Comparison

Learn to Read vs Augie Learn AR

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

Head to head
About

Learn to Read

This app offers a guided, co-play experience for parents and children aged 3-8 to learn reading skills. It uses research-backed phonics lessons, interactive storybooks, videos, and games to build foundational reading abilities.

Highlights
  • 99 step-by-step phonics lessons
  • 67 interactive digital storybooks
  • 42 educational videos
  • 3 expert-designed reading games
  • Printable offline activities
  • Family subscription with 3 profiles
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Teach your child how to read! Ages 3-8. Reading.com is a fun, co-play experience designed by education experts for you to teach your child to read — with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child can share. RESEARCH-BACKED No cape? No problem. Our program gives you supercharged superparent powers! Reading.com’s research-backed, phonics-based lessons are fully scripted so they don’t require any special training or knowledge for you to become the most powerful teacher your child will ever have. FROM LETTER RECOGNITION TO CONFIDENT READING As your child masters more letters, sounds, and words, they'll unlock a playful world of reading activities including interactive storybooks, videos, digital games, and printable activities. THE MOST MEANINGFUL (TEAM)WORK OF YOUR LIFE Each lesson takes just 15 - 20 minutes to complete and they’re designed for you and your child to go at your own pace. Lessons cover letters, letter blends, long vowel sounds, and digraphs, taking your child from basic alphabetic knowledge to reading at a late 1st grade level. This is the easiest head start you’ll ever give your child! KEY FEATURES - 120 step-by-step phonics lessons for a grownup & child to do together - 84 interactive, decodable, digital storybooks - 42 videos featuring letters, letter sounds, and an exclusive alphabet song - 5 expertly-designed reading games for independent play that practice skills in: letter recognition, letter-phoneme correlation, beginning sounds, vocabulary, letter-writing, spelling - Access to printable games & activities for fun offline reinforcement - One subscription for the whole family with up to 3 profiles - Ad-free Download the app today, help your child learn to read and join other parents raising readers! Privacy Policy: https://www.reading.com/privacy-policy/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Augie Learn AR

This app uses augmented reality to make learning math fun for students of all ages. It offers hundreds of games and levels covering various math concepts, with progress tracking for parents and teachers. Unlock unlimited access to all content through a subscription.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality math learning
  • Hundreds of games and levels
  • Covers addition, subtraction, fractions, and more
  • Progress tracking dashboard
  • Curriculum-approved concepts
  • Suitable for classroom or home use
Features
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Augie Learn is an augmented reality education and learning application that helps students of all ages learn key math concepts. Learn and have fun practicing math through hundreds of games and levels: (+) Addition, (-) Subtraction, Fractions, Greater Than versus Less Than, Number Sorting, Division, Multiplication, Color and Shape Recognition and much more. Augie Learn’s curriculum approved math concepts combines augmented reality to offer students and children around the world hundreds of levels and questions. Augie Learn will bring your phone to life in real world environments to teach challenging and engaging math concepts. Math can boring BUT Augie Learn’s revolutionary augmented reality games and levels will have students and children completely forget they are learning. Whether your child is starting out in preschool or is in grade 3, Augie Learn provides learning for all ages. The app can be used in the classroom or at home. Once a student, parent or teacher makes an account they can pick up wherever they left off in the game, making their way through different levels and mathematical concepts. Parents and Teachers will also gain access to a comprehensive student dashboard where they can see the progress of students and children. Augie Learn offers parents and students a dashboard to identify what questions a student or child is getting right and wrong and how much time each level took. The intuitive dashboard also provides parents and teachers a deep look into the progress of their child and students learning. Want increased features, levels and premium access? Premium access will give your child or students unlimited access to all questions. Augie Learn Unlimited comes with unlimited access to all levels and learning concepts. By purchasing Augie Unlimited you may purchase an auto-renewing subscription through an In-App Purchase. (If you do not maintain a subscription you can will only be able to access certain levels within the app) • Auto-renewable subscription • $1.99 per week • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. By downloading and using this app, you agree to the Terms and Conditions: http://augielearn.com/public/terms.html and acknowledge the Privacy Policy: http://augielearn.com/public/privacy.html Augie Learn is a new way of learning. Utilizing curriculum approved lesson plans and combining it with fun and revolutionary augmented reality learning; children of all ages will spend hours learning math concepts outside the classroom. Contact us: website: http://augielearn.com Facebook: facebook.com/augielearn Instagram: Instagram.com/augielearn

Screenshots

Learn to Read4 screens
Augie Learn AR3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Learn to Read at 4.7 against Augie Learn AR's 3.4. Learn to Read also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (77K vs 5). Augie Learn AR's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 81%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Learn to Read sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month and Augie Learn AR sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learn to Read holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn to Read has 77K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Learn to Read's written reviews are positive against 100% of Augie Learn AR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn to Read ships an update every 6 days, Augie Learn AR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Learn to Read versus Augie Learn AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn to ReadAugie Learn AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (77K ratings) — better3.4 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings77K — better5
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#15 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB668 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTeaching.comACube Games

Customer experience

Learn to Read

All ratings76,868 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews739 reviews
Positive81.1%
Neutral3.5%
Negative15.4%

Augie Learn AR

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Learn to Read

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • User data loss after app updates
  • Inability to redeem promo codes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to learn cursive writing
  • More independent practice games and activities
  • Ability to jump to appropriate lesson level
  • Support for multiple languages or accents
  • Printable resources like flashcards or worksheets

Augie Learn AR

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Learn to Read

Subscriptions9
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial5 variants$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)2 variants$12.491 Month
  • Monthly (With Free Trial)$12.491 Month
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  • Monthly Subscription$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Yearly)7 Days trial$66.991 Year
  • Learn to Read (Yearly)7 Days trial2 variants$74.991 Year
1 purchases

Augie Learn AR

Subscriptions1
  • Augie Weekly Subscription$1.497 Days

Questions

Is Learn to Read free?
Learn to Read is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Augie Learn AR free?
Augie Learn AR is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Learn to Read or Augie Learn AR?
Learn to Read is rated higher. Learn to Read averages 4.7 out of 5 from 77K ratings, while Augie Learn AR averages 3.4 from 5 ratings.
Do Learn to Read or Augie Learn AR have ads?
Neither Learn to Read nor Augie Learn AR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn to Read or Augie Learn AR?
Learn to Read ships an update every 6 days, and Augie Learn AR every 2 months. Most recently, Learn to Read was updated on October 24, 2026 and Augie Learn AR on October 15, 2026.

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