ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full vs PLAY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full
This app offers a digital magnetic board experience for children to learn letters, numbers, and shapes. It encourages creativity and imagination with a vast collection of pieces and themed sets, making learning fun and engaging for kids of all ages.
- Digital magnetic board experience
- Learn alphabet, numbers, and shapes
- Creative play with themed sets
- Resize and rotate pieces
- Save compositions as images
- Includes all expansions
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Play with your kids and teach them to write with the Magnetic Alphabet! It's the iPad edition of the old fashioned magnetic board suitable for kids of all ages! An infinite source of fun and a great way to stimulate their imagination and creativity! It comes with a rich set of colored pieces that can be placed freely on the board: letters, numbers, symbols, funny figures and themed sets. This version includes all the available expansions and will also include future expansions without additional costs. ----- ### Featured by Apple as New and Noteworthy in September 2010! ### ----- Reviews on the web: * ipadmodo.com: "Magnetic Alphabet is a great tool for everyone. It aids in teaching preschoolers their alphabets/numbers, a learning tool in teaching one how to spell or sending messages to friends and family! The characters on the app are rendered beautifully and provided with nominal sound effects! [...] Magnetic Alphabet is recommended for kids of all ages, especially to those parents with kids who are just beginning to learn their alphabet and numbers!" * padgadget.com: "Just like the letters we all know and love, these new high tech “magnets” are colorful and fun to play with! Kids of all ages can use them to create messages, practice spelling or make funny pictures!" * product-reviews.net: "A great game that teaches children the alphabet and numbers! [...] allows children to be creative and not have to worry about rules and features found on more demanding games" ----- One of the best educational apps for kids, chosen from dozens of schools around the world to teach the alphabet and numbers in a fun new way. A simple and straightforward app, which stimulates creativity and imagination because it has no rules: your kids will freely create endless stories with the shapes of the classic set and with the themed magnets. An excellent tool for those who have problems with learning or communication: there are many cases in which children with autism have benefited from the use of the application. It will help your kids to: * learn the alphabet * learn to spell words * learn to recognize letters * learn to recognize numbers * learn to recognize shapes * learn to compose their first words and sentences Key features: * More than 1250 pieces available (including expansions)! * Alphabet, numbers, signs, shapes and themed sets * 11 different backgrounds * Themes composed by a set of magnets and a background * Resize and rotate magnets * Set the default size for magnets * Every single magnet can be used more than once * Save the composition as image locally * No need to pick up dozens of pieces all around the room when the game ends! If you have any problem write us at abc@dotnext.it! :-)
PLAY
This app uses virtual Play-Doh to teach children the alphabet. Kids can trace letters, learn new vocabulary, and create custom Play-Doh scenes. It also includes letter matching games and progress tracking for parents.
- Virtual Play-Doh letter tracing
- Vocabulary association with letters
- Customizable Play-Doh creations
- Play-Doh scene building
- Letter matching games
- Progress tracking for parents
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“Top 20 Best Apps of the Week” - The Guardian UK “The perfect blend of nostalgia and learning opportunities” - About.com “Fun, mess free way for learning”-Yahoo Voices “Well-thought out, educationally beneficial, colorful”- The Learning Treehouse “Completely transforms the way kids interact with technology” - Appshappens.com Learn your ABCs using ‘virtual’ PLAY-DOH modeling compound with this delightfully interactive educational app! PLAY-DOH Create ABCs application is designed to help children develop the essential skills required for reading and writing. Using this app, children will learn to: recognize letters, write letters using proper stroke order and associate letters with sounds. WRITE AND CRAFT! Learn how to write letters of the alphabet by using ‘virtual’ PLAY-DOH modeling compound. Discover new vocabulary words that start with the same letter. What starts with the letter A? An alligator! But be careful, it’s ready to chomp! When you successfully complete each letter, you are rewarded with a ‘virtual’ PLAY-DOH treat that you can create and customize. Want to change the color? Go ahead! Want to squish it? You can do that, too! CREATE AND SHARE! Build your own PLAY-DOH scenes with your PLAY-DOH creations. The PLAY-DOH gallery is just a click away on the ‘create and share’ button. There you can enjoy all the animated, colorful objects you make as you work your way through the letters of the alphabet. Select your favorite background and then bring PLAY-DOH scenes to life with custom PLAY-DOH pictures. Save your creations on your phone or tablet and share them with others! LETTER MATCHING Click on the ‘match’ button and you can enjoy a new activity: matching letters with the PLAY-DOH creations. The ‘match’ feature reinforces initial letter sounds by matching letters with objects that start with the same sound. A letter select screen allows you to play the activity on any letter you choose. Can you match the letters of the alphabet to the different PLAY-DOH creations? Give it a try! PLAY-DOH Create ABCs includes: -Tracing of uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet -Exciting ‘virtual’ PLAY-DOH treats -Poem and animations to re-enforce learning letter sounds -‘Squishable’ PLAY-DOH animations! -A matching activity to match letters with pictures -A letter select screen that allows children to choose any letter to play -A creativity zone, the PLAY-DOH gallery, where kids design custom PLAY-DOH scenes -A save-to-camera feature where parents can save and share their child’s colorful creations -Curriculum developed and reviewed by preschool education expert s -Multiplayer profiles that allow more than one child to play and save their progress -Parental reporting to show progress PLAY-DOH Create ABCs will help children develop: -Language and pre-reading skills, including letter recognition and phonemic (sound) awareness and knowledge. - Fine motor skills and coordination -Their creativity via ‘learning by doing’ NOTE: Before you download this experience, please consider that this app contains in-app purchases that cost money. Additional content cannot be unlocked without spending money. ABOUT PLAYDATE DIGITAL PlayDate Digital Inc. is an emergent publisher of high-quality, interactive, mobile educational software for children. PlayDate Digital's products nurture children's emerging literacy and creativity skills by turning digital screens into engaging experiences. PlayDate Digital content is built in partnership with some of the world's most trusted global brands for kids. Visit us: playdatedigital.com Like us: facebook.com/playdatedigital Follow us: @playdatedigital Watch all our app trailers: youtube.com/PlayDateDigital1 HAVE QUESTIONS? We'd love to hear from you! Your questions suggestions and comments are always welcome. Contact us 24/7 at info@playdatedigital.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: PLAY at Free against ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's $12.99. PLAY also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and 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
PLAY is free to download; ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full costs $12.99 up front. PLAY sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full asks for nothing beyond the download.
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's written reviews are positive against 51% of PLAY's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full ships an update every 6 weeks, PLAY every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full | PLAY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (13 ratings) — better | 4.2 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 51.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 222 MB | 243 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dot Next srl | PlayDate Digital |
Customer experience
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full
PLAY
In-app purchases
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full
No in-app purchases
PLAY
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Unlock All Alphabets$3.99
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