Comparison

Starfall ABCs vs Arrange Sequence

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive letter and sound activities
  • Positive reinforcement and play-based learning
  • Develops letter recognition
  • Builds foundational reading skills
  • Accessible for children with impairments
Features
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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.

About

Arrange Sequence

This educational app helps young children aged 3-7 learn sequencing skills through engaging games. It features tasks like arranging weekdays, months, numbers, and words in the correct order, with a timed element to add challenge. The app provides positive reinforcement for correct answers and encouraging sounds for incorrect ones.

Highlights
  • Sequencing weekdays, months, numbers, and words
  • Timed challenges for added difficulty
  • Interactive element pronunciation
  • Positive reinforcement for correct answers
  • Encouraging sounds for incorrect answers
  • Points system for motivation
Features
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For years together, parents and experts alike have found no way of stitching fun and pleasure with learning and education. Both have been considered as unique sets, with hardly any chance of coexistence between the two. ArrangeDays is here to playfully play down this myth. With an intriguing consortium of tasks like sequencing weekdays, months, numbers and words; the app can engage young minds for hours, while simultaneously exercising their brain cells. It is meant for kids between the age of 3 to 7 years and promises to stimulate their intellectual desires. Here is how the game works: •As mentioned earlier, the game is about arranging things in the right order. Examples of the same could be weekdays, months, numbers and words. •The game starts with one element in the centre of all activity; say, a weekday (eg. Monday). All the other relevant elements are placed randomly across the screen (eg. The rest of the days of the week). •The job of the gamer is to arrange all the elements in one sequence. Thought this was easy? Club this with the pressure of stifling timeline and that is where we make a real game out of it. •Kids can long tap on the elements to hear them. This makes it simpler for the ones who have not befriended reading yet. Given that the game is meant for the kids, it aspires to be a motivator and not a spirit dampener. While every right answer receives an applaud, wrong answers are met with encouraging sounds. The kids are always incentivized to get it right; after all, a win gets them a lot of claps and obviously some valuable points.

Screenshots

Starfall ABCs4 screens
Arrange Sequence2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Starfall ABCs at 4.2 against Arrange Sequence's 3.0. Starfall ABCs also leads on ratings volume (477 vs 1). Arrange Sequence's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 61%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Starfall ABCs holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Starfall ABCs has 477 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Starfall ABCs's written reviews are positive against 75% of Arrange Sequence's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Starfall ABCs ships an update every 7 months, Arrange Sequence every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Starfall ABCs versus Arrange Sequence: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStarfall ABCsArrange Sequence
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (477 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews60.7% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings477 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStarfall Education FoundationAllianceTek Inc.

Customer experience

Starfall ABCs

All ratings478 ratings
Positive77.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative15.3%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive60.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative33.3%

Arrange Sequence

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%

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

Arrange Sequence

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Starfall ABCs

No in-app purchases

None

Arrange Sequence

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Starfall ABCs free?
Starfall ABCs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arrange Sequence free?
Arrange Sequence is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Starfall ABCs or Arrange Sequence?
Starfall ABCs is rated higher. Starfall ABCs averages 4.2 out of 5 from 477 ratings, while Arrange Sequence averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Starfall ABCs or Arrange Sequence have ads?
Neither Starfall ABCs nor Arrange Sequence shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Starfall ABCs or Arrange Sequence?
Starfall ABCs ships an update every 7 months, and Arrange Sequence every 6 months. Most recently, Starfall ABCs was updated on October 24, 2026 and Arrange Sequence on October 23, 2026.

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