Comparison

First Steps to Reading Fluency vs Readability

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

Head to head
About

First Steps to Reading Fluency

This educational game offers personalized practice for letter names, sounds, and sight words to build foundational reading fluency. It aims to help young learners achieve automaticity in these essential skills, aligning with kindergarten learning standards.

Highlights
  • Letter name practice
  • Letter sound practice
  • Sight word practice
  • Personalized practice
  • Automaticity building
  • Kindergarten learning standards alignment
Features
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First Steps to Reading Fluency is designed to provide players personalized, deliberate and engaging practice of letter names, letter sounds, and sight words for the purpose of achieving automaticity of these foundational reading skills. Automaticity is the ability to perform a skill with a high degree of accuracy and speed with the ultimate goal of well-practiced fluent performance. Achieving automaticity of letter names, letter sounds, and sight words is important to perform higher-order reading skills. These foundational reading skills are part of state and national learning standards for kindergarten. This game requires an account to be created outside of the app itself, it requires both a parent/teacher and a student account. The student account is the one used to sign into the game itself. To create an account go to https://eruditelearninglab.unl.edu/Live/ then in the top right of the screen press parental/teacher controls, then press register. Or in the app press new user.

About

Readability

This app offers AI-powered reading assistance for children, acting like a personal tutor. It listens as kids read, provides real-time pronunciation correction, and enhances vocabulary and comprehension through interactive questions. Parents can track progress via a dashboard.

Highlights
  • AI-powered reading assistance
  • Real-time pronunciation correction
  • Interactive comprehension questions
  • Personalized vocabulary lists
  • Parent progress dashboard
  • Grade-level stories and books
Features
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Readability’s award-winning Smart Reading & Comprehension Learning App gives your child the effectiveness of 1-on-1 tutoring. Our breakthrough voice-based technology LISTENS while your child READS, highlighting, and correcting any problem words. Kids from kindergarten to 6th grade will improve their reading, vocabulary, and comprehension skills all in the convenience of a mobile app. IMPROVE READING WITH 1-ON-1 TUTORING Readability prompts your child to read aloud and listens while providing reading help and real-time pronunciation correction as your child reads. If they get stuck, they can tap on the speaker icon to have Readability read the selected passage or word aloud. Readability automatically selects the right reading material for each child to maximize improvement and minimize the reading struggle. Your child will be eager to learn as these fun and educational grade-level stories come to life with bright illustrations. IMPROVE CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS Our industry-first comprehension with Interactive Voice-based Questions & Answers (IVQA™) asks your child questions verbally about the story they just read to improve their critical thinking skills. Your child then is prompted to answer the question verbally to ensure they fully understand what they read. Comprehension is as important as reading fluency, we deliver both in our smart reading app for kids. IMPROVE VOCABULARY Readability makes it easy to learn new words and their meaning with a personalized vocabulary list for your child. Your child can long-press on any word while reading to learn its pronunciation, meaning, and add it to their vocabulary list. Their vocabulary list is neatly organized A-Z and by book to further practice, review, and perfect new or difficult words. SET AND TRACK READING GOALS Set goals and follow your child’s progress with your very own Parent Dashboard detailing what they have read, reading duration, accuracy, comprehension, and speed. It also provides daily and weekly reading reports for accountability that can be shared with a teacher. ENGAGING BOOKS A massive selection of age-appropriate stories and educational works keep kids engaged and learning. Readability is the perfect reading app for kids. Getting started is easy with a 30-day free trial. Just download the app to sign up for your free trial. Cancel anytime. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS To access all app features, please subscribe to the 30-day free trial. Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your account will automatically be charged at the subscription price for renewal, within 24-hours prior to the end of the current billing period. You can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your Account Settings after purchase. • Visit https://www.readabilitytutor.com/payment-policy/ for payment terms • Visit https://www.readabilitytutor.com/terms-of-use/ for terms of use Copyright 2023 Readability

Screenshots

First Steps to Reading Fluency4 screens
Readability4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: First Steps to Reading Fluency at 100% against Readability's 56%. First Steps to Reading Fluency also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Readability's advantage is ratings volume (26K vs 1) and chart position (#151 vs unranked). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Readability sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. First Steps to Reading Fluency asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

First Steps to Reading Fluency holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Readability has 26K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of First Steps to Reading Fluency's written reviews are positive against 56% of Readability's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
First Steps to Reading Fluency versus Readability: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst Steps to Reading FluencyReadability
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (26K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better55.7% of reviews
Number of ratings126K — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#151 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size402 MB247 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversity of Nebraska - Lincolne4site Inc.

Customer experience

First Steps to Reading Fluency

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Readability

All ratings25,454 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral4.0%
Negative5.5%
Written reviews386 reviews
Positive55.7%
Neutral9.8%
Negative34.5%

Bugs and requests

First Steps to Reading Fluency

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Readability

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App charges for free trial
  • Subscription cancellation issues
  • Inconsistent app behavior
  • Compatibility problems on some devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • More customization options for text and background
  • Improved voice recognition accuracy
  • Expanded book selection
  • Better comprehension testing

In-app purchases

None

First Steps to Reading Fluency

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Readability

Subscriptions2
  • Readability Tutor1 Month trial$19.991 Month
  • Readability Tutor Annual1 Month trial$139.991 Year

Questions

Is First Steps to Reading Fluency free?
First Steps to Reading Fluency is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Readability free?
Readability is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, First Steps to Reading Fluency or Readability?
First Steps to Reading Fluency is rated higher. First Steps to Reading Fluency averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Readability averages 4.6 from 26K ratings.
Do First Steps to Reading Fluency or Readability have ads?
Neither First Steps to Reading Fluency nor Readability shows ads.

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