Best Alphabet Apps for Kids
Would you like your kid to learn the Alphabet with a fun, simple, and engaging way. Alphabet apps for kids make learning letters fun. These alphabet learning apps are great practice for pre-readers as they learn letters and words through amazing animations. These apps make it easier to teach the alphabet to hyperactive little people. It also helps kids to combine letters together to learn sounds, syllables, and words. When kids have mastered the alphabets, they can move on to spelling apps, root words apps, and even work on learning better vocabulary and writing skills. Older children can work on telling the difference between vowels and consonants.
In the ABC apps below, your child will be able to focus on letter recognition, tracing letters and letter sounds. There are lots of abc games for kids to choose from that will help them form letter shapes - both uppercase and lowercase letters.
The plethora of apps out there can be overwhelming, this list is a collection of some of the best alphabet apps out there to help teach kids about the alphabet. This list is an excellent way to introduce the alphabets to preschoolers, kindergarteners, toddlers, and children in the early years of school.
- 1. Smart Tales
- 2. LetterSchool
- 3. Zebrainy ABC
- 4. Elmo Loves ABCs
- 5. Starfall ABCs
Smart Tales is an interactive alphabet app for young children encouraging them to learn alphabets. This app can be used by children who are just beginning to understand letters and sounds.
It is a colorful app that helps kids learn English alphabets and build their vocabulary through interactive games. They can learn ABCs through a tap-and-touch experience. This app is aligned to the Kindergarten Reading Foundational Skills in the Common Core Standards.
Ages: 3+
Cost: 7-day free trial then subscribe monthly or annually
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
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2. LetterSchool
LetterSchool is a beautifully designed abc kids app that will help teach your children how to write letters, both uppercase and lowercase, with amazing animations. Kids can enjoy four different activities that will keep them engaged and motivated to learn the alphabet.
The app is a top choice for parents, teachers, and therapists who want to help preschoolers master the alphabets and spell words. The app has over 2 million users and is used in more than 5,000 schools. The app is a stunning and educational iPad app for kids to learn alphabets with fun animations.
Ages: 4+
Cost: Free (first five letters) then subscribe monthly or annually
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
3. Zebrainy ABC
Zebrainy is an interactive alphabet app for young kids to learn the alphabet through a quest game. Kids can explore 26 wonderlands of English alphabet and play with letter shapes, sounds, and names. The app also has an ABC Lullaby that teaches kids the alphabet song. The app helps kids to recognize and match uppercase and lowercase letters, and learn their phonic sounds.
Ages: 3-6
Cost: 7-day free trial then subscribe monthly or annually
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
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Elmo Loves ABCs is an easy-to-play game for children learning the alphabet. Kids will learn the alphabet with tracing, puzzles, videos, and songs with an emphasis on helping children learn to identify uppercase and lowercase letters, letter sounds, and form letter shapes. This app has lots of interactive alphabet activities for preschool- and kindergarten-aged children.
Ages: 3+
Cost: $4.99
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
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Starfall ABC is a free alphabet app for teaching young children the alphabet and letter sounds. It includes a lot of ABC animations, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. Pick a letter and away your child goes. Watch the twinkling arrows or letters to indicate move to the next page. Hear the letter name, hear the letter sound, see the letter and see a word using the first letter sound. The app is perfect for fine motor and alphabet practice for toddlers and preschoolers.
This app helps children work on letter recognition, letter sound and sight words to increase vocabulary. This app is great for auditory and visual learners and is quite interactive.
Ages: 4+
Cost: Free with in-app purchases
Devices: iPhone, iPad
Endless Alphabet app focuses on letter recognition, sounds, and vocabulary building. Kids can drag the letters to form a word and watch them come to life with sounds and animations. The app also teaches kids the meaning of the word with a voice and a cartoon. The app has a wide range of words for kids to choose from, sorted by letters and alphabetically. The app is suitable for preschoolers and older kids who want to improve their vocabulary and spelling skills.
Ages: 3+
Cost: $8.99
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
Bebi Toddlers is an interactive alphabet game for young children to learn alphabets. Bebi Toddlers combines 500+ fun and educational baby games to help you and your kids navigate through the assortment of alphabet activities and ABC games.
It is a colorful app that helps kids learn English alphabets (ABC games) with flash cards and finger tracing feature.
Ages: 2+
Cost: Free with in-app purchases
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
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Baby Joy Joy ABC game for kids is one of the best free alphabet apps to help your toddler learn phonics, letters, numbers and the alphabet. The app features a series of games to help kids recognize letters, associate them with phonic sounds, play with the alphabet letters and numbers.
You and your child may already know Baby Joy Joy from the popular YouTube channel. In this channel, Baby Joy Joy sings to and entertains young children. The app harnesses the channel's baby star to familiarise young children with letters and numbers.
Ages: 3+
Cost: Free with in-app purchases
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
9. ABCya Games
ABCya Games offers fun and interactive ways for preschool and kindergarten kids to learn the alphabet. Kids can play with the letters in ABC order by dragging them to the right place. They can also listen to an animated character say a letter and then find it in the grid. The app lets kids choose between upper-case and lower-case letters. The app is a great way for kids to have fun with the alphabet.
Ages: 3+
Cost: Free with in-app purchases
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
The abc Pocket Phonics app teaches kids letter sounds, first words and handwriting. The app helps young kids learn how to read and write by teaching them letter sounds, tracing, and blending. Kids can practice with different letters, both vowels and consonants, and then read short books that use those sounds. The app also tracks the progress and time spent by each kid, student, or class, and lets teachers and parents see the report. Kids can also earn printable certificates when they finish a level.
Cost: $6.99
Ages: 4+
Devices: iPhone, iPad and Android
There are a bazillion apps today where you can teach kids about alphabets. Do you have a favorite alphabet learning app? Share it with us on the EducationalAppStore social media pages.