Little Matchups ABC - Alphabet Letters and Phonics App Reviews

This app is horribly done.... The audio is buggy, overlaps, cuts off, repeats... And can create a quite scary - but at least confusing-- experience for a young child. The graphics are also not very lovingly crafted, its very barebones and dull. Kids of that age need engaging, recognizable, abstract patterns and objects. Why then have a thousand settings???? Its total nonsense. A good game knows when to increase difficulty, and does not need parents to tweak every little aspect. Stay away from this one. It probably does more harm than good to your little loved one.

I deleted this app after trying once. When I touched the letters it would say another letter. It might have just been a temporary thing but Ill pass on giving my toddler confusing information.

Great progression and interesting color matching.

My 3 year old little girl loves this app. She will sit and play this for a good 20-30 minutes at a time. It helps her recognize the letters and match the upper and lower cases. Great app!

This a entertaining and great way to learn your ABCs. Maybe one suggestion adding the sounds of the letters too, but overall still a great app. My 4 year is able to practice his ABCs recognition and he doesnt even realize hes learning.

I use this app with my kindergarten students. They love and so do I! The options of adjusting which hints use is great. The only suggestion I have is to allow for making our own lists of letters to use as certain letters are introduced at specific times. :)

You are able to record your voice for the encouragement, when a match is made correctly. My daughters smile is so precious to see, when she hears my voice on the iPad, telling her Good Job, Sweetheart! The sounds are good. The game advances the chat challenge, as more are answered correctly. Excellent for pre-reading. May I suggest an app that puts words together by sound? It would be an excellent progression for phonics reading.

This app is very helpful for the students that need constant help with letter identification. The sounds are very helpful and the kids enjoy playing it!

This is the only app that my two year old will play for longer than 30 seconds!!!

My 2 year old loves this app and so do I. I like that I can adjust the settings to make it more age appropriate. Great job on this app!

Perfect for my kindergarten students who need to learn letters and letters sounds! Thank you for all your great apps!

I love how this includes letter names and sounds and mixes them up! The only thing I think couldve been done better was the animal sounds add-on. There are consonant blends instead of pure sounds (like "snail" instead of a word like "sand"). So in the next update it would be great if they switched from strictly animal sounds to example words with pictures that were pure examples of the sound (watch out for "bossy r" sounds like ar, er, ir, or, and ur). Other than that, the student that I got this for cant put this down and constantly wants to play it!

Great app, my 2 yr old daughter loves this game and gets comfy matching away anywhere!!!!!! Great job!

I homeschool using Montessori methods, and this is plain, simple, to the point. Many options available to customize it. Nothing distracting or too busy.

My son is four years old and he loves this app and so do I! Get it!

my toddler loves this app. she may not know all of her letters (yet), but she has fun matching them.

I downloaded this app and put it in a folder because I didnt think my 2 year old was ready, but he found it and has been using it and really understands letters better. I love that it has upper and lower case.

Truly created by developers after my own heart. E V E R Y app by these love able geniuses is SO fully customizable, and beyond adding your own stuff you can turn on or off category options at any time. You can even record your own praise words for correct answers. What I like very much about this app is the ability to isolate the category to letter sounds and then decide how many options will be displayed. For ex. I choose to have only a field of two display because my daughter has Down syndrome, and while we are beginning work on letter sounds, a field of two choices is just right. So, the upper case letter is on one side and its lower case match is on the other side. If you tap EITHER one you hear the sound. Object is to drag the matching letter from the left to the empty box next to the letter on the right side of the screen. Love it. Love almost ALL their apps. Check them out.

There are some interesting graphic choices in this app: some multi-colored letters, some photographs, some drawings - this is so distracting to users and difficult for young children ( the ones I am assuming this app is designed for). Also, not sure if they added a play button to match to the letter j for a reason- but when pressed no video plays. Not sure if that is an error or if it has a purpose. All and all, not sure it has a lot of functional uses.

It never says the letter name "i" for some reason. Also, when you turn on Letter Names and Sounds, instead of displaying the letter its supposed to match with, itll just have the Play symbol. Kids arent going to understand that. It should just display the letter.