Reading Mountain vs Spellexi

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!

Spellexi turns spelling practice into permanent spelling skills. Hi, I'm Cassandra. I'm a homeschool mom (and an engineer, and an education geek), and I built Spellexi because I couldn't find anything that truly helped my daughter with spelling. We'd buy the curriculum, study and practice, but the words weren't improving. I realized we needed a specific kind of simple practice. Spellexi is the tool to do it. HOW IT WORKS Open the app on your phone. Read words aloud while your kid writes each one on paper. Snap a photo of the finished page. Spellexi grades it instantly. Five minutes. The reason it works isn't the photo grading. It's what happens between sessions. Spellexi uses spaced repetition (the same memory science behind serious language learning) plus a built-in Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check review for the words your kid misses. You don't have to think about any of it. Just read the words, watch them write, congratulate them at the end. The "make this actually stick" part runs underneath. SEE IT WORKING After every session you get a celebration screen. You see real progress. You see the words your kid used to get wrong but now gets right. You see the ones they're close to mastering. You see the exact moment a word moves into "mastered." It's the most reassuring thing in homeschool. You stop wondering "is any of this working?" because you can watch, week by week, that yes, it really is. WHAT'S DIFFERENT Most spelling apps gamify drills on a screen. Spellexi keeps the child on paper and the parent in the loop. Most apps test recall. Spellexi confirms whether the word actually stuck. Most spelling curricula ask you to plan the practice. Spellexi handles the word list, the timing, and the spaced review for you. WHO IT'S FOR Spellexi was built for students who struggle with spelling, including kids with dyslexia, dysgraphia, adhd or learning differences. It works with whatever phonics or spelling curriculum you're already using. You don't have to switch. You just add the practice layer that makes it stick. SUBSCRIPTION Spellexi Monthly is $9.99/month. Spellexi Annual is $79.99/year. Both come with a one month free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew at the same price unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in Settings. PRIVACY Spellexi is COPPA-compliant. The parent creates the account and owns the data. Handwritten samples are stored privately and used only to grade your child's practice. Full privacy policy at spellexi.com/privacy. QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK Open Settings in the app and tap "Send Feedback or Request a Feature." Your note comes straight to me. With thanks, Cassandra Spellexi founder Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/