Comparison

Kids' Words vs Multifly

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

Head to head
About

Kids' Words

This educational game helps parents and teachers assess children's word recognition skills. It provides detailed report cards to track progress and identify areas of strength and weakness. The app features engaging themes, vibrant music, and sound effects to enhance the learning experience.

Highlights
  • Word recognition testing
  • Detailed report cards
  • Progress tracking
  • Multiple themes
  • Pronunciation guidance
  • Vibrant music and sounds
  • Supports multiple children and teachers
Features
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A first letters and sounds game for children ages 4 to 6. Your child hears a word out loud, then drags the beginning letter into place. You see which sounds they've got and which ones they're still working out. What your child does Pick a theme. A word is spoken. Five letters are scattered on screen and your child drags the right one to the front of the word. The word is spoken again once it's complete, so the sound and the letter connect. That beginning sound is what children learn first, before they can read or spell anything. It's also the part a four year old can get right on their own, which is what brings them back tomorrow. The wrong answers aren't random For alligator, all five choices are vowels. For mosquito they're m, s, v, b and p, the sounds children mix up with each other. Your child has to actually hear the difference, which is the whole point, and it's why the Progress screen tells you something real. Big words, small ask Your child only supplies the beginning, so the words don't have to be babyish. Crocodile, trampoline, grasshopper and watermelon are all in here. Children this age already know these words and love saying them. They just can't spell them yet, and with this game they don't need to. 150 words across 5 themes Jungle, Mountains, Backyard, Beach and Garden. Each theme has thirty words in three rounds of ten, so a round is short enough to finish before anyone loses interest. Every word is spoken by a real voice, and every word belongs to its theme. Record the words in your own voice Every word comes with a teacher's voice built in. Tap any word on the Word Lists screen, press Record, and say it. From then on your child hears you whenever that word comes up. Record all 150 or just the ones your child keeps missing. Say it the way your family says it, or let a grandparent record a theme. Play both voices back, choose for each word, and switch back to the teacher any time without losing your recording. Recording sits behind a parents' gate, so your child hears the voices but never reaches the microphone. Record a word once and every child on the device hears it. Add your own word lists Ten words make a list, the same length as a built-in round, and you can make as many as you like. Type them one per line or paste them in. Names from home, words from a favorite book, whatever your child is asking about. Each new word needs your voice, so record it once and the list is ready to play. Your list sits beside the built-in rounds in its theme, with its own Progress, and the wrong letters are still chosen to be plausible. A word you add always asks for its first letter, so your lists suit the youngest player. Made for children who can't read yet Every prompt is spoken. Nothing on screen needs an adult to read it aloud, so a four year old can open the app and play without help. See how they're doing Every round is saved to Progress. You'll see the words your child got, the ones they keep missing, and how that shifts week to week. Enough to know whether it's landing, without hovering over them while they play. A profile for every child Add as many children as you need. Each one keeps their own words and their own progress and picks up where they left off. Works for a family with three kids and a classroom with thirty. Nothing about your child leaves this app No accounts, no sign in, no ads, no trackers, no third party code of any kind. There's no server to send anything to. Your child's progress, your recordings and your word lists are saved on your device and stay there. The microphone is only on while you're recording. Tell us what's missing A word you wish we'd included, a theme your class would love, anything that isn't working. Send it to us at info@circular3d.com. We read all of it. Our soundtrack is on Apple Music. "The Jungle" and "The Jungle (With Animals)" are the ones people ask about. https://music.apple.com/us/album/kids-words-original-video-game-soundtrack/389220050

About

Multifly

This educational game makes learning multiplication and division fun for elementary-aged children. It uses engaging puzzles and a captivating story to teach various multiplication strategies, moving beyond rote memorization of times tables. Kids can visualize concepts and practice skills in a safe, interactive environment.

Highlights
  • Teaches multiplication and division concepts
  • Introduces 7+ multiplication strategies
  • Visualizes multiplication through arrays
  • Engaging story-driven puzzles
  • Practice multiplication skills
  • Collect rewards
Features
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"Multifly proves that math is anything but boring" -Techzle Multifly is a fun learning game for kids that helps kids visualize, practice and learn multiplication and division concepts. It also strengthens their multiplication skills by introducing them to 7 different strategies for multiplying numbers. Help your child learn and practice multiplication concepts in a really fun way so that they fall in love with Math. This one-of-a-kind Math game has no worksheets or flashcards - it is a real game, tells a captivating story and as your child solves puzzles to move the story forward, they get visually introduced to different Math concepts and learn multiplication. The wonderful mix of fun and learning in this fun math game makes kids fall in love with multiplication and no longer have to mindlessly mug up the multiplication tables. Kids will learn the times tables along with the concepts of multiplication. After learning the strategies, the game also has levels for multiplication practice. This math learning game is suitable for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade kids. Multifly helps kids with the transition from additive to multiplicative thinking with different multiplication learning strategies. This math educational game helps improve math facts with a strategic approach to learning. These strategies are - • Visualizing Multiplication through arrays • Relation between Multiplication and Division • Understanding Multiplication as repeated addition: More strategies such as Turn-around facts, Adding a group, Subtracting a group, rounding up and compensating, halving and doubling, decomposing into known facts, and breaking down a factor to smaller factors will come soon in new levels. So overall, instead of rote-learning multiplication times tables, your child will learn basic concepts as well as advanced multiplication strategies in this fun game. Current multiplication games for kids are mostly in flashcard format and do not help with understanding concepts. Multifly teaches kids multiplication concepts and also helps with practice in proper story and game format. This is the only elementary grade math game that teaches multiplication facts in story and game format. In a nutshell, Multifly has the following overall features: • Solve 50+ innovative physics puzzles involving a rolling monster, mystery blocks, shape-shifting portals and powerful springs. • Get fluent in multiplication by mastering the 7+ multiplication strategies based on the best current pedagogical approaches. • Learn multiplication and division through exciting puzzles instead of rote learning • Experience a thrilling and immersive story which inspires your kid to never give up. • Collect exciting rewards on successful mastery of Math concepts. • Play in a safe, digital environment. • Aligned to the Common Core learning standards and other curricula. Download and start playing Multifly and see your kid progress with multiplication. Teachers: ‘Multifly*’ is based on the following Common Core concepts: (2.OA.C.4) (3.OA.A.1) (3.OA.A.2) (3.OA.A.3) (3.OA.A.4) (3.OA.B.5) (3.OA.B.6) (3.OA.C.7) (4.OA.A.1) (4.OA.A.2) (4.OA.A.3) Subscription info: - Multifly can be purchased as part of a makkajai annual subscription. - Makkajai subscriptions are auto-renewable and annual at $59.99/yr - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase - Cancellation will not go into effect until the end of the monthly billing cycle For support, questions or comments, write to us at: support@makkajai.com Our privacy policy can be found at: http://www.makkajai.com/privacy-policy Our terms of use can be found at: http://www.makkajai.com/terms

Screenshots

Kids' Words4 screens
Multifly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Multifly at Free against Kids' Words's $0.99. Multifly also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 26 months) and ratings volume (2.3K vs 5). Kids' Words's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 59%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On rating, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Multifly is free to download; Kids' Words costs $0.99 up front. Multifly sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per year. Kids' Words asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Kids' Words against 4.5 for Multifly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Multifly has 2.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Kids' Words's written reviews are positive against 59% of Multifly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kids' Words ships an update every 26 months, Multifly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Kids' Words versus Multifly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKids' WordsMultifly
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (5 ratings)4.5 (2.3K ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better58.6% of reviews
Number of ratings52.3K — better
Update frequencyEvery 26 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB206 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCircular3DMakkajai Edu Tech Private Limited

Customer experience

Kids' Words

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Multifly

All ratings2,335 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral5.0%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive58.6%
Neutral10.3%
Negative31.0%

Bugs and requests

Kids' Words

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Multifly

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Level 17 and 19 not working properly
  • Login/purchase issues
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more levels and worlds
  • Improve level difficulty progression
  • Provide better instructions and guidance
  • Offer a free version with limited access

In-app purchases

None

Kids' Words

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Multifly

Subscriptions1
  • Multiplication Games For Kids7 Days trial$59.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock Full Version$9.99

Questions

Is Kids' Words free?
Kids' Words costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Multifly free?
Multifly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Kids' Words or Multifly?
Multifly is rated higher. Kids' Words averages 4.4 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Multifly averages 4.5 from 2.3K ratings.
Do Kids' Words or Multifly have ads?
Neither Kids' Words nor Multifly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kids' Words or Multifly?
Kids' Words ships an update every 26 months, and Multifly monthly. Most recently, Kids' Words was updated on November 1, 2026 and Multifly on November 3, 2026.

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