A to Z Playful learning vs Wheel Math+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A to Z Playful learning
An interactive word puzzle game designed for toddlers and preschoolers to develop essential reading and spelling skills. It offers a frustration-free environment with six engaging games that make learning fun and independent.
- Interactive word puzzle games
- Dolch sight words and common words
- Six fun, themed interactive games
- Frustration-free learning environment
- Play at own pace, no failures
- Develops reading and spelling skills
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Can educational games be fun? You bet! A to Z playful learning is an interactive word puzzle game made for toddlers and preschoolers. Using word and puzzle games as an educational tool provides opportunities for independent and deeper learning. A to Z playful learning is a great way for children to develop reading and spelling skills which are essential to building a good foundation for literacy. Features: - Large collection of Dolch sight and common everyday words for kids. - Six fun interactive games with favorite themes. - Clean, frustration free and enjoyable learning environment. - No high scores, no failures. Kids can play at their own pace. - No ads, in app purchases or social network Integration. Sight words provide an excellent base for reading at an early age. Recognizing sight words automatically is said to be advantageous for beginning readers. They are often called sight words because some of them can't be sounded out, and need to be learned by sight. - Ride on the alphabet train while the naughty bulldozer scrambles words and letters. - Water the colorful flowers and watch them bloom with letters. Can you make words and load the impatient tractor? - Fill the screen with playful letter soap bubbles. Pop them or add more soap to create even more bubbles. - Load the boat with letters and put them in the right order to make words. - Play with the magnetic alphabet letters, put them in the right order and watch the letter fireworks! - The letter cookies are just finished baking. Each cookie has a letter and guess what! You can eat all of them.
Wheel Math+
This app offers a visual and interactive way for children to learn addition and subtraction fundamentals. It uses number wheels and dial pads to explore number patterns, place value, and the ten-based number system. Kids earn badges as they discover number pairs that add up to the same sum.
- Visual number wheels for addition
- Dial pads for number exploration
- Learn place value and number patterns
- Earn badges for mastering sums
- Supports multi-digit number operations
- Interactive subtraction reversal of addition
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Description: This app collects no data, is free, and has no ads. This app is for kids learning addition in entirely new visual ways, where they create many pairs of numbers that add to the same sum. It is also for parents and teachers who want a fun visual way on a number wheels and Dial Pads to explore addition patterns with kids and see a big picture of number patterns. This new version of Wheel Math+ has delightful animation and increased badges facts to 20. Watch Youtube video at https://youtu.be/N9e6ZNdUsc0 This is much more than another cute way to drill addition facts and subtraction. Kids are learning fundamentals, they are playing with, and learning place value and that our numbers are ten based, that this helps see addition and subtraction patterns. When they learn addition on a number wheel with this app, subtraction is easy: They have been earning badges and learning set of numbers that add up to the same number. To do subtraction, choose the badge of the number they want to start with. Touch 0/10 (the right choice will be visible) and that number (for a teen number like 15, choose 10 and 5). They create a vertical line. ALL numbers to subtract will also have the answer above or below it. They are reversing addition. They are also set up to learn multiplication, division, fractions, squares, and more on number wheels. Addition pairs that add up to the same number create parallel lines on a number wheel. Kids love starting with any two numbers (one-digit) and then taking away one from the smaller number and adding it to the bigger number. ZERO is the HERO. When you reach 0 (example 4+3, then 5+2, then 6+1, then 7+0, fireworks happen because the line from 0 points to the answer of 7 for ALL the pairs kids have created to get to 0. If the larger number reaches 10, then the answer is also obvious (8+7, then 9+6, then 10+5 equals 15). Kids earn badges by finding all the pairs on the wheel that add up to a number. They are learning sets in a pattern and can have fun earning each badge 1-20 as many times as they like. Basically, if you choose any two numbers on the wheel to add, you will create a line. When you touch the number one bigger than the bigger number, and one smaller than the smaller number, you get another line, a railroad track line (parallel) that adds up to the same number. You added one and took away one, so it has to add to the same number. It can be great fun to do this with pennies (or watch the youtube video) to help kids get how this works. CAN WORK WITH MULTIPLE NUMBERS AND MULTIPLE DIGIT NUMBERS: When students are proficient with the app, they can add 2 numbers, then add a third to that, then a fourth number. They can keep track of tens with fingers or marks on paper. They can also do it with 2 or 3 digit numbers. First add the Ones, Add the tens (carry over helps students learn place value), Then add the hundreds (ten tens). The number wheel is a 10 base number system, mirroring our number system. So the structure is the same. This allows natural patterns in the ones digits to show up, which hold true, no matter how big the number. Think of a water meter or a bike mileage gauge that has 0-9 number wheels for 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s. 0 + 10 = 10, then one less than 10 is 9. And one more than 0 is 1, and you have horizontal line. If you work your way down, you'll see that 8+2, 7+3, and 6+4 are all horizontal lines. The line helps kids see the patterns, which are really important in addition and subtraction. So kids can actually see the patterns in numbers showing up in sets of numbers. They are learning the basic pattern of numbers, learning it because this approach is so visual and shows the patterns. Easier to see: Watch video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFXjAccxouA
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Wheel Math+ at Free against A to Z Playful learning's $0.99. On rating, 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
Wheel Math+ is free to download; A to Z Playful learning costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for A to Z Playful learning against 5.0 for Wheel Math+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
A to Z Playful learning ships an update every 11 months, Wheel Math+ every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A to Z Playful learning | Wheel Math+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 7 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harry Patsis | Right Brain Math |
Customer experience
A to Z Playful learning
Wheel Math+
In-app purchases
A to Z Playful learning
No in-app purchases
Wheel Math+
No in-app purchases
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