Comparison

MagLetters vs Goodnight ABC

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

Head to head
About

MagLetters

This app brings the experience of magnet letters to your mobile devices. Create words, learn phonics, and explore letters and numbers with an interactive and fun interface. It supports multiple languages and offers enhanced visual features.

Highlights
  • Create words with magnet letters, numbers, and symbols
  • Phonic voice for learning ABCs and numbers
  • Support for French and Korean characters
  • Tap-to-zoom for easy manipulation
  • Changeable backgrounds and letter sets
  • Facebook sharing
Features
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MagLetters turns your iPad into a playful magnetic-letter board for early learners. Build words by dragging colorful letters, numbers, symbols, and HD toy stickers onto the board. Explore English, Korean, French, Japanese, and Spanish with visual language cues and pronunciation support. Choose a colorful kids background, add a photo, or pick a calm background color. Create words, practice new vocabulary, and enjoy playful sounds and animations. Features: • Hands-on drag-and-drop letter play • English, Korean, French, Japanese, and Spanish • HD toy stickers for vocabulary practice • Pronunciation and speech support • Kid-friendly backgrounds, photos, and colors • Simple iPad landscape controls • VoiceOver-friendly interface MagLetters is designed for children, families, and classrooms exploring letters and first words together.

About

Goodnight ABC

This interactive app uses engaging scenes and animations to teach young children the alphabet, phonics, vocabulary, and numbers. It offers a playful environment with hundreds of touchable elements and hidden surprises, fostering imagination and problem-solving skills.

Highlights
  • Teaches ABCs and phonics
  • Hundreds of interactive elements
  • Hidden object discovery
  • Vocabulary building
  • Coloring and learning modes
  • Child-friendly interface
  • Original art and animation
Features
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- Editor's Choice Award, Children's Technology Review - The winner of The Best Debut award at SmartAppsforKids.com - Featured by Apple in App Store Essentials - Apps for Parents - in 82 countries. - "If you have young kids, this is an absolute must purchase app."- PadGadget -"Fantastic learn by playing ABC app and much more that is a ringing endorsement for why educational apps should be made by professional educators." - Smart Apps For Kids - "Goodnight ABC is one of the best preschool apps I've seen. It's extensive scenes and surprising animations will keep toddlers and preschoolers engaged for hours... While I know it's educational, my son just loves the fun of it all. The attention to detail in each themed scene is incredible." - Fun Educational Apps - "This is one app you will want to sit down and play with the kids!"- BestAppsForKids - "This app is a spectacular addition to your collection especially for learning early word/object association, finding hidden objects, colorful illustrations and the ability to play while learning." - TheiMums - Illustrations by Ukrainian illustrator Ivan Sulima Fly a hot air balloon - Make ice cream - Play at the beach - Create your own thunder and rain - Watch aliens land - Hatch a dinosaur egg - Play a harp - Make it show - Shoot some hoops - Ride a submarine - Shop at a swanky boutique - Even grow a potted plant if you like - The possibilities are endless - KEY FEATURES - Fully supports the Retina display of the new iPad - Teaches ABCs, Phonics, word recognition, vocabulary, colors, numbers and more - 26 animals to represent each letter of the English alphabet - Hundreds of interactive elements - Interaction on every one of the 26 pages - 26 pages of amazing original art - Animation on every page - Hundreds of thrilling sound effects - Hundreds of vocabulary words spelled and pronounced - Play and Learn, Vocabulary, and Coloring options - Fosters imagination, problem solving, logical thinking - Child-friendly interface - No rules to follow, no time limits, no stress for your child - No third party advertising WHY EVERY CHILD WILL LOVE IT -Fully interactive -Every inch of the screen is touchable - perfect for youngsters’ inquisitive minds -Full of fascinating animals and curious objects to manipulate and explore -Ability to control what happens on each page -Ability to uncover hidden items -Fun games to play -Gorgeous eye-catching illustrations and animation -Hundreds of thrilling visual and sound effect -Coloring option -Vocabulary option WHY PARENTS WOULD LOVE IT -Teachers letters, letter sounds, and word recognition -Teaches hundreds of vocabulary words with the vocabulary option -Teaches colors -Teaches numbers -Encourages interest in nature and technology -Cultivates imagination and creativity -Taps into your child’s artistic skills with the coloring option -Encourages logical thinking -Fosters problem solving -Highly imaginative -Great for toddlers, preschoolers, or anyone who loves to have fun Is it a lesson or a game? Kids can’t tell the difference. Goodnight ABC teaches letters, letter sounds, colors, numbers, vocabulary, the basics of nature and technology and a lot more, but to your child it feels like playing the most exciting game in the world! An animal that lives in its own ingenious micro world represents each of the 26 letters of the alphabet. Every picture is different, unconventional, beautifully illustrated, and never boring. Touch, tap, or drag every inch of the screen to uncover more items, set things in motion, assemble and disassemble devices, and find exciting games. When you are done exploring a letter says good night to the animal and watch it fall asleep under the twinkling stars. Filled with exceptional artwork, animation, hundreds of interactive elements, hidden surprises and fun sound effects, Goodnight ABC is a never-ending playsacpe. Recommended Ages: 2 and up.

Screenshots

MagLetters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Goodnight ABC at 5.0 against MagLetters's 2.7. Goodnight ABC also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 64%) and iOS requirement (10.2 vs 15.0). MagLetters's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

MagLetters costs $1.99 and Goodnight ABC $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Goodnight ABC holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of MagLetters's written reviews are positive against 94% of Goodnight ABC's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MagLetters ships an update every 4 months, Goodnight ABC every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
MagLetters versus Goodnight ABC: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagLettersGoodnight ABC
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating2.7 (9 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.3% of reviews93.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS15.010.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB297 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAME Mobile Inc.Quasar Alliance, Inc

Customer experience

MagLetters

All ratings9 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive64.3%
Neutral7.1%
Negative28.6%

Goodnight ABC

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.5%

In-app purchases

None

MagLetters

No in-app purchases

None

Goodnight ABC

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MagLetters free?
MagLetters costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Goodnight ABC free?
Goodnight ABC costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MagLetters or Goodnight ABC?
Goodnight ABC is rated higher. MagLetters averages 2.7 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Goodnight ABC averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do MagLetters or Goodnight ABC have ads?
Neither MagLetters nor Goodnight ABC shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MagLetters or Goodnight ABC?
MagLetters ships an update every 4 months, and Goodnight ABC every 5 months. Most recently, MagLetters was updated on October 29, 2026 and Goodnight ABC on October 24, 2026.

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