Comparison

ABC Magic Sparks vs Ankipan

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

Head to head
About

ABC Magic Sparks

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ABC Magic Sparks turns early learning into a colorful adventure for young children. Explore 198 learning levels and 12 playful activities with clear visuals, friendly sounds, and large controls: • Learn every letter from A to Z • Trace uppercase letters and drag to match them • Collect stars and guide the alphabet snake • Discover colors, numbers, shapes, fruits, vehicles, and animals • Hear animal sounds and sing along with the ABC song • Choose from six narration voice styles • Collect stickers and awards as you play Core activities work offline. Optional speaking practice requires microphone and speech-recognition permission and on-device recognition support. Other activities remain available if speaking practice is unavailable or permission is denied. No account, advertising, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. The app uses no analytics or tracking. Progress and settings stay on your device. Parent settings are protected by an adult arithmetic gate. Made by KeyQuest Studio for iPhone and iPad.

About

Ankipan

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Ankipan is a flashcard app built the way an iPhone app should be: a stack of cards you flip and swipe, with a serious spaced‑repetition scheduler doing the remembering. **Study by swiping** Cards sit in a pile. Tap to flip, swipe right for Again, left for Good, up for Easy. Undo is one tap away. A session ends with a small recap you can share. **Answer the way that fits** A card can simply flip, or ask you to type the answer, say it aloud, or pick it from four options drawn from your own deck. Spoken answers are matched by reading, so kanji and kana of the same word both count. **Hear it** Speech fields are read aloud in their language, and a word can be pronounced through its reading column so it always comes out right. **Decks are tables** Every deck is a simple table: fields you name, card kinds you choose — which fields are shown, which are revealed, how you answer. Start from a template, import a CSV/TSV from Files, Numbers or Sheets, or type rows yourself. Edit any deck later and give it an icon. **Or describe one** On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, write a sentence — "50 everyday Spanish verbs with an example sentence" — and Ankipan proposes the fields and fills the rows on‑device. Everything it makes is editable. **Scheduling that remembers for you** Reviews are scheduled with FSRS‑6, the modern open‑source spaced‑repetition algorithm: fewer reviews, better retention, no settings to tune.

Screenshots

ABC Magic Sparks4 screens
Ankipan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ankipan at Free against ABC Magic Sparks's $0.99. ABC Magic Sparks's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Ankipan is free to download; ABC Magic Sparks costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
ABC Magic Sparks versus Ankipan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABC Magic SparksAnkipan
Price$0.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaor MachaniZeyi Fan

In-app purchases

None

ABC Magic Sparks

No in-app purchases

None

Ankipan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ABC Magic Sparks free?
ABC Magic Sparks costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ankipan free?
Ankipan is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ABC Magic Sparks or Ankipan have ads?
Neither ABC Magic Sparks nor Ankipan shows ads.

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