Elmo Loves ABCs vs Kid Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Elmo Loves ABCs
Explore the alphabet with interactive games, songs, and videos featuring beloved characters. This app offers engaging activities to help children learn letter identification, sounds, and tracing, fostering art and music appreciation.
- Interactive letter games
- Songs and videos about letters
- Coloring pages
- Letter tracing activities
- Personalization options
- Progress tracker for adults
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Elmo loves this app! It has songs and videos about letters. It has coloring pages and games about letters. It has all the letters from A to Z! Elmo even made a new alphabet song for it. Elmo thinks it’s the best ABC app ever! Come on, explore the alphabet with Elmo! FEATURES • Slide, sweep, swipe, touch, trace and dig to discover over eighty classic Sesame Street clips, seventy five Sesame Street coloring pages, and four different ways to play hide and seek! • Touch and trace your favorite letter to unlock its surprises. • Tap on the star button to discover even more letter activities. • Personalize by adding your own photos and videos to the game. • ABCs tracker for grown-ups to see how your child is doing. • Ability to purchase even more great letter content and holiday surprises. LEARN ABOUT • Letter identification (uppercase and lowercase) • Letter sounds • Letter tracing • Art and creativity • Music appreciation TIPS • If you wish to personalize Elmo Loves ABCs by adding your own content, remember to complete all the fields: name, recording, photo, and video! If you do not have all four, your content will not appear in the game. • PLEASE NOTE: Personalized photos and videos, are not backed up to the device library. To save or access this content, use the device's camera to create your content. ABOUT US Sesame Workshop’s mission is to use the educational power of media to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Delivered through a variety of platforms, including television programs, digital experiences, books and community engagement, its research-based programs are tailored to the needs of the communities and countries they serve. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org. PRIVACY POLICY The Privacy Policy can be found here: https://sesameworkshop.org/about-us/legal/privacy-policy/ CONTACT US Your input is very important to us. If you have any questions, comments, or need help, please contact us at: sesameworkshopapps@sesame.org.
Kid Calculator
Engage children in math with a fun, interactive talking calculator. Explore numbers, aliens, and rockets with hidden surprises. Designed for kids by a 9-year-old.
- Interactive math learning
- Talking calculator
- Fun number exploration
- Hidden surprises
- Kid-designed interface
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Make learning math fun and exciting with this delightful talking calculator! You and your children will have a blast with numbers, aliens, a rocket, and hidden surprises with this calculator. This is an app made for kids, by a kid! It is imagined, developed, and voiced by 9 year old Yuma Soerianto.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Elmo Loves ABCs at 4.1 against Kid Calculator's 3.5. Elmo Loves ABCs also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 13 months) and chart position (#43 vs unranked). Kid Calculator's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 52%) and price ($0.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Elmo Loves ABCs costs $4.99 and Kid Calculator $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Elmo Loves ABCs holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Elmo Loves ABCs has 146 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Elmo Loves ABCs's written reviews are positive against 86% of Kid Calculator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Elmo Loves ABCs ships an update every 5 months, Kid Calculator every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Elmo Loves ABCs | Kid Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (146 ratings) — better | 3.5 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 146 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #43 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 548 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sesame Workshop (Apps) | Hendri Soerianto |
Customer experience
Elmo Loves ABCs
Kid Calculator
Bugs and requests
Elmo Loves ABCs
Reported bugs
5 issues- Tracing not working as expected
- Crashes and freezes on various devices
- Audio issues like missing sounds
- Incompatibility with newer iOS versions
- Difficulty downloading/accessing full version
Requested features
5 requests- Improved letter tracing functionality
- Ability to disable ads in paid version
- More customization options
- Expanded content beyond just letters
- Better organization and navigation
Kid Calculator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Elmo Loves ABCs
No in-app purchases
Kid Calculator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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