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Everything you need to cover Wonster Words: the facts, the assets, the awards, and how to get review access to the full app.
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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, 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’s 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 genuinely 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, works without a connection
- 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 actually learn to read. It starts with the sounds of language and the letters that represent them, then layers on the words and meaning that turn decoding into real reading. 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.
The same sequence is browsable on this site asspelling words by grade andword lists by phonics pattern; the full approach is athow it works.
Safety & privacy
Parent-facing reviewers score safety explicitly, so here are the answers pre-written — and checkable 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. No connection needed once content is downloaded — planes, cars, and waiting rooms included.
Reviewer access
Wonster Words is free to download, but the full library sits behind a subscription — and a review written from the free tier isn't a review of the product families actually use. We provide free access to reviewers.
Email us at [email protected] with your outlet, where the review will run, and whether you're reviewing on an iOS device — the prefilled template covers it. A human reads every request and replies by email.
Awards
Seven honors for children's educational media. Each is listed with its issuing organization so it can be verified 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're the property of the issuing programs, so they aren't part of the downloadable kit — please request use from the program that granted the award.
Downloads
App icon
The 1024 px square is the App Store master (no rounding, no alpha) for sites that composite their own mask; the rounded transparent variants drop straight into an article.
Logo
The horizontal lockup, for light backgrounds. SVG preferred; the PNG is for tools that can't place vector art.
Store screenshots
The App Store listing creative — headline art with caption bars, at web-friendly size (828×1792).
Store screenshots — source resolution
The same nine panels at their 1242×2688 source resolution, for print or hero use. These are store creative, not unedited device captures — raw per-device captures are coming to the kit.
Gameplay stills
Unedited stills from in-app recordings of the learning mini-games (1920×886 landscape). Each filename names the skill on screen — the thing a reviewer writes about.
Story stills
Two stills per word-animation short: the googly-eyed letters building the word, then the animation it unlocks. Nine words, nine distinct settings. (A few frames are trimmed to content where scene transitions carried pillarbox bars.)
“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, capital W's, no hyphen. The company is 77Sparx Studio, Inc.
- Display face: Baloo 2 (headings and titles).
- Body face: Nunito.
- In-app lettering: Chewy — gameplay only, not used on the website or in print.
- Logo: the horizontal lockup in the kit above. Keep clear space around it, don't recolor, stretch, or add effects, and don't set it on a background that fights its legibility.
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Asset usage
You're welcome to use everything in this kit — 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 don't 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
[email protected] — for interviews, additional assets, a fact we haven't covered, or anything this page should answer and doesn't.
About 77Sparx Studio: 77Sparx Studio, Inc. is an independent studio founded in 2013 that builds educational games children genuinely want to play. Wonster Words is its flagship title. More at 77sparx.com.
This page — wonsterwords.com/press — is the authoritative, always-current version of the press kit. Facts here supersede any copy of the downloadable bundle.