Phonogram Sounds vs Sight Word Mastery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phonogram Sounds
This interactive app provides clear audio pronunciations for letter sounds and combinations, featuring all 72 basic phonograms from a popular language arts curriculum. It's designed to support reading and spelling development for learners of all ages.
- Hear correct pronunciation of sounds
- Clear enunciation of letters and combinations
- Includes all 72 basic phonograms
- Supports reading and spelling skills
- Interactive learning experience
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Touch a button and hear the correct pronunciation! *Check that your sound is turned on!* This interactive program features clear enunciation of the sounds of the letters and letter combinations (also known as phonograms). Contains all 72 of the basic phonograms as taught in the All About Reading and All About Spelling language arts curriculum. All About Reading is a multisensory, mastery-based program that starts with essential pre-reading skills and continues on to teach all five key components of reading. All About Spelling teaches encoding skills, spelling rules, and multisensory strategies to help your student become a proficient speller for life. Our lightly scripted “open and go” lesson plans and mastery-based approach leave no gaps and make this curriculum a favorite of homeschool families everywhere. Suitable for all ages and learning styles!
Sight Word Mastery
This app helps children master essential reading skills through engaging games focused on recognizing and spelling common sight words. It covers all six Dolch word lists and allows for customized learning and progress tracking.
- Sight word recognition games
- Spelling and reading practice
- Covers all Dolch word lists
- Customizable word selection
- Progress tracking statistics
- User-added word lists
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Reading is the most important skill a child will ever learn and Sight Word Mastery: Dolch will help your student or child master reading fluency. The Dolch word lists contain 220 service words that must be quickly recognized in order to achieve reading fluency. Sight Word Mastery includes three fun games that will the learner with sight word recognition along with spelling and reading. Each game is carefully designed to engage the learner in a fun and constructive learning environment. All six Dolch word lists are included in this game: Pre-Primer, Primer, First, Second, Third, Nouns. You have the ability to customize the game and select which sight words you want your student or child to focus on. Additionally, statistics are gathered on every action so you can measure your student or child's progress and know which areas are mastered and which need additional activity. With recent update we have redone the voice talent, user interface, graphics, colors and added the ability to add your own word lists and words!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Phonogram Sounds at 70% against Sight Word Mastery's 0%. Phonogram Sounds also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.0 vs 3.5). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Phonogram Sounds is free to download; Sight Word Mastery costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Phonogram Sounds holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phonogram Sounds has 84 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Phonogram Sounds's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sight Word Mastery's.
Phonogram Sounds ships an update every 6 months, Sight Word Mastery every 77 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phonogram Sounds | Sight Word Mastery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (84 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 77 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | All About Learning Press, Inc. | I Teach Tiny Humans, LLC |
Customer experience
Phonogram Sounds
Sight Word Mastery
Bugs and requests
Phonogram Sounds
Reported bugs
7 issues- R says /er/ instead of /r/
- Sound not working
- App crashes
- No sound when tapping phonograms
- Sound only works with ringer on
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- List of phonograms cut off on iPad
- App is stick, no audio, no movement
Requested features
9 requests- Videos showing lip/tongue placement
- Interactive game app
- App for building words/movable tiles
- Level-based sound availability
- Enlarging tapped tile
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- Adding missing phonograms (Level 6, Spalding)
- Adding more sounds for /i/, /e/, /x/, /ou/, /ei/, /oe/, /wor/, /ear/
- Spelling lists for review
- All About Reading app with word reading
Sight Word Mastery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Phonogram Sounds
No in-app purchases
Sight Word Mastery
No in-app purchases
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