Teachley Connect vs LevelUp Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teachley Connect
This app provides a unified login for elementary school students and teachers to access a suite of award-winning math games. It personalizes gameplay based on student progress and features engaging math superheroes in learning videos and eBooks. The platform supports deep mathematical understanding through digital modeling tools and contextualized problems.
- Single sign-on for students and teachers
- Syncs student accounts and class rosters
- Access to award-winning math games
- Personalized gameplay based on progress
- Learning videos and eBooks with math superheroes
- Digital modeling tools for fractions
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*Login with your premium Teachley account to unlock the app.* Designed for elementary schools that have partnered with Teachley, this app provides a single sign-on experience for students and teachers to sync their individual account or class roster to apps on the Teachley platform. Teachley math apps include award-winning Operations, Place Value & Money, and Fractions games: Addimals, Subtractimals, Mt. Multiplis, Fact Flyer, Market Bay, Fractions Boost, Fractions Boost 2, and Fractionators. Once synced to the Teachley Connect app, students can open any Teachley-connected math app and start playing. The apps will automatically personalize gameplay for students, allowing them to progress at their own pace, no matter which device they last used. Learning videos and eBooks on this app feature engaging math superheroes. In each story, the heroes use their math powers to trick the evil Professor Possum and save their planet. Each character represents a math practice standards (e.g. “Use Evidence”, “Be Persistent”) to help students become stronger mathematicians. Teachley Problem Solving provides digital modeling tools to support students in building deep understanding of fractions. Students easily see their own lived experiences within the relevant, contextualized problems. The rich, visual models support strong mathematical discussions in the classroom. At Teachley, we take student privacy issues very seriously. We do not share students’ personal information with other apps on our platform. About Teachley: Teachley, LLC is an award-winning edtech company founded by expert teachers with PhDs in cognitive science and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health. Teachley is transforming education by promoting deep mathematical thinking and learning through fun and engaging games. Using formative assessment data from these games, we help schools and districts drive instruction and target interventions. www.teachley.com *This app was made possible by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, with funding provided by the SBIR program.
LevelUp Reader
This adaptive reading platform builds foundational literacy skills for young learners with a digital library of over 2,400 books. It offers interactive phonics activities, personalized bookshelves, and progress tracking for students in PreK-3.
- Adaptive digital library with 2,400+ books
- Interactive phonics activities and decodable books
- Personalized bookshelves based on interest and level
- Offline reading capabilities
- Progress monitoring and reporting
- ELA standards correlation
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Build Foundational Literacy Skills With a Customized Digital Library for Every Student LevelUp Reader is a robust adaptive reading platform for PreK-3 students. It is the ideal solution to foster growth—and a love of reading—in young learners at a critical time in their development. Supporting small group and whole class instruction as well as individualized practice, LevelUp Reader provides a personalized experience for every student, whether in class or at home! Reach Students Anywhere & Anytime LevelUp Reader seamlessly integrates digital instruction with real-world practice. It offers students both interactive online and printable activities to facilitate learning and encourage independent literacy growth. LevelUp Reader is simple for students, parents, and caregivers to use and even offers extra accessible tools for keeping readers engaged. Offline reading allows students to extend their learning without the need for continual online access. Library of Over 2,400 BooksThe LevelUp Reader library includes: ● Authentic fiction and nonfiction ● 650+ Spanish and bilingual texts ● Actor narration with text highlighting to model fluency ● Engaging interactive phonics activities and decodable books ● Adaptive personal libraries based on interest and reading levels State-of-the-Art Interactive Phonics Resource LevelUp Reader follows a complete scope and sequence of phonics skills, including units on emergent letter-sound correspondence, multisyllabic words, and more—all using 3D animation! The 250+ printable activities and writing practice sheets ensure mastery of these foundational skills. From “Learning to Read” to “Reading to Learn” Students have easy access to books at just the right reading level through their unique, personalized bookshelf. Teachers can assess comprehension of the text via quizzes and track students' mastery of skills and state standards. Evaluations Made Easy LevelUp Reader incorporates low-stakes progress monitoring assessments and provides intuitive reporting for analysis. By incorporating the Lexile® Framework for Reading, students can meet standard grade and age level benchmarks. Educators have access to online or downloadable reporting at a glance, plus the ability to drill down to over 100 data points at the district, school, class, and student levels. Find Titles Correlated to Your ELA Standards LevelUp Reader recognizes your specific state or region’s English Language Arts (ELA) standards. It removes the stress of aligning bookshelves and allows you to teach to students' individual needs. It's quick and easy to integrate LevelUp Reader into existing lesson plans. Teachers can filter over 2,400 authentic texts to find those that tie to a particular standard in their state and enrich their instruction. Digital Running Records Save Teacher Time While one-on-one running record assessments have been used in classrooms for many years, LevelUp Reader automates and enhances the process with a set of intuitive, easy-to-use digital tools based on unique text passages. Running records provide immediate feedback on students’ oral reading accuracy, comprehension, and fluency. Quick and easy to administer, LevelUp Reader running records help to identify the specific needs for each student so teachers can assign the necessary books and lessons to improve literacy. Engaging Student Gaming Environment LevelUp Land’s gaming environment maximizes student engagement without distracting from learning goals. Learners will be able to freely play and wander through an immersive 3D environment similar to today's most popular gaming platforms.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Teachley Connect at 5.0 against LevelUp Reader's 4.7. Teachley Connect also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). LevelUp Reader's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Teachley Connect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LevelUp Reader has 24 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Teachley Connect ships an update every 2 months, LevelUp Reader monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Teachley Connect | LevelUp Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Teachley | Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. |
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Teachley Connect
LevelUp Reader
In-app purchases
Teachley Connect
No in-app purchases
LevelUp Reader
No in-app purchases
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