Comparison

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf vs Athene Reader

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

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About

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf

An interactive storybook that brings the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs to life with engaging animations, mini-games, and educational elements. Designed for young children, it encourages active participation and a fun learning experience.

Highlights
  • Interactive story with animations
  • Age-appropriate quizzes and mini-games
  • Physical interaction via microphone
  • Karaoke-style text highlighting
  • Four language versions
  • Professional music sequences
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The award-winning interactive fairy tale for children! Experience the world-famous fairy tale "The Three Little Pigs" as a lovingly designed, interactive story. Your child reads, listens, plays, and discovers the story in a whole new way. - No Ads - No In-App Purchases - Works completely offline – no Wi-Fi or internet required AWARD-WINNING CHILDREN'S APP - 50,000+ downloads in the App Store - Featured on n-tv, WDR, COMPUTER BILD, and Viel Spaß - Gold Winner of the Global Ebook Awards 2017 - Two-time winner of the Show Your App Awards 2017 - Nominated for the GIGA-Maus Award 2017 - Nominated for the Independent Publisher Book Awards 2017 - Nominated for the Best Mobile App Awards in the categories: Books & Reference, Education, Entertainment, Family & Children, Educational, and Family LEARNING THROUGH PLAY AND FUN Our app combines the story of the Three Little Pigs with interactive games, exciting tasks, and charming animations. Children are actively involved in the story, which playfully promotes concentration, attention, and language comprehension. The app is ideal for preschool and primary school children, as well as for reading together with parents. WHAT TO EXPECT • Interactive story with numerous animations and surprises • Child-friendly questions and varied educational games • Active participation in the story: – House building for the pigs: Solve the charming house-building puzzle together with your child. – Interactive Wolf Action: Help the wolf blow down the houses with powerful huffs and puffs via touch control. • Lively Characters: Every character in every scene is individually and specially animated. Simply tap a character during the story to trigger funny animations and witty reactions. • Read-to-me or read-it-myself modes • Cartoon animations and interactive audiobook features • Words are highlighted in color as they are read aloud – ideal for learning to read • High-quality illustrations and professional animations • Lovingly composed music and matching sound effects • Completely available in English, German, Spanish, and Russian DISCOVER TOGETHER Our app creates shared moments between parents and children. Reading aloud, playing along, and discovering together not only promote language development but also turn the fairy tale into a very special experience. WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR FEEDBACK! Your ratings and suggestions help us to continuously improve and develop our apps. MORE INFORMATION Website: https://www.deev.de/three-little-pigs-app.html E-Mail: support@deev.de Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/interactiveappsforkids YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/irenedeevthreelittlepigs

About

Athene Reader

Organize and read your digital books in various formats. Customize your reading experience with adjustable fonts, colors, and note-taking features. Listen to your books with a natural-sounding voice and translate text.

Highlights
  • Import books from various sources
  • Organize books on a virtual shelf
  • Customizable reading interface
  • Highlighting and note-taking
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Built-in offline dictionary
  • AI-powered page analysis
Features
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Athene is a reader for the books you already own. Bring your books from Files, from Mail, from your computer over Wi‑Fi, from a link, or from anywhere that can share a file, and they go on a shelf that looks like one. EPUB and PDF open as they are; MOBI, AZW3, Word, FB2, TXT and HTML files become books as they arrive. The Athene Bookstore has free classics from Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks and, in the US, DRM-free books to buy. If you keep your library on a calibre server, Athene browses that shelf too, from + in your Library — on your home network, or from anywhere through your own VPN such as Tailscale. THE PAGE Open a book and the app steps back. Just the page, on white, sepia or night paper, or paper in any colour you like, in the typeface and size you read best, including any Google Font. Highlight a passage, add a note, drop a bookmark, and find them all again under Marks. Select a passage in another language to translate it. The shelf itself follows the time of day — Morning, Sunset, Night — or stays on the one you pick. NOTES YOU CAN DRAW Type a note in the margin, or sketch in it. On a PDF, mark up the page itself with Apple Pencil. THE NOTEBOOK Every highlight, note and drawing from every book you read, in one place, with filters and search. Write what stayed with you after a chapter, a reading session or a whole book, typed or drawn; your reflections stay even if the book leaves your shelf. LISTEN Any book, read aloud in a warm, natural voice that runs entirely on your device, and keeps reading with the screen locked. PDFs too: Listen skips the running heads, page numbers and footnotes, reads scanned pages, and describes the pictures and tables as it reaches them. The voice is a one-time download of about 242 MB. A DICTIONARY Select a word to see what it means and how to say it. It is built in, and it works offline. ASK THE PAGE Tap the owl while you read and ask about what is in front of you. Who is she again? What did that word mean? What just happened? The Owl answers from the pages around where you are — this chapter at most, never the whole book, never your other books — and if the pages do not say, it tells you that instead of guessing. YOUR MODEL, YOUR CHOICE On a device with Apple Intelligence, the Owl thinks on the device and nothing you ask is sent anywhere. Or point it at your own Ollama server on your own network. Or bring a key from Claude, OpenRouter or OpenAI. Athene asks before the first question leaves the device, names the address it would send to, and remembers your answer. ON EVERY DEVICE Turn on iCloud Sync and your place, highlights, notes, drawings, collections and reading settings follow you between your iPhone and iPad. It goes only to your own private iCloud, and what you wrote is encrypted on your device first. With a calibre server, highlights go both ways: yours to your calibre library, and the ones you make in calibre's own reader to Athene. With KOReader on an e-reader, your books, your place, and your highlights, notes and bookmarks stay in step through a sync server of your own. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION Athene has no account and no analytics, and nothing about you goes to the developer. Your books, your notes and your questions stay on your device or go only where you have pointed them. The privacy policy says the same, in plain words. FREE Reading is free. No account, no subscription, no limit: the shelf, the reader, Listen, the dictionary, the Owl, the Notebook, iCloud Sync, calibre and KOReader, your highlights and notes. Nothing is locked. WHAT READERS SAY “The app works perfectly with my Calibre library.” (ZenoNow) “I’d happily pay for Athene if it weren’t free.” (Momji_iphone) Athene requires iOS 26. The on-device Owl requires Apple Intelligence (iPhone 15 Pro and later, M-series iPad, iPad mini A17 Pro); on other devices the Owl works with your own Ollama server or an API key. Pictures in PDFs are described on iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence.

Screenshots

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf4 screens
Athene Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Athene Reader at Free against Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf's $4.99. Athene Reader also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and update cadence (daily vs every 3 months). Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

Athene Reader is free to download; Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Athene Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf's written reviews are positive against 88% of Athene Reader's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf ships an update every 3 months, Athene Reader daily. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf versus Athene Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThree Little Pigs vs The WolfAthene Reader
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (32 ratings)4.7 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.2% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings32 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size401 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIrene DeevAditya Sreedhar

Customer experience

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf

All ratings32 ratings
Positive71.9%
Neutral6.3%
Negative21.9%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive77.2%
Neutral1.8%
Negative21.1%

Athene Reader

All ratings21 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral6.3%
Negative6.3%

In-app purchases

None

Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf

No in-app purchases

None

Athene Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf free?
Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Athene Reader free?
Athene Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf or Athene Reader?
Athene Reader is rated higher. Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf averages 4.1 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Athene Reader averages 4.7 from 21 ratings.
Do Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf or Athene Reader have ads?
Neither Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf nor Athene Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf or Athene Reader?
Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf ships an update every 3 months, and Athene Reader daily. Most recently, Three Little Pigs vs The Wolf was updated on November 11, 2026 and Athene Reader on November 12, 2026.

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