Kidz Learn vs SmartySprouts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kidz Learn
An early learning application designed for preschool, kindergarten, and primary school children. It offers interactive categories for mastering alphabets, numbers, shapes, colors, and more, with audio support for effective learning. Includes a bonus category with entertaining stories.
- Alphabet learning
- Number recognition
- Shape and color identification
- Body parts and emotions
- Opposites and matching games
- Offline functionality
- Audio learning support
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"Kidz Learn" application is an early learning tool for learning alphabets and basic numbers. Once downloaded, this app can run offline. Upon opening this app, there are eight categories to choose from, nine being a bonus. The categories are Alphabets, Numbers, Shapes, Colors, Body Parts, Emotions, Opposites, and matching color game. This application is a tool and an aid to foster learning for preschool, kindergarten, and primary school kids. It is also a fun tool for kids to learn effectively with audio. The ninth category has some fun stories that play randomly each time the story category is selected. The story is purely for entertainment.
SmartySprouts
This app offers 21 interactive pocket chart activities for young learners on iPad. It covers essential early education skills like math, phonics, and word building, with progress tracking for parents and teachers. Designed for short, engaging play sessions, it simplifies gameplay by locking to portrait mode.
- 21 interactive pocket chart activities
- Math: addition, subtraction, fractions
- Literacy: phonics, spelling, word building
- Early learning: counting, colors, shapes
- Progress tracking for parents/teachers
- Portrait mode gameplay
- Short, engaging activity sessions
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Do you love classroom Pocket Charts? Pocket Charts! Pro combines 21 pocket chart activities for your child to use on the iPad. Just like the pocket chart games popular in the classroom, this app gives young students a fun way to practice adding and subtracting, sorting blends and digraphs, matching positional words to picture, spelling 3 letter words, combining images to build compound words. The youngest iPad users are not left out, some early learning activities include counting, sorting, matching colors, shapes and uppercase to lowercase letters. Administrative features allow teachers/parents to manage the functionality of the app and track student progress. Pocket Charts! Pro gives kids a lot of learning fun for a very small price. Here’s what’s included: • Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching • Beginning Letter Sounds • Colors and Color Words • Counting • Shape Matching • Long and Short Vowel Sounds • Rhyming Words • Consonant Blends and Digraphs • Ending Letter Sounds • Position Words • Numbers and Number Words • Pre-Number Category Sorting • Compound Words • Spelling 3-Letter Words • Word Families • Fractions • Single-digit Addition and Subtraction • Halloween Match • Thanksgiving Match • Christmas/Hanukkah Match • Egg Match Teach and reinforce basic skills with Pocket Charts! Pro. Each game requires 3-5 minutes for a young learner to complete, making this iPad app ideal for students with limited attention spans or those requiring highly visual or tactile learning experiences. Additionally, these activities are designed to lock and play only in the portrait mode in order to simplify game play and eliminate an orientation switch if young learners jostle the iPad while playing. Good Neighbor Press has specialized in the development, illustration, design and production of educational material since 1991. High quality, developmentally-appropriate educational material with clean, charming instructional design is our specialty! For additional information on our activity book series, downloadable worksheet units, or free downloadable worksheets please visit www.goodneighborpress.com. Look for all our Early Childhood iPad Apps by searching Good Neighbor Press in the App Store.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SmartySprouts at every 2 months against Kidz Learn's every 6 months. SmartySprouts also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Kidz Learn's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Kidz Learn costs $3.99 and SmartySprouts $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kidz Learn ships an update every 6 months, SmartySprouts every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kidz Learn | SmartySprouts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| Rating | — | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gomathy Shankaran | Good Neighbor Press, Inc |
Customer experience
Kidz Learn
SmartySprouts
In-app purchases
Kidz Learn
No in-app purchases
SmartySprouts
No in-app purchases
Questions
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