Comparison

First Grade Math Challenge vs Abby Phonics

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

Head to head
About

First Grade Math Challenge

Practice addition and subtraction skills with a barnyard theme. Collect and learn about animals by completing timed math challenges, unlocking fun facts and sounds. An in-app upgrade offers more levels and animals permanently.

Highlights
  • Addition & Subtraction practice
  • Barnyard animal collection
  • Timed math challenges
  • Learn animal facts
  • Animal sounds
  • Gradually increasing difficulty
Features
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Practice math skills and learn about animals around the barn! * Addition & Subtraction Edition is perfect for grades K-3 but still challenging and fun for everyone, even adults! * Collect and learn about barnyard animals by completing timed math challenges * Innovative dual learning opportunity, learn interesting facts about different animals while practicing math skills! * Tons of fun facts about each animal to learn and share with your friends! * Listen to each animal! * No annoying ads to distract from game play! This game is perfect for a First Grade, Second Grade, or Third Grade student! The levels gradually increase in difficulty as the game progresses.

About

Abby Phonics

This app helps young learners develop phonics skills through interactive exercises and flashcards. It offers customizable lessons, printable worksheets, and custom audio recording for personalized learning. Designed for teachers and parents, it covers a wide range of phonetic categories and word recognition.

Highlights
  • Interactive phonics exercises
  • Flashcards with audio
  • Customizable lessons
  • Printable PDF worksheets
  • Custom audio recording
  • Word search game
  • Over 240 words
Features
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***************************** Search for our other FREE "Abby Phonics" series "Abby Phonics - Kindergarten" "Abby Phonics - First Grade" "Abby Phonics - Second Grade" "Abby Phonics - Third Grade" "Abby Phonics - Fourth Grade" "Abby Phonics - First Words" ***************************** Designed to be used by Teachers in classrooms or by Parents at home - all lessons are PDF-able to be printed out on paper for students. Abby Phonics First Grade helps young learners improve and enforce their phonics skills with flashcards and interactive exercises. The interactive exercises strengthen your children’s reading, sentence completion, writing, spelling, and more. Abby Phonics First Grade even has a word search to further your children’s spelling abilities as well as keeping them engaged. Parents can also customize each exercise to their children’s learning level as well as print PDF pages to take Abby Phonics First Grade off the device and onto paper.   PHONETIC CATEGORIES: ---------------------------------- • Short A • Short E • Short I • Short O • Short U • Long A • Long I • Long O • Long U • Consonant Blends with S • Consonant Blends with R • Consonant Blends with L • Vowel Pairs: AI and AY • Vowel Pairs: EE and EA • Vowel Pairs: OA and OW • Vowel Pairs: OO • Y as Long I • Y as Long E • Consonant Pairs: CH and SH • Consonant Pairs: TH and WH • Consonant Pair Endings: CH, SH, and TH • Ending Pair: NG   INTERACTIVE EXERCISES: ---------------------------------- • Word Cards – Learn each word and its spelling. • Spelling – Arrange the letters in the correct order to spell the image. • Writing – Write the word that you hear and/or see. • Sentences – Choose the word that best completes the sentence. • Matching – Match the words to their correct pictures. • Riddles – Choose the word that best answers the riddle. • Word Search – Find the words that correspond to each lesson. • Review – Choose the word that contains the letter that they just learned.   CUSTOM AUDIO RECORDING ---------------------------------- • Teachers/parents have the ability to record their own audio. • Record letter and word sounds so your children can learn to your voice. • Toggle between custom and default audio. CUSTOM SETTINGS: ---------------------------------- • Parents are able to customize the exercises to their children’s needs. • Choose answer options of images, words, or both. • Turn hints on and off. • Customize the word search difficulty with backwards words and diagonals. • Customize the writing exercise with traceable words that can be turned on and off. • Customize the PDF worksheets that you print out.   FEATURES: ---------------------------------- • Over 240 words • Pictures for every word • Sounds for every word • Letter pronunciations • 8 interactive exercises                               • Customizable exercises • Printable PDFs

Screenshots

First Grade Math Challenge4 screens
Abby Phonics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: First Grade Math Challenge at 4.0 against Abby Phonics's 3.3. First Grade Math Challenge also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%). Abby Phonics's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (4.3 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

First Grade Math Challenge holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of First Grade Math Challenge's written reviews are positive against 50% of Abby Phonics's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
First Grade Math Challenge versus Abby Phonics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFirst Grade Math ChallengeAbby Phonics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better3.3 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.04.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEric MarschnerArch Square

Customer experience

First Grade Math Challenge

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative13.3%

Abby Phonics

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

First Grade Math Challenge

No in-app purchases

None

Abby Phonics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is First Grade Math Challenge free?
First Grade Math Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Abby Phonics free?
Abby Phonics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, First Grade Math Challenge or Abby Phonics?
First Grade Math Challenge is rated higher. First Grade Math Challenge averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Abby Phonics averages 3.3 from 4 ratings.
Do First Grade Math Challenge or Abby Phonics have ads?
Neither First Grade Math Challenge nor Abby Phonics shows ads.

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