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  • Skybrary

    So Perfect!
  • Annie's review

    The best reading app ever and I love it!
  • Great adventure!

    This is a lovely way for my kids to have screen time. They are learning and enjoying the adventures!
  • Not worth the money, no offline usage

    Due to legal issues, there is no Reading Rainbow content, e.g. video clips. The books are updated occasionally, but there has been no new video content for over 1 yr now. Not worth $50 yearly.
  • Excellent!

    I am thoroughly impressed!
    I wanted my granddaughter (5 yrs.) to use her iPad for something other than watching videos and playing games. There are a huge number of age appropriate (you choose the age) books which are wonderfully narrated.
    The app allows any five books to be placed in a backpack (downloaded) so children can ‘read’ even when offline.
    There are ‘stickers’ given as rewards after every book that is ‘read.’
    This app is totally worth the money!
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    Developer Response

    Thank you! It's great to hear that you are loving the experience. We welcome hearing from our customers, so if there is anything in particular you would love to see (and is not there yet), please email us at skybrary@rif.org.
  • Impossible to cancel

    Free month? Cancel anytime? Sounds good until they make it nearly impossible to cancel. My 5yr old son had no interest in this app.
  • Great reading app

    My four year old loves his “electric books”, whether it’s with me reading them or In auto-read mode. The little Levar Burton mini films are also a hoot and have inspired some funny conversations. This is the most loved app on our iPad

    Developer Response

    Thank you! It's great to hear that you are loving the experience. We welcome hearing from our customers, so if there is anything in particular you would love to see (and is not there yet), please email us at skybrary@rif.org.
  • Brings back great memories.

    My boys love it.
    I like it because it’s better than the other stuff they play on the tablet.
  • No Reading Rainbow

    I was hoping, when we got this app, that it would contain all the classic bits like Toothpaste Millionaire from Reading Rainbow - where most of us know Levar Burton from. Sadly, due to legal disputes, he can no longer post that content and Reading Rainbow itself has no content to speak of. I would have loved to share with our kids some of these stories from my childhood. That said, the app has loads of books and videos. Kids can read or have stories read to them. I originally tried to access the Skybrary from my PC through my browser with my daughter and just about nothing worked properly- hence the missing star. The books would not open and it crashed repeatedly. Everything so far works as it should on the iPads.
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    Developer Response

    Thank you for the feedback. Skybrary works on the Web on the latest versions of Chrome, Safari (on Mac), Firefox, IE 11 and IE11+ as well as on iPhone/iPad and requires iOS 6.0 or later. If you have any further questions, please email us at skybrary@rif.org.
  • Crashing

    I've had this app for years now. My daughter and I love it. The last update hasn't fixed the crashing once you select an island. I tried clicking on app support and it takes me to a page that states "no longer exists". Please fix, we truly miss using this app.

    Developer Response

    We are sorry this was your experience. This issue is now fixed. If you have any further feedback, please email us at skybrary@rif.org.

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