Phonogram Sounds vs Coastal Community School
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!
Coastal Community School
This app provides the school community with essential information regarding assignments, events, and activities. Parents, teachers, and students can easily access updates and school news.
- Access school assignments
- View school events
- Stay updated on activities
- Information for parents
- Information for teachers
- Information for students
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The Coastal Community School app is designed to allow the CCS community, parents, teachers and students to access important information about school assignments, events and activities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coastal Community School at 5.0 against Phonogram Sounds's 4.0. Coastal Community School also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%). Phonogram Sounds's advantage is ratings volume (84 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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.
Coastal Community School holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phonogram Sounds has 84 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of Coastal Community School's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phonogram Sounds | Coastal Community School |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (84 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 69.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | All About Learning Press, Inc. | Coastal Community School Corporation |
Customer experience
Phonogram Sounds
Coastal Community School
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
Coastal Community School
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Phonogram Sounds
No in-app purchases
Coastal Community School
No in-app purchases
Questions
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