Reading Trainer vs 26 Letters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reading Trainer
Enhance your reading speed, comprehension, and memory with engaging exercises. This app offers a structured approach to improve your ability to process and retain information from texts, making reading more efficient and enjoyable.
- Increase reading speed
- Improve reading comprehension
- Enhance memory retention
- Eye exercises
- Track progress with statistics
- Reading speed tests
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Reading Trainer improves your reading speed and reading comprehension with many challenging and fun exercises. App Store Rewind Award Winner – App of the Year DE, CH, AT - Significant increases in your reading speed - Eye-exercises and improvements in your mental capacity - Improves reading comprehension and memory This app provides everything you need to read texts of all types faster, more effectively and most of all, with better retention. The PowerReader allows you to get your daily work done while practicing important reading skills. Learning reading techniques has never been this much fun! Double your reading speed in just a few days. Trial users have used this software to increase their reading speed by an average of 143% in 10 days. Do you currently need 30 minutes to read the daily paper? Soon you will read two papers and, in addition, another chapter in an interesting non-fiction book – within the same time period. Combining the iPhone with this entirely new app provides the ideal platform to achieve measurable results with a minimum of effort. But that’s not all: You will have fun mastering the skills you need to attain effective reading techniques and significantly increase your reading speed; this means: - Rapid recognition of numbers, letters and words - Flexible eye movements - Improved ability to concentrate - Increased vision span The app guides you through the individual training steps. The software immediately recognizes your strengths and weaknesses. The statistics function lets you see and track your progress. The results of each training exercise are charted for your review. More stars mean that you are getting closer to your objective: more effective reading skills and with it extremely high reading speeds. You can check your reading speed at any time using different reading tests from a variety of topics. Questions about the text are used as a secondary test to assess your retention ability. This is the ideal combination for mastering effective reading skills and high retention rates. But beware: you might get hooked since early progress will motivate you to work on your skills regularly. It is fun and you are doing something to stay mentally fit at the same time. We recommend that you train regularly but not excessively to ensure best results. Who needs this app? - Anyone reading more than half an hour a day - Executives - Secretaries - High-School and College students - Purchasing and Sales Professionals Who can benefit from this app? - Do you often feel that you take too long to read something? - Do you return to previous passages because something was not clear? - Are you easily distracted while reading? - Do you have difficulty recalling what you read? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, then this app is what you need. Apple Terms of Use (EULA) – https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Terms of Service – https://readingtrainer.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy – https://readingtrainer.com/privacy-policy
26 Letters
This app helps beginner readers learn letter shapes and sounds through interactive tracing and image association. It offers a structured learning path with tests and practice with everyday words, designed for all ages.
- Interactive letter tracing
- Image-based sound association
- Progressive lesson testing
- Everyday word sound practice
- Visually-focused design
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The 26 Letters method was developed by an Adult Literacy volunteer tutor to help beginner readers quickly learn the alphabet letter shapes and their main sounds. While it was created to serve adults, 26 Letters is visually-designed for learners of all ages: LEARN LETTER SHAPES Practice writing upper and lowercase letters on-screen with your finger or stylus. A moving hand guides the direction to correctly trace each letter. LEARN LETTERS’ MAIN SOUNDS IN TWO SIMPLE STEPS 1: Learn the names of 26 images that artfully mimic letter shapes 2: Isolate the first sound in each name and see the letter shapes revealed in the same 26 images TEST UNDERSTANDING A test after each lesson ensures learners have mastered the content before unlocking the next lesson. PRACTICE WITH EVERYDAY WORDS An additional 150+ images of everyday words to practice listening for first, middle and last sounds. Images are accompanied by audio – perfect for beginner English speakers to learn simple words while learning to read. VISUALLY-FOCUSED Friendly images, video tutorials and clear icons make it simple for the non/beginner reader to understand and navigate. FREE & EASY 100% cost and ad-free. Easy and fun to use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 26 Letters at none against Reading Trainer's 11. 26 Letters also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Reading Trainer's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (219 vs 5). On price, 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. Reading Trainer sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. 26 Letters asks for nothing beyond the download.
26 Letters holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reading Trainer has 219 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Reading Trainer's written reviews are positive against 100% of 26 Letters's.
Reading Trainer ships an update every 5 weeks, 26 Letters every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Trainer | 26 Letters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (219 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 219 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HeKu IT GmbH | Penny Sidik |
Customer experience
Reading Trainer
26 Letters
Bugs and requests
Reading Trainer
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inability to answer comprehension questions
- Exercises getting stuck on loading screens
Requested features
4 requests- Allow custom text uploads for practice
- Provide more personalized recommendations
- Add British English spelling option
- Offer lifetime subscription option
26 Letters
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reading Trainer
- Synchronisation$6.991 Month
- Premium Access$13.991 Month
- Synchronisation$17.993 Months
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- Synchronisation$23.496 Months
- Synchronisation$32.991 Year
- Premium Access$35.993 Months
- Premium Access$45.996 Months
- Premium Access$66.991 Year
- 15th Anniversary Offer1 Year trial$66.991 Year
- Premium Access1 Year trial$66.991 Year
- Premium Access1 Year trial$69.991 Year
26 Letters
No in-app purchases









