Letter Tiles for Learning vs Blending Board
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Letter Tiles for Learning
Build words, divide them into syllables, and explore phonogram sounds. This educational tool supports specific reading and spelling programs, offering relevant letter tiles for each lesson. Ideal for interactive learning on tablets.
- Build words
- Divide words into syllables
- Hear phonogram sounds
- Supports All About Reading
- Supports All About Spelling
- Lesson-specific letter tiles
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This app is designed for tablets. It is not recommended for phones. Our Letter Tiles app lets you build words, divide words into syllables, and hear the sounds of the phonograms. Just choose your program from the menu (All About Reading or All About Spelling) and select which lesson number you are currently teaching. The appropriate letter tiles for that lesson will appear, making it easy for you to teach and easy for your child to learn. The app contains all the phonograms, suffixes, and word parts taught in the All About Reading and All About Spelling lesson plans. Suitable for all ages and learning styles! Please Note: This app does not read words aloud.
Blending Board
This app helps teachers and parents teach phonics and blending sounds for reading. It allows users to create and customize decks of phonemes for blending activities, supporting both simple and multisyllabic word decoding. Shared decks via QR codes streamline instruction.
- Create custom phoneme decks
- Blend sounds for word decoding
- Practice multisyllabic rules
- Personalize visual deck design
- Share decks via QR codes
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The Blending Board App is a powerful educational tool for teachers and parents working with dyslexic learners or anyone else still learning the foundations of blending sounds (phonics) and the multisyllabic rules of English. In this App users will find an easy-to-use resource that allows them to create a deck of phonemes that can be substituted and manipulated to create various kinds of blending activities. The decks enable users to practice decoding simple words, and multisyllabic words, too. Blending Board also offers a unique opportunity for creative flexibility by granting users design options when creating personalized decks that are visually appealing. The end product is a professional-looking, personalized deck of educational materials that users can integrate into instruction with one or many, and which can be used time and again. An easy-to-use QR code system allows the personalized decks to be shared with anyone who has the app, so that the teacher's time can be focused on teaching, not navigating complicated technology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Blending Board at Free against Letter Tiles for Learning's $19.99. Blending Board also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.2) and review sentiment (65% vs 38%). Letter Tiles for Learning's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 10 months) and chart position (#49 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Blending Board is free to download; Letter Tiles for Learning costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blending Board holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 93 and 81 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Letter Tiles for Learning's written reviews are positive against 65% of Blending Board's.
Letter Tiles for Learning ships an update every 6 weeks, Blending Board every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Letter Tiles for Learning | Blending Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.2 (93 ratings) | 4.3 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.7% of reviews | 64.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 81 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #49 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | All About Learning Press, Inc. | Chain Reaction Games LLC |
Customer experience
Letter Tiles for Learning
Blending Board
Bugs and requests
Letter Tiles for Learning
Reported bugs
50 issues- Drop-down menu not staying down
- Blank white screen
- App crashes constantly
- Tiles go missing when splitting syllables
- Spaces appear randomly in words
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- Replacing letters moves them to end
- Cannot drag tiles to top
- App crashes on opening after update
- App not working after update
- New version not compatible with curriculum
- Letters freeze up constantly
- Cannot clear tiles easily
- Tapping letters to appear on screen not working
- Sound stopped working
- Difficulty downloading app components
- Dragging syllable tags is difficult
- Cannot get syllable tags to move
- App orientation locked
- Cannot put two separate words on same line
- Cannot play 'change the word' activity
- Drop-down for picking lesson not working
- Hardly ever works, difficult to select level/lesson
- Stuck on white screen
- App freezes
- Can't see all letters on screen, cut off
- Let you switch out letters fluidly
- Word building area cut off by letter tiles
- Child cannot hold on a letter blend to hear sound
- Child cannot hold built word to see spelling
- Interface difficult to use
- Tiles don't always respond to touch
- Tiles go missing
- Clears for no reason
- Cannot find sounds, don't fit on screen
- Letters too large
- Constantly have to swipe to get to vowel teams
- Cannot drag them up there, have to fling
- App unusable for many activities
- App keeps closing itself
- Letters freeze up
- Cannot get any of it to work
- Too sensitive to clear tiles
- Tapping letters doesn't work
- Cannot divide syllables easily
- Cannot put divided syllables back together
- Difficult to slide screen to access syllable tags
- Cannot drag tiles on iPad
- Issues dragging tiles
- Cannot get tiles to respond
- Words popping up on screen within lessons
Requested features
14 requests- Undo feature
- Tile scramble mode
- Apple Pencil/stylus support
- Card quiz feature
- Option to adjust tile size
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- Ability to write on whiteboard
- Sound out words in lessons
- Add end mark punctuation
- Add 'q' tile for advanced learners
- Fix /r/ and /er/ sound issue
- Add 'are you sure?' for deleting tiles
- Allow multiple words on one line
- Fix first line bug
- Allow user to adjust keyboard area size
Blending Board
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Letter Tiles for Learning
No in-app purchases
Blending Board
No in-app purchases
Questions
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