Comparison

Teaching Money vs Phonics Puzzles Premium

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

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About

Teaching Money

This app helps students learn about money by recognizing coins and notes, making purchases, and understanding currency. It offers interactive modules for sorting, saving, and shopping, with support for Australian, UK, and US currencies.

Highlights
  • Recognize coins and notes
  • Practice paying for objects
  • Understand currency values
  • Learn to give change
  • Interactive sorting tasks
  • Digital toy store scenarios
  • Teacher tool for discussion
Features
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Little Monkey Apps Teaching Money provides another format to help your students become more familiar with money, recognising coins and notes, paying for objects, coins and notes of equal value and giving change. The App is split into a teaching module and five task based modules; Sorting coins and notes, Piggy Bank, Toy Store, Giving Change and Show Me. At this stage, Little Monkey Apps Teaching money is in Australian Dollars, UK Sterling and US Dollars. All coins and notes have been altered in line with country laws. (We've put our logo on!) Use the flag to select the currency. Apologies if we keep saying dollars, but you know what we mean! Use the settings tool to have coins start on tails or a mix of heads and tails. Little Monkey Apps Teaching Money is aimed at providing digital scenarios or task based money questions. It does not replace the importance of play based and open ended real life experiences. The App enhances your classroom pedagogy, by providing a different way of presenting the same curriculum standard. Teacher Tool A blank screen with coins at the side. Use this tool to discuss money, look at the notes, give verbal scenarios to children etc. Use the pencil tool just as you would use a whiteboard, then the camera tool to record what the student has achieved. You might like to use it in their learning portfolio, revisit the problem in a subsequent lesson, display on your large screen to discuss with a small or whole group etc. Don't forget to use real coins with your students (plastic or laminated ones too) for that shop corner you are going to set up or for all those fantastic money games that you have. Personal favourites are money stamps and an ink pad, coin rubbing, bingo, card match, 'learn to earn' days and board games which use money. Sorting coins and notes This task asks the student to sort the coins and notes from the middle plate to the correctly labelled plate. If they get a coin or note incorrect, the plate, the coin or note wobbles once the coins and notes have ALL been placed. This way, they have a chance to self correct before being told they are wrong immediately. Three levels, coins, notes and coins and notes. Double click the coin to turn the coin or note to its alternate side. Piggy Bank Put the coins and notes in the piggy bank to see the money added up. Double click the pig or shake the iPad to tip the money back out. Use as a helper to addition problems or worded pocket money. Or let the children play to see how much money they can possibly put in! Toy Store This task asks students to buy more than one toy for the amount given. Level 1 up to ten dollars through to level nine up to $250. its highly unlikely that young students would be able to do level nine, but we had one child who was ACE at adding money so we put this in for him! Off the iPad, we suggest setting up a toy fruit store or bakery, toy cash register, toy money and allowing the children to PLAY, PLAY, PLAY in this area. You also might like to visit a local market and have each group of children buy a set of items (or one item each), returning to school to make fruit salad (or something else you are allowed to do).You might even get onto the discussion of price differences and price per weight amount. Giving Change The student is asked to put coins into the hand for the change they will get from the given amount. Level 1 up to ten dollars, up to level 5 for $20 with a note and coin change. Show Me This module asks you to show two different ways of making a value e.g. five dollars, placing the two separate ways on the two plates. Levels one asks for up to one dollar to level five up to twenty dollars. It is great teaching point to watch and ask students why they chose a particular way of making up the amount. Similarly, you could have students work in pairs to encourage the verbal discussion of how to go about the task.

About

Phonics Puzzles Premium

This app helps young children learn phonetic sounds through engaging puzzles. It offers a variety of colorful puzzles, customizable gameplay, and accurate pronunciation, all based on the Jolly Phonics system. Designed to enhance cognitive skills in a fun, playful environment.

Highlights
  • Learn phonetic sounds, not just the alphabet
  • Over 160 original phonics puzzles
  • Play by phonics group or random selection
  • Fully voiced with correct pronunciation
  • Choice of British, American, or Australian English
  • Parental gate for safe usage
Features
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Available in British, American and Australian English. Give your children a head start by teaching them phonics at an early age! Phonics Puzzles is designed to help children understand the different phonetic sounds, rather than the alphabet. By completing puzzles and practicing the different phonics groups, Phonics Puzzles improves your child's cognitive skills in a fun and playful way. The game includes a wide selection of colourful puzzles with the option of completing puzzles within specific phonics groups or via a randomized endless selection of puzzles. Phonics Puzzles runs great on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch devices running iOS 9.0 or higher. Features: • Choose between British, Australian and American English. • Over 160 original phonics puzzles. • Play a quick random puzzle game or play by phonics group. • Fully voiced with correct phonics pronunciation. • Voiced by B.J. Rowling, cousin of Harry Potter author, J.K.Rowling. • Choose between lower and uppercase characters. • Based on the Jolly Phonics system, published by Jolly Learning Ltd. • Parental gate to keep your child within the app. • Turn snapping of puzzles pieces on or off for easier gameplay. • Colourful graphics with support for all devices running iOS 9.0 or higher.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Phonics Puzzles Premium at 5.0 against Teaching Money's 4.0. Phonics Puzzles Premium also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 14 months). Teaching Money's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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

Teaching Money costs $1.99 and Phonics Puzzles Premium $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Phonics Puzzles Premium holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Teaching Money's written reviews are positive against 90% of Phonics Puzzles Premium's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Teaching Money ships an update every 14 months, Phonics Puzzles Premium every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Teaching Money versus Phonics Puzzles Premium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeaching MoneyPhonics Puzzles Premium
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews90.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 14 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAleesha KondysBram Van Damme

Customer experience

Teaching Money

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

Phonics Puzzles Premium

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive90.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.5%

In-app purchases

None

Teaching Money

No in-app purchases

None

Phonics Puzzles Premium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Teaching Money free?
Teaching Money costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phonics Puzzles Premium free?
Phonics Puzzles Premium costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Teaching Money or Phonics Puzzles Premium?
Phonics Puzzles Premium is rated higher. Teaching Money averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Phonics Puzzles Premium averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Teaching Money or Phonics Puzzles Premium have ads?
Neither Teaching Money nor Phonics Puzzles Premium shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Teaching Money or Phonics Puzzles Premium?
Teaching Money ships an update every 14 months, and Phonics Puzzles Premium every 2 months. Most recently, Teaching Money was updated on November 6, 2026 and Phonics Puzzles Premium on November 1, 2026.

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