Comparison

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends vs Learn to Read

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

Head to head
About

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends

This program helps children learn essential phonemic awareness skills, including blends, digraphs, and long vowels. It uses engaging activities like Bingo and word searches to teach reading and spelling of over 300 words, making learning fun and rewarding.

Highlights
  • Teaches blends, digraphs, and long vowels
  • Introduces phonemic awareness skills
  • Spelling and reading practice for 300+ words
  • Engaging activities: Bingo, Memory Match, Word Search, Riddles
  • Tracks words needing practice with reports
  • Suitable for special needs and home-schooling
Read full description

This program introduces more complex sounds used in English - Blends, Digraphs and Long Vowels. Our mission is to inspire children to Love Learning. We accomplish this by designing a program which rewards kids for every effort they make towards learning. During the course of this program child will be introduced to all the essential phonemic awareness skills focussed here. Child can practice the skills at his/her own pace and learn to spell and read more than 300 words using this program. Blends, Digraphs, Silent–e Sounds, Long Vowel Words are all practiced in every possible way, equipping child to perform best at school as well. Activities such as – Bingo, Memory Match, Word Search and Riddles will make learning all the more fun and rewarding. Activities are appropriate for special needs and home-schooling kids as well. Utmost care has been taken in the selection of words, pictures and sounds. An ideal complement to your school’s phonics program! Engaging, hands-on, and motivating activities to make learning fun. Equips Kids with a complete guided program. Words which need practise are tracked and are shown in report.

About

Learn to Read

This app offers a guided, co-play experience for parents and children aged 3-8 to learn reading skills. It uses research-backed phonics lessons, interactive storybooks, videos, and games to build foundational reading abilities.

Highlights
  • 99 step-by-step phonics lessons
  • 67 interactive digital storybooks
  • 42 educational videos
  • 3 expert-designed reading games
  • Printable offline activities
  • Family subscription with 3 profiles
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Teach your child how to read! Ages 3-8. Reading.com is a fun, co-play experience designed by education experts for you to teach your child to read — with the love, care, and joy only a parent and child can share. RESEARCH-BACKED No cape? No problem. Our program gives you supercharged superparent powers! Reading.com’s research-backed, phonics-based lessons are fully scripted so they don’t require any special training or knowledge for you to become the most powerful teacher your child will ever have. FROM LETTER RECOGNITION TO CONFIDENT READING As your child masters more letters, sounds, and words, they'll unlock a playful world of reading activities including interactive storybooks, videos, digital games, and printable activities. THE MOST MEANINGFUL (TEAM)WORK OF YOUR LIFE Each lesson takes just 15 - 20 minutes to complete and they’re designed for you and your child to go at your own pace. Lessons cover letters, letter blends, long vowel sounds, and digraphs, taking your child from basic alphabetic knowledge to reading at a late 1st grade level. This is the easiest head start you’ll ever give your child! KEY FEATURES - 120 step-by-step phonics lessons for a grownup & child to do together - 84 interactive, decodable, digital storybooks - 42 videos featuring letters, letter sounds, and an exclusive alphabet song - 5 expertly-designed reading games for independent play that practice skills in: letter recognition, letter-phoneme correlation, beginning sounds, vocabulary, letter-writing, spelling - Access to printable games & activities for fun offline reinforcement - One subscription for the whole family with up to 3 profiles - Ad-free Download the app today, help your child learn to read and join other parents raising readers! Privacy Policy: https://www.reading.com/privacy-policy/ Terms and Conditions: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends4 screens
Learn to Read4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Learn to Read at 81% against Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends's 20%. Learn to Read also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 14 months). Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Learn to Read is free to download; Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends costs $2.99 up front. Learn to Read sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $12.49 per month. Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn to Read has 77K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends's written reviews are positive against 81% of Learn to Read's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends ships an update every 14 months, Learn to Read every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends versus Learn to Read: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLong Vowels, Digraphs, BlendsLearn to Read
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (77K ratings)
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews81.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings177K — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank—#12 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB263 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArni Solutions Pvt. Ltd.Teaching.com

Customer experience

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

Learn to Read

All ratings75,292 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews739 reviews
Positive81.1%
Neutral3.5%
Negative15.4%

Bugs and requests

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Learn to Read

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional app crashes or freezes
  • User data loss after app updates
  • Inability to redeem promo codes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Option to learn cursive writing
  • More independent practice games and activities
  • Ability to jump to appropriate lesson level
  • Support for multiple languages or accents
  • Printable resources like flashcards or worksheets

In-app purchases

None

Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Learn to Read

Subscriptions9
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial5 variants$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)2 variants$12.491 Month
  • Monthly (With Free Trial)$12.491 Month
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  • Monthly Subscription$12.491 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$14.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Monthly)7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Learn to Read (Yearly)7 Days trial$66.991 Year
  • Learn to Read (Yearly)7 Days trial2 variants$74.991 Year

Questions

Is Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends free?
Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Learn to Read free?
Learn to Read is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends or Learn to Read?
Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends is rated higher. Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Learn to Read averages 4.7 from 77K ratings.
Do Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends or Learn to Read have ads?
Neither Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends nor Learn to Read shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends or Learn to Read?
Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends ships an update every 14 months, and Learn to Read every 5 days. Most recently, Long Vowels, Digraphs, Blends was updated on October 13, 2026 and Learn to Read on October 21, 2026.

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