Barnyard Picks vs WhizRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barnyard Picks
Read full descriptionHide full description
Features of Barnyard Picks • Four engaging games that help kids develop reading comprehension • Increments to the next sentence group once the child has mastered the current group • Helps train attention to detail and focus • Difficulty level is automatically adjusted • Scores are automatically saved to show progress and can be used to identify a child's success. • Scores can also be emailed to keep a record of a child's progress. • Colorful graphics and lively music make this game fun to play • Kid-safe: No third party ads or tracking These BrainTrain games help children develop their reading comprehension skills. Children, ages 6 to 8, will explore a farm as they have fun playing and learning. All of our games are specially created to help children practice the cognitive abilities important in school and life. The games involve choosing the correct word to complete each sentence. They automatically increment to the next sentence group after the student has mastered the current group twice. The games automatically adjust to allow children to learn at a level of difficulty personalized for them. As they succeed, new challenges at harder levels will be presented. While a child's difficulty level is automatically adjusted based on his or her performance, it can be easily modified by parents or teachers when necessary. Distraction stimuli can also be added to reinforce increased focus and the ability to stay on task. This reading comprehension game becomes progressively more challenging as players succeed and improve. Each game level must be completed for grades to be saved. A training session is completed only when the program is stopped and then removed from memory. If the program is left open in the background and it is selected, then the last session started will be continued. The app will start off with a 60 minute trial version. You can modify the options and run the games during this trial period. Once the trial has ended, you will need to make a one-time in-app purchase to unlock the games for unlimited use.
WhizRead
Read full descriptionHide full description
The WhizRead app for iPad is a reading comprehension app that helps children become confident readers. The App helps English as a second language (ESL) students and English language learners who want to master the English language and children that have learning difficulties or learn differently. The app provides interactive, multi-sensory tools that help improve their reading comprehension skills. Readers can interact with the app to hear how words are pronounced, read definitions and examples, listen to related sounds, and see images – all in one place. FEATURES FOR STUDENTS AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS With WhizRead, you can quickly and easily: - Choose what to read: Enjoy a personalized reading experience that’s right for you by choosing from a selection of engaging reading passages organized by subject and grade level and custom content from your parents and teachers. - Look it up: With just a tap, read definitions and examples, or choose to hear them aloud. - Hear it out loud: Hear the pronunciation of a word, meaning, phrase or even have an entire passage read out loud. - See it in action: Visualizing is a powerful way to understand something. Just tap a word or phrase to check out an image. - Take a quiz: Make sure you truly understand what you read by taking a short quiz after reading a passage. FEATURES FOR PARENTS, TEACHERS AND GUARDIANS/TUTORS Get all the same great features as students, plus you can also: - Create custom content or reading passage: Easily add content to the WhizRead app right from your iPad. Optionally upload content from your email or external storage repositories like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive. Finally, create a quiz for your passage. - Make your content interactive: Upload your custom content or reading passage and we’ll add all the rich, interactive features to it within minutes. Then, review, edit, publish, and share your interactive content. - Create a reading network: Connect with your children, create profiles for your children and manage your connections, invite your children in a secure way and share reading passages with your children FEATURES FOR TEACHERS Get all the same great features as students, plus you can also: - Create custom content. Easily add content to the WhizRead app right from your iPad. - Make your content interactive. Give us your content and we’ll add all the rich, interactive features to it within minutes. Then, review, edit, publish, and share your interactive content with your students. - Create a reading network. WhizRead makes it easy to invite students and parents, manage connections, and more. TESTIMONIALS – “I like that everything’s in one place: I can ask the app to read for me, I can see images and I can also hear audio. I don't need to look words up in a dictionary, or search for images.” – A fourth-grade student – “This is a great app even for established readers because they can learn new words and phrases along the way and improve their reading skills.” – A fourth-grade teacher – “My daughter reads really well, but I feel she doesn't fully understand what she reads. This app can help her with that.” – Parent of a third-grader – “WhizRead is helpful for my son, who is more of a visual and auditory learner.” – Parent of a fifth-grader – “This is a great tool for my students from other countries. When I try to explain a word or phrase, I can immediately show them a picture instead of trying to explain it with words.” – A first-grade teacher ABOUT US https://www.whizread.com/about-us/ CONTACT US Please email your questions, feedback, and suggestions to: info@whizread.com. We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. TERMS OF USE https://www.whizread.com/terms-of-use/ PRIVACY POLICY https://www.whizread.com/privacy-policy/
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WhizRead at none against Barnyard Picks's 1. WhizRead also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 39 months). Barnyard Picks's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Barnyard Picks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WhizRead asks for nothing beyond the download.
Barnyard Picks ships an update every 39 months, WhizRead every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barnyard Picks | WhizRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BrainTrain Inc. | Vizread LLC |
In-app purchases
Barnyard Picks
- Full Version$2.99
WhizRead
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Barnyard Picks free?
Is WhizRead free?
Do Barnyard Picks or WhizRead have ads?
Which is updated more often, Barnyard Picks or WhizRead?
Other comparisons















