Reading Eggs vs Kinderloop Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reading Eggs
This program helps children aged 2-13 develop reading and math skills through interactive games, lessons, and e-books. It offers a comprehensive curriculum based on scientific research, designed by educators to foster phonics, comprehension, and numeracy.
- Interactive reading games
- Guided reading lessons
- Over 4,000 e-books
- Phonics and comprehension focus
- Early numeracy skills
- Progress tracking dashboard
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Reading Eggs is the multi-award winning learning program that helps children learn to read. Based on scientific research and designed by experienced elementary teachers, it’s proven to help kids learn to read using interactive reading games, guided reading lessons, fun activities, and over 4,000 e-books. Reading Eggs has already helped over 20 million children worldwide learn to read. Access all our premium learning programs for up to four children: • Reading Eggs Junior (ages 2–4): Toddlers build pre-reading skills such as phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge with fun activities, games, videos, and read-aloud books. • Reading Eggs (ages 3–7): Children take their first steps in learning to read, covering phonics, sight words, spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension. • Fast Phonics (ages 5–10): A systematic, synthetic phonics program to help emergent and struggling readers build key phonics skills. • Reading Eggspress (ages 7– 13): Continues the learning journey by helping children learn to read for meaning and enjoyment. • Mathseeds (ages 3–9): Develops essential early numeracy skills, covering numbers, measurement, shapes, patterns, and more. ABOUT THE READING EGGS LEARN TO READ APP • TRUSTED: used in over 12,000 schools and trusted by elementary educators. • SELF-PACED: children are matched to the perfect level and progress with self-paced, one-on-one lessons. • HIGHLY MOTIVATING: the reward system consists of golden eggs, collectable pets, and games, motivating children to keep learning. • RESEARCH-BASED: based on scientific research and the most up-to-date learning principles on the most effective way children learn to read. • COMPREHENSIVE: Reading Eggs is a complete learn to read system for children aged 2–13 and covers the five essential components of reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. • PROVEN RESULTS: our hundreds of testimonials, multiple awards, 91% success rate AND money-back guarantee gives you the confidence in knowing that your child will learn to read using the most effective and results-driven online reading curriculum. • SEE REAL PROGRESS: see instant results in your very own parent dashboard and receive detailed progress reports, which show you exactly where your child is improving and where extra attention is needed. • LEARN TO READ ON THE GO! Your child can learn to read anytime, anywhere on a desktop or tablet device. Users must log in with their account details to access Reading Eggs. Min requirements: • Wireless internet connection • iPad (5th Generation), iPad Air 2, iPad Pro 1st Generation • iPad Mini 4 • iPhone - last 5 models of iPhone • OS Version - iOS 15.8+ • An active trial or subscription Recommended devices and iOS version: • Latest iPad, Latest iPad Air, Latest iPad Pro • Latest iPad Mini • Latest iPhone • Latest iOS Version Note: Teacher accounts are currently not supported For assistance or feedback email: info@readingeggs.com More Information: • Up to 4 children are covered under a single family subscription • Each Reading Eggs and Mathseeds subscription provides access to Reading Eggs Junior, Reading Eggs, Fast Phonics, Reading Eggspress and Mathseeds • Each Reading Eggs subscription provides access to Reading Eggs Junior, Reading Eggs, Fast Phonics and Reading Eggspress • The first month of a monthly subscription is free for new customers • Subscriptions renew automatically; your App Store account will be charged unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Cancel anytime in your App Store account settings Privacy Policy: http://readingeggs.com/privacy/ Terms and Conditions: http://readingeggs.com/terms/
Kinderloop Plus
This app simplifies documenting children's development for childcare educators and teachers globally. It securely shares child-specific information with linked families through real-time updates and allows private posting between family members.
- Educator-led features
- Secure child development documentation
- Real-time updates for families
- Private family posting
- Login with existing credentials
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Kinderloop Plus includes many new educator led features and is a recommended download for all Kinderloopers on newer devices, both educator and family member! Simply download to your device and login with your usual username and password. Kinderloop is the simplest, most secure & fun way for child care educators/teachers worldwide to document children’s development. Child specific information is privately shared with linked family, through real-time updates. Families can also privately post to each other in Kinderloop Plus!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kinderloop Plus at none against Reading Eggs's 4. Kinderloop Plus also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 weeks) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Reading Eggs's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 41%) and chart position (#133 vs unranked). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Reading Eggs sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Kinderloop Plus asks for nothing beyond the download.
Reading Eggs ships an update every 4 weeks, Kinderloop Plus every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Reading Eggs | Kinderloop Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.5K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 54.7% of reviews — better | 41.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.5K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #133 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blake eLearning | Kinderloop Inc |
Customer experience
Reading Eggs
Kinderloop Plus
User reviews
Reading Eggs
From 7.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great for learning
- 👍 Fun and engaging
- 💡 Helpful for homeschooling
- 🚀 Effective for teaching reading
- 👍 Motivating with rewards and progress tracking
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- 🐛 Sound cuts out randomly
- 🐛 Glitchy performance on some devices
- 🐛 Placement tests don't always accurately assess level
- 🐛 Inability to correct mistakes in some activities
Kinderloop Plus
From App Store reviewsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use platform
- 👍 Facilitates practical workflow
- 👍 Impeccable customer support
- 👍 Listens to customer feedback
- 👍 Responsive support team
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't send email for reset/login
- 🐛 UI/UX needs improvement
- 🐛 Pathetic UX
- 🐛 Horrible for updating data
- 🐛 Delay on posts showing up
Bugs and requests
Reading Eggs
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login issues and account problems
- Incompatibility with certain iOS versions
- Lessons not saving progress properly
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to disable background music
- More content for older kids
- Improved multi-user management
- Offline mode for lessons
- Better integration with school curriculum
Kinderloop Plus
Reported bugs
53 issues- App doesn't send email to reset or create login
- App doesn't respond
- Loads whole page instead of updating data
- Delay on posts showing up
- Notifications show old posts
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- Difficult to tell what's updated after notification
- New content doesn't show up after refreshing
- Daily Activity section is unclear and scrolls terribly
- Super slow and glitchy
- Notifications received but no update loads
- Takes hours for information to feed through
- Hard to find old contents
- No search, no filter for old content
- Not user friendly, everything is all over the place
- Usability issues and buggy
- Notification opens to last post, not the notified post
- Comment text box too big for phone screen
- Cannot save photos
- Cannot sign incident report if leaving comments
- Don't know which is the new post or comments
- Need to read every post to find the new one
- Wait to import photos is complicated and time consuming
- No option to re-upload later
- Sound doesn't always play on all devices
- Feed is messy, not displayed in chronological order
- Cannot have one-to-one conversation with a teacher
- Save to Camera Roll functionality removed
- Cannot download photos and videos directly
- Password reset link not sent
- Parents not able to view daily activity on the app
- Reopening page issues, app won't download unless closed and reopened
- Updates take a few hours to drop in
- Showing unknown error every time app is opened
- Screenshot is allowed, but download is not
- Teachers sending pics for whole week regardless of attendance
- Frustrating to log in via web browser for daily activity and accident reports
- Cannot take screenshot of photos
- App is really buggy, lots of crashes with 'unknown error'
- Posts don't load 50% of the time
- Takes hours (sometimes a whole day) for posts to appear
- Lack of ability to download photos and documents
- Cannot comment on posts since last update on mobile device
- Login required at least once per day on iPhone
- Constantly logged out
- Notifications aren't popping up or are delayed
- Massive lag with notifications
- App glitches and crashes when rotating phone
- Need improvement in UI/UX
- Login problems
- Refresh issues
- Delay on posts and notifications
- App doesn't send email for reset or login
- Save to Camera Roll functionality gone
Requested features
25 requests- More specific notifications
- Option to mute notifications for specific post types
- Dedicated spot for daily posts on main navigation
- Download photos and videos directly
- Save photos to camera roll
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- Option to re-upload photos
- Download images
- Option to exclude sending to parents whose child is not in that day
- Download option for photos and documents
- Improve refresh issues
- Make daily activity viewable on app
- Improve UX and customer experience
- Appoint a UX expert
- Redesign the app
- Add dark mode
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
- Improve notification system
- Add search and filter for old content
- Allow comments on posts
- Improve feed display (chronological order)
- Allow one-to-one conversations with teachers
- Add functionality to save photos and videos
- Fix sound issues on different devices
- Improve login session management
- Provide option to download photos and videos
In-app purchases
Reading Eggs
- Reading Eggs Monthly1 Month trial$9.991 Month
- Reading Eggs+Mathseeds Monthly1 Month trial$13.991 Month
- Reading Eggs Yearly$69.991 Year
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- Reading Eggs+Mathseeds Yearly$99.991 Year
Kinderloop Plus
No in-app purchases
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