First Grade Skills vs Comprehension Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
First Grade Skills
This app offers engaging multiple-choice activities designed to help first graders build essential academic skills. It covers topics like telling time, money, vocabulary, and reading comprehension, aiming to improve test scores. It's a fun and convenient tool for learning at home or while traveling.
- Multiple choice activities
- Telling time practice
- Money skills
- Vocabulary building
- Reading comprehension
- Word problem solving
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Give your first grader a head start as they have fun with these multiple choice activities. Excellent way to build basic skills and raise test scores. They will review telling time, money, word problem, vocabulary, and reading skills. Great for use at home or on the go.
Comprehension Builder
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** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom’s Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** The “Comprehension Builder” app builds skills in passage comprehension, working memory and answering multiple choice questions about a text. What parents say about our awesome apps: *** 5 stars! Brilliant! An app that understands how kids actually learn. Thank you. *** 5 stars! Every one of your apps that I’ve tried is great! When using “Comprehension Builder”, your learner will first read a passage. The learner must then hold the information in memory in order to answer a multiple choice question. To build sustained attention and working memory, early levels contain 2-sentence texts with limited word count. As comprehension is demonstrated and memory increases, the texts increase in length and difficulty. “Comprehension Builder” contains 200+ fiction and non-fiction texts on a variety of topics. This app is perfect for learners who: - when reading or listening, information seems to ‘go in one ear and out the other.’ - have trouble responding to questions about a text unless they can refer back to the text. - can understand each sentence, but don’t seem to put them together to make meaning from the text as a whole. Additional Features: - Incremental learning. New levels are unlocked only when your child demonstrates mastery. - Fun and engaging Reward Center to increase motivation. - Contains over 600 questions, with content designed by professional teachers and researchers. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! Our apps are also suitable for adults dealing with aphasia or learning English as a Second Language. To evaluate the app, download the free version, which has 2 free levels. The remaining levels accessed with an in-app purchase. If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the School Edition (SE) version of this app, which includes all levels and up to 10 users. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem. www.HappyFrogApps.com Our apps are safe for kids. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web or social media access. We conform to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: First Grade Skills at $0.99 against Comprehension Builder's $7.99. First Grade Skills also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.2). Comprehension Builder's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On 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
First Grade Skills costs $0.99 and Comprehension Builder $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
First Grade Skills ships an update every 39 months, Comprehension Builder every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | First Grade Skills | Comprehension Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months — better | Every 40 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 12.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Visual Learning Aids, LLC | Janine Toole |
In-app purchases
First Grade Skills
No in-app purchases
Comprehension Builder
No in-app purchases
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