Phonogram Sounds vs TT Pre
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!
TT Pre
This app provides interactive math lessons and practice problems for pre-algebra students. It offers audiovisual lectures, automated grading, and detailed explanations for every problem, allowing for independent learning and progress tracking. The app can be used offline for a limited number of lessons, making it ideal for on-the-go learning.
- 139 audiovisual lectures
- Thousands of practice problems
- Automated grading and instant feedback
- Step-by-step audiovisual explanations
- Parental progress tracking
- Digitized textbook with search
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The Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra app makes your TT course even better! Not only will your student enjoy math while learning independently, but, with the app, that learning can also take place on the go. Even when offline! Specifically, the app can be used offline for up to 6 lessons at a time. That makes it perfect for homeschool parents who need their kids to stay productive while the family is out and about during the day. The app’s other features include… • 139 audiovisual lectures that teach every core concept in the standard 8th grade curriculum • thousands of problems that give students all the practice they need to master each concept • automated grading and instant feedback for every single problem • step-by-step audiovisual explanations to every single problem so students can see exactly what they did wrong when mistakes are made (This makes the program feel as if a tutor is at the student’s side!) • parental controls that let you track your student’s progress • the digitized version of the printed Teaching Textbooks Pre-Algebra textbook (with a search feature and a hyper-linked index) • no advertising or in-app purchase offers • Internet connectivity is required, but you can remain offline for up to 6 lessons.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Phonogram Sounds at 4.0 against TT Pre's 3.2. Phonogram Sounds also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 42%). TT Pre's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Phonogram Sounds holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 141 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Phonogram Sounds's written reviews are positive against 42% of TT Pre's.
Phonogram Sounds ships an update every 6 months, TT Pre every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phonogram Sounds | TT Pre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (84 ratings) — better | 3.2 (141 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews — better | 42.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 | 141 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | All About Learning Press, Inc. | Teaching Textbooks, Inc. |
Customer experience
Phonogram Sounds
TT Pre
User reviews
Phonogram Sounds
From 84 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great supplement for AAS/AAR
- 👍 Helpful for parents/teachers
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Clear phonetic sounds
- 👍 Good for practice
Room to improve
- 👎 Incorrect 'r' sound
- 👎 Incomplete phonogram set
- 👎 Not a standalone lesson
- 👎 Not for fun
- 👎 Missing Spalding compatibility
TT Pre
From 141 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great math curriculum
- 👍 Helps with real-life preparation
- 👍 Good for dyslexic students
- 👍 Video tutorials are helpful
- 👍 Narration for questions is appreciated
Room to improve
- 👎 Voice is annoying/maddening
- 👎 Stickers are childish/lame
- 👎 App is buggy and glitchy
- 👎 Starts too easy
- 👎 Sometimes doesn't explain well
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
TT Pre
Reported bugs
27 issues- Occasional bugs and glitches
- It glitched waAaaaayyy too much
- It’s laggy and buggy
- INSANELY laggy
- Answer submission bug is back and annoying
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- This math is glitchy
- kicks you out
- got a problem right and it says not correct
- really glitchy
- can now barely even finish a lesson
- Apple Pencil to help me write out the answers on the scratchpad now it doesn’t work
- IT FORCE QUITES ON ME!!!
- super glitchy
- the man’s voice is awful
- glitches where you can’t even see the problem
- the app glitches and says it’s right but counts it wrong
- About every 3 problems my daughter does, it tells me that the app is not responding
- computer program seems to crash once every other week
- when it updates it wont open, even when it’s installed
- Whenever I come across an equation with the answer being 1/x, the answer will not register
- Some lessons don’t even have the problems in them
- sometimes answer explanations will overlap if skipped at the wrong time
- sometimes when I’m doing a lesson it won’t let me put in a answer
- when I use the scratchpad, then after some time I use the eraser, the whole app freezes until I have to go out and go back in
- Cannot get the new lessons to load
- Get error report that says "Offline"
- the keypad is super glitchy
Requested features
29 requests- Option to mute voice
- Teach it a little better
- Multiple voice options
- Trophies or currency instead of stickers
- Remove stickers altogether
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- Add decent designers
- Change up colors to be more vibrant
- Add more updates
- Fix answer submission bug
- Add more voice actors
- Fix glitches
- Improve programming for mobile
- Make it less childish
- Add animated wallpapers
- Fix bugs and glitches
- Improve app design
- Fix scratchpad eraser bug
- Fix app freezing
- Fix problems with fractions (1/x)
- Fix incorrect math/information
- Fix trick questions
- Fix UI button size
- Fix lecture playback issue
- Fix missing problems in lessons
- Fix overlapping answer explanations
- Fix inability to input answers
- Fix app not responding
- Fix correct answers marked wrong
- Option to turn off incorrect stickers
In-app purchases
Phonogram Sounds
No in-app purchases
TT Pre
No in-app purchases
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