Comparison

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 vs Study Phonics

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

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About

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6

This app helps young children develop foundational reading skills by focusing on letter sounds and their relationships to words. It uses engaging matching games to reinforce phonemic awareness and letter-sound correspondence, building upon previous learning.

Highlights
  • Develops phonemic awareness
  • Teaches letter-sound correspondence
  • Reinforces alphabet sound recognition
  • Uses matching games
  • Includes a preview feature
  • Offers tiered learning system
Features
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This app helps give your child foundational reading skills. This app helps beginning readers gain mastery with the alphabetic principle. This app will help your child understand the relationship between sounds and letters.
 Learn The Alphabetic Principle. Develop Phonemic Awareness. Learn How Sounds Relate to Words. Learn Letter-Sound Correspondence. Learn How to APPLY Letter-Sound Correspondence. Gain proficiency in the use of the sounds of the letters. Gain Proficiency in Auditory Discrimination.
 This app is the classic matching game with a phonics twist. This app helps to reinforce alphabet sound recognition by matching beginning letter sounds to the familiar phonetic pictures from the previous apps in this series.
 The second option is to match pictures with the same beginning sounds, such as "sun" and "sailboat." This app has a preview feature for the matching games to help train the mind to remember images and image placement.
 What is the purpose of this app? ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 gives your child practice with beginning phonics skills. This app focuses on the most common sound that each letter makes. This app builds on the skills learned in the four apps of this series. Those apps were about teaching letter/sound associations. This app continues this process by testing letter sound recognition. In this app, the default is for the letters to be silent and not to make their sounds when touched. The child's knowledge of the sounds is used in this app.
 How does this app work? This app uses four different games to help your child learn and reinforce their knowledge of which sound each letter makes. When appropriate, the games are programmed with a built-in tiered learning system that gets slightly more challenging with correct answers. Incorrect answers will make the games slightly less challenging. There is another built-in feature that reintroduces incorrectly guessed letters to give the child another chance to get those letters right.
 Why do you focus on the sounds of letters rather than the names of letters? It is a much better use of time to focus on letter sounds rather than letter names. A child can actually read without knowing the letters' common names, but a child only knowing the names of the letters cannot phonetically read. The ubiquitousness of the ABC song both at home and at school will surely give children the ability to name the letters. However, many children are not given the much-needed explicit instruction of the SOUNDS that the letters make. In this app, only the SOUNDS of the letters are used and NEVER the names of the letters. This app is dedicated to helping children learn the sounds and functions of letters.
 These games are designed so that children can do them independently after being given the basic instructions on how to play the games. The app has built-in feedback mechanisms to help the child to work independently. These mechanisms allow the child to learn at their own pace and in their own way. The child does not need to be constantly supervised and told what the right answer is. This frees up the adult to be an observer of their child's learning and assist them when invited.

About

Study Phonics

Features
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You can learn phonics effectively. ~Features~ - Word speech function - Cute illustrations - More than 150 Words registered

Screenshots

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 64 screens
Study Phonics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Study Phonics at none against ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6's 1. Study Phonics also leads on update cadence (every 8 months vs every 27 months). ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Study Phonics asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 ships an update every 27 months, Study Phonics every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 versus Study Phonics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABC MAGIC PHONICS 6Study Phonics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (177 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings177 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 27 monthsEvery 8 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15
Further details — not scored
Size387 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITYMasao Nakajima

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6

One-time1
  • Full Version$1.99
None

Study Phonics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 free?
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Study Phonics free?
Study Phonics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 or Study Phonics have ads?
Neither ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 nor Study Phonics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 or Study Phonics?
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 ships an update every 27 months, and Study Phonics every 8 months. Most recently, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 was updated on October 7, 2026 and Study Phonics on October 2, 2026.

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