Reading Apps

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app is a fun puzzle game that asks you to guess a word based on the pictures you see.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

This app focuses on the word families that make reading and word identification easier for young children. It aims to improve reading skills.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This phonics based application combines letter sounds, letter writing, and 170 first words to help teach reading.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This iPad app is a completely customizable keyboard and adaptive notepad. Its key features include enlarging keys, word prediction, text-to-speech, audio recording, and much more.

Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.

With this app, you can learn just about anything. There are thousands of free flashcard decks available for download, or you can create your own, and it comes with text-to-speech capabilities.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.

AppWriter is comprised of text-to-speech software, context based word suggestions, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to help with reading and writing.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

AudioBooks allows you to listen to books. Some features include high-quality human recordings and access to all types of reading material.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Audible’s vast ebook library has over 100,000 titles for you to choose from. Download them to your device, listen with Whispersync, and enjoy.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

AudioNote records and syncs your notes. It combines the functionality of a notepad and voice recorder to create a powerful tool that will save you time while improving the quality of your notes.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Blio makes e-reading easy with text-to-speech, highlighting words as you read, looking up unknown words or phrases, and being visually friendly to suit your needs.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

This app introduces and teaches various literacy skills, such as the connection between letters and sounds, sounding out simple words, and spelling words you’ve read using a structured game format.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Readers of all levels and ages are given specially selected literature to read with this app. The more users read, the more books they are able to unlock!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Bugsy Pre-K teaches essential pre-k skills such as colors, shapes, letters, phonics, numbers, and counting.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

ClaroSpeak is a text-to-speech app that has several human-sounding, high-quality voices. It can highlight the words as they are spoken, and it creates audio files from any text.

Compatible with Android devices 1.5 and up.

Cool Reader is an eBook reader that supports multiple eBook formats. The app has a text-to-speech function and other customizable features.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Dr. Seuss Bookshelf allows you to find all the Dr. Seuss book apps for your reading pleasure. Read them on your own, or have the book apps read them aloud to you with their text-to-speech features.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iBooks 1.3.1 or later and iOS 4.3.3 or later.

This iBook, a story of its author Steven Milner’s personal experience living with dyslexia, portrays dyslexia as a way of thinking and not as a disability.

Compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.

This app is great for anyone who requires accessibility support or who dislikes reading large chunks of text on small devices. Just copy text from any Android application or web browser and hear it instantly spoken back to you.

Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.

This app contains a bunch of different tools for notetaking including a unit converter, a BMI calculator, a random password generator, note attachments such as PDF, word, and powerpoint, text-to-speech, and many more!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app teaches about letters, how letters relate to sounds, and how to spell words.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Use this app to create flashcards to help you study.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Flashcards for iPad is a great app for young children just learning basic words or kids learning a second language. Pictures and sounds accompany each word, making it easy for kids to learn both the spelling and sound!

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

This app provides users with over 25,000 classic pieces of literature for free! Your reader is sure to find something enjoyable!

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app helps users explore facts around the world. It features a spinning globe that spits out random fascinating facts.

Compatible with Android devices 2.0 and up.

Go Read is a part of Bookshare, where you can access one of the largest online libraries. This app also has text-to-speech capabilities and is especially made for people with reading impairments.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

With over 150,000 words, Howjsay is the world’s largest English pronunciation dictionary. It uses a real human voice for audio pronunciation and keeps track of your word lookup history.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Download and read ebooks quickly and easily with iBooks. It includes iBookstore, where you make purchases, and all of your downloads are stored in iCloud.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

iWordQ helps struggling readers and writers through text-to-speech capabilities, text highlighting, and much more.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app will give users access to millions of downloadable books, newspapers, magazines, and PDF’s that wil encourage reading.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

With this app, you can access Learning Ally’s collection of over 75,000 audiobooks. A Learning Ally membership is required.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

This app provides a fun way to overcome common letter reversals such as b’s and d’s. The app’s activities teach left from right and allows users to practice what they learned by practicing their letter discrimination skills.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app helps users visualize how the elements of literature develop style and meaning by arranging them graphically around three wheels: poetry, prose, and rhetoric.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This fun, interactive game is a great way to teach kids the difference between different parts of speech.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.

Magnispies is a reading game recommended for dyslexics who want to improve fluency and accuracy in recognizing the vowel(s) in words.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

MeeGenius! contains a vast library of kids’ books, all of which are narrated by a human voice. The words are highlighted as they are read.

Compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.

Mobile 112 is a great text-to-speech app that will read text messages, web pages and what you are typing for you.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Montessori Crosswords can help you develop reading, writing, and spelling skills. Build words from a set of 320 word-image-audio-phonics combinations using a phonics-enabled movable alphabet.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Based on the Montessori method, Montessori Letter Sounds HD helps kids get a jump start on learning to read. The app is formatted as a game to ensure fun, progressive learning.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.

Notetaker HD handles all of your handwritten notes, diagrams, and drawings in one place. You can annotate PDF files, shrink text to fit on the screen, and customize how your notes are organized.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This app is an interactive book that allows kids to play with Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Three Blind Mice, and other classic nursery rhyme characters.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Access ebooks and audiobooks from your local libraries with this app. You borrow the digital content much like you would a physical copy of the book—when the lending period expires, you lose digital access.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

This app aims to help you with all your document needs. It can save documents to PDF, edit and flatten PDFs, convert text-to-speech, convert images to text, transfer files with cloud storage devices, highlight and annotated PDFs, and can quickly open large files.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

PDF Expert allows you to read and annotate PDF documents, highlight text, make notes, and more. It is compatible with Preview and Adobe Acrobat.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Phonics Genius is an easy way for children to learn to recognize, read, and speak words through letter sounds. The app contains over 6,000 words, grouped by phonics, in addition to the fun games for practice.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app is a fun, effective phonics recognition game that provides a complete picture of the phonograms needed to read and spell.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Create your own audio photo books with Pictello. Pages can include an image, a few lines of text, and recorded audio or text-to-speech content. When you’re finished, you can share your story through iTunes.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.

The classic tale of a mischievous rabbit’s adventure through a grumpy farmer’s field is now at your fingertips. This ebook includes objects that literally pop out of the page, as well as a “read to me” feature with word highlighting to improve reading skills.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This app is designed for elementary aged children. Through sentence building activities, it explains how to correctly use prepositions and how they can change the meaning of a sentence.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Prizmo can read scanned documents to you; simply take a picture of the document with your phone, and Prizmo will read it aloud. You can also share the documents between devices or through cloud computing.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.

Read 2 Me lets you import .txt files and uses text-to-speech to read them aloud to you. You can easily bookmark important material, and there are many additional features for easy reading.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.

Through lessons and easy tracing games, Read&Write helps you learn phonics, read, write, and pronounce different letters and letter combinations.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Read2Go uses text-to-speech to help you read and comprehend books. With a Bookshare membership, you can browse, download, and read books, and you can customize reading speed, font, font size, and more.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

This app takes a unique approach to teaching reading comprehension. Based on the idea of paper bookmarks, each booster encourages the child to record responses, while they are reading, based on a specific reading focus.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Reading Trainer will help you improve your reading speed and mental capacity with fun exercises. The app uses multiple reading techniques, and you can easily record and track your progress.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.2 or later.

This app teaches grade appropriate Dolch words (the 220 words that appear most frequently in reading) by showing each word, speaking it aloud, and tracking your progress.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app contains the complete words of Shakespeare and makes them easier to read with a searchable glossary, concordance, and more!

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Sound Literacy is an instructional tool and resource for teaching phonemic awareness, phonological processing, the alphabetic principle, and morphemic awareness.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

SoundGecko allows you to convert text articles online into MP3s. Simply copy the website, add your email address, and download the MP3.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Hear your emails, articles, and other online texts read aloud to you by simply copying and pasting the text into the app. Then, create audio files from the spoken text that you can save or email.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.

This powerful app can not only help improve spelling, but it has word prediction and auto-completion features, text-to-speech with word highlighting, a built-in dictionary, and much more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app allows you to type in a word phonetically (based on how it sounds) and it will come up with the actual spelling of the word. It also provides definitions to help you understand the meaning of the word.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5. Also compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.

This app makes learning spelling and vocabulary words fun by having users play engaging games using any word list.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Stories2Learn allows you to create personalized stories using photos, text, and audio that can help improve literacy as well as social skills.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Recorded by children, Storytime is an interactive storytelling app. Each story has original graphics and voice, and also includes a game to help with reading comprehension.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Storyrobe allows you to create stories. You can add photographs and audio/narration, as well as upload your finished story to YouTube.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app will help your child achieve the Power to Read as they play these interactive reading games along with superheroes.

Compatible with Android devices 2.2 and up.

Swype Keyboard pays attention to the way you input text and creates a personal language model for you. It updates your dictionary with the latest tending words, can predict the next word you’ll use and includes dragon diction’s voice recognition that transforms your voice to text in 36 languages.

Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.

Sync Voice Note is a note-taker and audio recorder. You can synchronize audio with your own notes, highlight text, and tab over, making it easy to mark your place in a long line of text.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Talk to Me speaks words as you type them, and the words appear on every screen, no matter what you’re doing! There are many customizable features, including size of text and speed of reading.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.1 or later.

Writing Machine shows how one picture and one word go together, how to read text from left to right, and how to tell words from letters.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

This interactive storybook is one of many from Backseat Driver, LLC. Aside from giving children the option to read the story themselves or to hear it read aloud to them, the app contains hidden elements for kids to find, animations within the pages, text highlighting, and much more.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app uses word prediction and has a sophisticated spelling error model to help you focus on the content of your writing. Typ-O is able to identify the most common spelling mistakes and will often suggest words.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

vBookz is an app that reads your PDF files aloud. An interactive cursor allows users to follow along, pause reading, or even repeat lines to ensure reading comprehension. The app is available in 16 different languages.

Compatible with Android devices 1.6 and up.

Vocab Builder is a great way to learn new vocabulary words and is perfect for preparing for the SAT or GRE. You are quizzed on thousands of words, and a dictionary is included.

Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later.

This app teaches you the most common Word Roots in the English Language in order to help improve vocabulary skills. Its over 5,000 combined Flash Cards and Multiple Choice Questions will help you prepare for the GRE, SAT, ACT, or TOEFL.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This text-to-speech app imports content from various sources and reads it aloud (web pages, PDF files, Word documents, PowerPoints, and more). It integrates with Dropbox, Instapaper, and Pocket.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Web Reader uses text-to-speech to read web pages, blogs, and other online content aloud.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Word Dynamo combines with Dictionary.com’s entire word library to help students master word learning. It includes different learning modes, such as audio, flashcards, and definition matching.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

Word Fall is a fun way to practice spelling. As the words rain down from the sky, you have to spell as many as you can. The app has a dictionary and awards bonus points for longer words, helping kids increase their vocabulary.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

This app teaches words and spelling. You are able to set initial, medial, or final position in words.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 6.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This app presents learning in small bites with complementary and mutually reinforcing parts including a list of commonly confused words pairs, an incisive explanation, a quote, and a quiz.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 5.1 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Word Wizard combines text-to-speech capabilities with spelling tasks to allow kids to hear each word and letter while spelling it. The app contains over 1,400 words but allows you to add more and create your own spelling list.

Compatible with Android devices 2.1 and up.

This app can help you build communication skills. It can teach you new words, how the words are properly used in context, and it can pronounce the words for you. There is even a fun, challenging game included.

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

Writing Prompts helps make writing more fun. It provides a variety of scene elements, words, sketches, colors, genres, and writing types, allowing you to make your writing more imaginative.

Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

Using your device’s camera, ZoomReader photographs a book, receipt, or other document and converts it into text using OCR technology. ZoomReader then reads the text back to you using a natural-sounding voice.