Comparison

Sentence Reading Magic vs Phonic Flashcards

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

Head to head
About

Sentence Reading Magic

This app helps emerging readers transition from reading individual words to reading full sentences. It uses evidence-based reading principles and engaging games to build phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

Highlights
  • Sentence reading practice
  • High-frequency word games
  • Phonemic awareness activities
  • Phonics and blending
  • Vocabulary building
  • Fluency and comprehension practice
  • Decodable sentences and books
Features
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Introducing "Sentence Reading Magic" – the app designed to transform your child into an excellent reader! Built on evidence-based Science of Reading principles, this app bridges the gap between reading words and reading books, focusing on the crucial skill of reading sentences. By offering a gradual and enjoyable step up from reading individual words, it instills confidence and fosters skill building in emerging readers. With its Sentence Reading Magic feature, this app empowers children to become proficient readers while familiarizing them with essential high frequency words and guiding them from reading words to reading sentences. By providing practice in decoding, blending, and comprehending complete sentences, it prepares young readers to tackle decodable sentences and books, all while boosting fluency and comprehension skills. What sets "Sentence Reading Magic" apart is its incorporation of the five pillars of reading – Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency, and Comprehension. Through engaging games and activities, the app helps children recognize and manipulate individual sounds in words, understand the relationship between letters and sounds, expand their vocabulary within a sentence context, and practice reading sentences repeatedly to enhance fluency and comprehension. The app offers four captivating sentence games that aid in building, reading, and spelling out short, simple sentences. Additionally, it includes five mini-games for learning and practicing the most common high-frequency words, using a phonetic approach to help children see patterns within these words. "Sentence Reading Magic" boasts 324 sentences divided into 27 lessons, multiple sound and voice options, and three font choices. However, it's important to note that the app requires children to have a prerequisite skill level of consistently and easily reading 3-letter short vowel words before use. Developed by a team of educators using accelerated learning techniques, Montessori principles, and the Science of Reading, "Sentence Reading Magic" has undergone rigorous testing and garnered approval from preschool children and their teachers in various settings. Your feedback and suggestions are highly valued as we continue to refine and enhance the app for an optimal learning experience. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock your child's reading potential with "Sentence Reading Magic" – where learning to read becomes a magical journey!

About

Phonic Flashcards

This educational app helps young children build a strong foundation for reading and spelling by teaching phonics. It uses interactive flashcards with professional voiceovers and includes engaging games to reinforce learning.

Highlights
  • Interactive phonics flashcards
  • Professional voiceovers for phonemes and words
  • Multisensory word-building game
  • Picture-word matching activity
  • Phonological awareness quiz
  • Reward arcade games
  • Multiple voice accents
Features
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We've been making educational software for twenty years, and this is by far the best educational app we have ever made. We wish every child could use it before they start school. Why are Phonic Flashcards better than regular flashcards? Because when you learn with Phonic Flashcards, the phonemes (letters and digraphs) are sounded out! The word "fish" becomes "fff" "i" "shhh", with all words and phonemes recorded by a professional voice artist, helping to build a solid phonics foundation for reading (and spelling) success! All our apps are designed to maximize learning outcomes, while also being super easy to use. Parents do not need a degree in order to use Phonic Flashcards to teach their child how to read. Phonic Flashcards makes a great classroom activity for literacy centers, as well as for one-on-one teaching and assessment, and also whole-class instruction when teaching short vowel sounds. Ages 4-7 plus remedial Includes 200+ flashcards, mainly common nouns. Each interactive card features a picture, which you can tap to hear a fun sound effect. Choose whether to have the words voiced, sounded-out, or both! Tap the letters and digraphs to hear each phoneme. Blend them together to sound-out the word. Hide the picture to administer a reading test. Begin with the sounds of the alphabet. Next learn to read CVC words, focusing on each short vowel sound. Then progress on to 4-5 letter words with blends and common digraphs. Choose a phoneme/sound from the "Digraphs Menu" which includes: ck, sh, ch, th, ng, oo, ee, oa, ou, ai, ea, oi, oy, ow, aw, ir, ar, or, and ur. Full details of all of the Word Lists can be found at: www.phonicflashcards.com As well as FLASHCARDS, there are three additional activities: SHADOWS - a multisensory word-building game which is visual and tactile, while also reinforcing phonemes. MATCH UP! - simply involves matching words with pictures. Turn off the sound cues to test word recognition. WHICH WORD? - a game-show style phonological awareness quiz, to test students on initial sounds and rimes. Upon completing each activity, children are rewarded with a simple tap-tap style arcade game of their choice, Frog Hop or Fish Food. Please refer to the PDF Guide (found at www.phonicflashcards.com) for full details of all the activities, and "How to teach your child to read using Phonic Flashcards". The Phonic Flashcards app requires no setting up, apart from choosing your voice accent the very first time you use it. There are USA, UK and Australian speech options. (You may change voice accent at any time in ‘Settings’ via the cog icon on the front screen.) We care about your child's privacy. This app contains: no ads, no in-app purchases, no sharing of data, no tracking of your location, and no links to social media. If you like our apps, please support us by reviewing and/or rating them in the app store! If you have any suggestions to make our apps better, please contact us directly via our website (www.phonicflashcards.com)

Screenshots

Sentence Reading Magic4 screens
Phonic Flashcards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Phonic Flashcards at 4.7 against Sentence Reading Magic's 4.4. Phonic Flashcards also leads on price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.0). Sentence Reading Magic's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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

Sentence Reading Magic costs $4.99 and Phonic Flashcards $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Phonic Flashcards holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Sentence Reading Magic's written reviews are positive against 88% of Phonic Flashcards's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sentence Reading Magic ships an update every 2 months, Phonic Flashcards every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sentence Reading Magic versus Phonic Flashcards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSentence Reading MagicPhonic Flashcards
Price$4.99$0.99 — better
Rating4.4 (12 ratings)4.7 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1219 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.06.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size309 MB73 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITYMichael Harvey

Customer experience

Sentence Reading Magic

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Phonic Flashcards

All ratings19 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral5.3%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

Bugs and requests

Sentence Reading Magic

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Outside links are not childproofed

Requested features

3 requests
  • Tally marks or alternative to teddy bears on scorecard
  • Setting to slow down spoken words in sentence building
  • More powerful and amazing features in upcoming updates

Phonic Flashcards

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sentence Reading Magic

No in-app purchases

None

Phonic Flashcards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sentence Reading Magic free?
Sentence Reading Magic costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phonic Flashcards free?
Phonic Flashcards costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sentence Reading Magic or Phonic Flashcards?
Phonic Flashcards is rated higher. Sentence Reading Magic averages 4.4 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Phonic Flashcards averages 4.7 from 19 ratings.
Do Sentence Reading Magic or Phonic Flashcards have ads?
Neither Sentence Reading Magic nor Phonic Flashcards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sentence Reading Magic or Phonic Flashcards?
Sentence Reading Magic ships an update every 2 months, and Phonic Flashcards every 8 months. Most recently, Sentence Reading Magic was updated on October 23, 2026 and Phonic Flashcards on October 24, 2026.

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