Comparison

SENTENCE READING MAGIC vs Abby Monkey

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

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About

SENTENCE READING MAGIC

This app helps children develop reading fluency and comprehension by focusing on reading sentences. It uses evidence-based methods and engaging games to build skills in phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Highlights
  • Sentence reading practice
  • High-frequency word games
  • Phonemic awareness activities
  • Phonics and blending
  • Vocabulary building
  • Fluency and comprehension focus
Features
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Introducing "Sentence Reading Magic" – the app designed to transform your child into an excellent reader! Built on evidence-based Science of Reading principles, this app bridges the gap between reading words and reading books, focusing on the crucial skill of reading sentences. By offering a gradual and enjoyable step up from reading individual words, it instills confidence and fosters skill building in emerging readers. With its Sentence Reading Magic feature, this app empowers children to become proficient readers while familiarizing them with essential high frequency words and guiding them from reading words to reading sentences. By providing practice in decoding, blending, and comprehending complete sentences, it prepares young readers to tackle decodable sentences and books, all while boosting fluency and comprehension skills. What sets "Sentence Reading Magic" apart is its incorporation of the five pillars of reading – Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension. Through engaging games and activities, the app helps children recognize and manipulate individual sounds in words, understand the relationship between letters and sounds, expand their vocabulary within a sentence context, and practice reading sentences repeatedly to enhance fluency and comprehension. The app offers four captivating sentence games that aid in building, reading, and spelling out short, simple sentences. Additionally, it includes five mini-games for learning and practicing the most common high-frequency words, using a phonetic approach to help children see patterns within these words. For those seeking an even more enriching experience, the full upgradeable version of "Sentence Reading Magic" boasts 324 sentences divided into 27 lessons, multiple sound and voice options, and three font choices. However, it's important to note that the app requires children to have a prerequisite skill level of consistently and easily reading 3-letter short vowel words before use. Developed by a team of educators using accelerated learning techniques, Montessori principles, and the Science of Reading, "Sentence Reading Magic" has undergone rigorous testing and garnered approval from preschool children and their teachers in various settings. Your feedback and suggestions are highly valued as we continue to refine and enhance the app for an optimal learning experience. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your child's reading potential with "Sentence Reading Magic" – where learning to read becomes a magical journey!

About

Abby Monkey

This app offers four engaging Easter-themed math games designed to make learning arithmetic fun for young children. It covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with adjustable difficulty levels and enthusiastic feedback.

Highlights
  • Four unique math games
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division modes
  • Three difficulty levels
  • Easter-themed design
  • Enthusiastic praise for efforts
  • Memory Match, Catch Me!, Easter Egg Hunt, Spring Bingo
Features
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***** A title from our extremely successful series -- all EIGHT (!) RANKED #1 APP FOR KIDS on APP Store in many countries: ABBY BASIC SKILLS PRESCHOOL, ABBY – PAINTER STAR, ANIMAL PRESCHOOL SHAPE PUZZLES - FIRST WORD; ABBY'S MAGIC LAPTOP FOR PRESCHOOL AND TODDLERS, ABBY MONKEY – ANIMAL GAMES FOR KIDS HD, ANIMAL TRAIN - FIRST WORD HD, ANIMAL PRESCHOOL WORD PUZZLES HD, and ABBY MONKEY – First Words for Preschool: Animals HD). All five other products ranked in TOP 10 in EDUCATIONAL category. Easter is coming soon! Let's celebrate it together with our Spring Math! Buy now and get four unique games (full version only) in one app wrapped within this amazingly colorful Easter-themed design! Believe that learning basic math has never been more fun. You will love to see your children making progress in their arithmetic skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) while being engaged. So prepare for an ultimate Easter fun, and open this egg app full of adventure! ----------------- The application features four games (full version only): 1) Memory Match (full version only) Your task is to match a correct answer with a corresponding question. Answer as quickly as possible and get the best score! 2) Catch Me! (full version only) Catch as many eggs with correct answers as you can. For each blossomed flower on the tree, answer one question and master the game! 3) Easter Egg Hunt Get through five levels of the game while keeping as many lives as possible. Each subsequent level gets more difficult as more answer choices are displayed and maximum time gets shorter. 4) Spring Bingo (full version only) The purpose of the game is to create either a horizontal or vertical pattern of eggs in a row across the whole screen. ----------------- Additional features: - Enthusiastic praise for all children's efforts - High-quality music background - Four game modes for each game: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division! - Three difficulty levels for each game! - Intuitive Easter-themed interface ----------------- Based on our two-decade old experience in development of educational software, we made a considerable effort to ensure that this app is as simple and instructive as possible. All the children we showed it to in our research reported improvement in their math skills without tediousness typical of solving math problems in a more traditional way. We hope your children will appreciate and enjoy this app as well.

Screenshots

SENTENCE READING MAGIC4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: SENTENCE READING MAGIC at 4.4 against Abby Monkey's 3.1. SENTENCE READING MAGIC also leads on ratings volume (123 vs 14) and device support (3 vs 1). Abby Monkey's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price and ads 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. SENTENCE READING MAGIC sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Abby Monkey asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SENTENCE READING MAGIC holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SENTENCE READING MAGIC has 123 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of SENTENCE READING MAGIC's written reviews are positive against 100% of Abby Monkey's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
SENTENCE READING MAGIC versus Abby Monkey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSENTENCE READING MAGICAbby Monkey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (123 ratings) — better3.1 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews74.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings123 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 10 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.04.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size310 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITY22LEARN Toddler and Baby Learning Games, LLC

Customer experience

SENTENCE READING MAGIC

All ratings113 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral8.8%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral20.0%
Negative5.3%

Abby Monkey

All ratings14 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

SENTENCE READING MAGIC

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Errors in subject-verb agreement
  • Sentences are not complete
  • Missing capitalization and punctuation
  • Spelling error in instructions

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels and longer sentences
  • Option for different vowel sounds
  • Add animation effects
  • Randomize sentences
  • More options and sentences to buy
Show 3 more
  • App for the next stage
  • Switch accessible features
  • Four or five word sentences

Abby Monkey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

SENTENCE READING MAGIC

One-time2
  • Deluxe Upgrade$2.99
  • More Sentences for Learning$4.99
None

Abby Monkey

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SENTENCE READING MAGIC free?
SENTENCE READING MAGIC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Abby Monkey free?
Abby Monkey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SENTENCE READING MAGIC or Abby Monkey?
SENTENCE READING MAGIC is rated higher. SENTENCE READING MAGIC averages 4.4 out of 5 from 123 ratings, while Abby Monkey averages 3.1 from 14 ratings.
Do SENTENCE READING MAGIC or Abby Monkey have ads?
Neither SENTENCE READING MAGIC nor Abby Monkey shows ads.

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