Phonogram Sounds vs Blending Board
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!
Blending Board
This app helps teachers and parents teach phonics and blending sounds for reading. It allows users to create and customize decks of phonemes for blending activities, supporting both simple and multisyllabic word decoding. Shared decks via QR codes streamline instruction.
- Create custom phoneme decks
- Blend sounds for word decoding
- Practice multisyllabic rules
- Personalize visual deck design
- Share decks via QR codes
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The Blending Board App is a powerful educational tool for teachers and parents working with dyslexic learners or anyone else still learning the foundations of blending sounds (phonics) and the multisyllabic rules of English. In this App users will find an easy-to-use resource that allows them to create a deck of phonemes that can be substituted and manipulated to create various kinds of blending activities. The decks enable users to practice decoding simple words, and multisyllabic words, too. Blending Board also offers a unique opportunity for creative flexibility by granting users design options when creating personalized decks that are visually appealing. The end product is a professional-looking, personalized deck of educational materials that users can integrate into instruction with one or many, and which can be used time and again. An easy-to-use QR code system allows the personalized decks to be shared with anyone who has the app, so that the teacher's time can be focused on teaching, not navigating complicated technology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blending Board at 4.3 against Phonogram Sounds's 4.0. Blending Board also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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.
Blending Board holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 81 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of Phonogram Sounds's written reviews are positive against 65% of Blending Board's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Phonogram Sounds ships an update every 6 months, Blending Board every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phonogram Sounds | Blending Board |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (84 ratings) | 4.3 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews — better | 64.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 81 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | All About Learning Press, Inc. | Chain Reaction Games LLC |
Customer experience
Phonogram Sounds
Blending Board
In-app purchases
Phonogram Sounds
No in-app purchases
Blending Board
No in-app purchases
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