Learn ABC vs CaliKids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn ABC
Practice handwriting and calligraphy while learning alphabet letters through engaging games and coloring activities. This app uses a Montessori-inspired method to help users of all ages master letter formation and expand vocabulary.
- Handwriting and calligraphy practice
- Alphabet letter learning
- Connect the dots exercises
- Vocabulary building through coloring
- Montessori learning method
- Capital and lowercase letter practice
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With this alphabet coloring book game, learn ABC letters, practice handwriting worksheets, color drawings of animals, objects, numbers etc. and improve your vocabulary. Learn ABC – Calligraphy is a wonderful game to practice handwriting, calligraphy and to learn alphabet letters with worksheets. If you are not fully familiar with alphabet letters, you can play alphabet game to learn letters correctly. Trace the lines or connect the dots. This is a great alphabet game for users who need still to learn ABC letters and need to practice in handwriting. Color each worksheet page with drawings of animals, objects, fruit etc. and learn new vocabulary. A quick and easy way to learn handwriting; • Choose a letter to practice • Practice writing capital letters and small letters (uppercase and lowercase letters) • Connect the dots and improve your eye-hand coordination • Learn vocabulary and color the drawings ABC learning games are also perfect for brain training with its educational background. Besides contributing to the development of vocabulary and memory, it also helps to improve motor and coordination skills. Based on the world famous Montessori learning method, our application allows you to learn how to write capital letters and small letters while learning new vocabulary and enjoying our coloring book activity. Learning letters has never been fun before! With these alphabet games, you will enjoy every moment! If you like our app, please rate and comment to help us improve! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
CaliKids
This app offers a structured method for children aged 2 and up to learn reading, writing, and counting. It progresses through 65 levels, covering everything from basic strokes and letter sounds to sentence construction and simple arithmetic.
- 65 structured learning levels
- Reading, writing, and number modules
- Age-appropriate difficulty settings
- Progress tracking for parents
- Print and cursive handwriting practice
- Offline progress saving
- Multilingual support
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CaliKids is a method for learning to read, write and count, from age 2. It isn't a bundle of loose games: it's 66 levels in order, each one getting ready for the next. Pick the age (2, 3–4, 5–6 or 7+) and the app teaches what comes next, at the right difficulty. It goes from first scribbles to reading sentences, from tracing an A to writing from memory, and from counting pictures to adding and taking away. READING · 22 levels Letters and their sounds, capitals and lowercase, vowels, rhymes, syllables, words split up and put back together, word searches and sentences to put in order. A slow voice reads aloud while a box follows along. WRITING · 24 levels First strokes, loops and mazes to loosen up the hand; every letter with its stroke order animated; which letters go up and which go down on the line; copying, writing without a model, and letter and word dictation. Writing starts with capitals, which are easier, and lowercase comes next. In the word exercises, the app reads what your child has written. NUMBERS · 20 levels Counting, comparing sizes and amounts, shapes, writing each digit, ordering from smallest to largest, adding and taking away with pictures, doubles, sharing, the number line and telling the time to the hour. MADE FOR KIDS • Each exercise says in one line what it's for. • Hints and an eraser that removes just one part: mistakes are no big deal. • Every exercise picks up where you left it, even after closing the app. • Stickers to collect and an encouraging voice. • Print and cursive school handwriting, and 11 notebook rulings to choose from. • Works with Apple Pencil. • Works with VoiceOver and the system text size. FOR THE FAMILY • Admin mode for parents, protected by your account (Apple, Google or email) and a PIN: each child's progress, what they do well and what they find hard, their history, what each one sees and their own level path. • No ads. Your children's data stays only on the device, and you can delete it all at once. • Several children on the same device, each with their own name, age and progress. • In 6 languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. It opens in the phone's language. WHAT'S FREE AND WHAT'S PAID All 66 levels of the method — reading, writing and numbers — can be tried for free: 6 rounds of each one. To keep going after that, CaliKids Premium opens every level in full, with every word topic, and brings new content as it arrives. It's a weekly or yearly subscription that renews automatically unless you cancel it, and you manage it from your account settings. Each word topic can also be bought on its own from its game. Every purchase goes behind a parental gate first, and anyone who already had the app keeps what they had: the levels that were free stay free. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ2zvoWh3YxPXD7xGIk0tE_AM1wlQdcVKgvnPvHfmw4ZHDU4qfMQZhYOP8UJ9YDVQUaSwhCHKQsDQvV/pub
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CaliKids at 5.0 against Learn ABC's 4.0. CaliKids also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). Learn ABC's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Learn ABC sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and CaliKids sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CaliKids holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Learn ABC ships an update every 13 months, CaliKids every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn ABC | CaliKids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | +4 |
| Developer | Alejandro Melero Zaballos | Oliver Tacoronte Mendoza |
Customer experience
Learn ABC
CaliKids
In-app purchases
Learn ABC
- Weekly plan$2.997 Days
- REMOVE ADS$5.99
- Forever plan$14.99
CaliKids
- CaliKids Premium weekly$3.997 Days
- Jobs$2.99
- Feelings$2.99
- The city$2.99
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- The sea$2.99
- The farm$2.99
- The jungle$2.99
- Fairy tales$2.99
- Insects$2.99
- Shapes$2.99
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