Reading Raven vs Routine matinale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reading Raven
This app guides young children through a fun, adventure-filled journey to learn reading. It offers step-by-step lessons from pre-reading skills to reading full sentences, incorporating games and printing practice.
- Self-paced reading lessons
- Eleven types of educational games
- Customizable by age/reading level
- Dynamic speed and tolerance adaptation
- Sticker rewards
- Free form letter and word writing
- Voice instructions and feedback
Read full descriptionHide full description
Help your kids learn to read with their own personal reading-adventure guide! "Reading Raven has one of the strongest educational and design foundations we have seen." -- Kindertown "Finally – a seriously educational app that leads children from early phonological awareness and phonics right up to reading full sentences while integrating printing skills and teaching through games. Reading Raven for iPad is an incredible learn-to-read app, easily the best I’ve encountered to date in the App Store. I’m in love." -- Apps For Homeschooling "[Reading] Raven has what it takes to get kids on the road to reading and the developers have done it brilliantly..." -- Teachers With Apps "This is one of the best educational apps that I’ve ever seen. This app is so well built and is worth every penny!" -- iHeartThisApp "...I can see [Kaylee] really learning and growing with this. Already she's starting to learn more and faster than she ever has before." -- Rita Webb, mother of two "Reading Raven ... has so many fun features for kids, they hardly know they're actually learning something. No, really, I kid you not. My daughter absolutely loves this app." -- Margaret Steck, mother of two News Flash: Reading Raven Vol 2, the next volume in the award-winning Reading Raven series, is also now available for download! ____________________ Reading Raven is an extremely fun and engaging learn-to-read educational game that provides step-by-step reading lessons designed to help young children build a solid foundation for reading. FEATURES: - Self-paced lessons take kids all the way from pre-reading to reading sentences! - Eleven types of super fun games/activities that teach critical sub-skills! - Fully customizable by age or reading level! - Speed and tolerance dynamically adapt to motor control ability! - Sticker rewards that reinforce what was learned! - No pressure tactics! - Extremely effective voice instructions and feedback! - Free form letter and word writing! - Children can pause and save their progress anytime! - Beautiful hand-illustrated artwork! - No third party advertising! - No external links to social network sites! With the Reading Raven companion guiding them along, children will go on delightful fun-filled adventures where they will encounter fly eating frogs, caterpillars that turn into butterflies, circus acrobats, ball balancing seals, underwater sea creatures, snow monsters, flying penguins, space robots, rhyming rockets, and much more! Reading Raven includes the following progression of self-paced educational activities: Ages 3 and Up - Letter matching - Letter tracing - Letter sounds - Word matching Ages 4 and Up - Vocabulary - Word beginnings - Word building (spelling) - Word spotting Ages 5 and Up - Reading aloud using voice recording - Word tracing - Word groups (rhyming and beginning sounds) Reading Raven includes five extensive lessons, with hundreds of individual activities in total. Parents and teachers will find the multi-sensory learning games to be a great complement to traditional classroom and home-based reading instruction. Recommended Ages: 3-7 Categories: Reading, Phonics, Letters, Spelling, Writing, Vocabulary, Early Learning, Special Needs Build your child's reading confidence with Reading Raven and watch their learning take flight. Happy Reading Adventures! ____________________ MORE INFO, FEEDBACK & SUPPORT Learn more about the product and our team: http://www.readingraven.com/ Like us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/readingraven Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/readingraven If you have feedback or suggestions, please email us at feedback@earlyascent.com. We’d love to hear from you! ____________________ PRIVACY We have kids too and take the privacy of you and your children seriously. This product does not collect any personally identifiable information by default.
Routine matinale
Read full descriptionHide full description
Application favorisant l'autonomie des enfants dans le rituel matinal météo et calendrier. Permet à chaque enfant de réaliser le rituel de manière autonome.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Reading Raven at #199 against Routine matinale's unranked. Reading Raven also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Routine matinale's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On update cadence, ads, 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
Reading Raven costs $2.99 and Routine matinale $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Reading Raven ships an update every 16 months, Routine matinale every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and March 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Raven | Routine matinale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (64 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 13 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Early Ascent, LLC | Benjamin Michotte |
Bugs and requests
Reading Raven
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezes iPhone during letter tracing
- Background noise makes letter names hard to hear
- No option to add more than 1 player profile (despite guide saying so)
- In-app purchases removed (positive feedback, but implies previous issue)
Requested features
7 requests- Add multi-user profiles
- Option to change manuscript style (D'Nealian)
- More levels for paid app
- Add more volumes/lessons
- Dark mode option
Show 2 moreShow fewer
- Ability to add more than 1 player profile
- Add higher levels to introduce other combinations like ch and sh as well as long vowels
Routine matinale
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Reading Raven
No in-app purchases
Routine matinale
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Reading Raven free?
Is Routine matinale free?
Do Reading Raven or Routine matinale have ads?
Which is updated more often, Reading Raven or Routine matinale?
Other comparisons















