The Lettervan vs Pix World
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Lettervan
This educational game helps children develop phonemic awareness and spelling skills through interactive word challenges. Players navigate engaging scenarios while learning to identify and manipulate sounds within words, fostering reading and pronunciation proficiency.
- Phoneme recognition practice
- Interactive spelling challenges
- Word-based animations
- Developed with speech pathologists
- Engaging game scenarios
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Listen to phonemes and practice reading and spelling! Navigate past thorny vines, hangry monsters, and dark clouds - with unique animations for each word spelled. The app, developed in collaboration with speech and language pathologists, is designed to assist children in recognizing that words are composed of phonemes. This ability to identify phonemes within words is closely associated with proficiency in pronunciation, reading and spelling.
Pix World
Document pixel art found in the streets worldwide. Capture artwork with accurate framing, build a personalized digital passport of your discoveries, and explore a world map of geotagged art. Compete with friends and share your finds.
- Capture pixel art with accurate framing
- Build a personalized digital passport
- Geotagged world map of discoveries
- Earn badges and compete with friends
- Share artwork and metadata
- Offline collection storage
- Accessibility features
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Pix World is your Pixel Passport: a personal field journal for pixel art found in streets around the world. Discover a mosaic, photograph it accurately and preserve the encounter. Pix World keeps the original wall photo, creates a corrected collectible and places the discovery on your personal map. CAPTURE THE ARTWORK, NOT THE ANGLE • Take a photo in the app with location captured at the same moment. • Use automatic frame detection or position the four corners yourself. • Long-press a corner for a magnified view and apply perspective correction. • Keep both the original and corrected image. BUILD YOUR PIXEL PASSPORT • Add a title, tags and custom categories. • Browse as a notebook, grid, list or image-only Street display. • Group discoveries alphabetically, by city, region, date, category or tag. • Name your passport, choose a favourite find for its cover and revisit each city as a chapter of your story. • Choose an urban, graphic or kawaii style for your personal collection. • See every geotagged artwork on a world map. EXPLORE AND COMPETE • View city, region, country, capture date and map position. • Earn badges for collection size, daily discoveries and distance records. • Compare original, location-verified discoveries with friends through Game Center leaderboards. SHARE IT YOUR WAY • Send a Pix World collectible containing its image and selected metadata so another user can add it to their collection. • Create square or story social cards with the artwork, place, date and Pix World signature. • Share through Messages, Mail, WhatsApp and any compatible app. PRIVATE AND SAFE Your collection is stored on your device and synchronized through your private iCloud account. Pix World has no advertising SDK, no account system and no third-party analytics. You control whether exact GPS coordinates are included when sharing. ACCESSIBLE WORLDWIDE Pix World supports VoiceOver, Voice Control, Dynamic Type, increased contrast and reduced motion. The app is available in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Japanese. One purchase. No subscriptions and no in-app purchases. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: The Lettervan at Free against Pix World's $2.99. The Lettervan also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On review sentiment, 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
The Lettervan is free to download; Pix World costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Lettervan ships an update every 4 days, Pix World every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Lettervan | Pix World |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rickard Paulsson | Jean-Baptiste Meyer |
Customer experience
The Lettervan
Pix World
In-app purchases
The Lettervan
No in-app purchases
Pix World
No in-app purchases
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