Comparison

Duck Duck Moose Reading vs Blending Board

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

Head to head
About

Duck Duck Moose Reading

This app offers interactive games and activities designed to teach young children phonics and letter sounds. Kids can collect animals and build their own zoo scenes while learning foundational reading skills. Developed with educators, it aligns with Common Core Standards.

Highlights
  • 9 word and letter activities
  • Teaches phonics and letter sounds
  • Spelling practice for CVC words
  • Parent reporting tool
  • Aligned with Common Core Standards
  • Zoo scene creation
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*** Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner - Parents’ Choice Foundation *** Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award for Excellence in Design Join Milo the Meerkat and his sidekick Puffs at the zoo on a phonics learning adventure! Duck Duck Moose Reading has 9 different word and letter activities that help kids learn by feeding and playing with flamingos, monkeys, lions, and more. Collect animals and make your own zoo scene as you learn more letter sounds. AGES 3-7. CATEGORY: Curriculum 9 WORD AND LETTER ACTIVITIES - Teaches phonics - the letter sounds for all consonants, short vowels, and long vowels - Practice spelling consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words PARENT REPORTING - Includes a new reporting tool so teachers and parents can see how a child is progressing and which letter sounds they have learned DEVELOPED WITH EDUCATORS - Based on the Common Core State Standards - Foundational Skills of Reading - Developed in conjunction with a Stanford University educator, Jennifer DiBrienza, PhD in Early Elementary Education, and a former NYC public school teacher (K-Grade 2) - Tested extensively in classrooms BASED ON COMMON CORE STANDARDS - Letter-sound and word activities - Recognizing and naming lowercase letters - Demonstrating knowledge of letter-sound correspondences - Isolating and pronouncing sounds in CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words - Covered CCSS include: RF.K.1d, RF.K.2d, RF.K.2e, RF.K.3a, RF.K.3b _________________ Brought to you by Duck Duck Moose, the creator of Wheels on the Bus and Itsy Bitsy Spider and winner of 15 Parents’ Choice Awards. Check out more fun, educational apps from Duck Duck Moose: Favorite Nursery Rhymes: - Wheels on the Bus - Old MacDonald - Itsy Bitsy Spider - Baa Baa Black Sheep - Peek-a-Zoo (Animal Book for Toddlers) Curriculum Based Learning: - Fish School (Letters, Numbers, Colors, Matching) - Park Math (Addition, Subtraction, Patterns) - Word Wagon (Letters, Phonics, Spelling) - Musical Me! (Music, Notes, Pitch, Rhythm) - Puzzle Pop (Animated Puzzles for all ages) - [NEW!] Duck Duck Moose Reading (Phonics) Creative Play: - Draw and Tell (Draw, Color, Record Voice) - Trucks (Carwash, Tow Truck, Recycling) - [NEW!] More Trucks (Fire Truck, Monster Trucks) - Princess Fairy Tale Maker - Superhero Comic Book Maker ABOUT DUCK DUCK MOOSE (A wholly-owned subsidiary of Khan Academy) Duck Duck Moose, an award-winning creator of educational mobile apps for families, is a passionate team of engineers, artists, designers, and educators. Founded in 2008, the company has created 21 top-selling titles and has received 21 Parents’ Choice Awards, 18 Children’s Technology Review Awards, 12 Tech with Kids’ Best Pick App Awards, and a KAPi award for “Best Children’s App” at the International Consumer Electronics Show. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with a mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Duck Duck Moose is now part of the Khan Academy family. Like all Khan Academy offerings, all Duck Duck Moose apps are now free, without ads or subscriptions. We rely on our community of volunteers and donors. Get involved today at www.duckduckmoose.com/about. Check out the Khan Academy app to learn and practice all kinds of topics for elementary school through college and beyond. We’d love to hear from you! Visit us at www.duckduckmoose.com or drop us a line at support@duckduckmoose.com.

About

Blending Board

This app helps teachers and parents teach phonics and blending sounds for reading. It allows users to create and customize decks of phonemes for blending activities, supporting both simple and multisyllabic word decoding. Shared decks via QR codes streamline instruction.

Highlights
  • Create custom phoneme decks
  • Blend sounds for word decoding
  • Practice multisyllabic rules
  • Personalize visual deck design
  • Share decks via QR codes
Features
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The Blending Board App is a powerful educational tool for teachers and parents working with dyslexic learners or anyone else still learning the foundations of blending sounds (phonics) and the multisyllabic rules of English. In this App users will find an easy-to-use resource that allows them to create a deck of phonemes that can be substituted and manipulated to create various kinds of blending activities. The decks enable users to practice decoding simple words, and multisyllabic words, too. Blending Board also offers a unique opportunity for creative flexibility by granting users design options when creating personalized decks that are visually appealing. The end product is a professional-looking, personalized deck of educational materials that users can integrate into instruction with one or many, and which can be used time and again. An easy-to-use QR code system allows the personalized decks to be shared with anyone who has the app, so that the teacher's time can be focused on teaching, not navigating complicated technology.

Screenshots

Duck Duck Moose Reading4 screens
Blending Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Blending Board at 4.3 against Duck Duck Moose Reading's 3.8. Blending Board also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (81 vs 25). Duck Duck Moose Reading's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 65%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). On price, update cadence, 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

Blending Board holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 81 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Duck Duck Moose Reading's written reviews are positive against 65% of Blending Board's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Duck Duck Moose Reading ships an update every 11 months, Blending Board every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Duck Duck Moose Reading versus Blending Board: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDuck Duck Moose ReadingBlending Board
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (25 ratings)4.3 (81 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better64.5% of reviews
Number of ratings2581 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 10 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuck Duck Moose LLCChain Reaction Games LLC

Customer experience

Duck Duck Moose Reading

All ratings25 ratings
Positive68.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative16.0%

Blending Board

All ratings81 ratings
Positive81.5%
Neutral4.9%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral12.9%
Negative22.6%

In-app purchases

None

Duck Duck Moose Reading

No in-app purchases

None

Blending Board

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Duck Duck Moose Reading free?
Duck Duck Moose Reading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Blending Board free?
Blending Board is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Duck Duck Moose Reading or Blending Board?
Blending Board is rated higher. Duck Duck Moose Reading averages 3.8 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Blending Board averages 4.3 from 81 ratings.
Do Duck Duck Moose Reading or Blending Board have ads?
Neither Duck Duck Moose Reading nor Blending Board shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Duck Duck Moose Reading or Blending Board?
Duck Duck Moose Reading ships an update every 11 months, and Blending Board every 10 months. Most recently, Duck Duck Moose Reading was updated on October 22, 2026 and Blending Board on October 24, 2026.

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