Spelling Notebook was originally designed to replace learners’ paper spelling notebooks, where they listed the words to be learned each week. But this app has moved far beyond the functionality of a simple paper spelling notebook. Students can hear each word spoken aloud, focus on mastering only those words they don’t already know, and earn stickers for correct word spellings. It contains a fully searchable spelling dictionary with over 100,000 words, so learners can avoid manually entering words (and avoid entry errors!). Spelling Notebook is an excellent way for learners to continue spelling practice outside of the classroom or independently during literacy centers.

Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id461225509

What Users Love About the App

“My kids really love this app. This makes it easy for me to record the words and hand them my phone in the mornings and we use the test setting instead of the practice setting so I can see how they’ve done and what we need to work on.”

“This app is amazing! For years I have been trying to find an app that I can study my spelling words on for FREE! Then I found spelling notebook! It’s super easy…… AND FREE! I even suggested it to all my friends! They were ecstatic!”

“With all of our sports activities and our parents busy schedules there was not time to go over spelling words. Now, with spelling Notebook, I can do it in the car on the way home from sports and clubs! My grades have even been improving! Thanks to spelling notebook!”

“Love this app. I can create list They have option to practice first by looking at the spelling and typing it as well as app calls the word. Practice can be done as many times as you want.”

“This is by far the best spelling app out there!! I wouldn’t be surprised if it was created by a mom. It has just about everything you need for you and your child to increase their spelling skills. It keeps track of their time, they can practice and test and even email the results.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“The import words from another list option doesn’t seem to work with the latest version. You choose the words to import but then the only option is to go back twice and then click done and they aren’t there.”

“My daughter is practicing for her school spelling bee, and overall it is an okay app, but only for elementary school spellers. I only wish there was an option where spellers could spell the word out loud, and maybe the parent could mark it as right or wrong.”

“This app does not give you a definition of the word, or a sentence as an example. I would only recommend for non-serious spellers, or for a simple 10-20 word test.”

“Most of the time the female voice that plays the word does not pronounce the word very clearly and my kid had to say Repeat the word, please over and over. Please look into this problem.”

“I’m a third grader practicing for a hard Spelling Bee and a lot of the words aren’t pronounced correctly. The harder words are usually the ones that have this problem but if I tried to learn them this way, then when it comes up, I won’t know what word it is.”