Word Magic app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 2736 ratings )
Games Education Word
Developer: Anusen Inc
0.99 USD
Current version: 5.0, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 16 Oct 2008
App size: 18.67 Mb

Word Magic is nominated for Best Educational App by 2009 Best App Ever awards and also featured in "Apps for kids" by Apple
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Word magic is created by mom and dad of a 5 year old kid. It has wonderful reviews in the app store.
Below are some samples by customers.
A Fun, Exciting Math App for my 4 year old son.
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It really is a magic game kids will love it, the upgrades are really good ....
auto scrolling to next word .... random colours .... fun graphics ....
new different rewards for the kids.... any queries to anusen answered thoroughly & very quickly by email ....
and to make it special the little daughters voice will encourage kids to keep guessing & learning ....
thanks for thinking of kids & all your good ideas....i also bought maths magic....just as good,
same decription as above for word magic.... a very happy nan .... ann
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This app is the best. My son is learning to read and being able to play to find the begining
and ending sound is great and it is a concept being taught to him in kindergarten. My 3 year old loves it too. Makes me want to have iPhones for each one of them!
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My 5 year old loves this application and It really helps me see how much she knows Keep up the good work
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My 4.5 yr old daughter loves this game, she is having lots of fun as well learning at the same time. Thanks for making learning fun:)
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Word Magic is designed keeping preschooler and kindergarten kids in mind. It is very ideal for kids between the ages 3 to 6. It is an excellent application for kids to have fun with words and their spellings and learn them.

A picture is shown and the kids should select the missing letter for the picture. The picture for the word will be read out. There are three flavors. Based on the kids level, you can choose missing letter at the beginning or in the middle or in the last.

Word magic is loaded with lot of fun features:
- Very simple design. Kids need to just touch the answer.
- Very attractive and funny pictures.
- Once they identify the correct answer, shaking the iphone will take them to a new problem.
- Every time they pick the answers they get appreciated with surprise appreciation (real voice)
- After every 5 successive correct answers different colored stars appear as their rewards. Kids love this.

Word magic is fun learning experience for kids which would help them in
- Positive reinforcement
- Surprises and rewards
- Very simple design
- Vibrant colors
- Attractive and funny pictures

Once a kid plays with this application he/she will want to play till the end of the game to see the surprises. The sounds and colors have been carefully selected. The voices are also recorded by a kid.

This application has been kids approved. We had spent lots of time researching the usability of this application. We have been tweaking this application and enhancing it based on how 4 year old kids use this. We have 6 QAs for this application. Yes! 6 preschoolers who approved this application. We had been iteratively testing with 6 different kids of the same age group.

Have fun, and please send your comments and feedback and enhancements requests to wordmagic@anusen.com

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We had partnered with SmarTots and excited to provide more features to the parents.

SmarTots provides learning reports and mobile education app reviews that help parents understand what their children are learning. Signing up for SmarTots also gives parents access to fun activities that enhance the educational value of mobile education apps like this one. Click the Parent
Button inside this app to get these great features
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Checkout http://tinyurl.com/n6p2hd for the video of this app.
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Pros and cons of Word Magic app for iPhone and iPad

Word Magic app good for

Colorful and good interface. My soon-to-be 7-year old daughter finds it too easy. My 3-year old son is not quite ready for it. Look like it is more ideal for 4-6 year old kids. It needs a level option like for longer words or multi-letter fill in...etc
This is a terrific App. Good variety and engaging for my two kids. It definitely fits the K and 1st grade kids that its designed for. Id really love to see a version that takes kids to the next grade levels - 2nd and 3rd..... Maybe, longer words and more varied vocabulary.
This app is the best. My son is learning to read and being able to play to find the begining and ending sound is great and it is a concept being taught to him in kindergarten. My 3 year old loves it too. Makes me want to have iPhones for each one of them!
My kindergartner loves this application, I think it is a very good idea to have kids fill in either beginning, middle or finishing sounds. There is a lot of room for improvement: I wish you did not always have to choose beginning, middle or finishing sounds, so that any of those could be presented randomly as an option. More words are definitely needed, and also longer words. It would also be good that the word be spoken when you get it right, or even before you get it right as an option or a hint.
My 5 year old loves this application and It really helps me see how much she knows Keep up the good work
My 4 year old loves this app. He actually asks to play it often. Only problem is, we need more words, please!

Some bad moments

Please fix the recorded volume of the two voices. The words are pronounced so quietly and yet the childs voice giving praise is incredibly loud.
My 4 year old got bored after a few minutes. There is not enough difference in the words spoken after choosing a letter. Kids need to know they have it right. This app says almost the same thing in the same tone for correct and incorrect answers. Change that and it might keep the attention longer.
Not bad. However the pronunciation of the words from benefit generally from being in a more neutral accent. More importantly some of the words are essentially unrecognizable. Clover sounded like it started with a P - more like plowed than clover. I think someone needs to go through all the words and record many of them.
This was clearly not designed by an educator. Initial sounds are not bad, but the medial and ending sounds have zero relationship to phonological awareness. No knowledge of vowel pairs is being taught. Very poor examples are the words moon, bear, and bird. the o, e and i do not make their short sounds in these words. They work as a pair. The i in bird is an r-controlled vowel. Before children learn to read print, they need to become aware of how the sounds in words work. This app will confuse and frustrate young children as they enter kindergarten.
The words fly through when you dont even touch the screen, this is severely bugged.
The maximum length of word is 6 letters, and there are limited number of words. Not good for First grade or higher level.

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