Self Made Arcade vs Ello 2.0
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Self Made Arcade
Discover a variety of games, from arcade classics and puzzles to sports and brain teasers. Enjoy seamless access to a curated list of games updated regularly, suitable for the whole family. Play a complete slate of Apple Arcade games through a special partnership.
- Arcade game collection
- Puzzles and brain teasers
- Sports games
- Apple Arcade integration
- Regular game updates
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Self Made Arcade is brought to you by Self Made TV and offers games that will entertain everyone in your household. From Subway Skater to puzzles, brain teasers, sports games, and oldies but goodies. You are also able to play a complete slate or Apple Arcade games through our partnership with Apple. We offer a stellar list of arcade games which is updated regularly. Enjoy seamless access to games that will have the entire family coming back. Ready for it? Good Luck!
Ello 2.0
This app offers personalized reading and math instruction for children aged 5-9. Utilizing AI, it listens to children read aloud, identifies errors, and adapts lessons to their individual learning pace. It features a vast library of decodable books and covers foundational math concepts.
- AI reading tutor
- Adaptive learning
- 1,200+ decodable books
- Math games
- Daily personalized quests
- Phonics instruction
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Your child is unique. Their learning should be too. More than games. Real teaching. Ages 5–9. Ello listens to your child, catches mistakes, and adjusts to their level — built by literacy researchers and speech scientists. Most kids' apps are tappable games with a quiz bolted on. Ello actually teaches. It listens to your child read out loud, catches mistakes, and adjusts the next session based on what they got wrong. Featured by Good Morning America, Time Magazine, and Common Sense Media. Free to start. No ads. Ever. Download and explore Ello's reading games, math games, and Daily Quests completely free. How Ello actually teaches: Ello's AI listens to your child read out loud, catches mistakes, and adjusts the next session to match. No other reading app does real-time listening, a full book library, and early math in a single daily session. - Daily Quests — a personalized mix of reading and math, up to 15 min per day - 1,200+ decodable books built on the Science of Reading - Math for kids — counting, numbers, and addition - AI reading tutor — listens, corrects, and guides in real time - Adaptive learning — meets your child exactly where they are - Kid-safe — no ads, no in-app purchases Reading, math, and a reason to keep coming back. Ello covers phonics, early reading, and math for kids from Kindergarten through 5th Grade. Whether your child is a kindergartener building phonics skills or a 2nd grader who needs a math tutor — Ello adapts to them. "She struggled with reading, but Ello makes it fun. Now she asks to read every day." — Jamie M. "My son's reading level jumped two grades in three months." — Lola P. Reading tutor. Math tutor. One app. Download free — your child's first Daily Quest is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ello 2.0 at every 2 days against Self Made Arcade's every 2 months. Ello 2.0 also leads on ratings volume (124 vs 1) and chart position (#45 vs unranked). Self Made Arcade's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Self Made Arcade holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ello 2.0 has 124 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Self Made Arcade ships an update every 2 months, Ello 2.0 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Self Made Arcade | Ello 2.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (124 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 82.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 124 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #45 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 716 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dee Brown, INC. | Ello Technology, Inc. |
Customer experience
Self Made Arcade
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In-app purchases
Self Made Arcade
No in-app purchases
Ello 2.0
No in-app purchases
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