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What is Wonster Words?
The award-winning app that turns learning to read into the game kids ask for.
Wonster Words teaches reading the way the research says children learn it (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, and spelling) and hides that structure inside games. Built by 77Sparx Studio with educators and speech-language pathologists, it is loved by kids ages 2–8 and the parents who hear them sounding out words at the dinner table.
- What it is: a science-of-reading app where phonics, spelling, and vocabulary play like games: word building, word searches, and animated word stories with googly-eyed letter characters.
- Who it is for: children ages 2–8 learning to read, and the parents, teachers, and speech-language pathologists helping them.
- What makes it different: expert-built content underneath, genuine fun on the surface: every game targets a real early-reading skill, and every finished word unlocks an animation that makes its meaning stick.
- Safe by design: ad-free, works offline, never markets to children, with parent-directed features behind a parent gate.
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Wonster Words is an award-winning reading app for kids ages 2–8 that turns phonics, spelling, and vocabulary into games children ask to play.
Wonster Words is an award-winning reading app for kids ages 2–8 from 77Sparx Studio. Built with educators and speech-language pathologists on the science of reading, it turns phonics, spelling, and vocabulary into games kids ask to play. Free to download on the App Store and Google Play, with a 7-day free trial.
Wonster Words is an award-winning reading app that helps children ages 2–8 learn to read and makes the learning feel like the fun part. Developed by 77Sparx Studio with educators and speech-language pathologists, it follows the science of reading: phonemic awareness and phonics first, then vocabulary and spelling built on top. Kids build words, hunt for spelling patterns, and unlock animated word stories starring googly-eyed letter characters. Rated 4.6★ from 31,000+ App Store ratings, it has earned seven honors for children's educational media. Ad-free and offline-capable, Wonster Words is free to download on the App Store and Google Play, with a 7-day free trial.
Fact sheet
- App name
- Wonster Words Learning Games
- Developer
- 77Sparx Studio, Inc. (founded 2013)
- Category
- Education
- Age range
- Kids ages 2–8
- Age rating
- 4+ (App Store)
- Platforms
- iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play, Teacher Approved)
- Languages
- English
- Rating
- 4.6★ from 31,000+ App Store ratings
- Ads
- None: no third-party ads, ever
- Offline
- Yes. Full features available offline, including videos, once content is downloaded.
- Downloads
- Over 10 million across the App Store and Google Play
- Pricing
- Free to download. Monthly and annual subscriptions unlock full access, with a 7-day free trial. Current prices are on the store listings.
The learning approach
Wonster Words is grounded in the science of reading, the decades of research on how children learn to read. It starts with the sounds of language and the letters that spell them, then adds the vocabulary that turns sounding out words into reading for meaning. The app follows that order deliberately, so each skill rests on the one before it.
- Phonemic awareness: hearing and playing with the individual sounds in words.
- Phonics: matching sounds to letters and blending them into words, from CVC words through digraphs, blends, vowel teams, and silent-e patterns.
- Sight words & vocabulary: growing the words a child recognizes, knows, and understands, with every finished word unlocking an animation that shows what it means.
- Spelling: turning sounds back into written words, aligned with the patterns taught from kindergarten through 2nd grade.
- Speech and language: practice that supports how children say and use words, shaped by the speech-language pathologists on the team.
You can browse the same sequence in our spelling resources and phonics resources, and how it works explains the full approach.
Safety & privacy
Reviewers who write for parents score an app on safety. You can check each answer below against our Privacy Policy:
- Ad-free. No third-party ads anywhere in the app.
- No marketing to children. Purchase and account features sit behind a parent gate.
- Designed for children's privacy. Built to operate in line with children's-privacy law (COPPA); we collect the minimum needed to run the app and never sell personal data.
- Works offline. Full features available offline: no connection needed once content is downloaded, so it plays on planes, in cars, and in waiting rooms.
Reviewer access
We give reviewers free access to the full app. Wonster Words is free to download, but its content needs a subscription, so we set reviewers up with access instead of asking them to sign up.
Email us at [email protected] with your outlet, where the review will run, and whether you are reviewing on an iOS device. The link opens an email with those questions already in it. A person reads every request and replies by email.
Awards
Wonster Words has won seven honors for children's educational media. Each is listed with the organization that issued it, so you can check it at the source.
Parents’ Choice RecommendedParents’ Choice Foundation
Mom’s Choice Awards GoldMom’s Choice Awards
Smart Media AwardAcademics’ Choice
Dr. Toy’s Best PicksDr. Toy
iKids Awards FinalistKidscreen
Editor’s Choice for Excellence in DesignChildren’s Technology Review
NAPPA Silver WinnerNational Parenting Publications Awards
The award seals are shown here for reference. They are the property of the issuing programs, so they are not part of the downloadable kit. To use one, ask the program that granted the award.
App Store and Google Play reviews
These are a few of the reviews parents, teachers, and speech-language pathologists have left on the App Store and Google Play. We have lightly edited the quotes for length.
She chooses it over TV
“My 3-year-old will actively choose to play this rather than watch TV now. She loves making the words and then getting to see the little cartoons. It has made a huge difference in a short time.”
Great language building app
“As a Speech-Language Pathologist I find Wonster Words highly effective in teaching letter sounds and recognition. The repetitive sounds and quirky intonations are sure to engage all learners.”
Each of my students loves this app
“Lots of fun and very engaging. I have been using it for remote learning and in-person tutoring. Each of my students loves this app.”
It makes me want to cry with joy
“My son is a non-verbal autistic child and this app actually gets him to do his letter sounds, and he tries to make word sounds. It makes me want to cry with joy.”
The reviews page has every review, grouped by topic: phonics, spelling, speech and language, learning needs, and more.
Downloads
App icon
The 1024 px square is the App Store master, with square corners and no transparency, for sites that apply their own mask. The rounded, transparent versions are ready to drop into an article.
Logo
Use the horizontal lockup on light backgrounds. The SVG is best; the PNG is for tools that cannot place vector art.
Store screenshots
These are the panels from our App Store listing, with headline art and caption bars, sized for the web at 828×1792.
Store screenshots at source resolution
These are the same nine panels at their 1242×2688 source resolution, for print or a large header image. They are store creative, not unedited device captures. For unedited frames from the app, use the gameplay stills.
Gameplay stills
These are unedited stills from in-app recordings of the learning mini-games, at 1920×886 landscape. Each file is named for the skill on screen.
Story stills
Each word animation has two stills: the googly-eyed letters building the word, then the scene the finished word unlocks. The nine words have nine different settings. We cropped the black side bars from a few frames, so some are narrower than 1920 px.
“Zoo”: letters build the word
“Zoo”: the story it unlocks
“Waterfall”: letters build the word
“Waterfall”: the story it unlocks
“Toast”: letters build the word
“Toast”: the story it unlocks
“Yell”: letters build the word
“Yell”: the story it unlocks
“Piranha”: letters build the word
“Piranha”: the story it unlocks
“Birthday”: letters build the word
“Birthday”: the story it unlocks
“Groove”: letters build the word
“Groove”: the story it unlocks
“Download”: letters build the word
“Download”: the story it unlocks
“Zippy”: letters build the word
“Zippy”: the story it unlocks
Brand basics
The product name is “Wonster Words”: two words, each with a capital W, and no hyphen. The company is 77Sparx Studio, Inc.
- Display face: Baloo 2 (headings and titles).
- Body face: Nunito.
- In-app lettering: Chewy, used only in gameplay and never on the website or in print.
- Logo: the horizontal lockup in the kit above. Keep clear space around it, do not recolor, stretch, or add effects, and do not set it on a background that makes it hard to read.
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Asset usage
You may use everything in this kit (the icon, logo, screenshots, and stills) in articles, reviews, videos, and social posts about Wonster Words. Video creators may monetize gameplay footage of Wonster Words on platforms like YouTube and TikTok.
Please do not alter the logo or icon, imply endorsement or partnership, or use the marks on or for another product. “Wonster Words” and the Wonster Words logo are trademarks of 77Sparx Studio, Inc.
Press contact
Write to [email protected] for interviews, more assets, or any fact this page does not cover.
About 77Sparx Studio: 77Sparx Studio, Inc. is an independent studio founded in 2013 that builds educational games children want to play. Wonster Words is its flagship title. More at 77sparx.com.
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