Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 06:24 pm
First Words for Toddlers Lite – Education Game Review
First Words for Toddlers Lite is a Education/Family/Word game from Read 'n' Learn ltd, first launched in 7th July 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 99+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes First Words for Toddlers Lite Stand Out
"First Words for Kids" includes 15 words with Animals, Vehicles, Shapes n Colours, Household items and Numbers (121 included in the Pro version). The three different hint alternatives (color hints, letter hints and color and letter hints) combined with five more settings, will challenge your child and help you fine tune the level of difficult. The unique interface, featuring a list of thumbnails, allows your child to explore all words and will offer endless hours of fun and education.
Featured by Apple on the US App Store in two categories Games/Educational and Games/Kids.
SYNTHETIC PHONICS
"First Words for Kids" introduces a unique way of assisting children to learn reading through Synthetic Phonics, by linking the individual letter and letter combinations with its appropriate sound and effectively demonstrating the blending of sounds to achieve word pronunciation.
There are two setting levels available:
- “Synthetic Phonics Basic”: Is aimed in introducing Synthetic Phonics to children. Simple words are only presented and children are introduced to blending (drawing individual sounds together to pronounce a word) with basic phonemes (the smallest single identifiable sound).
- “Synthetic Phonics Advanced”: Words and letter sounds of greater complexity are introduced that include graphemes (a group of letters representing one sound), digraphs (two letters making one sound which is different from the sound either can make alone) and letters that have more than one sounds.
FEATURES
● Learn letter sounds through two levels of synthetic phonics and letter names.
● Learn the words and how to spell.
● Learn to recognize letters (upper and lowercase) and match them to words.
● Unique navigation that allows the child to explore all the animals.
● Tap the image of the animal to discover its sound and learn its name.
● User interface specifically developed for children fingers.
● Engaging and colorful artwork with amazing sound effects and animations
● Studio recording of letters, words and spelling.
● Three different hint alternatives (color hints, letter hints and color and letter hints.)
● 15 words included in 5 categories ( 121 words available in the Pro Version).
● Six different settings to increase difficulty as children learn.
● Special alert reminding you to switch to Flight Mode (in iPhone only).
KNOW WHAT'S INSIDE
We follow the "Know what's inside" best practices for kids' apps, set by MOMs with Apps.
DISCLOSURE
At ReadnLearn your children's privacy and safety is our priority that is why our app:
◇ Does not collect/share any user's personally identifiable information.
◇ Does not contain Social Network Integration or other Social Features.
◇ Does not contain ads.
◇ Does not contain In-App Purchases.
◇ Contains "Feedback", "Tell a Friend" and "Buy Now" buttons, behind a parental gate.
◇ Contains a "More Games" button and corresponding page, behind a parental gate.
For more information please visit: readnlearn.com/#privacy
ABOUT ReadnLearn
At ReadnLearn we love what we do, developing fun and educational applications for children. We are a passionate and committed small team of parents, who are graphics artists and developers. Our team is complemented by educators and our own children, our awesome beta testing team!
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, First Words for Toddlers Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor Improvements and Optimisations
Download & Availability
First Words for Toddlers Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get First Words for Toddlers Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
It is so educational for kids and helps kids and toddlers make learning easier and more fun for kids.
It's simple learning words app. Easy to use! We think kids learn words while having fun. :).
Our 3 year old daughter absolutely loves this app. It helps improve her reading and writing.
The sounds in this game were good for our ears. Reading teaching tools continue to improve and become more accessible – this one is good to add to your list.
This is a great app for kids. Our 2 year old loves playing this game when she has our Phone. As a parent that knows how important learning is to a child's development, we highly recommend this game.
Motivating! Student use prompts our good review! We have a young student with special needs and strong opinions who is motivated to work with speech sounds and early reading with this app. It's format is clear and quick with a dash of humor. Great App.
Professionally made app, easy to understand and use. We've been waiting for something like this app. Incredibly useful and well-designed app with great UI/UX! Thanks:).
This app is excellent to teach kids how to read and write. The app shows you an image then the name of that image and your kid have to match the letters with the word, it tells your kid the sound of each letter and how to read it. Your child definitely is going to know how to read and write sooner than normal. Proved with our 3 year old kid.
This is great as an introduction to phonetic reading. The difficulty level is just right for a three or four year old just beginning to recognize letters.
This teaching app is very polished. It has high quality sounds and images to teach young children to associates sounds and images with words in a unique way. Our niece really enjoyed it.
Very well done! Great app for kids, thank you.
She really liked it and asked for more animals.
Great app for learning how to spell words. Interactive, easy to use and engaging. We'll done.
This is one of those apps that should be included in schools. Great for learning to sound out the words and spell them as well. The sound effects and graphics only make it better. This is highly recommended for kids learning to read.
Really, this is such a great app for youngsters! Cute cartoons keep this simple game interesting and fun. Very interactive and educational.
For those who have pre-school children, this app is for you. Teach your child to read while having fun. The graphics are very colorful, very attractive to children. Sounds are clear too.
This app totally changed our nephew's leaning experience. It's really simple to use, which is very important for kids. And he actually enjoy learning new vocabularies through this app. Recommend.
She can learn the words with this game. Keep the updates coming :).
Really perfect for our kid learning how to read. Great and simple graphics and haven't seen any ads yet.
Useful in helping our little sister learning the vocabulary and phonix. Simple to use which is most important for the little kids to use it.
Great way to learn how to read and how to correctly pronounce words. The app is great for kids because of it's interface designed for children. But actually this app can help an non-English speaking adult who wants to learn English pronunciation as well.
Nice and simple game. It helps children to develop their attention. It is great for our nephew.
Great phonetics app. Very appealing to littlies. We like it how the 'er' and 'se' letter sounds show as one. Excellent learning tool.
Very useful for kids, this one is really awesome.
Great phonic pronunciation of letters that make up words, with a nice child-friendly interface and colourful images to keep them interested. Recommended.
Easy to use and pretty fun. We can imagine how these kind of apps are gonna change our learning experience. This app offers far more efficient and personalized learning than regular classroom learning.
This app is great for kids! It helps in phonetic & letter reading! Awesome features with animations! Very useful for small kids.
This app is really very helpful to teach kids basic words with spellings. Excellent work developer. Well done.
Our child loves this game. It is great that she also learns from it too. Fantastic app.
Good app. It is a pleasure to teach new words with it.
Great way for kids to learn. We enjoy this and like it a lot. Thanks dev team.
This app is really great for kids learning to spell or even just their letters! Fun character animations too.
This game has really nice graphics and easy to learn for kids.
Our little cousin really like it! Cool educational game.
Great game for kids to learn. Our kids love it. Nice job.
We babysit atleast 2 times a week and this is a great app for our niece to learn language before pre-school. Great kick start for a toddler.
Our kid loves it too much. The best app for kids.
Being an English teacher in Japan, and having a Japanese/American son, we know the importance of phonics. If a child or adult can conquer English phonics, they can read anything in English, and will have a huge advantage in conquering English speech too. This game has a lot of free play before you need to upgrade to the pro version and even the free play is a great start for an English learner. Also, this game has great sound effects, great interface, color-coding to help the true beginners, and even encouragement when the user gets the answer right. Overall, a very cool app! Keep it up.
Very nice and well made app for kids 5 and under. The voice is clear and entertaining. Very good.Thank you for sharing.
This app is good not just for toddlers but ELS people. Leaving phonics is to learn English and this app does a good job.
So this is a nice simple app that helps kids learn spelling and phonics. Intuitive for kids to use and lots of fun.
This is a nice app for kids to learn phonics and letters. Hope to see more advanced options as well for early leaners.
This is good for 3 year olds. Our 4 year old was bored with it after one try.
Our son is enjoying this application, it is increasing his vocabulary with the associated sound and the reading.
Our grand daughter loves the sounds she really enjoys sounding out the words.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.6
- Size: 49.47 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Read 'n' Learn ltd
Last updated: 27th December 2025 | Genre: Education, Family | Developer: Read 'n' Learn ltd