Comparison

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 vs Money Bingo

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

Head to head
About

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4

This app helps young children develop foundational reading skills by focusing on the relationship between sounds and letters. It uses engaging games to build phonemic awareness and letter-sound correspondence, preparing them for reading success.

Highlights
  • Learn the alphabetic principle
  • Develop phonemic awareness
  • Learn letter-sound correspondence
  • Four different learning games
  • Tiered learning system
  • Reintroduction of incorrect answers
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 has features and components necessary to give your child strong phonemic awareness. This app has features and components necessary to give your child strong letter awareness. This app will start your child off on the path to reading success. This game is part of the ABC MAGIC PHONICS series. We recommend the other ABC MAGIC apps to expand and reinforce your child's phonemic awareness and letter awareness. What is the purpose of this app? ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 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 first three 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 memory 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 does the default setting have the letters with no sound? ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 is the fourth app in a series. We strongly recommend that your child gains proficiency with ABC MAGIC PHONICS and ABC MAGIC PHONICS 2 before doing this app. The purpose of this app is to reinforce and test your child's awareness of the primary sound that each letter makes. This app can also help recognize which letters your child has not have memorized and help ensure that those letter sounds are memorized. Having the letter sounds off will aid in this process. We recommend not turning on the letter sounds. The "letter sounds on/off. 
 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

Money Bingo

A fun math game designed to help families master money concepts. Customize your learning experience by selecting test modes, difficulty levels, and backgrounds. Progress through challenges to build your financial literacy skills.

Highlights
  • Money math practice
  • Customizable difficulty
  • Test mode selection
  • Background customization
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Money Bingo is a great money math game for the whole family. Select the test mode, difficulty level, and background in the "Settings" screen. Progress through the test modes and difficulty levels until you master the game. If you like this app, please consider giving it a rating. Your support will help keep the updates coming! Thank you for your support!

Screenshots

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 44 screens
Money Bingo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 at none against Money Bingo's shown. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 also leads on ratings volume (384 vs 30) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Money Bingo's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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 4 sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Money Bingo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 against 4.4 for Money Bingo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 has 384 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4's written reviews are positive against 100% of Money Bingo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 ships an update every 7 months, Money Bingo every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 versus Money Bingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABC MAGIC PHONICS 4Money Bingo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (384 ratings)4.4 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings384 — better30
Update frequencyEvery 7 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size260 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITYHorizon Business, Inc.

Customer experience

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4

All ratings380 ratings
Positive82.6%
Neutral8.4%
Negative8.9%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Money Bingo

All ratings28 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4

One-time1
  • ABC 4 Full Version$1.99
1 purchases

Money Bingo

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 free?
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Money Bingo free?
Money Bingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 or Money Bingo?
Money Bingo is rated higher. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 averages 4.3 out of 5 from 384 ratings, while Money Bingo averages 4.4 from 30 ratings.
Do ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 or Money Bingo have ads?
Money Bingo shows ads; ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 does not.
Which is updated more often, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 or Money Bingo?
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 ships an update every 7 months, and Money Bingo every 10 months. Most recently, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 4 was updated on November 6, 2026 and Money Bingo on November 1, 2026.

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