize the instrument by its name and the sound it makes and other activities. MEANS OF TRANSPORT Get to know the main means of transport, there are 30 examples of vehicles with illustrations and 4 photos of each one. Activity to color each vehicle, identify each vehicle by name and link the illustration with the vehicle photo. WORDS A menu with over 200 words to try to read and write. Activity to read and write the word correctly. We also added a small word quiz for the child to try to read and identify the word. RANDOM ACTIVITIES In all categories, you will find the option to play activities randomly, improving your child's learning in a more didactic and complete way. Liked? And that's all in a single application totally free! Available in Portuguese, Spanish and English. I'm sure your son will love it!

About

Pointsmax

Features
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Real Leaving Cert past-paper questions, sorted by topic and by how often they come up, with the official SEC marking schemes. Pointsmax turns them into a short daily study session and works out your CAO points. TODAY'S SESSION Each study day you get one subject, one topic and a day plan. Early on it's flashcards and past questions (Learn). As your scores climb it adds more questions and, on longer study days, a timed section (Practise), and closer to June it moves to timed sections and full papers (Exam). Your weekly plan is built from your latest results, so the subjects you're weakest in get more days. Home also shows this week's stats and where you left off. Rest days never break your streak. SUBJECT PAGES Every subject has an illustrated page with an exam guide for each paper (marks, sections, timing and what usually comes up), its topics ranked by how often they've been asked, a question finder (topic, year, level, length) and the past papers by year. REAL PAST QUESTIONS, REAL MARKING SCHEMES Questions show as they were printed on the SEC paper, diagrams included, with the text, map or photo they're based on. Listening questions in Irish and Music play the SEC recording. Reveal the marking scheme and tick the points you got, with a worked answer and examiner tips alongside. ASK ABOUT THIS QUESTION On devices with Apple Intelligence, ask follow-up questions about a past question. Answers are based on its marking scheme and worked answer and are generated on your device. PRACTICE Flashcards spaced to your exam date, a definitions bank where you type the examiner's wording and see how close you got, and timed exams: a full paper or a single section on a real clock with no pause, followed by a time-leak report. CAO POINTS Enter your grades and a target course to see your points total and the cheapest grade bumps to get there. STUDY SQUADS Start a squad with up to five friends: a shared streak, a weekly goal and a grid of who studied when. Opt in to your school's leaderboard. No chat and no account. YOUR SUBJECTS, HIGHER AND ORDINARY LEVEL English, Irish, Maths, Applied Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Agricultural Science, Geography, History, Business, Accounting, Economics, Politics and Society, Spanish, Home Economics, Art, Music, Construction Studies, Engineering, DCG, Technology, Computer Science, PE and Religious Education. Papers from 2020 to 2026 for most subjects, from 2015 for Maths and from 2001 for English and Irish. ONE PURCHASE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED Every topic, question and flashcard in every subject you sit, unlimited timed exams, the CAO points calculator and the definitions bank. No subscription, no ads, no account, and it works offline. ALSO A short guided tour, light and dark mode, landscape on iPhone, a home-screen widget, and an Apple Watch companion with your countdown, streak and flashcards. Pointsmax runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, with a companion app for Apple TV. Past examination papers and marking schemes are © State Examinations Commission and open from the official archive at examinations.ie.

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Read and Count4 screens
Pointsmax4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Read and Count at Free against Pointsmax's $8.99. Read and Count also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Pointsmax's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). On in-app purchases 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

Read and Count is free to download; Pointsmax costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Read and Count ships an update every 4 months, Pointsmax every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Read and Count versus Pointsmax: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRead and CountPointsmax
PriceFree — better$8.99
Rating4.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size330 MB97 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApps Bergman LtdaRuben Reut

In-app purchases

None

Read and Count

No in-app purchases

None

Pointsmax

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Read and Count free?
Read and Count is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pointsmax free?
Pointsmax costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Read and Count or Pointsmax have ads?
Read and Count shows ads; Pointsmax does not.
Which is updated more often, Read and Count or Pointsmax?
Read and Count ships an update every 4 months, and Pointsmax every 2 days. Most recently, Read and Count was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pointsmax on October 30, 2026.

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