Comparison

SibTime vs Reading Mountain

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

Head to head
About

SibTime

Features
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SibTime is a dual-language (English/Spanish), interactive mobile app designed to support families with young kids whose siblings have disabilities or health concerns. The app provides families with activities that foster positive family functioning and address the unique needs of young siblings. SibTime includes engaging features for parent/caregiver and child to access together, such as live-action videos of young children sharing their questions and feelings with their parents, animated social stories that highlight different animal families navigating sibling experiences, and interactive reflection activities that help children reflect on their own experiences and feelings and help their parents/caregivers to hear their young children’s thoughts and experiences. The app also includes a dedicated parent/caregiver section, offering valuable tools and evidence-based parenting strategies to meet the needs of young siblings, reduce stress, manage emotions, and strengthen family functioning. SibTime empowers busy parents and caregivers with strategies that work to support their young children with siblings who have disabilities or health concerns.

About

Reading Mountain

This app builds foundational reading skills by focusing on phonemic awareness through interactive sound manipulation activities. It helps early and struggling readers, including those with dyslexia, to hear, segment, and blend sounds in words, creating a strong base for literacy.

Highlights
  • Break words into sounds
  • Find specific sounds
  • Blend sounds to form words
  • Swap sounds to create new words
  • Interactive sound manipulation activities
Features
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Break, Find, Blend, and Swap Sounds to Build Reading Skills! Give your student a strong foundation for reading with this engaging phonemic awareness app! Instead of focusing on letters, the app uses sound tiles to help students hear and manipulate sounds, making early reading development fun and effective. Research has shown that phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and work with sounds in words—is an essential foundational skill for reading and spelling. This app guides learners through interactive activities designed to strengthen their ability to hear, segment, and manipulate sounds in words, laying the foundation for decoding skills. Key Features: - Break words into individual sounds - Find specific sounds in a word - Blend sounds together to form words - Swap sounds to create new words Designed for early and struggling readers and students with dyslexia of all ages, this app makes phonemic awareness engaging and effective. Start building a strong base for reading success today!

Screenshots

SibTime4 screens
Reading Mountain4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SibTime at monthly against Reading Mountain's every 6 months. Reading Mountain's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SibTime ships an update monthly, Reading Mountain every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
SibTime versus Reading Mountain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSibTimeReading Mountain
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperORBIS, IncLEARN MOUNTAIN LLC

In-app purchases

None

SibTime

No in-app purchases

None

Reading Mountain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SibTime free?
SibTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Reading Mountain free?
Reading Mountain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SibTime or Reading Mountain have ads?
Neither SibTime nor Reading Mountain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SibTime or Reading Mountain?
SibTime ships an update monthly, and Reading Mountain every 6 months. Most recently, SibTime was updated on October 27, 2026 and Reading Mountain on October 25, 2026.

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