- Price$4.99
- CategoryEducation
- First releasedNovember 5, 2009
- Versions2 archived
- Installable2 of 2
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerLearning Touch LLC
- Bundle IDcom.clozure.learningtouch.FWDeluxe
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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Report an issue* Finalist for the BestAppEver Award: Toddler Apps * The best-selling reading game for kids has gotten even better! We've added more words, more languages, and phonics. First Words Deluxe provides endless fun for the toddlers in your life, all while giving your child a head start on learning their letters and learning to spell words.
Now with Spanish, French, German, Japanese, plus US and UK English.
First Words Deluxe is toddler-tested and approved, with a user-interface designed specifically for the littlest of fingers. The game includes over 150 words in five kid-friendly categories:
** Animals ** ** Vehicles ** ** Colors ** ** Shapes ** ** Words from around the house **
(Fewer words are shown when the phonics option is selected, because many English words are not spelled phonetically. A total of 68 phonics words are included.)
A wide range of options let you tune the game to match your child's current skills and abilities.
If your child is old enough to ask for your phone, they're old enough for First Words Deluxe!
Here's what educators and reviewers have said about our First Words apps:
“First Words is an app that teaches letters and words in fun and interactive way. Very easy to use these apps will help support your little ones learning with great illustrations and bright colors. Each app supports kids learning and encourages kids to explore and discover by revealing, rewarding and teaching.” -- Fun Educational Apps
“Excellent - As a teacher, I love this game! Just what technology was meant to do!” -- iTunes Review
“This app has great settings that let you control the level of difficulty for the child – either with lots of hints or almost none at all. The letters slide nicely into each word and when completed the child is rewarded by having the pictured animal enlarge and animate briefly.” --Carisa Kluver at Digital Stortyime
“First Words Deluxe is a very straightforward word-building game. Words are either said letter by letter as they are dragged into the appropriate gray boxes or, if chosen in the settings, a smaller set of words can be sounded out with phonics. This makes this game a treat for both pre-readers and early spellers.” --Common Sense Media
“Looking to guide your toddler towards recognizing letters and how to spell words up to eight letters long? Then First Words Deluxe might be just what you are looking for. This pre-reader and spelling application encourages vocabulary development in a wide range of categories such as: vehicles, animals, at home, colors, and shapes.” --Andrea Gardner at Applicable2u
"First Words is a great app -- as I said at the time, 'Leo loves First Words because it's fun and easy. I love it because he's learning to spell words, and the interface makes that learning error-free.'" ---Shannon Des Roches Rosa at Squidalicious
*** We love getting feedback from our users. If you have questions or comments, please send them to [email protected]. ***
Chart History
Ratings Over Time
sampled from 16 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 6, 2010 | 1.5 | — | 103 | $4.99 |
| August 23, 2011 | 4.1 | — | 607 | $4.99 |
| January 2, 2012 | — | — | 732 | $4.99 |
| May 15, 2013 | — | — | 1,059 | $4.99 |
| February 26, 2019 | 7.1 | ★ 4.0 | 1,120 | $4.99 |
| February 14, 2020 | 7.1.2 | ★ 4.0 | 1,125 | $4.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25My 2 year old daughter loves this game. It is amazing to see her put the letters in the right spot.
Great app with logical parental controls and many options. With or w/o hints, short, long or random length words, force left to right or random. My son has "graduated" through the different options and chooses this app over others. It's easy to understand what to do, good feedback for errors, quick response when touching and dragging the letters. Also offers categories for what words you spell, i.e. home, colors, animals, etc. Or choose all words and get random mix. Nice options to keep the game fresh or growing with the child. It's really worth it to get the Deluxe version. App works the same on iPad and iPhone and my son doesn't care which device he's on as long as he can play. The biggest thing is he is spelling these words outside of the app now and isn't that the point? Win.
My son played this game so much and still does.
This is my grandsons favorite app and I think it is really great for him.
I got this app to help teach my son his lowercase letters (already knew uppercase) in a fun way. I love how customizable the app is! In a short time my son has learned many of these words.
My daughter learned each letter sound by using the bobs books app. I was looking for a similar app so I bought this. She doesn't seem to like this one as much, although it is a similar concept. The other one allowed her to put sentences together by spelling one word at a time. Helpful hint though, go into settings in this game and change it to phonics so the letter sound is said and not the actual letter.
Fun and easy to use. Great for preschoolers.
Would recommend new words and better pictures though. Also adding short definitions would be great!
Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.