Comparison

Literably vs Elements ME

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

Head to head
About

Literably

This app provides a quick and precise method for evaluating reading skills in K-8 students. It includes a comprehensive running record to track fluency, accuracy, and comprehension.

Highlights
  • Reading fluency assessment
  • Reading accuracy assessment
  • Reading comprehension assessment
  • Full running record
  • K-8 student focus
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A fast and accurate way to assess reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension for K-8 students, including a full running record. The iOS app is for student use only; classes must be set up elsewhere.

About

Elements ME

Learn music as a language through engaging, short sessions. This app trains your brain for musical activities, enhancing listening, theory, reading, and rhythm skills. It offers over 1,400 exercises across 8 levels to boost musical development and cognitive abilities.

Highlights
  • Learn music as a language
  • Short, engaging learning sessions
  • Develops listening, theory, reading, and rhythm skills
  • Over 1,400 exercises
  • 8 progressive learning levels
  • Proficiency analysis system
Features
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Elements ME is a simple and effective way to learn and master music as a language. Through short sessions, similar to those of the most popular language-learning apps, Elements ME helps to connect the brain with any musical activity in a natural way, like a second language! Do you want to learn how to play a musical instrument? Do you want to write or create your own music? Are you interested in boosting your musical development?Do you want to appreciate music on a level that you never imagined? Are you interested in improving your skills for language, math, motor coordination, creativity, control, and even empathy? Elements ME is the tool that trains the brain while you learn the language of music, all of this with a fun and engaging interface! More than 1,400 exercises create a whole learning experience! **The Music Language** Music is our universal language, and the basis to be able to communicate in it lies in the understanding of this language. This is the point when a normal person’s brain becomes a musician’s brain. Regardless of your way of experiencing music, there are 4 main competencies that are always present at a cognitive level. Elements ME works with these 4 competencies to achieve an understanding, absorption, and mastering of the musical language. - Listening skills: ear training, understanding of pitch, and distance between notes. With Elements ME, your ear will be ready to appreciate and understanding music from the moment you hear it. - Music Theory: structural and mathematical processing. Elements ME gives your brain the agility to comprehend and manipulate the infinite myriad of options within musical structure. - Reading skills: the capacity to read notes on the staff is key to have a truly activated musical brain, but Elements ME goes even beyond. Our exercises help to train reaction times, improvising, speed, and precision. - Rhythm: the engine and heart of music. With Elements ME, you will be able to develop the rhythmic skills needed to communicate in music, as well as obtaining all the extra benefits of this training. Elements ME is the ideal tool: - It doesn’t matter if you are about to begin your path in music, if you are a veteran performer, or if you are looking to have fun while you work on your brain skills. Elements ME has the right level of challenge for you. - Proficiency: analyze your results and discover your strengths with the proficiency system, exclusive to Elements ME. - Defined progress: 8 Levels separate you from having a musically active brain. Every day you will be better! - Adaptable: Elements ME is compatible with any school, apps, or method that you are using to learn music. With or without a teacher, with Elements ME, learning is one step away! - It simply works: educational institutions have harvested the benefits of a musically activated brain in their students, in the music areas, as well as the rest of them. **Learn in order to perform vs Perform in order to learn** A brain that becomes musically activated first can later perform music on an instrument easier than a brain that first takes an instrument and tries to understand the language later. Elements ME is the window to an accelerated and excellent development. You can have a musician’s brain without the thousands of hours required to develop it! Music is our universal language. Join the conversation. Elements Music Experience.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Literably at none against Elements ME's 2. Literably also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (39 vs 2). Elements ME's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and rating 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

Both are free to download. Elements ME sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Literably asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Elements ME holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Literably has 39 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Literably ships an update every 3 months, Elements ME every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Literably versus Elements ME: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiterablyElements ME
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (39 ratings)3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB173 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiterably, Inc.Elements ME S.A.P.I. de C.V.

Customer experience

Literably

All ratings39 ratings
Positive38.5%
Neutral12.8%
Negative48.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

Elements ME

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Literably

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Elements ME

Subscriptions2
  • Elements ME Pro 1 Month$4.991 Month
  • Elements ME Pro 1 Year$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Literably free?
Literably is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elements ME free?
Elements ME is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Literably or Elements ME?
Elements ME is rated higher. Literably averages 2.8 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Elements ME averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Literably or Elements ME have ads?
Elements ME shows ads; Literably does not.
Which is updated more often, Literably or Elements ME?
Literably ships an update every 3 months, and Elements ME every 4 weeks. Most recently, Literably was updated on June 10, 2026 and Elements ME on September 16, 2026.

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