Pettson's Memo vs The Lettervan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pettson's Memo
Engage in a memory matching game with charming characters and their cat. Explore six unique game modes, including picture counting, math, sound, and logic challenges. Enjoy solo play, compete with a friend, or test your skills against the computer.
- Six creative memo game modes
- Play solo, with a friend, or against AI
- Three difficulty levels
- Original artwork
- Kid-friendly interface
- No in-app purchases
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Let's play memo with Pettson and his cat Findus. Pettson has made it extra challenging by creating six different game modes: Regular memo, Picture count memo, Math memo, Sound memo, Logic memo and the exciting Memo memo! Play by yourself, with a friend or against Pettson! With three different difficulty levels, the game suits children of all ages! - 6 different creative ways to play memo! - Play by yourself, against a friend or a computer opponent - Fantastic original artwork! - Kid-friendly interface! - No in-app purchases.
The Lettervan
This educational game helps children develop phonemic awareness and spelling skills through interactive word challenges. Players navigate engaging scenarios while learning to identify and manipulate sounds within words, fostering reading and pronunciation proficiency.
- Phoneme recognition practice
- Interactive spelling challenges
- Word-based animations
- Developed with speech pathologists
- Engaging game scenarios
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Listen to phonemes and practice reading and spelling! Navigate past thorny vines, hangry monsters, and dark clouds - with unique animations for each word spelled. The app, developed in collaboration with speech and language pathologists, is designed to assist children in recognizing that words are composed of phonemes. This ability to identify phonemes within words is closely associated with proficiency in pronunciation, reading and spelling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Lettervan at Free against Pettson's Memo's $3.99. The Lettervan also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 58%). Pettson's Memo's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
The Lettervan is free to download; Pettson's Memo costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Lettervan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Pettson's Memo's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Lettervan's.
Pettson's Memo ships an update every 2 months, The Lettervan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pettson's Memo | The Lettervan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filimundus AB | Rickard Paulsson |
Customer experience
Pettson's Memo
The Lettervan
In-app purchases
Pettson's Memo
No in-app purchases
The Lettervan
No in-app purchases
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