Comparison

Reading Eggs vs Spelling Hangman

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

Head to head
About

Reading Eggs

This program uses interactive games, lessons, and e-books to help children aged 2-13 develop essential reading and math skills. It offers a self-paced learning journey with a motivating reward system and detailed progress reports for parents.

Highlights
  • Interactive reading games
  • Guided reading lessons
  • Over 4,000 e-books
  • Progress tracking dashboard
  • Reward system with golden eggs and pets
  • Self-paced learning modules
Features
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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/

About

Spelling Hangman

Practice school spelling lists with a fun, customizable hangman-style game. Parents and teachers can create custom word lists with audio, and students can practice spelling using a keyboard. The app offers 'sneaky peeks' as hints, saving high scores for replayability.

Highlights
  • Create custom spelling lists
  • Record audio for words
  • Password-protected lists
  • Hangman-style gameplay
  • Sneaky peek hint system
  • High score saving
  • Share tests between devices
Features
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Designed specifically for those spelling lists from school Appymall - 'Spelling Hangman is a neat app for practicing spelling lists. Parents or teachers can add their own spelling list for children to work on, add audio, choose to lock their lists under "lock configuration" with a password and get kids practicing. In the app, the first word is spoken, and can be repeated by hitting the arrow at the bottom, and kids practice spelling it by using the keyboard at the right. The app plays like a traditional game of hangman, when a letter is missed a piece of the picture shows up, and if the entire word is missed, the word is shown. I like now customizable the app is, with adding your own words and lists, it makes it appropriate for a wider range of students. The voice detection is good, which can be an issue. I would like to see a better hint system in future updates, but overall this is a solid app that I would recommend. I saw no links, ads, or IAPs.' 4 stars EducationalAppStore - 'Spelling Hangman is a fun and easy to use app that will come in handy for young children when preparing for spelling classes. It’s fair to say that the app can be easily used in the classroom and incorporated in the regular curricula. The app receives a 4 star EAS Certification and with a few tweaks from the developer it can become a 5 star app!' iMums - 'I would recommend this app, for sure! I believe it could be useful within the therapy room, as a center in the general education classroom, or as a reward in a special education classroom, just to name a few. This is such a great tool to be used to functionally practice spelling words, or “word study” words as we call them! I feel this app has great potential and with the few things worked out, it would be a 5-star app! I was incredibly impressed with the app and had I known the few things I discovered, I would certainly have rated it higher!' - 4.5 stars Spelling Hangman is a fun and easy way to prepare for weekly school spelling tests. To create your own tests, enter and record each of the spellings, then play a hangman style game with 'sneaky peeks' to help the learning process. You will enter each letter of the word in the correct order, but watch out, if you make a mistake, hangman will start to appear. Stuck? - press and hold the 'Sneaky Peek' button to look at the word. It might sound like cheating, but each 'Sneaky Peek' adds a hangman stage. When you have finished your test, check your scores. High scores will be saved for you to try and beat next time. Spelling Hangman can also be used as a any language, for which you have a keyboard, to English vocab tester. Tests may be shared between devices using Airdrop, iMessage or eMail. Emma Mils is a participant of the Moms with Apps Know What’s Inside® program, a part of ACT | The App Association. This program is dedicated to helping family-friendly app developers implement best practices around privacy and comply with new privacy rules including the new COPPA rules that took effect July 1st. The program provides developers with guidance on best practices, but requires each developer to implement those best practices in order to display the Know What’s Inside® seal on their apps. Feedback and feature requests always welcome. Email: support@spellinghangman.com Webpage: http://www.spellinghangman.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/spellinghangman Facebook://http://www.facebook.com/SpellingHangman

Screenshots

Reading Eggs4 screens
Spelling Hangman4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Reading Eggs at Free against Spelling Hangman's $1.99. Reading Eggs also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.4) and ratings volume (7.5K vs 10). Spelling Hangman's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Reading Eggs is free to download; Spelling Hangman costs $1.99 up front. Reading Eggs sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Spelling Hangman asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reading Eggs holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Reading Eggs has 7.5K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Reading Eggs's written reviews are positive against 41% of Spelling Hangman's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Reading Eggs ships an update every 4 weeks, Spelling Hangman every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Reading Eggs versus Spelling Hangman: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReading EggsSpelling Hangman
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.7 (7.5K ratings) — better2.4 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews54.7% of reviews — better40.9% of reviews
Number of ratings7.5K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#90 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBlake eLearningEmma Mills

Customer experience

Reading Eggs

All ratings7,502 ratings
Positive92.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative5.2%
Written reviews927 reviews
Positive54.7%
Neutral12.2%
Negative33.1%

Spelling Hangman

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive40.9%
Neutral13.6%
Negative45.5%

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

Spelling Hangman

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Reading Eggs

Subscriptions4
  • 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
None

Spelling Hangman

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Reading Eggs free?
Reading Eggs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spelling Hangman free?
Spelling Hangman costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Reading Eggs or Spelling Hangman?
Reading Eggs is rated higher. Reading Eggs averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7.5K ratings, while Spelling Hangman averages 2.4 from 10 ratings.
Do Reading Eggs or Spelling Hangman have ads?
Neither Reading Eggs nor Spelling Hangman shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Reading Eggs or Spelling Hangman?
Reading Eggs ships an update every 4 weeks, and Spelling Hangman every 5 months. Most recently, Reading Eggs was updated on November 8, 2026 and Spelling Hangman on November 1, 2026.

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