Whether you’re a student looking to improve comprehension, a professional looking to expand your vocabulary, or an avid reader looking to explore new literary horizons, these apps can offer multiple features and resources tailored to your specific needs. Here are seven reading practice apps with at least a million downloads.
Read Along by Google (Google LLC — 10 million downloads)
Read Along is a free, offline, speech-based reading tutoring app designed to improve reading skills in English and other languages for children ages 5 and up. The app guides its users through an engaging gamified experience that includes engaging stories, rewards and a friendly AI assistant, Diya, who provides real-time feedback and support.
Epic: Children’s Books and Reading (Epic! Creations — 10 million downloads)
Epic’s digital library for kids offers more than 40,000 books, audiobooks, learning videos and more through a fun, interactive reading app that fosters curiosity and reader confidence. The app also offers instant access to a variety of content, rewards, learning tools. Epic is also available for Apple devices on which it offers offline reading.
Spelling and Phonics: Games for Kids (RV AppStudios — 10 million downloads)
This is a ‘truly’ free spelling game for kids with no ads. The app offers more than 10 different spelling games for different learning styles, helping young children learn spelling, phonics and letter-picture associations through fun, interactive ways like matching letters, filling in the blanks. The app also offers CVC training with bright graphics, sounds and progress tracking.
Learn to Read – Duolingo ABC (Duolingo — 5 million downloads)
From the creators of Duolingo, Duolingo ABC is a fun, hands-on learning app designed to teach children from preschool to first grade how to read and write in English through more than 700 interactive lessons, games, and stories that feature multisensory activities, personalized learning, and rewards. This makes learning feel like play while developing phonics, sight word recognition, vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.
Learn to Read: Games for Kids (RV AppStudios — 5 million downloads)
This is a free educational app that helps children learn to read with fun word games, Dolch’s list puzzles, flash cards and creative mini-games designed to teach vocabulary, phonics and reading skills. With unique ways to learn like spelling, memory matching, sentence construction and more, kids from preschool to 3rd grade can master common words while having fun.
Reading Eggs – learn to read (Blake eLearning Pty Ltd — 1 million downloads)
Reading Eggs is an award-winning, research-based learning program that helps children aged 2-13 learn to read through interactive games, guided lessons, activities and over 3,500 digital storybooks covering phonics, spoken words, spelling, vocabulary, comprehension and numeracy skills . The app also offers a motivating reward system and progress tracking for parents.
ReaderPro – Quick Reading (G.App — 1 million downloads)
Speed reading is a skill available to anyone with proper training. This application offers the best exercises and techniques to multiply reading speed, significantly expand vocabulary and improve cognitive abilities. By exercising regularly using application programs that contain exercises such as Schulte tables and uniquely created activities in an enjoyable, gamified format grouped by intensity and duration, visible results can be achieved quickly. Track progress through graphical displays for comprehensive self-development.