The Phonics App: iPhone vs Android
The Phonics App gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
The Phonics App by Phonics Folk Ltd is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
Rating
4.6 ★
1.5k ratings, both stores
Measured
Best rank now
#158
Android · 
Education Free
Education FreeMeasured
App Store
App details
App ID
6742649576
Publisher
PHONICS FOLK LTD
Publisher country
United Kingdom
On the store since
Mar 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
260 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
Google Play
App details
App ID
com.phonicsfolk.thephonicsapp
Publisher
PHONICS FOLK LIMITED
Publisher country
United Kingdom
Content rating
Everyone
The Phonics App downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 500+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 500+ | 100k+ Measured |
| Total | 1k+ Confidence | 100k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
iPhone: chart positions and rating growth per country, anchored on its own Android downloads; lifetime from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Google Play: the daily change in its exact install count. The total adds every store.
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.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend before Apple and Google take their fee.
| Store | Per day | Per month | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| App Store | |||
| Google Play | |||
| Total | Confidence | 100% |
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Phonics App makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Access Everything Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | Access Everything Yearly subscription | |
| 3 | Access Everything Quarterly subscription |
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 4.5 ★ | 293 |
| Google Play | 4.6 ★ | 1.2k 8 written reviews |
| Both stores | 4.6 ★ weighted by ratings | 1.5k |
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/
The Phonics App iPhone
The Phonics App gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Not in any tracked top chart right now.
Updated 24 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPhonics Folk Ltd
CategoryEducation
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (293)
Version2.4
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Rating
4.5 ★
293 ratings
Measured
The Phonics App on the App Store
App details
App ID
6742649576
Publisher
PHONICS FOLK LTD
Publisher country
United Kingdom
On the store since
Mar 2025
1 year on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.6+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
260 MB
Also listed in
Productivity
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.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in The Phonics App before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Phonics App makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Access Everything Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | Access Everything Yearly subscription | |
| 3 | Access Everything Quarterly subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
293 ratings
Measured
Ratings
293
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.
The Phonics App Android
The Phonics App gets 1k+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
The Phonics App is #158 in Education Free on Google Play in United Kingdom and charting in 1 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 24 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPhonics Folk Ltd
CategoryEducation
PriceFree
Released
Installs100k+
Rating★ 4.6 (1.2k)
Updated
Content ratingEveryone
Rating
4.6 ★
1.2k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#158
Education FreeMeasured
The Phonics App on Google Play
App details
App ID
com.phonicsfolk.thephonicsapp
Publisher
PHONICS FOLK LIMITED
Publisher country
United Kingdom
Content rating
Everyone
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
Google Play shows an exact lifetime install count; downloads per day are its daily change (measured). When Play hasn't refreshed the count, they come from new ratings and Top Free chart positions. 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.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in The Phonics App before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not on any Top Grossing chart: monthly active users × spend per user for its category, measured on the charted apps nearest the bottom of the charts.
Business model: Subscription-led
How The Phonics App makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Access Everything Monthly subscription | |
| 2 | Access Everything Yearly subscription | |
| 3 | Access Everything Quarterly subscription |
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | EducationFree | #158 |
Apps near The Phonics App on the chart
Education Free, around #158.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
1.2k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1.2k
Measured
Written reviews
8
Measured
About The Phonics App
We made The Phonics App for absolutely anyone who want to read using phonics.
You can learn the a-z sounds and how to blend two letter words completely free - but we hope you will subscribe to learn all the other sounds in the English language and practise with over 400 words.
* Learn how to pronounce all of the sounds of English (with an English accent).
* Watch as your phonics teacher guides you through the steps.
* Practise blending the sounds into words (with hundreds of decodable examples).
* Build up your knowledge of phonics, one sound at a time.
* Learn how to read and understand common irregular (tricky) wirds.
* Informal checks at the end of each section to reinforce your learning.
* No-nonsense format designed for adults, parents, teachers and children to navigate.
* Learn both lower case and capital letters.
* By the time you finish the all you’ll have the skills to decode nearly every word.
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 Claire (a teacher of phonics teachers and phonics influencer) 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 done!
We hope it helps you learn to read too!
Claire + Jonny
You can learn the a-z sounds and how to blend two letter words completely free - but we hope you will subscribe to learn all the other sounds in the English language and practise with over 400 words.
* Learn how to pronounce all of the sounds of English (with an English accent).
* Watch as your phonics teacher guides you through the steps.
* Practise blending the sounds into words (with hundreds of decodable examples).
* Build up your knowledge of phonics, one sound at a time.
* Learn how to read and understand common irregular (tricky) wirds.
* Informal checks at the end of each section to reinforce your learning.
* No-nonsense format designed for adults, parents, teachers and children to navigate.
* Learn both lower case and capital letters.
* By the time you finish the all you’ll have the skills to decode nearly every word.
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 Claire (a teacher of phonics teachers and phonics influencer) 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 done!
We hope it helps you learn to read too!
Claire + Jonny
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