Learn to Read - Reading.com
Phonics & Reading App for Kids
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Education
Languages
English
Thu Feb 12 2026
A smoother experience for you and your child—just a few behind-the-scenes improvements!
Reading.com is a ground-breaking app designed by education experts to help children ages 3-7 become confident readers. Based on the Science of Reading, the app uses a unique co-play mechanic where parents guide their children through bite-sized, interactive phonics lessons. From letter recognition to reading full storybooks, it’s a shared journey toward literacy.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Reading.com is a standout in the educational app space because it recognizes that children learn best when a parent is involved. Instead of just parking a kid in front of a screen, it provides a 'co-reading' framework that feels like a bonding activity. The phonics curriculum is robust and follows the 'Science of Reading,' ensuring that kids are actually decoding words rather than just memorizing shapes.
The lessons are short enough to hold a preschooler's attention but dense enough to provide real progress. The UI is clean and distraction-free, focusing on the letters and sounds. While some might find the subscription price a bit high, the quality of the content and the interactive parent-led approach make it a worthwhile investment for early literacy.
Features
Fully scripted parent-child lessons
Evidence-based phonics curriculum
Interactive games and digital storybooks
Detailed progress tracking for multiple children
Tips & Walkthrough
Sit with your child and follow the on-screen prompts. The app will tell you exactly what to say, while your child interacts with the letters and games to reinforce the sounds.
Gameplays
Lessons move from single sounds to blending, then to full words. By lesson 10, children are typically ready to read their first digital book within the app.
Screenshot
Q&A
No! The app is fully scripted and designed for parents with no prior teaching experience.
Ratings & Reviews
Wonderful
Wed Dec 20 2023 Raising Babes!This app has been wonderful for my six-year-old and seven-year-old sons… We began homeschooling last year for their kindergarten and first grade years, where our concentration was mostly on reading. We used the teaching and methods found in the book “Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons”. This app fits perfectly with that methodology, and into our homeschool curriculum! Especially with our 6 year old, now first grader, who is still growing in his phonics recall, sequencing of sound, and fluency… Every time he completes a level he smiles so big!! This app is the perfect balance between curriculum and fun! I do believe that his foundation rooted in the book based curriculum has allowed him to move with a greater pace than the typical beginner schedule, and this app allows an adult to unlock the next lessons as I see fit. In all, this app is great no matter the experience of the learner and the teacher (caregiver)! It’s a gem that is well worth the cost! Finally, the app suggestion and emphasis on parent involvement is so important and necessary. Knowing some families don’t have that type of culture however, this would still be a good gift for a child with a device, and could be completed with the help of an older sibling or relative!
Could be a lot better in critical areas
Sun Aug 10 2025 Ninja BravoThe example sounds are great, but it could be so much better if the example word audio was linked to the slider, so the child can visualize the sound being said as the slider is moving. The reason for this complaint is that the app doesn’t help provide the most important part, which is transitioning from the individual letter sounds to saying the word in one go. Also, the slider highlight the letters itself, not under each individual letter. If the child could move their finger over the slider and see the connection with the sounds, both individually and then together, that would be good. Instead, the parent has to do it for them, and I feel this robs them of the connection the app should be helping them make on their own. The book reading is not well thought out. Level 11, there is a somewhat complex sentence and then the last word is slightly larger and not really a good queue on when the child should read their word, and at what time they should be uncovering/“revealing” the image, as you essentially have three tasks going on at the same time, so it just doesn’t work well. I’d rather go read a “hop on pop” type book with very short sentences, rather than a sentence that the child can’t read 90% of and has to unveil an image, and then gets quizzed on comprehension at the end of it all.
Teaches You How to Teach Your Kid
Thu May 09 2024 GretagoreThis app guides parents and their kids through a basic, but effective, phonics-based reading curriculum. It is not a game (although it does include some simple games for purposes of practice)—you and your kid both have to WORK to get through the lessons. That being said, I have found it very effective at teaching important reading skills like phonemic awareness, sound blending skills, sight words, etc. We have been taking it slow, because my daughter is still in preschool and she doesn’t always want to do the lessons (she knows it’s work, not play). But, having completed lesson 70 of 99, she is currently the best reader in her class of precious 5-year-olds. I recommend this app to everyone who wants to give their kids a head start on reading! The one downside: my daughter hated the alphabet song they make you play at the beginning of lessons and groaned every time it came on. Repetition is important for learning, but the kids with excellent memories may find it irritating. Luckily the app lets you skip it, which we did (although never fast enough to avoid the groan).
So far so good
Fri Apr 12 2024 Elzy133We just downloaded this app for my 5yr old who’s in preschool (turned 5 recently). The reason why I only have 4 stars is because I would like to see more games for them to play, on their own. Do the lesson with parents, then work on their own having fun with learning games. She just started so the only game she could play was the cloud one, & that frustrated her. She wanted to play more games from this app, but the other games were too advanced at the moment. So it would be nice to see more games for them to play, especially for beginners. So as they’re waiting for their next lesson they can have some fun playing learning reading games. Other then that so far it’s kept her interested. I’ve tried the hooked on phonics app, & she wasn’t interested. She kinda liked it, but I think it was too boring in the end for her. She likes the bar & sounding out the words with this app, liked the cloud game, & likes the song. She even went to watch her shows, & then asked me how she can get back to “her letters” lol Also maybe have the cloud game come up with more pics & different items for each letter, when she saw the same stuff for letters she said “AGAIN!!? Ugh!” Haha! And she was hoping to see a snake for S.
What a waste
Tue Jan 21 2025 Nique9890They turned me down basically wants my child to already be reading I thought this program was a tool in helping children read if my child was reading then I wouldn’t need the program it makes no sense I don’t understand why you guys are acting clueless of the issue someone had to program it to do that after I got done answering the personal questions about my child then I was turned down so no I don’t want to reach out to support for help there’s no need you guys don’t want my child to utilize your program that’s fine but I feel like you guys only want to accept kids who’s already reading to make it seem like the program is actually helping but clearly if you guys are excepting children who’s already reading then your not helping them learn to read your basically just giving them reading material which is fine but the false advertisement has to go let people know this program is not for children who can’t read now you want to fix the problem after you turned me away that’s crazy stand on your initial decision you guys just didn’t expect me to make it known to public with my review that’s the only reason why you guys want to do something is because you want to look good to other parents who may see my review no thank you it’s other programs out there who wouldn’t judge my child and is welling to prepare him for school
Excellent
Mon Oct 07 2024 Murphy7783We’ve been using this app for a couple of weeks now, and I can truly say my child has made progress. She doesn’t fight to use this program unlike others we’ve tried. She enjoys sitting with us or siblings to do her work. In addition to the app we also read fun/silly books that she likes, sight word flash cards, a handwriting curriculum and her regular daily curriculum work. As a homeschooling parent of four, I need some extra help sometimes and this app has inspired not only the emerging reader (6.5), but the youngest who is two. It’s just excellent. One last thought I wanted to add, for anyone with struggling learners, maturity plays a big role in when a child is ready to learn to something. Reading may come quick for one child and take years longer than expected for another. Every child is gifted in their own way. Our role as parents should always be to challenge them, sure, but mostly to meet them where they are. This app has allowed me to better meet my child where she is and to keep challenging and encouraging her to find the excitement of reading.
It really works
Fri Jan 02 2026 spanishlearner12345I had a 5 year old who was interested in reading but not yet in kindergarten, so I got him this program. It was key for me that he not get frustrated and lose the love of reading. We were not every day users because we typically only use screens on weekends, but the review is enough that he was able to jump back in fairly easily. He’s now completed the program (and is 1/2 way through kindergarten) and is ahead of many peers. For months he has practiced reading signs and other things out in the world with good success. He has struggled a bit to make the leap from assisted books in the app to paper books, but I’ve seen his confidence grow the last few weeks of lessons. We took the full year to complete all the lessons, and I think I’ll keep the subscription for my middle son (now 4.5). Highlights are the super catchy alphabet song and the parent lessons. I found I had forgotten a lot of how I had learned the tricky sounds so the parent lessons and hints were invaluable. 10/10 I recommend the app.
Fun, easy to follow and effective
Thu Jan 01 2026 Ramsey & GoldieThis is a great app and program! I started using it just before my kid turned two and by the time he was two and a half he could read books himself. Since we are a limited screen time house, getting to learn on an app felt like a real treat to him. It took a handful of lessons for the sliders to catch on and because of his age I helped him do them at first. But within a month or two he could do them himself. I know my kid learning to read by 2.5 is not the norm and I can’t give all the credit to the app (the reason we started to try to teach him how to read is that he learned to recognize all his letters by the time he was 16 months on his own) but the app gave us structure and made it fun. As a first time parent I had never taught a kid to read before and don’t know where to begin. I love that the app has guardrails to keep you from doing too much too fast. It kept it from becoming overwhelming and gave the concepts time to sink in. Recommending to everyone!
