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24 alternatives to UpDraft Phonics

Build CVC words by sound

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

1
Swift Playgrounds▲378
Learn serious code on your iPad in a seriously fun way
2016 · developer.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
Easy Sight Words▲67
Easy to Learn Sight Words!
2019 · its alternatives →
3
Endless Alphabet▲69
Educational App for young children, teaching early phonics
2015 · originatorkids.com · its alternatives →
4
Learning With Voice▲61
A suite of Alexa skills to aid children learning Phonics
2018 · its alternatives →
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Word Buddy▲80
Flashcard for kids to learn their first 1000 words
2023 · wordbuddy.carrd.co · its alternatives →
6
Vocab Scrabble▲102
AI powered Scrabble to boost your word skills
2024 · vocabscrabble.com · its alternatives →
7
Speech Blubs▲74
Speech encouragement and improvement app for children
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
8
Vocably▲75
A fun way to improve your vocabulary
2022 · its alternatives →
9
Words U▲200
An iOS app that makes you sound smart
2015 · its alternatives →
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Word Vault▲96
A simple iOS app to learn new words
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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DigiBets▲73
AR App to teach kids alphabets in a interactive way .
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
12
Vocab Builder: Live Words▲120
Vocabulary enhancer with live activities
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
13
Open-source early-reading reader with phonics help▲23
A free reading app for kids who just learned their phonics sounds: every word in a story can be sounded out, tap a word for its sounds. Bring your own agent (MCP). Cloudflare Workers. - finereli/yarareads
8d ago · github.com · its alternatives →
14
Uniword▲6
Unicorn voices any word for your kid 🦄
2019 · uniword.app · its alternatives →
15
iPad app to help you learn computational science by tinkering with code▲121
Dive into the world of Python programming through our curated collection of interactive coding tutorials.
2021 · tinkerstellar.com · its alternatives →
16
Letterfall▲95
A free word game for iOS
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
17
Voitex▲67
A text to speech app to listen to news, docs and more
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
18
Flashbrain▲64
Digital flash cards with self generating quiz to learn vocab
2019 · its alternatives →
19
Audio Lesson Generator▲67
Audio lessons in your own voice. Hands-free SRS.
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
20
Vocavore▲66
Learn your own vocabulary lists with Quiz games
2020 · its alternatives →
21
Phonics Progress App▲7
Helping kids learn their phonics
2023 · johnpillmusic.weebly.com · its alternatives →
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Vocalibrary▲74
auto-generated flashcards from whatever you read
2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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alphaben▲58
Smart reading for kids
2021 · alphaben.app · its alternatives →
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An iPad app to teach kids how to program▲57
This app is a graphical programming environment for kids to learn coding by creating animations. Although we released it to the app store it's still more of a beta version and we would love to solicit feedback from HNers with iPads. To me, programming is something that kids could really enjoy but the obstacles in their way (getting a programming environment, publishing their code, learning syntax) make the barriers to entry unnecessarily high. We're hoping this will be a good first step in overcoming some of that. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisy-the-dinosaur/id490514278?ls=1&mt=8…
2011 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →

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