Comparison

Minifonemo vs Oribi Writer Edu

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

Head to head
About

Minifonemo

Features
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Make speech therapy fun with Minifonemo. Minifonemo is a tool to help children with speech sound disorders. To make the training of phonemes fun, Minifonemo works as a game. Saying words out loud is part of the game. • Speech sounds: f, g, k, l, r and s • The speech sound in the beginning of words • 18 cards for each speech sound • A teddy bear says the words out loud If you have played the game memory you can play Minifonemo. Pair cards with images that are alike. In Minifonemo all the images contain words with the current phoneme. When you turn a card the teddy says what is on the card. Say the word out loud. If you want, poke the teddy in the belly and teddy will tell you what’s on the card once again. Do you want to see something funny? Poke the teddy in the belly before you turn the first card! Minifonemo is a smaller version of Fonemo for iPad. Minifonemo is optimized for iPhone or iPod Touch. If you have an iPad we recommend that you download Fonemo and get access to many more options, such as recording, play two players and practice the speech sound in other positions in the word. You can play Minionemo in English, Swedish or Norwegian. To change language you need to change it in the iPad's settings. The number of speech sounds can vary in the different languages. In the family of Fonemo-apps there are • Fonemo - speech sounds, f, g, k, l, r, s (iPad) • Fonemo Foto - speech sounds, f, g, k, l, r, s (iPad) • Minifonemo - a smaller version (iPhone) • Fonemo Lite - a free version to test s-sound (iPad)

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Oribi Writer Edu

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The app that helps you get your spelling right! This version of Oribi Writer is intended for schools and other educational institutions. Do you need spelling and language support while writing or after you have finished, or both? Then the Oribi Writer Edu app is the ultimate writing tool for you. It works as a stand-alone word processor, and its spell checker and grammar checker are quite unique. Oribi Writer Edu is specially designed for people with reading and writing difficulties and dyslexia, but it can be useful to anyone who needs a bit of spelling assistance and language support from time to time. SPELLING SUPPORT Use Oribi Writer Edu to correct or check: - serious spelling mistakes like ”citon" (kitten) or ”sositch” (sausage) - easily confusable words like ”fillings/feelings” or ”meat/meet” - grammar mistakes like ”The cats is hungry” - one word wrongly written as two words, like ”boy friend” - two words wrongly written as one word, like ”Losangeles” - punctuation and spaces. LETTER SOUNDING Oribi Writer Edu can sound out individual letters as you write them. This gives you immediate feedback on the letters that you write. TEXT-TO-SPEECH Oribi Writer Edu can use the synthetic voice included in iOS to read out words or sentences as you write them and/or read out the entire text afterwards. This will often allow you to hear the writing mistakes that you may have made. The settings include: - read out selected text - read out from the cursor onwards - read out each word after it is finished - read out each sentence after it is finished - have the cursor move through the text as it is being read out - adjust the reading pace - on/off. DICTIONARY Oribi Writer Edu has a new English-English dictionary built in. EASILY ADJUSTED TO EACH USER’S NEEDS Personal settings enable you to: - add your own words to the wordlists - decide whether Oribi Writer Edu should warn you about certain easily confusable words or not - use a large wordlist or a small one. KEYBOARD FORMATTING Oribi Writer Edu offers several formatting options: - font - font size - bold, italic, underline - text alignment (flush left, flush right, justified, centred). SHARING TEXTS Texts in Oribi Writer Edu can be shared to other apps, including Mail, Notes, Message, Twitter and Facebook. It is also possible to copy a text, print it, save it to Dropbox, etc. DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT Under ‘Documents’, you can create documents directly under ‘On my iPad’. It is also possible to create subfolders and place documents directly in them. This may come in handy if you need to structure your documents or if several people use the same iPad. In-app purchase Annual Subscriptions: Title: OribiLanguages Duration: Annual Subscription (12 months) Price: 999.00 SEK per year Includes: Access to the app with all four languages Terms and conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of use: https://www.oribi.se/policy/tos/

Screenshots

Minifonemo4 screens
Oribi Writer Edu3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Oribi Writer Edu at Free against Minifonemo's $3.99. Oribi Writer Edu also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Minifonemo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On 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

Oribi Writer Edu is free to download; Minifonemo costs $3.99 up front. Oribi Writer Edu sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $21.99 per year. Minifonemo asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minifonemo ships an update every 19 months, Oribi Writer Edu every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 1 level
Minifonemo versus Oribi Writer Edu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinifonemoOribi Writer Edu
Price$3.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVizuelle Software Stockholm ABOribi AB

In-app purchases

None

Minifonemo

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Oribi Writer Edu

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly Subscription$21.991 Year
One-time1
  • Språk för rättstavning$79.99

Questions

Is Minifonemo free?
Minifonemo costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oribi Writer Edu free?
Oribi Writer Edu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Minifonemo or Oribi Writer Edu have ads?
Neither Minifonemo nor Oribi Writer Edu shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minifonemo or Oribi Writer Edu?
Minifonemo ships an update every 19 months, and Oribi Writer Edu every 2 months. Most recently, Minifonemo was updated on October 26, 2026 and Oribi Writer Edu on October 19, 2026.

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