Great app. Rapid feedback several options. Yet another app to justify the educational potential for the iTouch!

It's so good to see a letter app with lower case letters and English phonic sounds! There are so many apps that teach ay, be, see and that's no good.The word game is great and the letter trace feature is very clever.Great app, thank you :-)

I love this app. I let my son use it while we are waiting in line somewhere or at the doctor's office (for example). great way to keep up on practicing phonics when we are away from home!

Simply a must have app for all parents of primary aged children. Follows UK national guidelines and grows as your child grows in confidence and ability. Excellent!

Fun and truly educational are hard to do together, but this app manages to do it well. My 5yr old loves to play the game portion, and trace the letters on the iPhone's screen. My wife is a Kindergarten teacher, so she had particularly high standards, and after much searching through the app store she chose this, and it has been perfect.

My son's kindergarden teacher said that my little one needed little more work on his letters and sounding out words. This app is great for that and he loves it. He cries when we have to put it away. I love to see him learning.

Very nice app, useful for kids.Looking for update from programmer.Hope If the programmer can add pic for words, so kids can remmber words qeickly

My five-year old son, who has had difficulty with some letter recognition, loves this game. His reading skills are improving rapidly.

Excellent app! Much better for my son than playing games in the waiting room! Love it.

Helped my son learn his sounds so quickly!

My son loves this app! He is a whiz with electronics and this really keeps his attention, especially when playing a game! For the price you won't be disappointed.

I never take the chance to write a review for anything. Only a few things impress me or cause my admiration, so I am happy to say that this app is well done and very easy for kids to learn. Genious creators and not greedy for I only paid $1...

This ap has both US and UK pronunciations. It also uses two styles of handwriting. I like that you can choose upper or lower case and cursive. I have a first grader and two preschoolers and feel this ap has something for each of them. My only criticism on the phonics is that both C and K are listed in the first group. They make the same sound, so when a child clicks on C when they hear the correct sound for C they are told they are wrong and must then try K and vice versa. Perhaps only allow one in the first group or add an image to assist.

My four year old son love it. He gets really engaged without being bored.

Fantastic app, both the 2 & 5 yearold love this with excellent results!

My five year old kindergartner loves this app. And I think it's great as well. Simple and to the point. Yet complete enough to provide solid value. Saved the day today as he was getting cranky in the car going to the beach (a 45 minute drive)... "Do you want to play your game on Daddy's iPhone???" Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! All was good... Lower case, Upper case, and Cursive. Simple sounds. Complex sounds. And even a spelling game. I like this to-the-point application far better than the bloated and confusing educational CDs currently available. The UI's on most of these monstrosities are confusing even to adults. I will definitely be checking out more from Apps in My Pocket. Next up, Dolch words or similar....

Nice idea but my son was very bored. There should be some cheering when they get something correct. The sounds should be more interesting. Boring.

I have a two year old who loves playing with the iPhone and this app is great for play and learning at the same time.

Has helped my 6 year old increase his vocabulary. Now mine needs help!

This is a very nice app my child is now learn sounds and to spell and finds this app very fun and useful. Maybe you could ad more words to work on and maybe a button the gives a word the letter starts with example sound of e - elephant. I find kids have a hard time with vowels so a word might help them figure out the different sounds by relating it to a word a - apple e - elephant i - igloo o - oyster and u - umbrella Other than that thos app was worth every penny 5 stars hands down ThanksBlessings

Boring, lack of fun, sounds are distorted. My kids lost interest playing withit in less than minute. iwritewords is a better app and didactic method for kids to learn while having fun..

Greater starter for early Reading practice. Better than I thought it would be.

My 3yr old loves it and always wants to play this game!! They just need to slow it down so she can say the words once she spells it.

Son loved it he has special needs and can't use a pencil and hold it so we trace his finger over all letters so this is a dream come true thankyou

Perfect tool Will fit right along to help reinforce class work, I recommend highly if you are trying to help your child with it's first steps sounding words.complément's nicely jolly phonics teaching materials , in particular for parents that don't Know how to go about sounds as in jolly phonics way.On top since it's on daddy's phone my child takes it as a game!

This is really cool for kids that doesn't want to live the phone away they learn and play at the same time

Great app for beginning students. They really get the feel of the letters and letter sound recognition. The shake erase feature is a hit as well!

“Great improvements. Very responsive to feedback. Thank you! have seen this app become more kid oriented over the last year. I'm glad that the app designers continue to take suggestions and implement strategies that improve the appearance and overall functionality of the app. As a first grade teacher, my suggestion is to change the fonts of the letters. When I teach lower case t for example I do not curve the bottom to the right, instead I write a straight line from top to bottom. If you can change the fonts of the letters to what primary grades learn it will be a more powerful tool. Also modeling the correct strokes will help kids learn to print correctly. For example, write the line in the lower case i first before the dot. I will change my rating when changes are made..”

Utterly brilliant, cannot recommend highly enough. It's really helped my daughter's reading and frankly I have no idea of the phonics sounds so it's a really useful tool for me to help her too! Can we please have more words? A version for more advanced readers? We like it so much we want more!

Always great to find an app that's fun AND educational for my daughter !Highly recommended !

I love this ap

Watch your little guy's face light up with excitement as he spells his first words. A great way to keep them entertained while sneaking in a little school work on the side. Get the app. You'll be glad you did.

I am using this for my 4 1/2 year twins as an supplement to the actual phonics program, Hooked On Phonics and have found it very helpful. Definitely recommended.

Fantastic App, easy to use my 4 year old boy loves it and so does his 2 year old sister, I would recommend this app to any parent teaching children to recognize letters and thier sounds, well done.

My son and I really like this app. It helps him with his reading and his spelling. Thank very much

Love this app almost as much a our 5 year old. An Australian accent would make this a dream educational tool for our family. Thanks

My 5 year old loves it. I am seeing lots of improvement in her word recognition.

Excellent app. Engages my 5 year old and really helps him read and write. The developers are constantly updating the app to make it better. Buy it, your preschooler or kindergartener will love it.

Perfect for pre-k or kinders!

My 5yr old is in kindergarten,he's a lefty,me and my wife are eighties.it's helping!thanks!”

“This app is fabulous. I am a Kindergarten teacher and I use this with some of my students who need a little more technological motivation. I highly recommend this app for early reading children.”

1, seems there's a bug. Once out of game and just going through letters and drawing them and then hitting the right arrow, you'll get thrown back into the game again for no apparent reason. 2, there really should be some sorta rating system on the tracing of letters (like 1-100). This way it stops the children from getting sloppy when using app. The point is to help the children learn how to write these letters, but it really doesn't say if u are doing it right or not. Children need some sorta reward system.

“As an administrator with two small children I have high standards and this doesn't disappoint! My daughters love it and the four year old is now reading!”

“My kid is starting to learn his sounds. His school teaches cursive first. I have had a hard time locating an electronic cursive phonics app.”

“Great for a child and inexpensive too. My daughter loves this app.”

“I've tried a few of the toddler and pre-K apps and the all tend to have the effect of me wanted to throw my iPod against the wall after hearing "old mcdonald" too often. This is a more quiet and refined app for phonetics and early stage reading and writing. The menus could be a little more kid friendly but it does a great job for the price.”

“My little 4 year old Grandchild Lexsey, just loves this app. I got her a IPod Touch 16 GB, back when she was three , I installed all types of fun applications and all types of educational applications, I have to say all these app, has help her become the little smart girl she is today, take it from me they do help a child and learning, If you have Children and would love to see you child get ahead in learning his or her sounds and much more then you will love abc PocketPhonice, my 4 year old granddaughter walk around here all day saying words and telling everyone what that word start with or spelling the whole word out. PocketPhonice has help and they can help your child out as well. I Rate this Application : 10 Stars”

“Brilliant! Have been searching for an app like this. My daughter loves it and so do I!”

“This was a great application, when I bought the demo I knew this as a great application!”

“As a special education teacher looking for more tactile and differentiated ways to teach students with disabilities, this fits the goal. Nice work.”

“This is really helping my son who is 5 years old and has struggled all through his first year of school with learning difficulties. Thank you, appreciate you making this so good, fun and clear. ”

“My 2 and my 5 year old keep asking to play this game and since it's hard for the 2 year old to share, I had to install it on my husbands phone too.”

“My son loves playing with this app and it is definately encouraging him to mark-make. It is regularly updated and the new look is great. For 59p this is an absolute bargain.Update: the update on this is excellent. Really impressed, and my son (now 5 and just starting school) still loves playing with it.”