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/