TeachMe vs Reading Raven
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TeachMe
This educational app helps kindergarteners learn essential skills like math, reading, and writing. It features a fun reward system with virtual aquariums and sticker scenes to keep children engaged. Parents can track their child's progress across various subjects.
- Virtual aquarium reward system
- Sticker reward scenes
- Sight words learning
- Addition and subtraction practice
- Letter and number writing
- Performance tracking for multiple students
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*** 5 Star Certification Educational App Store *** About.com Best Educational App Readers' Choice Awards 2013 *** SmartAppsForKids.com 2012 Readers' Choice *** 2010 Best App Ever Awards TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iOS app which teaches six different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction, spelling and writing letters and numbers. Learning subjects align with common core standards to help your child get prepared for Kindergarten. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing. TeachMe: Kindergarten keeps children engaged with a rather unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes or to purchase items for the new virtual aquarium. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun. FEATURES: • Virtual Aquarium reward (4 types of fish and 40+ items) • 6 different sticker reward scenes: farm, beach, underwater reef, pirate cove, city, playground • Over 150 different stickers for adding to scenes • Save learning information for up to 40 students • Select which subjects are displayed for each student • Turn on/off specific questions within a subject • Change the number of correct questions to earn a reward • Change the number of questions in a row to mark a question learned • Tracks performance for each subject item (last five) • Export sticker rewards scenes to Photos, for emailing or using as wallpaper LEARNING SUBJECTS: • Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K) • Addition: up to a total of 10 • Subtraction: from 10 down • Spelling: complete words by choosing the missing letter • Letter Writing: how to write letters a-z, A-Z • Number Writing: how to write numbers 0-9. COMMON CORE: For alignment info see https;//www.24x7digital.com/kindergartencc Email us at support@24x7digital.com for help & suggestions.
Reading Raven
This app guides young children through a fun, adventure-filled journey to learn reading. It offers step-by-step lessons from pre-reading skills to reading full sentences, incorporating games and printing practice.
- Self-paced reading lessons
- Eleven types of educational games
- Customizable by age/reading level
- Dynamic speed and tolerance adaptation
- Sticker rewards
- Free form letter and word writing
- Voice instructions and feedback
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Help your kids learn to read with their own personal reading-adventure guide! "Reading Raven has one of the strongest educational and design foundations we have seen." -- Kindertown "Finally – a seriously educational app that leads children from early phonological awareness and phonics right up to reading full sentences while integrating printing skills and teaching through games. Reading Raven for iPad is an incredible learn-to-read app, easily the best I’ve encountered to date in the App Store. I’m in love." -- Apps For Homeschooling "[Reading] Raven has what it takes to get kids on the road to reading and the developers have done it brilliantly..." -- Teachers With Apps "This is one of the best educational apps that I’ve ever seen. This app is so well built and is worth every penny!" -- iHeartThisApp "...I can see [Kaylee] really learning and growing with this. Already she's starting to learn more and faster than she ever has before." -- Rita Webb, mother of two "Reading Raven ... has so many fun features for kids, they hardly know they're actually learning something. No, really, I kid you not. My daughter absolutely loves this app." -- Margaret Steck, mother of two News Flash: Reading Raven Vol 2, the next volume in the award-winning Reading Raven series, is also now available for download! ____________________ Reading Raven is an extremely fun and engaging learn-to-read educational game that provides step-by-step reading lessons designed to help young children build a solid foundation for reading. FEATURES: - Self-paced lessons take kids all the way from pre-reading to reading sentences! - Eleven types of super fun games/activities that teach critical sub-skills! - Fully customizable by age or reading level! - Speed and tolerance dynamically adapt to motor control ability! - Sticker rewards that reinforce what was learned! - No pressure tactics! - Extremely effective voice instructions and feedback! - Free form letter and word writing! - Children can pause and save their progress anytime! - Beautiful hand-illustrated artwork! - No third party advertising! - No external links to social network sites! With the Reading Raven companion guiding them along, children will go on delightful fun-filled adventures where they will encounter fly eating frogs, caterpillars that turn into butterflies, circus acrobats, ball balancing seals, underwater sea creatures, snow monsters, flying penguins, space robots, rhyming rockets, and much more! Reading Raven includes the following progression of self-paced educational activities: Ages 3 and Up - Letter matching - Letter tracing - Letter sounds - Word matching Ages 4 and Up - Vocabulary - Word beginnings - Word building (spelling) - Word spotting Ages 5 and Up - Reading aloud using voice recording - Word tracing - Word groups (rhyming and beginning sounds) Reading Raven includes five extensive lessons, with hundreds of individual activities in total. Parents and teachers will find the multi-sensory learning games to be a great complement to traditional classroom and home-based reading instruction. Recommended Ages: 3-7 Categories: Reading, Phonics, Letters, Spelling, Writing, Vocabulary, Early Learning, Special Needs Build your child's reading confidence with Reading Raven and watch their learning take flight. Happy Reading Adventures! ____________________ MORE INFO, FEEDBACK & SUPPORT Learn more about the product and our team: http://www.readingraven.com/ Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/readingraven Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/readingraven If you have feedback or suggestions, please email us at feedback@earlyascent.com. We’d love to hear from you! ____________________ PRIVACY We have kids too and take the privacy of you and your children seriously. This product does not collect any personally identifiable information by default.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TeachMe at every 2 months against Reading Raven's every 16 months. Reading Raven's advantage is chart position (#200 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
TeachMe costs $2.99 and Reading Raven $2.99 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 — 4.3 for TeachMe against 4.3 for Reading Raven. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 65 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of TeachMe's written reviews are positive against 87% of Reading Raven's.
TeachMe ships an update every 2 months, Reading Raven every 16 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | TeachMe | Reading Raven |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (60 ratings) — better | 4.3 (65 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.8% of reviews — better | 86.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #200 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 24x7digital LLC | Early Ascent, LLC |
Customer experience
TeachMe
Reading Raven
User reviews
TeachMe
From 60 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Engaging and fun learning experience
- 🚀 Effective teaching methods
- 💰 Rewarding system with coins and stickers
- 🎨 Attractive and visually appealing design
- 🧠 Helps with math, spelling, and sight words
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- 📚 Limited content for higher grade levels
- ✍️ Strict penmanship requirements frustrate some users
- 🔌 No cross-device progress sync
- 🎨 Lack of customization options for rewards
Reading Raven
From 65 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly effective for learning to read
- 🤩 Fun and engaging for children
- 🚀 Well-thought-out progression
- 💡 Innovative voice recording feature
- 👍 Easy to navigate and understand
Room to improve
- 💸 Charges money without authorization
- 👎 No way to cancel subscriptions
- 😞 Slow email support
- 💰 Have to pay again for each device
- 😠 Poor customer service
Bugs and requests
TeachMe
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when accessing settings
- Writing practice not working on smaller devices
- Inability to download certain grade levels
Requested features
5 requests- Expand to higher grade levels (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
- Add more reward options beyond fish and stickers
- Implement cross-device progress sync
- Allow more flexibility in penmanship requirements
- Provide language/accent options (e.g., British English)
Reading Raven
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezes iPhone during letter tracing
- Background noise makes letter names hard to hear
- No option to add more than 1 player profile (despite guide saying so)
- In-app purchases removed (positive feedback, but implies previous issue)
Requested features
7 requests- Add multi-user profiles
- Option to change manuscript style (D'Nealian)
- More levels for paid app
- Add more volumes/lessons
- Dark mode option
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- Ability to add more than 1 player profile
- Add higher levels to introduce other combinations like ch and sh as well as long vowels
In-app purchases
TeachMe
No in-app purchases
Reading Raven
No in-app purchases
Questions
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