Comparison

Noodle Words vs Language Adventures Pro

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

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About

Noodle Words

This interactive app brings 18 active words to life with animated characters, allowing young learners to play with words and discover their meanings through touch. Developed by a renowned children's designer, it encourages emerging readers ages 4-7 to engage with language in a fun and dynamic way.

Highlights
  • Interactive word play
  • Animated characters
  • Word meaning discovery
  • Touch screen interaction
  • Designed for emergent readers
  • 18 playful words
Features
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Through interactive play, our set of 18 active words come to life as the Noodle Bugs demonstrate word meanings with their highly animated antics. Young readers can interact with the words or the cute bugs using the iPad's touch screen. They literally play with the words to make SPIN spin and JUMP jump. Developed by award winning children’s designer Mark Schlichting, creator of the best selling Living Books series of interactive children's books, Noodle Words is the first in a series of animated Word Toys, Noodle Words encourages emerging readers ages 4-7 to discover word meanings like they never have before. ◆ Featured in USA Today ◆ Featured in Apple's New and Noteworthy in Education ◆ New-York Times Best Apps for Children - End of Year Edition ◆ Winner of the Parents' Choice Gold Award ◆ Winner of the 2012 KAPi Award for Best Educational Product ◆ Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award, with 4.7/5 "This is a masterful example of how an app can make learning fun." - Jinny Gudmundsen, USA Today "A charming educational app for iPad that is sure to put a smile on the face of users no matter the age, as well as teach the meaning of action words in ways most delightful" - GiggleApps.com This app has been a great hit with every child who has tried it. It's a great way for kids of all ages to learn and play with words, giggle, have fun, laugh and dance! ▸ "My preschool students love this app." ▸ "My four year old daughter makes a point of showing me each word." ▸ "This is such a fantastic app for my profoundly autistic teenage daughter. It is perfect. All I wish is for there to be hundreds more words! Thank you for all the work that must have gone into this app." ▸ "Noodle Words is one of our favorite apps ever!" -- KinderTown ▸ "This is a terrific app for teaching children the meaning of words." -- The iPhone Mom ▸ "Noodle Words is a very interactive word recognition game, and a great game for young readers." -- Famigo ▸ "I think Noodle Words a new classic; a breakthrough like Dr. Seuss's books, but in a sillier than ever, touchable medium." -- Ann H. McCormick, PhD, Founder, The Learning Company Features: • Universal App supports iPad, iPhone and iPod touch • Word Toy, with 18 playful words • Expressive Words • Invites Play • Word Learning • Highly Animated • Dynamic Interaction • Appealing Animated Characters • Simple and Elegant • Rich Multi-Touch Interface • Tips for Parents • Innovative Tutorial • Designed in Partnership with Children Not all children learn to read the same way. Exposure, repetition, and context all help build relationships to vocabulary and understanding. Noodle Words is a word toy designed to offer emerging readers a playful modality for language acquisition and word comprehension. Kids of all ages can explore at their own pace, and develop a love of word play through direct interaction. It's even designed to draw-in the most hesitant early reader. Noodle Words is a wonderful app to play with your children. Some kids love to show off what they can do, and others love to laugh with you when the Noodle Bugs do something silly. We hope playing together with your children brings you the same joy we had while making this app. --------- Privacy Disclosure: NoodleWorks Interactive creates engaging environments for children that are educational, fun and above all safe and appropriate. Our apps: - do not collect any information - do not contain ads or in-app purchases - do not have links to websites or social networks - do not use analytics or data collection tools Email us at info@noodleworks.com if you have any questions.

About

Language Adventures Pro

This app transforms speech therapy into an engaging digital board game experience. It uses school-themed graphics and research-based methods to help students build essential language skills like categories, inferences, and wh-questions for academic success.

Highlights
  • Contextual language intervention
  • School-themed learning environments
  • Three difficulty levels
  • Digital board game mechanics
  • Progress tracking
  • Targeted vocabulary development
Features
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Language Adventures: A Contextual Speech & Language Journey Transform your speech therapy sessions with Language Adventures! This innovative app takes the classic board game experience and elevates it into a powerful, research-based digital tool designed specifically for the iPad. Language Adventures provides a first-of-its-kind contextual language intervention. Using vibrant, school-themed graphics and an engaging interface, students build essential language skills in areas critical for academic success, including categories, inferences, and wh-questions. A Comprehensive Language Tool Contextual Learning: Question targets are directly related to school-based themes—the Playground, Cafeteria, and Classroom—grounding therapy in real-world environments to enhance semantic connections and comprehension. Three Levels of Difficulty: Targeted content curated for a wide range of students, from elementary through high school-aged learners. Seamless Digital Gameplay: All the board game staples—player selection, dice rolling, and token moving—are reimagined and optimized for the iPad platform. Advanced Goal Targeting: Work in adult-student pairs or groups to master flexible word use, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, and descriptive naming. Progress Tracking: Efficiently manage your caseload by saving specific student targets and monitoring progress over repeated play sessions. Research-Based Intervention Language Adventures is built upon proven educational research regarding vocabulary development and the use of context clues to increase overall language proficiency: Targeted Vocabulary: Research indicates that targeting vocabulary facilitates reading comprehension and oral language skills (Dole, Sloan, and Trathen, 1995). Thematic Strength: By providing context-based questions, Language Adventures assists children in strengthening word connections and developing meaningful concepts (Hickman, et al. 2004). Meaningful Activities: Students are provided with activities related to their own experiences and encouraged to use student-friendly definitions, which are proven to enhance language production (Beck, et al., 2002). Authored by: Nichole Hanneken Ontis, M.S., CCC-SLP Danielle Sears, M.S., CCC-SLP App Designers: Sean J. Sweeney Barbara Fernandes Take your students on a Language Adventure today!

Screenshots

Noodle Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Noodle Words at $2.99 against Language Adventures Pro's $24.99. Noodle Words also leads on ratings volume (56 vs 7) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence 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

Noodle Words costs $2.99 and Language Adventures Pro $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Noodle Words against 4.3 for Language Adventures Pro. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Noodle Words has 56 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 77% of Noodle Words's written reviews are positive against 73% of Language Adventures Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Noodle Words ships an update every 5 months, Language Adventures Pro every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Noodle Words versus Language Adventures Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNoodle WordsLanguage Adventures Pro
Price$2.99 — better$24.99
Rating4.2 (56 ratings)4.3 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.6% of reviews — better72.5% of reviews
Number of ratings56 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB123 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndependentSmarty Ears

Customer experience

Noodle Words

All ratings56 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews64 reviews
Positive76.6%
Neutral1.6%
Negative21.9%

Language Adventures Pro

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews40 reviews
Positive72.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative20.0%

Bugs and requests

Noodle Words

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes
  • App stuck on splash screen
  • App goes from booting up to blank
  • Cannot open the app

Requested features

10 requests
  • More word sets/lists
  • Additional apps with similar concept
  • In-app purchases for more words
  • Customizable word lists
  • Option to silence spoken word
Show 5 more
  • Ability to guess word from action
  • New versions for ABC/123
  • Antonyms, homonyms, synonyms, rhymes lists
  • Test at the end
  • New lists without IAPs

Language Adventures Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Noodle Words

No in-app purchases

None

Language Adventures Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Noodle Words free?
Noodle Words costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Language Adventures Pro free?
Language Adventures Pro costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Noodle Words or Language Adventures Pro?
Language Adventures Pro is rated higher. Noodle Words averages 4.2 out of 5 from 56 ratings, while Language Adventures Pro averages 4.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Noodle Words or Language Adventures Pro have ads?
Neither Noodle Words nor Language Adventures Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Noodle Words or Language Adventures Pro?
Noodle Words ships an update every 5 months, and Language Adventures Pro every 7 months. Most recently, Noodle Words was updated on October 23, 2026 and Language Adventures Pro on October 14, 2026.

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