Comparison

SmartySprouts vs I Learn

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

I Learn

This app helps young children aged 4-7 build foundational reading and spelling skills through engaging, interactive word-building games. It focuses on sound awareness, decoding, and word recognition with unique "wiggle-and-replace" gameplay.

Highlights
  • Sound awareness and decoding practice
  • Engaging wiggle-and-replace word building
  • Learning mode for new words
  • Practice mode for mastered words
  • Flexible "Just Read" and "Read & Build" play styles
  • Parent insights for progress tracking
  • Adjustable mastery goals
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Just 10 minutes a day can build strong phonics, reading, and spelling skills — and help children remember what they learn. By changing one sound at a time, children begin to see how words are connected and how small shifts create new words. Children tap a wiggling letter or chunk to replace it — turning cat into hat, then bat — building confidence step by step as readers and word builders. Each session feels fresh, as children choose which letter to change and discover new words as they play. WHY IT WORKS • One small change at a time • Clear, repeatable structure • Builds reading and spelling together LEARNING APPROACH • Word sets are organized in a clear, step-by-step progression • Practice mastered sets anytime to build fluency and confidence PLAY STYLES • Just Read: Focus on listening and word recognition • Read & Build: Build words after reading to strengthen spelling FOR PARENTS • Adjust play style to match your child’s needs • See progress at a glance • Practice anytime with guided, step-by-step learning No ads. Family Sharing enabled.

Screenshots

I Learn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: I Learn at 5.0 against SmartySprouts's 4.5. I Learn also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). SmartySprouts's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

SmartySprouts costs $3.99 and I Learn $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

I Learn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: I Learn has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of SmartySprouts's written reviews are positive against 100% of I Learn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, I Learn monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
SmartySprouts versus I Learn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartySproutsI Learn
Price$3.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings210 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood Neighbor Press, IncPreeti Kancharla

Customer experience

SmartySprouts

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

I Learn

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SmartySprouts

No in-app purchases

None

I Learn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartySprouts free?
SmartySprouts costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is I Learn free?
I Learn costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartySprouts or I Learn?
I Learn is rated higher. SmartySprouts averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while I Learn averages 5.0 from 10 ratings.
Do SmartySprouts or I Learn have ads?
Neither SmartySprouts nor I Learn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartySprouts or I Learn?
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, and I Learn monthly. Most recently, SmartySprouts was updated on November 1, 2026 and I Learn on November 6, 2026.

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