A dyslexia-friendly learning app for ages 4 to 11

Many children with dyslexia find reading on a screen tiring. WonderPath has reader-friendly settings you choose for each child, short steps and read-aloud on lesson text. This page explains what those settings are, what the research says about them, and what no app can do.

What WonderPath offers

• A reader-friendly mode that uses Lexend, a font designed for readability, with wider letter, word and line spacing, and a choice of background colours.
• Read aloud on lesson text.
• Short steps, one idea at a time.
• A helper that uses shorter sentences and simpler words when the child's profile says so.
• Settings kept per child, so a sibling can have a different look.

You choose these settings. We never infer a diagnosis or a need from how a child uses the app, and none of these settings is a treatment.

What the research says

Fonts and spacing are worth offering as choices, but the evidence is modest. A small 2017 experiment found that a specialist dyslexia font (OpenDyslexic) did not improve reading speed or accuracy compared with a common font. WonderPath uses Lexend, which is designed for readability rather than being a specialist dyslexia font, and we offer it as a comfort choice. Another 2017 study found that increased letter spacing reduced errors in some conditions for children with dyslexia, but did not raise reading rate. Neither is a cure. What has strong evidence for early reading is explicit, systematic phonics taught by an adult, which the Education Endowment Foundation rates highly.

What no app can do

• Diagnose dyslexia, or replace an assessment by a specialist teacher or psychologist.
• Replace structured literacy teaching or the support your school's SENCo can arrange, including under an EHCP.
• Guarantee progress. We have no published results yet.

WonderPath is in public beta. Lessons are written by AI and teacher review is being set up, so please use it alongside, not instead of, the help your child already has, and tell us if a setting is not working for your child.

How this page was made: written by the WonderPath team with AI assistance and checked against the sources named above on 26 September 2026. Prices and features change; if anything is out of date, tell us at info@wonderpath.co.uk. WonderPath is a competitor of some products named here, and we have tried to describe them fairly.