Spelliful vs SpellingBuddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spelliful
This app helps users learn and test spelling words through repetitive activities, practice sessions, and timed tests. Users can input their own word lists, record audio, and even add images or videos for enhanced learning. It offers a free version with limitations and paid upgrades for unlimited access and advanced sharing features.
- Customizable word lists
- Recordable audio for words
- Repetitive learning activities
- Timed spelling tests
- Practice modes
- Importable word lists
- Image/video support for hearing impaired
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Spelliful will be you or your child’s weekly spelling buddy. This app is designed to help you or your child learn their words and test better. The process to achieve this is by doing a repetitive activity (or Spellitivity), to get familiarity of the word, then do a practice with no pressure and finally do a real timed test. You will input your list and record an audio of you saying the word. If you don't want to record your own voice you can turn on the system voiceover to cover that for you. For added challenges you can record the word's definition instead of just word. With the layout of having all your list on the left with your selected list in the middle you can easily choose a list then choose what to do with it, Spellitivity, Test, Edit or Share. *This app makes it really easy for a teacher to create a list and share it with the students/parents. *For the Hearing Impaired, you can add an image or video to each word with the audio or no audio. This is very helpful with video clips for Sign Language. *Spelliful is free to use but is limited. Free users are allowed to have 3 of their own list at a time with 5 words per list, but can import in as many ready made list they would like from Teacher Mode users. You can always combine list to one just to send to the activities. An In-App purchase is in available for .99 cents to Unlimited the app. TEACHERMODE for Sharing List Another In-App purchase is available for $2.99 for Teachermode. This feature lets any user share any list they created with audios only. When using Teachermode just setup a share link in the app. When you share the app will provide you with a share code, that you distribute. This is NOT social media and you are NOT posting to a public platform. Here’s how it works: ADDING WORDS 1st. Add data by tapping the New List button in top right corner. Create a list name or use todays date. Then type your word, tap the record button to record you saying the word, then tap Add Word button. 2nd. Repeat the process for each word. 3rd. When list is done, tap “Save” to save and exit. You can also import in a list with audios by users of the Teacher Mode. This is not affected by the apps limits in free version. You can import as many as you like. LEARNING Choose your list. The list name is stated above the current list of words. Choose between Activity, Practice Test or Test. SPELLITIVITY – The Activity is unscrambling the word and is done in 3 levels. First level, the word is shown and the speaker icon will play that current word you recorded. Drag the letters to form the word. Second level, the word will disappear after 2 seconds. Tap speaker to hear and show word briefly. Third level, no word will be shown. Drag the letters to form word. If incorrect you must try again. Third level data will be recorded and shown in the Progress page, time completed and number of missed attempts. PRACTICE TEST – When you are ready you can take a practice test. Tap to start. Your recorded word will play and you must spell it correctly. After typing word hit Go on the keyboard. You will be notified if right or wrong. There will be no time limit per word and you advance when you get the word right. Practice does not show in Progress Report TEST – Testing is similar to Practice Test, except you are timed. The moment the word is played the clock counts down (duration can be adjusted in Settings). If time expires the next word is in play. After you complete a word it will auto advance to next word, until Test is complete. This Test will show in Progress Report page.
SpellingBuddy
This educational app helps children practice spelling independently. It offers multiple ways to input words, instant feedback, and a sticker reward system for motivation. Parents can create personalized reward vouchers.
- Independent spelling practice
- Multiple word entry options
- Instant marking
- Sticker reward system
- Customizable reward vouchers
- Ad-free experience
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SpellingBuddy is an education app developed by AIdeaBuddy to help children revise spelling on their own without waiting for someone to read out the test word for them. Children can practise their spelling list anytime and for as many rounds as they need without pressure. There are various creation options available [ classic manual entry, creation via camera scan, or via photo ]. Just pick the one that most fits your need. Instant marking will be done right after the test submission. To make the revision more fun, children will get a sticker for scoring full marks and they can cumulate stickers to redeem a reward voucher from parents. Parents can thus create personalised reward vouchers that most fit their individual needs as a form of encouragement for their children’s own efforts and initiatives. As much as possible, we offer essential features free to benefit more children who would like to practise spelling on their own. To sustain timely maintenance of the app and updates aligned to the periodic operating system upgrades, we offer additional premium features at a very affordable one-time fee in order to continue supporting the future development of SpellingBuddy. We sustain our works through support on In-App Purchase and do not earn through selling data. Your privacy remains private to you. If you like this business model and philosophy, kindly consider supporting our product by acquiring the In-App purchase. Together we make affordable tailored applications to meet the specific learning needs of children.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spelliful at every 3 weeks against SpellingBuddy's every 2 months. Spelliful also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Spelliful sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and SpellingBuddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Spelliful against 5.0 for SpellingBuddy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spelliful has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Spelliful ships an update every 3 weeks, SpellingBuddy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spelliful | SpellingBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Morrone | Siew Lin Yap |
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Spelliful
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In-app purchases
Spelliful
- Teacher's Desk Monthly$0.991 Month
- Teacher's Desk Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Teacher's Desk$9.991 Year
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- Teacher's Desk Plus Yearly$19.991 Year
- Teacher Mode$24.99
SpellingBuddy
- Premium Features$3.99
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