School Fonts vs Talking ABC lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
School Fonts
This app helps users learn to write letters, numbers, and words in US-approved plain and cursive fonts. It allows for custom word lessons, audio recording, and progress tracking, making it a flexible tool for educators and parents.
- Trace letters, numbers, and words
- Customizable word lessons
- Record audio responses
- Progress tracking with accuracy
- Multiple user profiles
- Email tracings and recordings
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Learn to write the correct letters, numbers and words in the US education approved plain and cursive fonts. D’Nealian and Zaner-Bloser. In this Free version, numbers are complete, the first three letters in lowercase and uppercase are available and one words lesson is enabled. Feature Highlights: • Create your own words lessons • Students can trace and record audio answers • For early to adult education • Can be used for spelling lists, sight words and any other content you wish to create • Customise all content including images, sounds and teacher example tracings • Lock app to limit student customization • Automatically, by choice, email the student's tracings and audio recordings as a webpage to the teacher or parent at the end of a completed lesson. • Create and manage multiple profiles School Fonts allows the teacher or parent to prepare word lessons using written instructions, unique images and audio instructions, to which the student can respond using written and audio recordings. School Fonts maximizes the flexibility for a teacher or parent who wants to create his or her own content. For example, instructors can create words with missing letters together with unique images and user-created audio recordings that provide a rich learning environment. Unlimited activities can be created and customized to the individual levels of student learning needs. Activities can include: spelling lists where the student writes the word and records audio of the spelling, Dolch sight words, circle the vowels, write the opposite and much more. School Fonts features four activity areas including Words, Numbers, Lower Case and Upper Case. Each lesson features a large tracing area, on which the student can use their finger, or for penmanship instruction, a stylus, to trace the letters, numbers, or words. Also included with each lesson is the ability to play an audio recording of the lesson, the ability for the student or teacher to record their own audio instruction or response, a reset button, and three different tracing options: outlines with directional tracing arrow prompts, solid lines without arrow prompts, and dot representations. Teacher tracing allows teachers to record their own example tracings for each letter and number, which replay when the student taps the Learn button. Teacher tracing offers the ability to record audio behind the tracing to replay for letter sounds or phonetics or as simple tracing instructions. This allows for regional variations of the letter sounds. With tracing accuracy turned on to easy, medium or hard the students are rewarded with a half or full star depending on their accuracy. The default teacher tracings or your customisations of the teacher tracings are used as the basis for checking the students tracing accuracy. This allows for complete flexibility over stroke direction for left hand writers. The Words activity section allows students to learn to read, write, say and spell pre-programmed teacher or parent created words. The Numbers activity section includes an image button with a picture of a number of items that correspond to the number being learned, which also can be customized. The Lowercase and Uppercase activity sections also feature the customizable photo and sound options. Teachers can create, save and share their verbal and word lessons, profiles and customizations, with complete control over the management of the lessons, the app and student profiles. Full import and export functions are included. Teachers or parents can lock the app into a restricted student mode using a four digit PIN. In student mode, word lessons cannot be created or deleted and profiles cannot be changed. Other options are available such as hiding the homepage external links. The app also has internal encouragements that can be turned off and customized via the settings.
Talking ABC lite
This app offers an engaging way for young children to learn the alphabet through animated claymation characters. It features interactive games, puzzles, and a catchy song to make learning fun and effective for preschoolers.
- Animated claymation letters A-Z
- Two learning modes: letters and sounds
- Catchy alphabet song
- 26 talking animation animals
- Four educational games
- Puzzles with animated animals
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! Winner of the FWA MOTD Award 2013 ! App of the Month -- Fun2Tap.com "Talking ABC is the best animated app that I’ve seen yet." -- AppStoreArcade.com “One of the most engaging and innovative ABC apps on the market.” -- theiMum.com “It’s a fun, unique way for little ones to practice their letter recognition.” -- SmartAppsForKids.com "I would 100% recommend this app to my friends and family." -- theiPhoneMom.com “impressive to say the least.” -- 148apps.com “Talking ABC is a great example of how a letter app can make a great impression.” -- FunEducationalApps.com “is a fun alphabet app starring 26 claymation creations.” -- AppyMall.com “It’s perfect for pre-schoolers to complement their first alphabetical experience at school and at home.” -- AppsPlayground.com "Talking ABC… is fun and efficient." -- iGameMom.com “Talking ABC… Is a delightful alphabet app which includes charming and impressive claymation animals.” -- GiggleApps.com “is a great place to start their journey into the world of reading.” -- TapScape.com “Talking ABC is certainly fun, but, best of all, it works!” -- Fun2Tap.com “is a great solution for combining playing and learning processes and guarantees perfect results.” -- AppsRumors.com FEATURES: - Exciting learning of letters from A to Z - Unique clay art - 2 learning modes – letters and sounds - Funny and catchy alphabet song - 26 amazing animation animals with talking mode - Kid-friendly interface - Each talking character has its individual voice - 4 exciting and educational games - Puzzles with animated animals - Full Retina Display support Play, Learn, Have Fun! With Talking ABC! Requires at least iPad 2, iPhone 4 or iPod touch (4th gen) - or newer. Find out more at: http://www.jutiful.com/abc Follow Talking ABC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkingABC Animation created by +energetic- Animation Studio www.nrgtc.com Watch the Official trailer: http://youtu.be/ElUImOqsmXc Listen the Official soundtrack: http://youtu.be/IMbzvVDZERc
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Talking ABC lite at 93% against School Fonts's 0%. Talking ABC lite also leads on rating (4.1 vs 1.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. School Fonts sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Talking ABC lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Talking ABC lite holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Talking ABC lite has 36 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of School Fonts's written reviews are positive against 93% of Talking ABC lite's.
School Fonts ships an update every 5 months, Talking ABC lite every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | School Fonts | Talking ABC lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.1 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 92.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 4.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | demografix pty ltd | HEY CLAY |
Customer experience
School Fonts
Talking ABC lite
In-app purchases
School Fonts
- All Letters$0.99
- All Words$0.99
Talking ABC lite
No in-app purchases
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