Comparison

The Reading Realm vs ReadingScreen

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Develop reading for pleasure
  • Improve grammar skills
  • Enhance vocabulary
  • Boost spelling abilities
  • Over 100 reading passages
  • Content from children's authors
Features
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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.

About

ReadingScreen

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Accurately identify Primary school children who would benefit from reading support, using our fast, fun and intuitive app for teachers and teaching assistants. Based on decades of University of Oxford research into reading development. ReadingScreen assessments consist of two tests measuring different reading skills. The first presents pupils with up to 60 individual words of increasing complexity. The second presents them with up to 34 nonwords. The pupil is asked to read each word or nonword out loud and their responses are marked for accuracy by the adult conducting the assessment. If they get 15 answers in a row incorrect, the test ends and they move onto the next test. Each assessment should take 10 minutes or less to complete. Assessments can be interrupted if necessary and will resume from the beginning of the most recent test. To launch an assessment, the adult conducting the assessment should scan the QR code for the pupil they want to assess. No personally identifiable information is stored on the device. At the end of an assessment, the data is uploaded to oxedandassessment.com for instant feedback and reports can be generated for classes or year groups. If no internet connection is available, the data can be stored on the device and uploaded at a later date. ReadingScreen is suitable for schools and organisations (UK and international) using English or Welsh as the medium of education.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Reading Realm at monthly against ReadingScreen's every 2 months. The Reading Realm also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). ReadingScreen's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Reading Realm ships an update monthly, ReadingScreen every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
The Reading Realm versus ReadingScreen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Reading RealmReadingScreen
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews92.9% of reviewsβ€”
Update frequencyMonthly β€” betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeβ€”
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS11.0 β€” better15.1
Further details β€” not scored
Size192 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe Reading Realm LtdOxEd and Assessment Ltd

In-app purchases

None

The Reading Realm

No in-app purchases

None

ReadingScreen

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Reading Realm free?
The Reading Realm is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ReadingScreen free?
ReadingScreen is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Reading Realm or ReadingScreen have ads?
Neither The Reading Realm nor ReadingScreen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Reading Realm or ReadingScreen?
The Reading Realm ships an update monthly, and ReadingScreen every 2 months. Most recently, The Reading Realm was updated on November 3, 2026 and ReadingScreen on November 3, 2026.

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