Comparison

Magic ABC vs Design Squad Maker

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

Head to head
About

Magic ABC

This app uses augmented reality and AI to create an interactive English learning experience for children. It transforms ordinary spaces into engaging stories, helping kids learn letters, words, and reading through playful characters and captivating narratives.

Highlights
  • Augmented Reality learning
  • AI and Machine Learning technology
  • Interactive stories with characters
  • Letter spelling and strokes
  • Word spelling and splicing
  • English question and answer modules
  • Nielsen's natural phonics method
Features
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AR ABC is based on augmented reality ,artificial intelligence, and machine learning technology transforms ordinary spaces into extraordinary stories. With wordworld story content, children can read stories aloud and interact with on-screen characters to help them solve reading problems. Wordworld will change the way children interact with mobile devices, turning the screen into a learning and entertainment experience that creates lasting memories for reading and exploring. The application includes functional modules such as letter spelling, letter strokes, word spelling, word splicing, and English question and answer. It can fully improve children's interaction and fun in learning English. What is wordworld? "wordworld" takes English word learning as the starting point, uses Nielsen's natural phonics method to guide English content learning, and animation builds an interesting English world composed of classic word characters IP for children, allowing children to learn naturally in rich and interesting English situations . Interesting images, intriguing stories, and witty language. The works are entertaining and educational, which not only achieves the purpose of English enlightenment but also has an entertaining spirit. It creates a good language environment for children to start reading and spelling enlightenment. What's special about wordworld? - "wordworld" will embed letters into animated scenes in a playful and vivid form. Through the language immersion environment, it will attract children with interesting word animation images and inspire their love for word recognition and reading learning. "wordworld" features cute and somewhat humorous character settings called "Word Friends". - Through their adventures in the world of words, children are immersed in seeing words as friends, and by reading letters, sounds, words and sentences, children are at their best in early language development. Through "wordworld", while learning English, children also comprehensively develop eight intelligences: language intelligence, logical intelligence, spatial intelligence, motor intelligence, musical intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, self-cognition and natural cognition.

About

Design Squad Maker

This app guides children through the engineering design process with interactive activities and explanations. It encourages problem-solving, critical thinking, and creativity through hands-on projects and family collaboration. Aligned with STEM curriculum, it offers a safe and engaging learning experience.

Highlights
  • Unlimited design projects
  • Add sketches, photos, and notes
  • Editable portfolio
  • Animated engineering videos
  • Step-by-step guidance
  • STEM curriculum alignment
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DESIGN SQUAD MAKER APP FEATURES - Create unlimited design projects - Add sketches, photos, and notes - Save progress in an editable portfolio - Watch animated videos explaining the engineering design process - Walk through each step of the design process with a friendly host - Use tips and reflection questions throughout to support children's learning - Check out example project ideas - Find ideas for families to work together - Try quick activities to supplement design projects at home - Use at home and as part of Design Squad Maker workshops around the country - Aligned with STEM curriculum concepts - Co-developed with researchers and families - No in-app purchases - No advertising The Design Squad Maker app was rigorously researched and developed for use at home and in maker space settings. Its open-ended, hands-on approach gives kids control over their own learning, encouraging them to identify problems that matter to them and develop solutions. In addition, when kids solve problems, they learn STEM concepts, practice thinking critically and creatively, gain experience using tools and materials, and learn perseverance when things don’t go as planned. ABOUT DESIGN SQUAD MAKER This app was created as part of Design Squad Maker, a program that engages children and their caregivers in the engineering design process in museums, community maker spaces, and at home. Together, kids ages 8–11 and their caregivers come up with problems that they want to solve, brainstorm solutions, build prototypes, and test them to see how they work. They experience the same steps that engineers use to solve real-world problems. PRIVACY GBH Kids and Design Squad Maker are committed to creating a safe and secure environment for children and families and to being transparent about what information is collected from users. The Design Squad Maker app collects anonymous, aggregated analytics data for the purpose of improving the app experience—for example, determining which features are more popular in general. No personally identifiable data is collected. Photos taken during the use of this app are stored locally on your device as part of the explicit functionality of the app. The app does not send or share these photos anywhere. GBH KIDS does not see any photos taken by this app. To learn more about Design Squad Maker's privacy policy, visit https://pbskids.org/designsquad/blog/design-squad-maker/ FUNDERS AND CREDITS © 2022 WGBH Educational Foundation. Design Squad Maker is produced by GBH Boston and the New York Hall of Science. Design Squad Maker and its logo are copyrights of WGBH Educational Foundation. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1811457. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Screenshots

Magic ABC4 screens
Design Squad Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Design Squad Maker at 5.0 against Magic ABC's 4.6. Design Squad Maker also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). Magic ABC's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Design Squad Maker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Magic ABC versus Design Squad Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic ABCDesign Squad Maker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size497 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer广东单词世界科教有限公司WGBH

Customer experience

Magic ABC

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Design Squad Maker

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Magic ABC

No in-app purchases

None

Design Squad Maker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magic ABC free?
Magic ABC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Design Squad Maker free?
Design Squad Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Magic ABC or Design Squad Maker?
Design Squad Maker is rated higher. Magic ABC averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Design Squad Maker averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Magic ABC or Design Squad Maker have ads?
Neither Magic ABC nor Design Squad Maker shows ads.

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