ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 vs ABC
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Develops phonemic awareness
- Teaches letter-sound correspondence
- Reinforces alphabet sound recognition
- Uses matching games
- Includes a preview feature
- Offers tiered learning system
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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.
ABC
This educational game makes learning the alphabet fun for young children through interactive tracing and phonics. It features an engaging story where players help find lost letters in various exciting locations, developing memory and fine motor skills.
- Trace letters with finger interaction
- Learn letter sounds and pronunciation
- Find hidden letters in diverse environments
- Develop memory and fine motor skills
- Engaging story-based learning
- Bright and colorful characters
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Try the Alphabet game for little kids to turn learning ABC into a fun and rewarding process! ABC for kids is an educational game with “trace a letter” mechanics - learn the letters one by one and enjoy a fabulous story! A wonderful alternative activity for learning letters for toddlers. Preparing for school hasn’t been so easy with digital playing:) You are going on an exciting journey! Oh, look, the wind is so strong - it has blown the letters away from the book! Investigate where the Alphabet ABCs got and find them all! You will have to save the letters and return to their places. They can be found in the lake, in the house and even in the galaxy! The toddler alphabet game easily encourages your baby to learn and differentiate letters, as well as develop memory and fine motor skills as it has very beautiful and fascinating tasks for tapping and tracing. Indeed, study can bring joy and our ABC will help in pronouncing and memorizing letters! Classic features: - Trace the letters with fingers while soaping and washing them - remember the lines - learn easily with educational games! - Train logic and attention with kindergarten learning games. Find the letters in unexpected places. Visit volcanoes and dive into waters, enter a witch’s house and climb into the bird’s nest - these are the places where you need to find the characters. - Go through an exciting tutorial with wonderful tasks in the learning games for kids. Flashcards and entertaining exercises are at their duty to make the kids giggle and be absorbed into the learning process! - Enjoy bright and saturated colors of all characters and be pleasantly captivated with the kindergarten learning games - you know all the letters in the blink of an eye! Your subscription will automatically renew at the end of the subscription period, and the free trial will automatically convert to a paid subscription at the end of the trial period, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Privacy Policy available here: http://gokidsmobile.com/privacy-policy-2/ Terms of use: http://gokidsmobile.com/terms/
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Verdict
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 and ABC both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6's written reviews are positive against 50% of ABC's. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). ABC's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (2.9K vs 180). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and ABC sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABC has 2.9K ratings behind it against 180, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6's written reviews are positive against 50% of ABC's.
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 ships an update every 27 months, ABC every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6 | ABC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (180 ratings) — better | 4.1 (2.9K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 180 | 2.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 387 MB | 196 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY | GoKids! |
Customer experience
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6
ABC
In-app purchases
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 6
- Full Version$1.99
ABC
- Monthly subscription to letter$2.991 Month
- Monthly subscription$2.991 Month
- Year subscription to letters$18.991 Year
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- Year subscription$18.991 Year
- Forever subscription$44.99
- Forever access$44.99
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