Comparison

Abjad vs Cosmic Cadets

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

Head to head
About

Abjad

This app offers a playful and engaging way for children aged 3-7 to learn Arabic. It features a guided learning path covering the alphabet, vowel marks, syllables, and words, with interactive activities, games, and stories. Parents can track progress and manage child profiles with built-in controls.

Highlights
  • Guided learning path for Arabic alphabet and words
  • Interactive tracing, spelling, and listening activities
  • Four themed learning worlds
  • Stories and songs with interactive elements
  • Arcade games for practice
  • Parental controls and child profiles
  • Progress tracking and rewards system
Features
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Abjad makes learning Arabic joyful for young children. Follow one guided learning path through the whole alphabet, then on to vowel marks, syllables and words, collecting stickers and coins along the way, through play, not pressure. WHY PARENTS LOVE ABJAD • One guided path: letters, vowel marks (harakat), syllables, then whole words • Covers all 28 Arabic letters, with real recordings for every letter, syllable and word • Built for ages 3-7: simple, intuitive, distraction-free • Audio, visuals and hands-on play for deeper learning • All 28 letters and all 4 core worlds are free to learn, a few steps a day • A short placement check lets a child who already knows letters start further along • A daily goal with a treasure chest keeps practice short and rewarding • Child profiles with parental controls: choose which letters and games each child sees • Streaks, milestones and progress tracking keep kids motivated • No reading required to begin: fully icon and audio-driven THE LEARNING PATH • Four magical worlds (the desert, the oasis, the sea and the mountains), seven letters each: meet the letter, trace it, then prove you know it • Then Vowel Marks, Syllable Blend and Words, so letters turn into real reading • After that, Explorer practice never runs out, mixing a variety of activities on what your child has learned • Earn stickers, coins and a daily chest, spin the reward wheel, and dress up your explorer 41 INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES IN THE EXERCISES MENU Short guided activities for everything your child is learning: • Arabic letters: tracing, spelling, listening, memory games, letter forms and harakat • Reading: vowel marks, syllables, building and reading whole words • Colors World: matching, mixing, sorting and coloring • Numbers World: counting, patterns and tracing, in Arabic or Arabic-Indic numerals • Countries: a quiz and a spin-the-wheel, unlocked as your child meets countries • Careers World: Doctor, Chef, Builder, Farmer, Pilot, Teacher and Police Plus word packs: themed words with pictures and sounds, starting with a free farm pack THE ARCADE • Whack-a-Mole, Sliding Puzzle, Match 3, Memory Match and Catch the Fruit • Play with tokens exchanged from the coins you have earned • Leaderboards in every game STORIES AND SONGS • Illustrated stories read aloud, in two fully vowelled reading levels • Branching endings, a hidden sticker on every page and a short quiz at the end • Folk-tale favorites like Juha beside original animal stories, with new ones every month • Songs for the alphabet and for every world ABJAD PREMIUM One simple annual subscription, with a 3-day free trial: • No daily limit, and bigger prizes from the daily chest and reward wheel • Explorer practice tailored to what your child finds tricky • Every premium game and every word pack • New stories first, for fewer coins, plus Premium-only stories • Multiple child profiles, parental controls and a detailed progress board BONUS WORLDS Premium subscribers can unlock themed bonus worlds (Arab Countries, Colors, Numbers and Careers) with coins earned in the app. See how it works, screen by screen: https://nativemelon.com/abjad Questions or feedback? Email admin@nativemelon.com - we respond promptly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://nativemelon.com/abjad-privacy-policy/

About

Cosmic Cadets

Features
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Blast off into a friendly galaxy where every problem solved flies your rocket a little farther. Cosmic Cadets is a gentle, ad-free space adventure that helps kids ages 5–8 build real math confidence — counting, adding, subtracting and more — one short, joyful mission at a time. No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No tracking. Just the fun of getting it right. THE ADVENTURE • Journey across a star map of 15 hand-crafted levels • Each level is a quick mission of bite-sized problems • Solve them to fly your rocket across the screen and earn up to 3 stars • Friendly retries — a wrong answer never scolds; your cadet just tries again WHAT KIDS PRACTICE • Counting and number recognition • Addition and subtraction • Finding the missing number • More or less (comparing numbers) • First steps in multiplication (groups of 2, 5 and 10) Younger cadets count colorful space objects; older cadets work with the numbers themselves. GROWS WITH YOUR CHILD • Difficulty quietly adapts to each child, one skill at a time • Answer with ease and the numbers grow; find it tricky and it gently eases back • So the very same game fits a brand-new counter and a confident little adder COLLECT AND EXPLORE • Earn stars to unlock rocket ships and cute alien companions • A collection to come back to — with no coins to buy, ever • Set up several kid profiles on one device, each with its own progress FOR GROWN-UPS • A math-gated Parent Zone shows exactly which skills your child is mastering • Turn the sound effects and gentle background music on or off • Absolutely no ads, no purchases, no sign-ups — and nothing ever leaves the device PRIVACY YOU CAN TRUST • No accounts. No sign-ups. • No analytics. No ads. No tracking. • Everything stays on your child's device. • Delete the app and it all goes with it. Whether your cadet is just learning to count or starting to multiply, Cosmic Cadets turns practice into a trip through the stars — calm, encouraging, and made to grow right alongside them.

Screenshots

Abjad4 screens
Cosmic Cadets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cosmic Cadets at none against Abjad's 1. Abjad's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Abjad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Cosmic Cadets asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Abjad ships an update every 9 days, Cosmic Cadets every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Abjad versus Cosmic Cadets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAbjadCosmic Cadets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNative Melon Consulting LLCJohn Doan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Abjad

Subscriptions1
  • أبجد المميز سنوي3 Days trial$4.991 Year
None

Cosmic Cadets

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Abjad free?
Abjad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cosmic Cadets free?
Cosmic Cadets is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Abjad or Cosmic Cadets have ads?
Neither Abjad nor Cosmic Cadets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Abjad or Cosmic Cadets?
Abjad ships an update every 9 days, and Cosmic Cadets every 2 months. Most recently, Abjad was updated on November 10, 2026 and Cosmic Cadets on November 13, 2026.

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