HOMER User Reviews

HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids

HomerLearning, Inc.

Education

Entertainment

Reviews Summary

Positive highlights

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This app hasEngaging and fun learning games

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This app hasCreative story-making with stickers and voice recordings

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This app hasTeaches letters, sounds, and early reading skills

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This app hasPersonalized learning pathway for each child

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This app hasHelpful for pre-K and kindergarten readiness

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This app hasAdaptive to child's level and progress

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This app hasAffordable monthly subscription

Negative highlights

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This app hasBuggy and inconsistent performance, with frequent crashes and freezes

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This app hasSlow loading times and animations that distract from learning

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This app hasLack of difficulty adjustment or parental controls

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This app hasLimited diversity and representation in content

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This app hasIssues with account management and subscription cancellation

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This app hasToo many distracting games and activities that don't support learning

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This app hasNo option to opt out of religious or holiday-themed content

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Could be good ...

The basis of it is a good idea and would be great but when you’re English learning phonics, learning American isn’t helpful! I looked but I couldn’t find away to change language so I assume you can’t so have had to cancel the subscription because of that.

Langolia

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for your feedback. If there is anything we could do to make your experience better please reach out to support@homerapp.com.

Games take up too much time

I've been trying to sit down with my child to do these together but as soon as the "tell the story" activity comes up she spends all her time doing that. I understand the value of using pictures to guide her imagination and that story telling is a skill she should learn but she's not telling the story, she's just treating it like stickers and it's very distracting and time consuming. The drawing game too. If it would come up less often them it could be more of a reward for completing a module. As it stands this is just a waste of our time and I'm going to invest in other reading apps. Maybe if there was a time limit to these it would be better. Or give us some way to disable them.

Also it bothers me that the instruction is so rigid about how to draw the letters. Maybe this is important for some reason unknown to me but I think there are multiple ways to draw letters and it is frustrating that she can't do it the way she knows how.

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Fandango85

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you taking the time to share your experience. Your feedback is important to us, and we will be sharing this with the rest of our team. If you have any additional thoughts, questions, or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to our Member Experience team at support@homerapp.com.

Learn to read, not paint!

Is there an option to remove paint and tell your own story from the activities? There is no time limit or end to these activities and I feel my children could do without them. They paint/draw every day. This is wasting the time limit I have set for their time on this app.

OPdad

5 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you for sharing your feedback! For assistance please reach out to our Member Experience Team at support@homerapp.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

What’s more than 5 stars

So I read the reviews and I was won over instantly. I downloaded the game and signed up to pay $8 a month to have my son play it after the free trial. Now my son is super hyper and I never let him have screen time but he’s behind in talking and knowing what he needs to know. So I let my son play this game and at first I’m like is he just coloring but they make it fun with puzzles ,coloring, identify the coloring game with ice cream lava for the kids and at first he skipped them reading the abcs now he stands up and dance and sing the abc in his special talk he does and you can hear him pronounce them better. He loves that he can color with the sticker of the hot dog and burger. If I was to make a suggestion that thing that just have the letters go by and it has what the letter start with as it goes by then it sings the abcs at the end make it into a game because my son was trying to touch the letters and identify them as they go by so maybe like a hide and find with other things not like the game with the balloons but like have a farm background with other things and have them identify the letters as they go by and have it go by fast and see how much they can get as it go by I think that would be fun. Thank you so much for helping my son learn in a fun way I have literally told everybody I talk to with kids about this app.

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MoNkEyGuRLmOnA

5 years ago

Response from developer

We are thrilled to hear you and your son are loving HOMER Reading. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your experience, and for spreading the word about HOMER!

Won’t let me go further then personalising

I had done what it asked about how much my daughter knows and what she likes etc then it will not let me go any further it keeps telling me to type in her year of birth to go further but that’s it! Anyone else have this problem and know how to go past it as I have been told about this app which helps children develop and would really like my child to use this app.

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DanielleStrong89

5 years ago

Response from developer

We're so sorry for any technical issues you are experiencing! Please contact our Member Experience team at support@homerapp.com, and they would be happy to get to the bottom of this for you. Thank you for your patience end efforts!

Misleading

Not happy. Being charged $8.99 a month for this app and was happy to pay but this month I’ve been charged an additionally $13. Please sort this out.

Zosh2003

5 years ago

Response from developer

We would love the chance to investigate this for you. Please reach out to us at support@homerapp.com and include the email address associated with your account and any receipts you have. Thank you and hope to hear from you soon!

Inaccurate description

It says for ages 4+ on the App Store but in details says from 2 years. Went to sign up but the options are missing a few years one being my child’s year of birth. What a over sight! Then nearly finished sign up for it to say it’s a free trial, no details of ongoing cost or even able to try the free trial just keeps taking me to a page asking for date of birth! All rather miss leading and a faff! Won’t be using this.

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bexkeo

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi there, we would love the opportunity to investigate this. Can you please reach out to our Member Experience team at support@homerapp.com and include any screenshot of language that you are referring to? Thank you for your time!

They emailed me after I cancelled the free month

They offered the app for $0.99 per month direct from HOMER rather than the $7.99 per month subscription through Apple. Very shady. Not impressed with their lack of integrity and I won’t pay for it even at $0.99 per month.

My kids like the app but it didn’t keep their attention amazingly or show a marked improvement in their literacy skills. Meh.

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SheaEK

5 years ago

Response from developer

We apologize for any confusion this promotion may have caused. Because iTunes is its own billing entity we are unable to offer discounts or promotions on iTunes subscriptions. If you have any additional questions please feel free to reach out to our Member Experience Team at support@homerapp.com.

Not user friendly at all

I tried to trial this but it wouldn’t let me sign up. I don’t see the need for a log-in for an app but if you offer an email sign up it should work: one shouldn’t be forced to sign up via Facebook so you can mine my data. If it’s needs a certain password length or type this should be made clear. It also asked several times for year of birth. I also loathe apps that don’t let you trial before deciding to properly sign-up & hope that you forget to cancel. That’s not a free trial IMO. I genuinely wanted to test this out but will hopefully find a better option.

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bsindodbodbbo

5 years ago

Response from developer

We apologize for any confusion the sign-up process caused you. We would love the chance to help! Please reach out to us at support@homerapp.com and include the email address associated with your account. We look forward to hearing from you!

MUST HAVE!

I’ve had this the HOMER app for quite sometime I must say my toddler & I love this app! First off to start it has a bunch of different activities to complete from tracing letters of the alphabet to songs & rhymes. It amazes me how much my daughter learns from this app. The best part of HOMER is the section of art, where your child can create their story! My daughter goes all out she has so much fun putting “sticker like figures” on empty background // picture created for her to decorate. I have a subscription with them it’s about 8.99$ but it’s totally worth it if you think about it. The HOMER app also includes the app Stories, when you have the subscription which is nice like getting 2 for a price of one. The stories is really nice. Only thing is I wish they’d put more. They do have quite a few though so it’s fine for now. The customer service is absolutely wonderful, if needed any help they get back to you & are very friendly. I would love to see more games! More activities to do for sure. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for the future of HOMER. I definitely recommend especially if you have a toddler!!

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michellenaranjo24

5 years ago

Response from developer

Hi Michelle, we can't thank you enough for taking the time to share your feedback about HOMER. We love hearing your suggestions, and are so glad to hear that you and your family are enjoying everything your HOMER membership has to offer!