blaboo vs WORD READING MAGIC 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
blaboo
Learn new words through engaging illustrations and audio pronunciation. This free app supports multiple languages and offers various categories for vocabulary building. Review learned words with flashcards.
- Illustrated word learning
- Audio pronunciation
- Multiple language support
- Categorized vocabulary
- Flashcard review
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Free Word Learning App! Are you worried about learning words? You can learn words from favorite pictures, such as cars, jobs, animals and more in BlaBoo. Are you studying foreign languages? BlaBoo offers a variety of languages including English, Japanese Chinese and so on. [Features] - Various Categories BlaBoo has a variety of categories, illustrations. Study words by seeing the illustration. - Voice Let's touch it! When you touch the picture, the pronunciation of the word is spoken. people can study words with the sound. - Multiple Languages BlaBoo supports Korean, English, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and more. BlaBoo also helps you study foreign words! - Review Did you study new words? Then, using a word card to review the words you studied. [Blaboo is FREE!] Yes, BlaBoo is totally FREE! Just Download and study new words together! [Study new words into categories.] 1. Select Language BlaBoo supports multiple languages. Press the Change Language button at the top of the Home screen to select the language you want to study. 2. Select Category Select the category in which you want to study the word. BlaBoo support 15 categories such as Animals, Occupations, Vehicles, Food, and more. 3. Touch For Pronouncing! Volume Up! touch the illustrations on the screen. You can hear the voices of the words of the illustrations. Free Word Learning App, BlaBoo You can download it now for free and get started right away!
WORD READING MAGIC 2
This educational app focuses on teaching children the crucial skill of blending sounds to read words with adjacent consonants. It emphasizes a phonics-based approach, differentiating between blends and digraphs for effective early reading instruction.
- Focuses on blending sounds
- Differentiates blends and digraphs
- Phonics-based reading instruction
- Supports early reading success
- Designed for young learners
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Word Reading Magic 2 can help your child’s future reading success. It is best to focus on “BLENDING” instead of “blends.” Teaching the blending together of the sounds in a word is the most efficient way to teach the reading of words containing adjacent consonants. BLENDING is helping the child blend together the four distinct sounds of /h/ + /a/ + /n/ + /d/ into the word “hand.” On the other hand, teaching and memorizing lists of adjacent consonants combinations, as many programs do, such as fl, bl, st, is inefficient, confusing, and a disservice to emerging readers. With adjacent consonants, such as the s and t in the word “step,” each letter retains its sound even though they are spoken closely together. No new sounds are made by these types of adjacent consonants. The misinformed theory behind teaching consonant blend lists is that these two adjacent consonants make a different sound when, in reality, no new sound is created. There are situations where two adjacent consonants make a new and different sound. For example, the letters s and h, when combined, make the distinct sound /sh/, as in the word “ship.’” Another example would be the letters c and h, which, when combined, make the distinct sound /ch/ as in “chair.” These, however, are unique types of adjacent consonants called digraphs. The teaching of digraphs is an integral part of proper reading instruction. There is a distinct difference between teaching digraphs and teaching consonant blends. There is a cultural myth that persists in some early childhood literacy methods of teaching adjacent consonants as if they were digraphs. The real key to successfully dealing with adjacent consonants is to teach the skill of blending (not blend lists) and then to teach the approximately 44 digraphs and trigraphs later. Most of the programs that teach consonant blends (excluding the digraphs) have 25 beginning 2-letter blends such as bl, fr, tr, and str. These programs also include 16 ending blends such as st, mp, lp, rand ft. That adds up to 41 non-digraph consonant clusters in all. That is a lot of work devoted to teaching a method that is not clear and specific to emerging readers. The most glaring error with teaching consonant blend lists is that these programs make of using word lists containing advanced phonograms and advanced spelling rules. Using the words “trade,” “triangle,” “trike,” “triple,” “treat,” “tree,” “true,” and “try” to teach the consonant blend “tr” can be very confusing to the child. How is a child supposed to read the words on this list when they are at the beginning stages of learning to read consonant blends? This is a huge leap of faith. This method would be like trying to teach a stomach crawling baby to crawl on their hands and knees by trying to teach the baby to walk. If a child can read the “tr” words on that list, then they are well advanced beyond the reading level of needing to learn the “tr” blend or any consonant blend. Save yourself and your child from wasting time with the confusing practice of teaching consonant blend lists. Adopt the clear and direct path of teaching the skill of blending to your child and watch them soar in their reading competency. This app gives your child lots of clear and direct practice of the skill of blending while ignoring the teaching of so-called blends. In using this app, your child will learn how to recognize word patterns and adjacent consonant spelling rules effectively. Please note, the purpose of this app is to provide many opportunities for practicing the reading of CCVC & CVCC words. On account of this, there are words used in this app that are not in the everyday vocabulary of the young learners using this app. Use this as an opportunity to build vocabulary. The images, when tapped, will always say what they are. There is never any picture guessing required. Please give us your feedback and suggestions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: blaboo at none against WORD READING MAGIC 2's 1. blaboo also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 months). WORD READING MAGIC 2's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (62 vs 10). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. WORD READING MAGIC 2 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. blaboo asks for nothing beyond the download.
WORD READING MAGIC 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WORD READING MAGIC 2 has 62 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two.
blaboo ships an update every 9 days, WORD READING MAGIC 2 every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | blaboo | WORD READING MAGIC 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (10 ratings) | 4.7 (62 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 238 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JeongHean Kim | PRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY |
Customer experience
blaboo
WORD READING MAGIC 2
In-app purchases
blaboo
No in-app purchases
WORD READING MAGIC 2
- 25 More Lesson Groups$2.99
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