Comparison

Find the words vs READING MAGIC 3

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

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About

Find the words

This word search puzzle challenges you to find hidden words in a grid. Words can be oriented horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The app offers multi-touch support, landscape mode, and customizable word lists. Earn achievements for new pen colors and upgrade to remove ads.

Highlights
  • Word search grid
  • Horizontal, vertical, diagonal words
  • Customizable word lists
  • Multi-touch strokes
  • Landscape mode
  • Speech voice for found words
  • Achievements for pen colors
Features
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Find the words This is the implementaion of the word search that most popular word puzzle on papers. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words on the grid. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. When the word has found, it will play the speech voice automatically. You can draw multi-touch strokes, also play it with landscape mode. You can get more pen colors by achievements. There's three buttons on the top. Top left button: to manage the words that play the game. add your own words and start the game. Top second button: to share the play screenshot on the social media. Top right button: settings for languages to play, speech voices, achievements for pen colors. Also you can upgrade the app to hide the advertisements. Find the words supports the languages: English, Simplified Chinese(简体中文), Traditional Chinese(繁體中文), Japanese(日本語), Spanish(Español), French(Français), German(Deutsch), Russian(Pусский), Portuguese(Português), Italian(Italiano), Korean(한국어), Turkish(Türkçe), Dutch(Nederlands), Arabic, Thai(ภาษาไทย), Swedish(Svenska), Danish(Dansk), Norwegian Bokmål(Norsk bokmål), Polish(Polski), Finnish(Suomi), Greek(Ελληνικά), Romanian(Română), Hungarian(Magyar), Czech(Čeština), Slovak(Slovenčina), Hindi(हिंदी) Find the words - Discord community https://factorcat.github.io/apps/findthewords/

About

READING MAGIC 3

This app makes learning to read an exciting adventure for children. It uses interactive activities and science-backed methods to help master words with two or more syllables, building essential literacy skills.

Highlights
  • Science of Reading methodology
  • Focus on multi-syllable words
  • Blending and segmenting skills
  • Phonemic awareness development
  • Three engaging learning modes
  • Interactive reading games
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Unlock the Magic of Reading with READING MAGIC 3! Transform your child into a confident reader with READING MAGIC 3! This app makes learning to read an exciting adventure through interactive activities focused on short vowel words containing multiple syllables. Meticulously designed to provide an advanced boost to your child’s phonemic awareness, this app combines three foundational pillars of literacy science into one powerful, interactive ecosystem: Blending (Listening), Segmenting (Speaking), and Decoding (Reading). Grounded firmly in Science of Reading principles and utilizing University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) guidelines, READING MAGIC provides specific, precise training with extensive repetitions to help young brains bridge the gap between spoken sound units and complete words. IDEAL FOR BOTH BEGINNING PRE-READERS AND STRUGGLING READERS For Beginning Pre-Readers: A stress-free launchpad. By practicing words through pure sound sequences first, your child masters the internal mechanics of reading without cognitive overload. This keeps them from being frustrated by trying to learn separate, difficult skills at the same time. For Struggling or Remedial Readers: If your child's reading is hesitant or choppy, or if they guess at words, this app provides the targeted intervention recommended by modern reading science to help young brains bridge the gap. THREE CRITICAL SKILL-BUILDING PILLARS While many phonics programs completely overlook the auditory mechanics of reading, our program systematically guides your child through the complete progression of decoding: Skill 1: Blending (Listening): Interactive listening activities train your child’s neural processing ability to hear isolated sounds in words and join them together mentally. This builds the vital auditory runway required for future fluency. Skill 2: Segmenting (Speaking): True spelling and reading independence require the ability to pull spoken words apart into their individual sound units. These exercises build explicit awareness of the acoustic structure of language. Skill 3: Decoding (Reading): The ultimate bridge to literacy. Your child applies their mastery of blending and segmenting directly to text, smoothly moving from spoken sounds to visual words. STRUCTURAL SPACING & INSTRUCTION (Science-Backed Layout) Our app builds the actual findings of reading science directly into the user interface for maximum visual clarity: Anti-Crowding Design: Peer-reviewed research, including Marinus et al. (2016) and Wery & Diliberto (2017), demonstrates that generous letter spacing is critical for early decoding. By placing each letter on its own isolated card with distinct physical gaps, our layout eliminates visual crowding, allowing your child to isolate each sound unit cleanly. True Comprehension: The app strictly discourages picture guessing, forcing children to rely purely on their decoding skills to foster true comprehension and build lasting confidence. INDEPENDENT LEARNING & AESTHETIC SIMPLICITY Distraction-Free: Our minimalist design eliminates overstimulating audio-visual clutter, excessive sound effects, and animations to keep your child entirely focused on the mechanics of reading. Stress-Free Growth: Built-in natural feedback loops offer gentle corrections, nurturing self-discovery and independent learning at your child's own pace. EXPERT RESEARCH BACKING "Before a child can read fluently with their eyes, they must be able to blend fluently with their ears. Weakness in auditory blending is one of the strongest early predictors of later reading failure." — Dr. Joseph Torgesen, Florida State University. "Teaching students to blend and segment benefited their reading much more than did a multiple-skills approach... and teaching phonemic awareness with letters created effect sizes almost twice as large as teaching children without letters." — The National Reading Panel (NRP) Meta-Analysis

Screenshots

Find the words4 screens
READING MAGIC 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: READING MAGIC 3 at 89% against Find the words's 28%. READING MAGIC 3 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.5). Find the words's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 22 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Find the words sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and READING MAGIC 3 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

READING MAGIC 3 holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Find the words's written reviews are positive against 89% of READING MAGIC 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Find the words ships an update every 5 weeks, READING MAGIC 3 every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Find the words versus READING MAGIC 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFind the wordsREADING MAGIC 3
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews89.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1015 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 22 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.7
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB250 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNO WOO KYOUNGPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY

Customer experience

Find the words

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative66.7%

READING MAGIC 3

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral5.3%
Negative5.3%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Find the words

One-time1
  • Upgrade Find the Words$2.99
1 purchases

READING MAGIC 3

One-time1
  • Deluxe Upgrade$3.99

Questions

Is Find the words free?
Find the words is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is READING MAGIC 3 free?
READING MAGIC 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Find the words or READING MAGIC 3?
READING MAGIC 3 is rated higher. Find the words averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while READING MAGIC 3 averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Find the words or READING MAGIC 3 have ads?
Find the words shows ads; READING MAGIC 3 does not.
Which is updated more often, Find the words or READING MAGIC 3?
Find the words ships an update every 5 weeks, and READING MAGIC 3 every 22 months. Most recently, Find the words was updated on November 1, 2026 and READING MAGIC 3 on October 29, 2026.

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