Comparison

Sight Words Reading Games ABC vs Learning Patterns PRO

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

Learning Patterns PRO

This interactive game helps children develop critical thinking and pattern recognition skills. It offers two learning modes with adjustable difficulty and a wide variety of objects to learn from, keeping young minds engaged.

Highlights
  • Develops critical thinking and reasoning
  • Interactive pattern recognition and completion
  • Two distinct learning modes
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Variety of object collections (letters, numbers, shapes, etc.)
  • Progress summary after each session
Features
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"This app is the gold standard if you want to help your little one learn how to have fun while learning patterns." Learning Patterns helps your child develop critical thinking and mental reasoning skills thus expanding a very important part of their mind. Plus, even adults will have fun playing with this app at the more advanced levels. :-) Approved by parents, teachers, and kids the world over. Learning Patterns is an exciting interactive game that helps you learn how to recognize and complete patterns all with just the touch of your finger. Pattern recognition and completion represents an important developmental skill for kids of all ages. The interface is so easy to use that even a toddler will delight in moving their first objects around the page. The app supports two modes to learning patterns. In the first mode, you decide the type of objects you want to use to learn to recognize patterns such as numbers, letters, images, etc. Once you start, the app will start with the most basic patterns such as ABABAB and it automatically increases the difficulty based on the users skills. The difficulty increases in two ways. First, the patterns get increasingly difficulty. Second, the missing tile moves from the last place to the second place and later the last two tiles are missing. The second mode allows you to zero in on specific patterns and lets students master that pattern with a huge variety of different images. The patterns included in this app are: ABABAB AABBAA ABBABB AABAAB AAABBB ABCABC ABCDAB ABCCBA IF there are other types of patterns you would like us to add please let us know and we can easily get them added. In total, the app focuses on 8 unique patterns and includes 3 levels of difficulty for each pattern like this: ABABA? A?ABAB ABAB?? The app also comes with over 25 unique collections of items to learn patterns. This way you can learn patterns by letters, numbers, colors, shapes, dots, balloons, hats, fruits, vegetables, animals, vehicles, etc. The huge variety of patterns and collections means that there are almost an infinite way of learning patterns which ensures to keep kids excited and engaged vs. getting bored by always staring at the same content. Not only that, at the end of every session you automatically get a beautiful summary to see exactly how your little one did. HEROIC SUPPORT Heroic Support is not just what we do. It's really what makes us, well, us. It's that drive to make a difference in your life - no matter how big or small. Really, it's our way of life because we want you to be our customer for a lifetime of fun and learning. Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@alligatorapps.com

Screenshots

Sight Words Reading Games ABC4 screens
Learning Patterns PRO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sight Words Reading Games ABC at Free against Learning Patterns PRO's $2.99. Sight Words Reading Games ABC also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (68K vs 6). Learning Patterns PRO's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sight Words Reading Games ABC is free to download; Learning Patterns PRO costs $2.99 up front. Sight Words Reading Games ABC sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Learning Patterns PRO asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learning Patterns PRO holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sight Words Reading Games ABC has 68K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Sight Words Reading Games ABC's written reviews are positive against 100% of Learning Patterns PRO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sight Words Reading Games ABC ships an update every 2 months, Learning Patterns PRO every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Sight Words Reading Games ABC versus Learning Patterns PRO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSight Words Reading Games ABCLearning Patterns PRO
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (68K ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings68K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.06.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCFC s.r.o.Innovative Mobile Apps

Customer experience

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

All ratings69,011 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews207 reviews
Positive72.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative20.3%

Learning Patterns PRO

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Learning Patterns PRO

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sight Words Reading Games ABC

One-time1
  • Sight Word & Flashcards Games$6.99
None

Learning Patterns PRO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sight Words Reading Games ABC free?
Sight Words Reading Games ABC is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Learning Patterns PRO free?
Learning Patterns PRO costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learning Patterns PRO?
Learning Patterns PRO is rated higher. Sight Words Reading Games ABC averages 4.8 out of 5 from 68K ratings, while Learning Patterns PRO averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learning Patterns PRO have ads?
Neither Sight Words Reading Games ABC nor Learning Patterns PRO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sight Words Reading Games ABC or Learning Patterns PRO?
Sight Words Reading Games ABC ships an update every 2 months, and Learning Patterns PRO every 17 months. Most recently, Sight Words Reading Games ABC was updated on October 24, 2026 and Learning Patterns PRO on September 29, 2026.

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