Math Drills vs Phonogram Sounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Math Drills
This app provides a fun and engaging environment for up to 50 students to practice fundamental math skills. It offers personalized settings, tracks progress with detailed graphs, and includes interactive tools to help understand problem-solving.
- Personalized student settings
- Smart Drills for weak areas
- Interactive solution exploration
- Progress tracking graphs
- Finger multiplication for nine-times tables
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Graphically rich and fun environment allows up to 50 students to learn basic math skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. --- FEATURES --- - Students have their own personalized settings, scores and test history. - Smart Drills(tm) places emphasis on problems answered incorrectly and/or slowly. - Explore solutions to problems using number lines, wooden blocks, facts and hints. Solve nine-times problems using your fingers! - Visually track student progress with accuracy and speed graphs.
Phonogram Sounds
This interactive app provides clear audio pronunciations for letter sounds and combinations, featuring all 72 basic phonograms from a popular language arts curriculum. It's designed to support reading and spelling development for learners of all ages.
- Hear correct pronunciation of sounds
- Clear enunciation of letters and combinations
- Includes all 72 basic phonograms
- Supports reading and spelling skills
- Interactive learning experience
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Touch a button and hear the correct pronunciation! *Check that your sound is turned on!* This interactive program features clear enunciation of the sounds of the letters and letter combinations (also known as phonograms). Contains all 72 of the basic phonograms as taught in the All About Reading and All About Spelling language arts curriculum. All About Reading is a multisensory, mastery-based program that starts with essential pre-reading skills and continues on to teach all five key components of reading. All About Spelling teaches encoding skills, spelling rules, and multisensory strategies to help your student become a proficient speller for life. Our lightly scripted “open and go” lesson plans and mastery-based approach leave no gaps and make this curriculum a favorite of homeschool families everywhere. Suitable for all ages and learning styles!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Phonogram Sounds at Free against Math Drills's $1.99. Phonogram Sounds also leads on ratings volume (84 vs 21). Math Drills's advantage is chart position (#189 vs unranked) and review sentiment (80% vs 70%). On rating, update cadence, 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
Phonogram Sounds is free to download; Math Drills costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Math Drills against 4.0 for Phonogram Sounds. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 84 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Math Drills's written reviews are positive against 70% of Phonogram Sounds's.
Math Drills ships an update every 4 months, Phonogram Sounds every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Math Drills | Phonogram Sounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (21 ratings) | 4.0 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.4% of reviews — better | 69.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #189 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Instant Interactive | All About Learning Press, Inc. |
Customer experience
Math Drills
Phonogram Sounds
User reviews
Math Drills
From 21 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly customizable drills for individual student needs
- 📊 Excellent progress tracking and analytics
- 🎯 Ability to isolate specific math facts for focused practice
- 📱 Multiple user profiles with independent settings
- ⚡ Engaging interface that motivates children to practice
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sensitivity bug with fast number input recognition
- 🔊 Sound settings not persisting between sessions
- 🔊 Volume control issues ignoring device settings
- 📱 Input number pad too small
- 🔧 Settings buttons not functioning correctly
Phonogram Sounds
From 84 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great supplement for AAS/AAR
- 👍 Helpful for parents/teachers
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Clear phonetic sounds
- 👍 Good for practice
Room to improve
- 👎 Incorrect 'r' sound
- 👎 Incomplete phonogram set
- 👎 Not a standalone lesson
- 👎 Not for fun
- 👎 Missing Spalding compatibility
Bugs and requests
Math Drills
Reported bugs
9 issues- Sensitivity bug prevents recognition of quickly typed answers
- Sound preferences not saved between sessions
- Volume control overridden by app sounds
- Settings buttons not responding correctly
- Test counting incorrect (only counts one 'pit stop' for multiple missed problems)
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- Sound activation not working for some users
- Display issues after app updates (problems not fully visible)
- Helper feature appears despite being toggled off
- Kanji input mode displays numbers incorrectly (一零 instead of 十 for 10)
Requested features
16 requests- Extend addition and subtraction to 12 or higher
- Increase multiplication and division tables beyond 12
- Timed mode with set time limits (e.g., one minute drills)
- Larger input number pad
- Password protection for settings and student data
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- Ability to delete individual test results
- Ability to filter reports by specific fact families
- Hand-counting/finger-writing feature for answers
- Adaptive difficulty that adjusts based on performance
- Multiplayer mode or GameCenter integration
- Random question mode with larger numbers
- BEDMAS/order of operations problems
- Problem-solving questions
- Adjustable target speed for drills
- Sound feedback for incorrect answers
- Ability to review scores by date
Phonogram Sounds
Reported bugs
7 issues- R says /er/ instead of /r/
- Sound not working
- App crashes
- No sound when tapping phonograms
- Sound only works with ringer on
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- List of phonograms cut off on iPad
- App is stick, no audio, no movement
Requested features
9 requests- Videos showing lip/tongue placement
- Interactive game app
- App for building words/movable tiles
- Level-based sound availability
- Enlarging tapped tile
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- Adding missing phonograms (Level 6, Spalding)
- Adding more sounds for /i/, /e/, /x/, /ou/, /ei/, /oe/, /wor/, /ear/
- Spelling lists for review
- All About Reading app with word reading
In-app purchases
Math Drills
No in-app purchases
Phonogram Sounds
No in-app purchases
Questions
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