Word Magic vs SmartySprouts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Magic
This educational app helps preschoolers and kindergarteners learn words and spellings through interactive games. Kids identify missing letters for pictures, with positive reinforcement and rewards to keep them engaged.
- Interactive missing letter games
- Picture-based word association
- Positive reinforcement and rewards
- Kid-friendly voice encouragement
- Simple touch-based interface
- Attractive and funny graphics
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Word Magic is nominated for Best Educational App by 2009 Best App Ever awards and also featured in "Apps for kids" by Apple ------------------- Word magic is created by mom and dad of a 5 year old kid. It has wonderful reviews in the app store. Below are some samples by customers. A Fun, Exciting Math App for my 4 year old son. ------ It really is a magic game kids will love it, the upgrades are really good .... auto scrolling to next word .... random colours .... fun graphics .... new different rewards for the kids.... any queries to anusen answered thoroughly & very quickly by email .... and to make it special the little daughters voice will encourage kids to keep guessing & learning .... thanks for thinking of kids & all your good ideas....i also bought maths magic....just as good, same decription as above for word magic.... a very happy nan .... ann ---- This app is the best. My son is learning to read and being able to play to find the begining and ending sound is great and it is a concept being taught to him in kindergarten. My 3 year old loves it too. Makes me want to have iPhones for each one of them! ------ My 5 year old loves this application and It really helps me see how much she knows Keep up the good work ------- My 4.5 yr old daughter loves this game, she is having lots of fun as well learning at the same time. Thanks for making learning fun:) ----- Word Magic is designed keeping preschooler and kindergarten kids in mind. It is very ideal for kids between the ages 3 to 6. It is an excellent application for kids to have fun with words and their spellings and learn them. A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. The picture for the word will be read out. There are three flavors. Based on the kids level, you can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last. Word magic is loaded with lot of fun features: - Very simple design. Kids need to just touch the answer. - Very attractive and funny pictures. - Once they identify the correct answer, shaking the iphone will take them to a new problem. - Every time they pick the answers they get appreciated with surprise appreciation (real voice) - After every 5 successive correct answers different colored stars appear as their rewards. Kids love this. Word magic is fun learning experience for kids which would help them in - Positive reinforcement - Surprises and rewards - Very simple design - Vibrant colors - Attractive and funny pictures Once a kid plays with this application he/she will want to play till the end of the game to see the surprises. The sounds and colors have been carefully selected. The voices are also recorded by a kid. This application has been kids approved. We had spent lots of time researching the usability of this application. We have been tweaking this application and enhancing it based on how 4 year old kids use this. We have 6 QA's for this application. Yes! 6 preschoolers who approved this application. We had been iteratively testing with 6 different kids of the same age group. Have fun, and please send your comments and feedback and enhancements requests to wordmagic@anusen.com ------- We had partnered with SmarTots and excited to provide more features to the parents. SmarTots provides learning reports and mobile education app reviews that help parents understand what their children are learning. Signing up for SmarTots also gives parents access to fun activities that enhance the educational value of mobile education apps like this one. Click the Parent Button inside this app to get these great features ------- Checkout http://tinyurl.com/n6p2hd for the video of this app. ----- Please try out our other applications Math Magic Match Magic Count Magic Think BIG Math Series Dicatation
SmartySprouts
This app offers 21 interactive pocket chart activities for young learners on iPad. It covers essential early education skills like math, phonics, and word building, with progress tracking for parents and teachers. Designed for short, engaging play sessions, it simplifies gameplay by locking to portrait mode.
- 21 interactive pocket chart activities
- Math: addition, subtraction, fractions
- Literacy: phonics, spelling, word building
- Early learning: counting, colors, shapes
- Progress tracking for parents/teachers
- Portrait mode gameplay
- Short, engaging activity sessions
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Do you love classroom Pocket Charts? Pocket Charts! Pro combines 21 pocket chart activities for your child to use on the iPad. Just like the pocket chart games popular in the classroom, this app gives young students a fun way to practice adding and subtracting, sorting blends and digraphs, matching positional words to picture, spelling 3 letter words, combining images to build compound words. The youngest iPad users are not left out, some early learning activities include counting, sorting, matching colors, shapes and uppercase to lowercase letters. Administrative features allow teachers/parents to manage the functionality of the app and track student progress. Pocket Charts! Pro gives kids a lot of learning fun for a very small price. Here’s what’s included: • Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching • Beginning Letter Sounds • Colors and Color Words • Counting • Shape Matching • Long and Short Vowel Sounds • Rhyming Words • Consonant Blends and Digraphs • Ending Letter Sounds • Position Words • Numbers and Number Words • Pre-Number Category Sorting • Compound Words • Spelling 3-Letter Words • Word Families • Fractions • Single-digit Addition and Subtraction • Halloween Match • Thanksgiving Match • Christmas/Hanukkah Match • Egg Match Teach and reinforce basic skills with Pocket Charts! Pro. Each game requires 3-5 minutes for a young learner to complete, making this iPad app ideal for students with limited attention spans or those requiring highly visual or tactile learning experiences. Additionally, these activities are designed to lock and play only in the portrait mode in order to simplify game play and eliminate an orientation switch if young learners jostle the iPad while playing. Good Neighbor Press has specialized in the development, illustration, design and production of educational material since 1991. High quality, developmentally-appropriate educational material with clean, charming instructional design is our specialty! For additional information on our activity book series, downloadable worksheet units, or free downloadable worksheets please visit www.goodneighborpress.com. Look for all our Early Childhood iPad Apps by searching Good Neighbor Press in the App Store.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartySprouts at 4.5 against Word Magic's 3.5. SmartySprouts also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 65%). Word Magic's advantage is ratings volume (190 vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On 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
Word Magic costs $0.99 and SmartySprouts $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmartySprouts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Magic has 190 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Word Magic's written reviews are positive against 91% of SmartySprouts's.
Word Magic ships an update every 3 weeks, SmartySprouts every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Magic | SmartySprouts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (190 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.1% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anusen Inc | Good Neighbor Press, Inc |
Customer experience
Word Magic
SmartySprouts
Bugs and requests
Word Magic
Reported bugs
6 issues- App frozen
- Flute card issue
- Misspelled 'fishes'
- Crashes
- Can't read letter combinations
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- Can't change game modes
Requested features
20 requests- Increase complexity/add more levels
- Add more words
- Add timer function
- Option for UK English voice
- Volume control
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- More advanced words/version
- Option to turn off timer
- Correct pronunciation errors
- Add phonetics support
- More animation
- Track progress
- Randomize missing letter position
- Longer words
- Phonetic sounds for wrong answers
- More levels with longer words
- Add more pictures
- Visual cues for correct answers
- Improve user interface
- Add two-vowel words
- Option for random missing letter position
SmartySprouts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Word Magic
No in-app purchases
SmartySprouts
No in-app purchases
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