The Reading Realm vs Smoothwall Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Reading Realm
This app helps children improve their reading for pleasure, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling. It features over one hundred passages and extracts from various children's authors and poets.
- Develop reading for pleasure
- Improve grammar skills
- Enhance vocabulary
- Boost spelling abilities
- Over 100 reading passages
- Content from children's authors
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A fun and engaging app for children to develop reading for pleasure and improve their grammar, vocabulary and spelling skills, with over one hundred passages and extracts from a huge range of children’s authors and poets used with kind permission from the publishers.
Smoothwall Browser
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The Smoothwall iOS browser is for use by Schools or other organisations who wish to protect young people. !!! This app should not be downloaded and installed unless you have been asked to do so by your organisation's administrator. Once it is successfully deployed, it connects to the Smoothwall Cloud Filter service (licensed separately) to access your organisation’s filtering and child-welfare policies. Smoothwall Cloud Filter is designed to keep young and/or vulnerable people safe in an online environment. It provides realtime filtering and alerting in order to ensure a high level of protection against inappropriate content, and potentially harmful use of the web. Features • Realtime content filtering of web pages browsed within Smoothwall Browser • Realtime alerting • Access logging and reporting via Smoothwall Cloud Reports
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Smoothwall Browser at 3 against The Reading Realm's 1. The Reading Realm's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Reading Realm ships an update monthly, Smoothwall Browser every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Reading Realm | Smoothwall Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 469 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Reading Realm Ltd | Smoothwall |
In-app purchases
The Reading Realm
No in-app purchases
Smoothwall Browser
No in-app purchases
Questions
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