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Version 1.31 · 2026-04-20
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Joy of Reading - learn to read
This game targets the following foundational skills in reading as outlined by…
BAYARD SAGoogle Play rating3.3★55 ratings
PriceFreeIn-app purchases
Age4+Store age rating
CategoryEducation
DeveloperBAYARD SA
What we found
Full reportToo little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.
Money
- Free to download · in-app purchases. Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.
- If you subscribe through the store, cancel in Google Play → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.
Not yet tested.
The store currently lists version 1.31, updated 2026-04-20.
Preview
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
About this app
This game targets the following foundational skills in reading as outlined by the Common Core State Standards for the kindergarten level:
- Phonemic Awareness (phonics)
- Letter Tracing
- Letter recognition
- Rhyming and blending of sounds
- Differentiation of long and short vowel sounds
- Spelling
- Recognition of compound words
- Recollection of common high-frequency words
- Reading emergent reader texts with fluency
Joy of reading is a proven, comprehensive program consisting of 9 multi-level games for children from 3 years old (ABCs, phonics, CVCs, blending). Guided by fun characters, children are exposed to systematic and explicit instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics until they become confident readers.
Developed with early reading specialist from McGill University, Dr.…
From the developer’s store description.
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The full report
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings and evidence
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.
What reviewers report
No review analysis published for this app.
Measurements
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
From store data and reviews
Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the app package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.
Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
Versions and dates analysed
Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.
Store update history
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
Assessment record
- Status
- Not yet tested
- App identifier
joy-of-reading- Sources used
- None recorded
- Reviews read
- None recorded
- Package examined
- No package scan
- Human inspection
- Not completed
How we know
- Measurement vocabulary
- 1.4
Store facts
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
Google Play
- Store rating
- 3.25 ★ · 55 ratings
- Version
- 1.31
- Updated
- 20 Apr 2026
- Price
- Free · In-app purchases
- Age rating
- 4+
- Size
- Not supplied
- Developer
- BAYARD SA
- Category
- Education
- Listing price
- Free · In-app purchases
Purchases the store lists
What this app sells
Google Play doesn’t publish per-purchase prices.
Method and limits
What a missing label means
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.
Limits of this report
- A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
- Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
- Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
- A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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