Starfall ABCs vs Know Number Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Starfall ABCs
This app offers a free introduction to foundational reading skills, featuring interactive activities that engage children through sight, sound, and play. It's designed to help young learners recognize letters and develop essential reading abilities, with special considerations for English language learners and children with disabilities.
- Interactive letter and sound activities
- Positive reinforcement and play-based learning
- Develops letter recognition
- Builds foundational reading skills
- Accessible for children with impairments
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Starfall® ABCs is the first step of Starfall’s Learn to Read phonics sequence, which teaches the foundational skills for learning to read. Step 1: ABCs Step 2: Learn to Read Step 3: It’s Fun to Read Step 4: I’m Reading! Starfall ABCs helps children master letter recognition in a stress-free environment through exploration, positive reinforcement, and play. Children delight as they see, hear, and interact with colorful imagery carefully matched to letters and sounds. By mastering these letter-sound relationships, they develop the skills they need to become confident, independent readers. Travel-ready. No internet connection required. Find Starfall ABCs, along with 700+ additional activities and counting across reading, math, music, and more in the Starfall app. The Starfall website and applications are program services of Starfall Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported nonprofit organization. Starfall® and Starfall.com® are registered trademarks in the US, the European Union, and various other countries. Copyright © 2002–2026 by Starfall Education. All rights reserved. Starfall apps are inclusively designed to support all children, including English Language Learners (ELLs). Starfall also provides an Enhanced Accessible Index for children with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments. For more information, please contact Customer Service at (+1) 303-417-6414.
Know Number Lite
This app helps children of all ages learn English numbers through interactive games and activities. It focuses on number recognition, counting, and writing practice, with new content unlocked as skills are mastered.
- Number recognition
- Counting practice
- Number writing exercises
- Interactive games
- Skill-based content unlocking
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To help your child of all ages learn about English numbers. Your child will learn to recognize and count numbers. Then practice more in writing them. Learn with fun in games and activities. They are unlocked when your child starts to master each skill. Hope you find this app useful to your child development. To get more numbers, pictures, and activities, get the full version or buy full features in the app.
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Verdict
Starfall ABCs and Know Number Lite both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Know Number Lite's written reviews are positive against 62% of Starfall ABCs's. Know Number Lite also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Starfall ABCs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (477 vs 3). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Know Number Lite sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Starfall ABCs asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Starfall ABCs against 4.3 for Know Number Lite. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Starfall ABCs has 477 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Starfall ABCs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Know Number Lite's.
Starfall ABCs ships an update every 7 months, Know Number Lite every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Starfall ABCs | Know Number Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (477 ratings) | 4.3 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 477 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Starfall Education Foundation | Kittipong Mungnirun |
Customer experience
Starfall ABCs
Know Number Lite
Bugs and requests
Starfall ABCs
Reported bugs
4 issues- Black screen issues
- Repeated crashes and freezing
- Incompatibility with latest iOS updates
- Inability to exit app on certain devices
Requested features
5 requests- Expand app to include more Starfall website features
- Add more advanced learning content beyond just ABCs
- Improve compatibility and stability across devices
- Integrate voice assistant and accessibility features
- Address gender representation issues in content
Know Number Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Starfall ABCs
No in-app purchases
Know Number Lite
- Full feature$0.99
- Unlock games$0.99
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