Read for Rewards
Points for reading real books
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New: spelling. Photograph the list sent home from school and the phone dictates it in your own accent — word, sentence, word again — a point for each one right.
Read for Rewards turns reading a real, paper book into points a child can spend on something they actually want — and now does their spelling list too.
They photograph a few pages. The phone reads them, thinks up questions about what happened, and marks the answers. How much they read sets how many points are going. Answering right first time earns all of them; going back to the book and finding it earns some, because looking again is worth more than guessing again.
A grown-up decides what the points buy. An hour on the console. Choosing dinner. Staying up half an hour later. The best rewards cost a household nothing.
SPELLING, DICTATED LIKE A TEACHER
Photograph the list sent home from school and the app reads it out, a word at a time, for your child to write down.
Each word is said on its own, then used in a sentence, then said again. That is how a teacher dictates, and for a reason: "their" and "there" are the same sound, so a word on its own is a guess. The sentence is what makes it a question.
It is your phone's own voice, in your own accent, so a child in Manchester and a child in Perth each hear the vowel their teacher would use. No recording is made and no sound leaves the phone.
The sentences take one trip to our server, the first time a list is scanned: the words go, nothing else. They are kept on the phone after that, so later sittings — on the bus, with no signal — need no connection.
A point for every word spelled right. Words come back on later days until they are known — three times right, on three different days — and then stop being asked. Anything missed can be practised straight away, which earns nothing, because the answer has just been shown; it is how the word gets to tomorrow.
Before anybody is tested, misread words are flagged to be corrected by hand. A camera that reads "aisle" as "aiste" would otherwise teach the wrong spelling. And where English differs, the app offers the spelling used where you are.
YOUR SHELF
Every book already read, as a shelf of covers, with the spelling lists still to learn sitting in front of them.
EVERY ANSWER COMES WITH THE PROOF
Under each answer is the sentence from the book that proves it, so a child can see why, and a grown-up can see the question was fair.
YOUR CHILD'S READING STAYS WITH YOU
Photographs of pages never leave the phone; they are deleted the moment the words have been read from them. Names, answers, points and reading history stay on the phone too. There is no account to make and nothing to sign in to.
To write the questions, the app sends only the words from the page to our server, which keeps no copy. On an iPhone with Apple Intelligence you can choose to have the questions written on the phone itself instead, and then nothing is sent at all.
FOR SEVERAL CHILDREN
Set up as many readers as share the phone. Each gets their own points, their own reading, and their own colours — so it is never a mystery whose turn it is. Rewards can belong to the household or to one child.
FOR GROWN-UPS
Behind a PIN: what has been read and when, how many words, how many questions were right, and the sittings themselves with every question and answer. Set up the rewards, and spend the points when they have been earned.
Children cannot reach any of it, and cannot award themselves anything.
REWARD TIMERS
Spending points on screen time? Start a timer as you hand it over. The countdown sits on the lock screen, and an alarm goes off when time is up.
WHAT YOU NEED
An iPhone running iOS 16 or later, and a real book.
WHAT IT COSTS
Twenty-five pages free. After that, one subscription covers every reader on your devices: A$9.99 a year or A$1.99 a month, renewing automatically until cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Families who bought the app outright keep it, with nothing more to pay.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy policy: https://www.readforrewards.com/privacy-policy
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Spelling. Photograph the list your child's teacher sent home, and the app reads it out for them to write down.
- The word is said, then used in a sentence, then said again — the way a teacher dictates. "Their" and "there" sound the same on their own, so the sentence is what makes it a question.
- Your phone's own voice, in your own accent. No recording is made and no sound leaves the phone. The sentences are written once, when the list is scanned, and kept there — so every sitting after that needs no signal.
- A point for every word spelled right.
- Words come back until they are known: three times right, on three different days, and a word is learned and stops being asked.
- The ones missed today can be practised straight away. Practice does not earn points — the answer has just been shown — but it is how a word gets to tomorrow.
- Your shelf: the books already read, with the lists still to learn sitting in front of them.
- Misread words are flagged before anybody is tested on them, and can be corrected by hand. A camera that turns "aisle" into "aiste" would otherwise teach the wrong spelling.
- Where English differs, the app offers the spelling used where you are: "emphasize" becomes "emphasise" if you asked for it.
The developer, Apps People Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Apps People Pty Ltd
- Size
- 63.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Monthly $0.99
- Yearly $5.99
- Unlock Read for Rewards $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Apps People Pty Ltd
