Comparison

Sight Words Reading Games ABC vs Learn to Read

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

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About

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

This educational app helps young children aged 2-7 learn essential sight words through six engaging games. Developed with educational specialists, it covers the Dolch list and common nouns, preparing preschoolers and early elementary students for reading success.

Highlights
  • 220 Dolch sight words
  • 94 additional nouns
  • 6 educational games
  • Preschool to 3rd Grade levels
  • Interactive learning
  • Pronunciation practice
Features
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***** WONDERFULLY EDUCATIONAL READING PROGRAM FOR BEGINNING READERS (AGES 2-7). ***** Developed in cooperation with educational specialists by an award-winning educational studio, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling Abby Basic Skills and reading program Phonics: Fun on Farm, to best prepare your children for success in kindergarten and school curriculum. * Entirety of 220 SIGHT WORDS from the popular Dolch list (with extra 94 NOUNS!)* * Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Categories * *...in 6 engaging EDUCATIONAL GAMES! * ================================ PRESS REVIEW ================================ * "Action Sight Words is an extra-fun "Extra-terrestrial" way to help children learn challenging sight words." * "As a mother of a 1st Grader and a Pre-Schooler, I was quite impressed with this app." Monica, theiphonemom.com * "an awesome level of interactivity" * "hits the mark on being both educational, and entertaining for kids" Apps4Moms.net * "A colorful and quirky mechanical, industrial theme that children will definitely like. A great tool for teaching and allowing your children learn all about sight words" iheartthisapp.com "Provides ample opportunities to learn all 220 Dolch words through a series of six games and activities. The interface is simple and easy to navigate and overall the look is appealing." Jill Goodman, smartappsforkids.com ----- Abby Sight Words with Wordaliens is a new EDUCATIONAL READING APPLICATION by 22learn. The app is designed to help children learn and practice reading the most common sight words. Sight words are words in English language that do not have a simple one-to-one correspondence between sounds and written letters, and therefore have to be learned “by sight. ” Being able to quickly recognize sight words is a crucial part of learning how to read. Sight words mastery is a necessary step towards an enormous reading improvement. Sight Words offers children an easy-to-use interface and a grand choice of six fun educational games through which children can acquire mastery over this subject matter. ----- The 6 GAMES included are: 1. WORD MACHINE Control the Word Machine. Supply all the words that need to be produced by tapping on the words called. 2. SPELLING Your dog is hungry! Make cans to feed him! To make a can, drag the letter cards to their correct place and make a word you have just heard pronounced. 3. BINGO Make a Bingo to get a ticket for Aliens back home! Tap on the word corresponding to the one that you heard pronounced. Once you have matched cards from one side of the board to the next... Bingo! Aliens are back home! 4. MEMORY GAME Match the sounds to correct word forms! To do so, tap on one of the speakers, hear the word, and then select one of the cards below with a correct word. Do it for all words! 5. GEARS Tap on one of the speakers on the screen, hear the word pronounced, and place the word across the speaker. Repeat for all words to see wonderful gears animation. 6. FLASH CARDS Practice in the Flash Card mode. List through the words and top on the cards to hear the words pronounced again and again! ----- Additional Features Include: - Selection of individual words to be practiced within each category - Avatar selection - Choice of capitalized words and upper-case or lower-case letters - Access to best scores ----- Get this app now and enjoy the progress your children are going to make in their reading skills. 22learn, your trusted educational apps developer

About

Learn to Read

This app offers a guided, co-play experience for parents and children aged 3-8 to learn reading skills. It uses research-backed phonics lessons, interactive storybooks, videos, and games to build foundational reading abilities.

Highlights
  • 99 step-by-step phonics lessons
  • 67 interactive digital storybooks
  • 42 educational videos
  • 3 expert-designed reading games
  • Printable offline activities
  • Family subscription with 3 profiles
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Teach your child how to read! Ages 3-8. Reading.com is a fun, co-play experience designed by education experts for you to teach your child to read — with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child can share. RESEARCH-BACKED No cape? No problem. Our program gives you supercharged superparent powers! Reading.com’s research-backed, phonics-based lessons are fully scripted so they don’t require any special training or knowledge for you to become the most powerful teacher your child will ever have. FROM LETTER RECOGNITION TO CONFIDENT READING As your child masters more letters, sounds, and words, they'll unlock a playful world of reading activities including interactive storybooks, videos, digital games, and printable activities. THE MOST MEANINGFUL (TEAM)WORK OF YOUR LIFE Each lesson takes just 15 - 20 minutes to complete and they’re designed for you and your child to go at your own pace. Lessons cover letters, letter blends, long vowel sounds, and digraphs, taking your child from basic alphabetic knowledge to reading at a late 1st grade level. This is the easiest head start you’ll ever give your child! KEY FEATURES - 120 step-by-step phonics lessons for a grownup & child to do together - 84 interactive, decodable, digital storybooks - 42 videos featuring letters, letter sounds, and an exclusive alphabet song - 5 expertly-designed reading games for independent play that practice skills in: letter recognition, letter-phoneme correlation, beginning sounds, vocabulary, letter-writing, spelling - Access to printable games & activities for fun offline reinforcement - One subscription for the whole family with up to 3 profiles - Ad-free Download the app today, help your child learn to read and join other parents raising readers! Privacy Policy: https://www.reading.com/privacy-policy/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Sight Words Reading Games ABC4 screens
Learn to Read4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Learn to Read at weekly against Sight Words Reading Games ABC's every 2 months. Learn to Read also leads on chart position (#15 vs unranked) and review sentiment (81% vs 72%). Sight Words Reading Games ABC's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. Sight Words Reading Games ABC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Learn to Read sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month. 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 — 4.8 for Sight Words Reading Games ABC against 4.7 for Learn to Read. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 70K and 80K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Sight Words Reading Games ABC's written reviews are positive against 81% of Learn to Read's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sight Words Reading Games ABC ships an update every 2 months, Learn to Read weekly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Sight Words Reading Games ABC versus Learn to Read: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSight Words Reading Games ABCLearn to Read
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (70K ratings) — better4.7 (80K ratings)
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews81.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings70K80K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#15 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB264 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCFC s.r.o.Teaching.com

Customer experience

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

All ratings69,011 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews208 reviews
Positive72.1%
Neutral7.7%
Negative20.2%

Learn to Read

All ratings78,071 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews754 reviews
Positive81.0%
Neutral3.6%
Negative15.4%

User reviews

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

From 70K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Engaging for kids
  • 💡 Helpful for learning
  • 🎨 Bright and colorful graphics

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes or freezes on some devices
  • 💰 Paid features not accessible across devices
  • 🔧 Limited customization options
  • 🤔 Unclear progression or difficulty levels

Learn to Read

From 80K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Engaging and fun for kids
  • 🚀 Effective at teaching reading skills
  • 💡 Structured, step-by-step approach
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Promotes parent-child bonding
  • 🎨 Colorful and visually appealing

Room to improve

  • 🤑 Expensive subscription model
  • 🐢 Slow progression for more advanced learners
  • 🤖 Lack of flexibility to customize or skip lessons
  • 🤔 Placement assessment not accurate for all levels
  • 🤯 Frustrating when app crashes or logs out

Bugs and requests

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Purchase not recognized on all devices
  • Cannot change certain avatar elements
  • Sound or music not working for some users

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow custom sight word lists
  • Add more levels and difficulty options
  • Provide narration in different accents
  • Enable family sharing for purchased content

Learn to Read

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • User data loss after app updates
  • Inability to redeem promo codes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to learn cursive writing
  • More independent practice games and activities
  • Ability to jump to appropriate lesson level
  • Support for multiple languages or accents
  • Printable resources like flashcards or worksheets

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

One-time1
  • Sight Word & Flashcards Games$6.99
6 purchases

Learn to Read

Subscriptions6
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial4 variants$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)$12.491 Month
  • Monthly (With Free Trial)$12.491 Month
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  • Monthly Subscription$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Yearly)7 Days trial2 variants$74.991 Year

Questions

Is Sight Words Reading Games ABC free?
Sight Words Reading Games ABC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learn to Read free?
Learn to Read is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learn to Read?
Sight Words Reading Games ABC is rated higher. Sight Words Reading Games ABC averages 4.8 out of 5 from 70K ratings, while Learn to Read averages 4.7 from 80K ratings.
Do Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learn to Read have ads?
Neither Sight Words Reading Games ABC nor Learn to Read shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learn to Read?
Sight Words Reading Games ABC ships an update every 2 months, and Learn to Read weekly. Most recently, Sight Words Reading Games ABC was updated on November 11, 2026 and Learn to Read on November 11, 2026.

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