Comparison

More Trucks HD vs Starfall I'm Reading

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

Head to head
About

More Trucks HD

This creative play app offers four engaging activities designed to spark young imaginations and teach valuable skills like sequencing, sorting, and problem-solving. Children can become firefighters, drive monster trucks, build and demolish with a crane, or tow cars in a junkyard.

Highlights
  • Fire Truck rescue missions
  • Monster Truck driving challenges
  • Construction site building and demolition
  • Tow truck and junkyard activities
  • Teaches sequencing and problem-solving
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An award-winning creative play app, More Trucks has 4 new activities that stimulate young imaginations and teaches sequencing, sorting and problem solving. FIRE TRUCK: Hose down the fire and save San Francisco. MONSTER TRUCKS: Drive 10 monster trucks over bumpy terrain and obstacles. CONSTRUCTION SITE: Build structures then, knock them down with a wrecking ball. TOW TRUCK: Tow cars to the junkyard and pile them up! AGES: 3-7. CATEGORY: Play ACTIVITIES - FIRE TRUCK be a firefighter! Hose down the fire, and save the city of San Francisco - MONSTER TRUCKS drive 10 different monster trucks through an ever-changing, bumpy terrain and over obstacles - CRANE & CONSTRUCTION SITE use a crane to build structures, then knock them down with a wrecking ball - FLATBED TOW TRUCK & JUNKYARD tow cars to the junkyard and pile them up AWARDS - Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award 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

Starfall I'm Reading

This app helps young children transition from learning to read to reading to learn. It offers a selection of stories and activities designed to build comprehension and fluency using high-frequency words in context. An AutoRead feature models fluent reading and can be toggled off for independent readers.

Highlights
  • Stories and activities for reading comprehension
  • Controlled vocabulary with high-frequency words
  • AutoRead feature to model fluent reading
  • Plays, fiction, non-fiction, comics, and fables
  • Audio support for fluency practice
Features
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Starfall® I’m Reading is the fourth step of Starfall’s Learn to Read phonics sequence, which teaches the foundational skills for learning to read. Step 1: ABCs Step 2: Learn to Read Step 3: It’s Fun to Read Step 4: I’m Reading! Starfall I’m Reading is the final step of Starfall’s free early learn-to-read sequence. I’m Reading! focuses on bridging the gap between basic phonics and true reading mastery. The program expands fluency and comprehension through exercise with words from the Dolch and Fry sight word lists. These words are challenging to sound out phonetically, but represent the majority of words found in children’s texts. Familiarity with these words builds confidence and natural ease with reading. The texts cover a wide range of multicultural fiction and nonfiction stories, with clickable words and sentences for fluency assistance throughout. Travel-ready. No internet connection required. Find Starfall I’m Reading, along with 700+ additional activities and counting across reading, math, music, and more in the Starfall app. The Starfall website and applications are program services of Starfall Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3) publicly supported nonprofit organization. Starfall® and Starfall.com® are registered trademarks in the US, the European Union, and various other countries. Copyright © 2002–2026 by Starfall Education. All rights reserved. Starfall apps are inclusively designed to support all children, including English Language Learners (ELLs). Starfall also provides an Enhanced Accessible Index for children with visual, hearing, or mobility impairments. For more information, please contact Customer Service at (+1) 303-417-6414.

Screenshots

Starfall I'm Reading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Starfall I'm Reading at 4.2 against More Trucks HD's 4.0. Starfall I'm Reading also leads on device support (3 vs 1). More Trucks HD's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

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

Starfall I'm Reading holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 47 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of More Trucks HD's written reviews are positive against 67% of Starfall I'm Reading's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

More Trucks HD ships an update every 5 months, Starfall I'm Reading every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
More Trucks HD versus Starfall I'm Reading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMore Trucks HDStarfall I'm Reading
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (29 ratings)4.2 (47 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2947 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDuck Duck Moose LLCStarfall Education Foundation

Customer experience

More Trucks HD

All ratings28 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral7.1%
Negative21.4%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative12.0%

Starfall I'm Reading

All ratings47 ratings
Positive83.0%
Neutral2.1%
Negative14.9%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

More Trucks HD

No in-app purchases

None

Starfall I'm Reading

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is More Trucks HD free?
More Trucks HD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Starfall I'm Reading free?
Starfall I'm Reading is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, More Trucks HD or Starfall I'm Reading?
Starfall I'm Reading is rated higher. More Trucks HD averages 4.0 out of 5 from 29 ratings, while Starfall I'm Reading averages 4.2 from 47 ratings.
Do More Trucks HD or Starfall I'm Reading have ads?
Neither More Trucks HD nor Starfall I'm Reading shows ads.
Which is updated more often, More Trucks HD or Starfall I'm Reading?
More Trucks HD ships an update every 5 months, and Starfall I'm Reading every 10 months. Most recently, More Trucks HD was updated on November 1, 2026 and Starfall I'm Reading on November 8, 2026.

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