Comparison

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe vs Simplifying Complex Fractions

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

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About

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe

This educational app helps young children develop essential early reading skills by focusing on phonemic awareness and letter-sound correspondence. It offers a structured, sequential learning path with 10 levels, progressing from sounds to letter recognition for both uppercase and lowercase letters.

Highlights
  • Develops phonemic awareness
  • Teaches letter-sound correspondence
  • 10 sequential learning levels
  • Focuses on common letter sounds
  • Supports uppercase and lowercase letters
  • Audio for all words and images
Features
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Learn The Alphabetic Principle. Develop Phonemic Awareness. Learn How Sounds Relate to Words. Learn Letter-Sound Correspondence. Learn How to APPLY Letter Sound Correspondence. Gain proficiency in the use of the sounds of the letters. Gain Proficiency with Auditory Discrimination. This app has all of the features and components necessary to give your child strong phonemic awareness. This app also has all of the features and components necessary to give your child strong letter awareness. These are the beginning steps to start your child off on the path to reading success. This game is part of the ABC MAGIC PHONICS series. We recommend the other ABC MAGIC apps as a means to expand and reinforce your child’s phonemic awareness and letter awareness. This app has 10 levels of sequential learning for English learners to master. The sequence is designed to take the learner from the concrete to the abstract; from not knowing anything about letters to having good phonemic awareness. The app starts with using sounds and finishes with the letter symbols for both lowercase and uppercase letters. This app is broken down into 10 lessons to create distinct and manageable levels of learning. Each level focuses on a particular step in effective learning of the Alphabetic Principle. Lesson 1. Sounds to Sounds Lesson 2. Sounds to Images Lesson 3. Images to Images Lesson 4. Lowercase Letters to Lowercase Letters Lesson 5. Sounds to Lowercase Letters Lesson 6. Lowercase Letters to Images Lesson 7. Uppercase Letters to Uppercase Letters Lesson 8. Sounds to Uppercase Letters Lesson 9. Uppercase Letters to Images Lesson 10. Lowercase Letters to Uppercase Letters This app features 12 words pictures for each letter. Each word in each of the groupings uses only the most common sound for each letter. For instance, igloo and inchworm would be used for the letter i, but not ice nor ivy as those begin with long i (the second most used sound for the letter i). It is important to start by teaching just the most commonly used sound for each letter. Sometimes unfamiliar words are used, in this app, to ensure that 12 words were used for each letter. Use this as a vocabulary building time. Even if the child does not know the word, the child can still listen for the beginning sound of that image. Another point is that this app is not a vocabulary quiz nor an object guessing game. Some pictures may seem indiscernible, but don’t worry, the objects, when touched, will ALWAYS say their name. The child NEVER has to know what the picture is ahead of time. Tapping on the image box will ALWAYS play the audio file that names the picture. Please note, that in this app, only the SOUNDS of the letters are used and NEVER the names of the letters. A child can actually read without knowing the common names of the letters, but a child only knowing the names of the letters cannot phonetically read. The ubiquitousness of the ABC song both at home and at school will surely give children the ability to name the letters. Many children, however, are not given the much-needed explicit instruction of the SOUNDS that the letters make. This app, therefore, is dedicated to helping children learn the SOUNDS that the letters make. These games are designed so that children can do them independently after being given the basic instructions of how to play the games. The app has built-in feedback mechanisms to help the child to work independently. These mechanisms allow the child to learn at their own pace and in their own way. The child does not need to be constantly supervised and told what the right answer is. This frees up the adult to be an observer of their child’s learning and to give assistance when invited.

About

Simplifying Complex Fractions

This interactive multimedia educational application offers a fun and engaging approach to learning science and mathematics. It provides a comprehensive curriculum for Grade 7 and Grade 8 students, covering various domains with distinct themed worlds to explore.

Highlights
  • Interactive multimedia lessons
  • Comprehensive Grade 7 & 8 curriculum
  • Science and Math domains covered
  • Themed learning worlds
  • Supplemental e-learning resource
Features
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The DOST Courseware is a locally-produced, all-original Filipino highly interactive multimedia educational application packages that are conceptualized, digitized and produced as spearheaded by the Science Education Institute (SEI-DOST) in partnership with the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI-DOST) and in cooperation with the Department of Education (DepEd), Philippine Normal University (PNU) and University of the Philippines-National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (UP-NISMED), which aims to develop information and communication technology learning innovation to support the upgrading and improvement of science and mathematics education in the country. The DOST Courseware are provided for free to schools and are also made available online as supplemental resources for teachers and student as a fun and interactive approach to e-learning and blended learning. The Grade 7 DOST Courseware is composed of 120 lessons overall, 73 lessons in Science where it covered the domains on: Matter; Force, Motion and Energy, Living Things and Their Environment and Earth and Space while the 60 lessons in Mathematic covered the domains on: Numbers and Number Sense, Patterns and Algebra, and Geometry. The Grade 8 DOST Courseware is composed of 118 lessons overall, 61 lessons in Science where it covered the domains on: Parts and Functions, Ecosystems, Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits, Structures and Functions, Biodiversity, and Evolution, while the 57 lessons in Mathematics covered the domains on: Linear Equations, Quadratic Equations, Rational Algebraic Equations, Integral Exponents, Radicals, Arithmetic Sequence and Geometric Sequence. The themes of the courseware for Grades 7 and 8, Magicademy, Freddy’s Lab and D’nayao will surely amuse the users as they explore these distinct worlds while learning at the same time.

Screenshots

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe4 screens
Simplifying Complex Fractions3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Simplifying Complex Fractions at Free against ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe's $1.99. Simplifying Complex Fractions also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4). ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe's advantage is ratings volume (22 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Simplifying Complex Fractions is free to download; ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simplifying Complex Fractions holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe has 22 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

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ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe versus Simplifying Complex Fractions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 DeluxeSimplifying Complex Fractions
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.4 (22 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings22 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 14 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size165 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPRESCHOOL UNIVERSITYScience Education Institute

Customer experience

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe

All ratings22 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

Simplifying Complex Fractions

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe

No in-app purchases

None

Simplifying Complex Fractions

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe free?
ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simplifying Complex Fractions free?
Simplifying Complex Fractions is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe or Simplifying Complex Fractions?
Simplifying Complex Fractions is rated higher. ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe averages 4.4 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Simplifying Complex Fractions averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe or Simplifying Complex Fractions have ads?
Neither ABC MAGIC PHONICS 5 Deluxe nor Simplifying Complex Fractions shows ads.

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