Comparison

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools vs My Table Book

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

Head to head
About

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools

This educational app teaches children the rules of the silent final "e" in English phonics through engaging games. It helps develop essential reading skills like blending and segmenting, fostering phonemic awareness and strong reading foundations.

Highlights
  • Teaches silent final 'e' rules
  • Develops phonemic awareness
  • Engaging blending and segmenting games
  • Sequenced curriculum and lesson tracking
  • Discourages picture guessing
  • Suitable for ESL learners
Features
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Unlock the Magic of Reading with READING MAGIC 5! Transform your child into a confident reader with READING MAGIC 5! This app makes learning to read an exciting adventure through interactive activities focused on words containing silent final e words. Meticulously designed to provide an advanced boost to your child’s phonemic awareness, this app combines three foundational pillars of literacy science into one powerful, interactive ecosystem: Blending (Listening), Segmenting (Speaking), and Decoding (Reading). Grounded firmly in Science of Reading principles and utilizing University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI) guidelines, READING MAGIC provides specific, precise training with extensive repetitions to help young brains bridge the gap between spoken sound units and complete words. IDEAL FOR BOTH BEGINNING PRE-READERS AND STRUGGLING READERS For Beginning Pre-Readers: A stress-free launchpad. By practicing words through pure sound sequences first, your child masters the internal mechanics of reading without cognitive overload. This keeps them from being frustrated by trying to learn separate, difficult skills at the same time. For Struggling or Remedial Readers: If your child's reading is hesitant or choppy, or if they guess at words, this app provides the targeted intervention recommended by modern reading science to help young brains bridge the gap. THREE CRITICAL SKILL-BUILDING PILLARS While many phonics programs completely overlook the auditory mechanics of reading, our program systematically guides your child through the complete progression of decoding: Skill 1: Blending (Listening): Interactive listening activities train your child’s neural processing ability to hear isolated sounds in words and join them together mentally. This builds the vital auditory runway required for future fluency. Skill 2: Segmenting (Speaking): True spelling and reading independence require the ability to pull spoken words apart into their individual sound units. These exercises build explicit awareness of the acoustic structure of language. Skill 3: Decoding (Reading): The ultimate bridge to literacy. Your child applies their mastery of blending and segmenting directly to text, smoothly moving from spoken sounds to visual words. STRUCTURAL SPACING & INSTRUCTION (Science-Backed Layout) Our app builds the actual findings of reading science directly into the user interface for maximum visual clarity: Anti-Crowding Design: Peer-reviewed research, including Marinus et al. (2016) and Wery & Diliberto (2017), demonstrates that generous letter spacing is critical for early decoding. By placing each letter on its own isolated card with distinct physical gaps, our layout eliminates visual crowding, allowing your child to isolate each sound unit cleanly. True Comprehension: The app strictly discourages picture guessing, forcing children to rely purely on their decoding skills to foster true comprehension and build lasting confidence. INDEPENDENT LEARNING & AESTHETIC SIMPLICITY Distraction-Free: Our minimalist design eliminates overstimulating audio-visual clutter, excessive sound effects, and animations to keep your child entirely focused on the mechanics of reading. Stress-Free Growth: Built-in natural feedback loops offer gentle corrections, nurturing self-discovery and independent learning at your child's own pace. EXPERT RESEARCH BACKING "Before a child can read fluently with their eyes, they must be able to blend fluently with their ears. Weakness in auditory blending is one of the strongest early predictors of later reading failure." — Dr. Joseph Torgesen, Florida State University. "Teaching students to blend and segment benefited their reading much more than did a multiple-skills approach... and teaching phonemic awareness with letters created effect sizes almost twice as large as teaching children without letters." — The National Reading Panel (NRP) Meta-Analysis

About

My Table Book

This educational app teaches children about numbers, tables, and various measurement systems. It offers interactive learning through audio and a play button for listening to entire pages, covering topics from basic arithmetic to time and weight.

Highlights
  • Number and table learning
  • Measurement systems (time, length, weight, etc.)
  • Audio learning support
  • Interactive page playback
  • Roman numerals and numeration systems
  • British measurement systems
Features
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App contains numbers and their names, tables from 1 to 20, tables 1/2, 14, and 3/4 of forms, classification of numbers, Roman numbers, numeration system, measures of time, days of the week, months in a year, measures of length, linear measure, measures of weight, measures of capacity, measures of area, measures of volume, British system of measuring capacity, British system of measuring weight, measures of number, jubilee table, read your clock and Indian coins. Users can click and learn via audio, they can also press the lower play button to listen whole page.

Screenshots

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools2 screens
My Table Book4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: My Table Book at Free against READING MAGIC 5 for Schools's $3.99. My Table Book also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 48 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). READING MAGIC 5 for Schools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On 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

My Table Book is free to download; READING MAGIC 5 for Schools costs $3.99 up front. My Table Book sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. READING MAGIC 5 for Schools asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools ships an update every 48 months, My Table Book every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
READING MAGIC 5 for Schools versus My Table Book: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterREADING MAGIC 5 for SchoolsMy Table Book
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews87.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 48 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.711.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size203 MB35 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITYfirdous fatima

Customer experience

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

My Table Book

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

READING MAGIC 5 for Schools

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

My Table Book

One-time1
  • Disable Ad and work offline$0.99

Questions

Is READING MAGIC 5 for Schools free?
READING MAGIC 5 for Schools costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Table Book free?
My Table Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do READING MAGIC 5 for Schools or My Table Book have ads?
My Table Book shows ads; READING MAGIC 5 for Schools does not.
Which is updated more often, READING MAGIC 5 for Schools or My Table Book?
READING MAGIC 5 for Schools ships an update every 48 months, and My Table Book every 6 weeks. Most recently, READING MAGIC 5 for Schools was updated on October 29, 2026 and My Table Book on October 12, 2026.

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