Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics is a phonics subscription that pairs an app with print materials mailed each month. In the app, videos, songs and games teach one sound at a time, and the app picks the next lesson. Each month a 32-page workbook, two or three storybooks for the child to decode, and stickers arrive to match the app. The Complete Phonics plan also includes spelling and math lessons in the app, is billed monthly, and covers up to three children in the app.
- Subjects
- Reading and phonics
- Grades
- Ages 3 to 8, Pre-K to 2nd grade source ↗
- Method
- Mastery source ↗
- Format
- Books and screen source ↗
- Faith label
- Secular
- Cost a year
- $287.52 a year. Complete Phonics: $23.96 a month (the first month is $11.98), billed monthly, which is $287.52 for 12 months at the regular price. No yearly plan is shown. Read on October 29, 2026; prices change. source ↗
- Placement
- No placement test on the publisher’s site when we checked.
What it does well
- The app chooses each next lesson, so the parent does not plan lessons.
- Workbooks and storybooks arrive every month matched to the app lessons, so the child also reads and writes on paper.
- Billing is monthly with cancel anytime, and there is a 30-day money-back guarantee.
- Up to three children can each have their own tracked progress in the app.
Watch for
- It is a subscription with no yearly plan shown, so a full year at the regular price costs $287.52.
- It stops at 2nd grade, so a child who finishes will need another program for reading and writing.
- Much of the teaching happens in the app, on a phone or tablet that meets the device requirements.
- Each added child who needs their own print materials costs $9.99 a month more.
It fits
A family with a child aged 3 to 8 who wants short app lessons that plan themselves, with real books and workbooks arriving by mail.
It doesn’t fit
A family that wants to keep screens out of reading lessons, or prefers to buy materials once rather than pay every month.
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- Explode The Code Pre-K to 4th grade: primer books A to C, then Books 1 to 8
- The Good and the Beautiful Preschool to 12th grade; high school has language arts and biology only
- Logic of English Foundations for ages 4 to 7 (about pre-K to 2nd grade); Essentials for ages 8 to adult (about 3rd grade and up)
- Reading Eggs Ages 2 to 13, about pre-K to 8th grade
Lists it is on
- Homeschool reading and phonics programs 6
- Secular homeschool curricula 30
- Mastery-based homeschool curricula 11
- Homeschool curricula for pre-K and kindergarten 48
- Homeschool curricula for $100 to $300 a year 18
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- Secular mastery-based homeschool curricula 9
- Secular homeschool curricula for pre-K and kindergarten 25
What we read, and how we label
Every fact on a card was read on the publisher's own website on the date shown, and the page it came from is linked. A fact we could not confirm there is left out. Costs are for one child and one year of the main package, as the publisher's page showed them that day; prices and sales change. Method and format are the publisher's own description where it gives one. The only thing we say about religion is one label, secular or faith-based, given by the rule above; where the publisher's pages don't settle it, the card has no label.
The publisher’s pages we read on October 29, 2026:
- hookedonphonics.com/
- hookedonphonics.com/whats-included/
- hookedonphonics.com/access-resources/faqs/
- hookedonphonics.com/about-us/
- hookedonphonics.com/pricing-plans/
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