Time for Fun vs Sunshine Online
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time for Fun
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Time for Fun is an interactive, educational app that is designed to help students learn to read analog and digital clocks. The app presents questions related to time in the form a word problems and asks the student to provide an answer to the question using clock controls. Quiz questions are provided at 3 different levels. Sound effects and synthesized speech makes the app fun for students.
Sunshine Online
This educational app provides students with access to a library of leveled e-books and interactive activities designed to improve reading skills and foster a love for reading. Teachers can manage student progress and assign content, while students can personalize their reading experience with annotation tools.
- Access to 650+ literary e-books
- Interactive reading tools
- Progress tracking for teachers
- Narration and highlighting
- Quizzes and fluency activities
- Math and phonics resources
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A reading app for students at school and at home to access levelled e-books and activities that will help them learn to read and to enjoy reading. There is a management system for teachers to allocate the e-books to students and to track their progress on reading, literacy skills and fluency. Interactive tools within the e-book allow students to highlight, draw or add text to support their reading experience. • Gives access to 650 literary e-books, fiction and nonfiction • Additional resources include alphabet and phonics texts, songs, raps, grammar animations and 91 math texts • All e-books have narration and highlighting of the text • E-books are followed by quizzes and activities to test writing and fluency • Students can access their own library with individual login from school or at home • Selected nonfiction e-books feature short videos • 91 math e-books combine literacy and numeracy in engaging stories • Contains level 30+ texts, ideal for inquiry-based learning and STEM education • Students can record themselves reading part of the book and listen to themselves • Useful for second language students to practice their reading fluency • User-friendly class management, a video and quick guides for set up • Intuitive navigation of resources • Caters for the individual needs of every student • Students’ work history can be shared with caregivers • Produced by Sunshine Books, successful in the classroom for over 35 years
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sunshine Online at Free against Time for Fun's $0.99. Sunshine Online also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 22 months). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Sunshine Online is free to download; Time for Fun costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Time for Fun ships an update every 22 months, Sunshine Online every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time for Fun | Sunshine Online |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 22.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 213 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ventura Educational Systems | WENDY PYE PUBLISHING LIMITED |
In-app purchases
Time for Fun
No in-app purchases
Sunshine Online
No in-app purchases
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