Spark Reading for Kids
Digital books for learning
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Education
Languages
English
Wed Feb 18 2026
A bold new design featuring new stories, photos, and challenges. Explore new worlds and connect with Apple Music to listen while you learn! Create your avatar with Image Playground and set up your Personal Voice to read the stories aloud. Full support for VoiceOver and Voice Control.
Spark Reading for Kids transforms literacy into an adventure. Designed by educators, the app uses 'Touch-to-Read' technology and phonics-based mini-games to help children aged 4-8 develop comprehension and fluency. With a library of diverse stories and character-led lessons, Spark makes learning to read a joyful experience.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Spark Reading for Kids is an excellent educational tool that manages to be both fun and highly effective. It focuses on building literacy through interactive stories where the child isn't just a passive observer but an active participant. The phonics-based approach ensures that kids are learning the building blocks of language rather than just memorizing words.
The UI is exceptionally kid-friendly, with large buttons and clear audio cues. Parents will appreciate the progress tracking features, which provide insights into what the child is struggling with. It’s one of the few educational apps that kids will actually ask to play, which is the highest praise any learning tool can receive.
Features
Interactive 'Touch-to-Read' stories
Phonics-based curriculum
Parental progress reports
Kid-safe, ad-free environment
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Tips & Walkthrough
Create a custom profile for your child to ensure the stories and difficulty levels match their current reading level.
Gameplays
Drag and drop letters to build words from the story, helping to reinforce the relationship between sounds and spelling.
Screenshot
Q&A
The app offers a selection of free stories with a subscription option for full access to the library.
Ratings & Reviews
Great
Thu Mar 26 2020 A.G.C. 2008I am homeschooling my little sister, due to all of this. Cause school is canceled. I could not find any books that is her level, she likes to read, and has a test, so I don’t have to make up a test.😂 She loves all these books and has read each at least twice. The only thing I would say that is bad is that our parents lost their jobs and cannot afford more books in her grade level. Because of this virus, you should make the all of the books free, because not everyone can afford it. Remember, that everyone including my family are fighting a hard battle.
Great App
Wed Sep 02 2020 109PAI give the app a 4.5 because I was looking for an app that my kids would use to read instead of the old traditional way. An app with things they are interested in. I came across this app and both my kids loved when they saw books/stories about basketball or baseball (their favorite sports) they even like that it gave a quiz at the end. Which I thought was brilliant because you can tell kids to read and read but do they really understand it? How do you know they really read the book/story? With the quiz at the end it’s a little reassurance that yes, they did read the book/story and they understood it.. I had only one issue at the beginning which was that even tho I downloaded and paid for subscription on my iPad, there was no way to “log in” to the same account I had made on my iPad so they could use on their iPads. So I emailed the company and within 2 hours I had an answer back helping me. * Kudos for great customer service!!* ** just a suggestion, you should create a way for parents to make an account and adding the kids, so then the kids can log in without having to pay the subscription again**
Not the best learning app
Mon Oct 22 2018 Kool laid jammerYTThis is not the best learning app. I have read so many stories in my lifetime, but have never experienced so much overage stories. For example, if you are twenty, you would want to read something for your age level so that you could understand it. But if your in this app, you can’t do that for even kids! Kids should be able to have a FREE environment that lays out all of the books they will understand and something that’s on their grade level or age range. This app again doesn’t provide that! I have read a story about Abraham Lincoln on this app. I know it’s obviously something I can understand, but do you really expect a 8/9 yr old child to be able to look at every detail and answer pointless hard questions about it? NO! That should be in the fourth grade range! That’s what I’m talking about. Now, this is MY opinion. Don’t take this personal. I do love this app but please, UPGRADE DA DANG THANG! Please!! Let children have the right to understand stories in grade level and age range! We are all people! Come on, that’s just JANK!!!!!
Restore my individual apps or give me lifetime access please
Tue Jul 22 2025 specialappsskI don’t dare update this app because I assume it will strip even more content than it already has. An FYI about this developer- I purchased many, MANY apps spanning all the different grades for reading and learning, from this dev a long time ago and ALL have been removed from the App Store, but first updated to remove/place content under a paywall and three page ads for this Spark app added there… restore feature DOES NOT WORK, even though I still have these apps on my device. I am a special educator and work hard to find quality resources for my students. Yet again PRO /FULL apps were updated to become LITE apps, then removed from the App Store , and replaced with this subscription app! Please contact me about how I can obtain a free LIFETIME app to regain access to the contents I once had, because this is not cool to do to early adopters of your app!
Cool I guess
Mon Jul 06 2020 good but bad reportThis app is good but I wish u dont have to pay for it I’ve Ben doing this for a week or so and it has Ben great but I don’t want to pay for it at all and I love this app and every time I use it I fill smarted but if u could at least lower down the prices or take it off that would be great I’m going into 5th grade and I have trouble with reading and this is the only good reading app 5th grade is a hard grade and I only have 4 weeks into I do better in reading so can u at least just take it off I would hate to pay for this so yea pls respond and change the problem
Has potential but content is weak, very limited
Sat Jan 04 2025 dcbruin101I wanted to like this app; the format is excellent - including a quiz after each reading section (similar to a standardized test), so has the potential to help with reading comprehension. However the content is limited to the most boring pieces of work that a kid can read. These are short reading segments on random non fiction topics rather than stories or books. It’s not a reading app you would expect . It feels like they found free content and used it to build an app you have to pay for. Plus, the age range is so vast that there is very little content for any given grade. It’s advertised for middle school but this content is sprinkled within a sea of content aimed at younger readers. I’m currently trying to get a refund..
Wort app ever
Sun Sep 08 2019 dj lol foreverThis is the worst app ever if you want to the worst I’ve ever downloaded this they have the worst books for third graders and have the best books for the older kids that is not fair and if you’re in third grade the books all you get is like snow day those are for kindergartners and I’m not a kindergartner I am in third grade right now and I just started and I already hate these books and I already downloaded today and I already red some And they’re horrible when you press get more books they give you the same books that doesn’t help at all so if you wanna download this app you better get ready for the worst app in the world and I’m going to get revenge on you for this if you don’t change this I will get revenge on you for
So I think this app is definitely worth it
Sat Apr 16 2022 fan van car carThis game is fun but I wish that you don’t have to pay money to read other books but other than that I love all the books that there is here on this app I think that it is also good for all ages and better than driving to the library just to get a book to return again there is lots of books on here I’m sure there is one that you will find in love
