The Phonics App
The Phonics App is #89 in Education Free in United Kingdom and charting in 1 of 24 countries we track.
Updated 27 Sep 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPhonics Folk Ltd
CategoryEducation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.4 (216)
Version2.4
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)10k+ worldwide
Rating
4.4 ★
216 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#89
Education FreeMeasured
The Phonics App on the App Store
App details
App ID
6742649576
Publisher
PHONICS FOLK LTD
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
260 MB
The Phonics App downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. iPhone downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where The Phonics App's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 24 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | EducationFree | #89 |
Apps near The Phonics App on the chart
Education Free, around #89.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.4 ★
216 ratings
Measured
Ratings
216
Measured
About The Phonics App
This multi-award-winning phonics app can help absolutely anyone learn to read. Join thousands of people around the world learning to read with The Phonics App!
"We loved The Phonics App, as it has been specifically designed NOT to be addictive, and doesn't rely on dopamine hits for kids' rewards."
- MadeForMums Tech Awards 2025 Editor's Choice.
"A beautifully designed, calm, and research-led approach to early literacy that stands out in a market dominated by highly gamified products"
- Digital Education Awards 2025 Highly Commended
The Phonics App Features:
* Learn the a-z sounds and how to blend 2 and 3 letter words completely free.
* Subscribe to learn all the other sounds and practise with 400+ words.
* Video guidance from an expert phonics teacher every step of the way.
* Beautifully simple - just tap the words to hear the sounds they're made of.
* Learn how to pronounce all of the sounds of English (with an English accent).
* Build up your knowledge of phonics, one sound at a time.
* Learn how to read and understand common irregular (tricky) words.
* Informal checks at the end of each section to reinforce your learning.
* Learn both lower case and capital letters.
* Learn to decode nearly every English word.
* No collectibles, coins or dopamine rewards!
Why did we make this app?
Jonny is a father of two and started making this app to teach his kids to read. It worked really well, so he showed it to Miss Mabel (founder of Reading Roots, community of 750k parents and teachers learning phonics) to see if it would be useful to other people. She said yes, and had a lot of ideas how to make it better! So they spent AGES making 'The Phonics App', and now it's finally ready for you.
We hope it helps you learn to read too!
Miss Mabel & Jonny
Subscriptions in this app follow standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) which you can read here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
"We loved The Phonics App, as it has been specifically designed NOT to be addictive, and doesn't rely on dopamine hits for kids' rewards."
- MadeForMums Tech Awards 2025 Editor's Choice.
"A beautifully designed, calm, and research-led approach to early literacy that stands out in a market dominated by highly gamified products"
- Digital Education Awards 2025 Highly Commended
The Phonics App Features:
* Learn the a-z sounds and how to blend 2 and 3 letter words completely free.
* Subscribe to learn all the other sounds and practise with 400+ words.
* Video guidance from an expert phonics teacher every step of the way.
* Beautifully simple - just tap the words to hear the sounds they're made of.
* Learn how to pronounce all of the sounds of English (with an English accent).
* Build up your knowledge of phonics, one sound at a time.
* Learn how to read and understand common irregular (tricky) words.
* Informal checks at the end of each section to reinforce your learning.
* Learn both lower case and capital letters.
* Learn to decode nearly every English word.
* No collectibles, coins or dopamine rewards!
Why did we make this app?
Jonny is a father of two and started making this app to teach his kids to read. It worked really well, so he showed it to Miss Mabel (founder of Reading Roots, community of 750k parents and teachers learning phonics) to see if it would be useful to other people. She said yes, and had a lot of ideas how to make it better! So they spent AGES making 'The Phonics App', and now it's finally ready for you.
We hope it helps you learn to read too!
Miss Mabel & Jonny
Subscriptions in this app follow standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) which you can read here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Latest updates
2.4
Added a new 'swipe along the words' feature to make sounding words out easier for tiny fingers.