Mentava Reading vs Emojiglot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mentava Reading
This app guides students from beginner to independent reading with step-by-step instruction. It is designed to foster self-sufficient and independent learners.
- Step-by-step reading guidance
- Zero to independent reading
- Fosters independent learners
- Designed for self-sufficiency
- iPad compatible
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Mentava is now available as an iPad app! Contact your teacher for login instructions. Mentava guides students step-by-step along the entire reading journey from zero to independent reading. It's designed from the ground up to help students become self-sufficient, independent learners.
Emojiglot
This app makes learning to read and hear new languages fun for kids. Children build sentences with emojis and hear them read aloud, with words highlighted as they are spoken. It supports six languages and offers a safe, offline experience with no ads or tracking.
- Build sentences with emojis
- Hear sentences read aloud
- Word highlighting during audio
- Supports 6 languages
- Offline functionality
- Customizable character voices
- Safe design for kids
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Emojiglot turns learning to read and hearing new languages into a giggle. Kids build a silly sentence by tapping three emoji (an animal, an action, and a place), then hear their creation read aloud, with every word lighting up in time with the voice. Tap an emoji or a word to hear it again, or tap a flag to hear the whole sentence in another language, where Chinese shows each character with its pinyin, colored by its Mandarin tone. Six languages, side by side: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese. On the result screen the sentence plays through each language your child is learning, then their own, one after another, so a new word is heard in context again and again. The whole app speaks your family's language. Choose a primary language and every screen, button, and label is in it, from English to Deutsch, Español, Français, or Italiano, and pick which languages your child is learning. It all lives on the device and is remembered between visits. Pick a funny character voice, like a squeaky mouse, a big giant, or a sleepy sloth, and each one introduces itself in your language, then reads your sentence in its own voice. Made for ages 6 to 8 and safe by design: • No ads, no in-app purchases, no third-party tracking. • No accounts and no data collection of any kind. • Fully offline. Every voice is bundled in the app, so it works on a plane, in the car, anywhere. • The only ways out, rating the app or sharing it, sit behind a grown-up gate. What kids practice: • Reading: matching emoji to words, then reading the words themselves. • Listening: natural, expressive voices for every word and sentence. • Six languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese with tone-colored characters and pinyin. • Confidence: there are no wrong answers. Every silly sentence is a win, and every one earns a star. Simple enough for a pre-reader to use alone, rich enough to keep a new reader coming back for one more silly sentence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Emojiglot at 5.0 against Mentava Reading's 3.8. Emojiglot also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Mentava Reading's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Emojiglot holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mentava Reading has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mentava Reading ships an update fortnightly, Emojiglot every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mentava Reading | Emojiglot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 374 MB | 245 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mentava | Bespokely Inc. |
Customer experience
Mentava Reading
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In-app purchases
Mentava Reading
No in-app purchases
Emojiglot
No in-app purchases
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