# Elephant Learning Math Academy — user reviews > 109 indexed App Store user reviews of Elephant Learning Math Academy by ElephantHead Software, rated 2.20/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elephant-learning-math-academy/id1153181621/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elephant-learning-math-academy/id1153181621.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Elephant Learning Math Academy? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 📚 Effective math learning and skill advancement - 🎮 Engaging for motivated children - 📈 Measurable progress in short timeframes - 🎯 Personalized adaptive learning - 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Helpful parent support and counseling - 💰 Scholarship options available - ✅ Works well on computer/Chromebook **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent glitches and crashes - 🔊 Robotic, creepy, hard-to-understand voices - 💸 Expensive subscription ($35/month) - 😞 Repetitive and boring gameplay - 🎨 Outdated, low-quality graphics - 📱 Poor touch controls and responsiveness - ⏱️ Lessons longer than advertised (20 min vs 10 min) - 🔐 Billing issues and continued charges after cancellation - 🚫 Difficult cancellation process - 📞 Poor customer service - 🎭 Patronizing and childish for older kids - ❌ No instruction when answers are wrong - 🔄 Same questions repeated excessively - 🎪 Excessive sound effects and notifications - 📊 Discouraging 'Elephant Age' scoring system - 🌐 Connection and server errors **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes and exits mid-game - Touch controls unresponsive to finger input - Voice audio not working or inconsistent - Password reset functionality broken - App won't open after updates - Login failures with connection errors - App resets progress before completion - Glitches marking correct answers as wrong - Slow loading times between questions - App doesn't recognize finger touches despite working on other apps - Inconsistent voice pronunciation and clarity - Games won't load properly - Session tracking issues when exiting without closing app **Most requested features** - Adjustable volume controls for individual sound effects - Natural-sounding voices instead of robotic ones - Ability to repeat questions/instructions - More engaging game variety and themes - Better graphics and modern UI design - Instructional guidance when answers are wrong - Option to choose specific math topics - In-game rewards and prizes for older kids - Ability to cancel subscription through app - Improved touch responsiveness - Hide or reframe 'Elephant Age' scoring system - More challenging content for advanced learners - Faster app performance and loading times - Better compatibility across devices ## Newest reviews (13 of 109) ### 1/5 — Hi please fix glitches and make the voices not as creep also don’t like not very effective ☹️ *2024-04-09, version 4.1* Really not that great please reply ### 3/5 — Stopped working on iPad mini since recent upgrade *2024-01-26, version 3.5* We - parents and child - loved the app but it will not open since the update earlier this week. Thankfully, still works on the chromebook, but this be fixed? ### 1/5 — Poor speed *2024-01-15, version 3.0* I’d like a refund. The program is super slow, the application doesn’t work properly: some times the voice works and some times it doesn’t, unable to drag objects and need to constantly restart the program over again ### 1/5 — No audio on the app *2023-09-13, version 3.0* The audio is not working on the app when I put it on my tablet ### 1/5 — Absolute garbage cashgrab *2023-06-02, version 3.0* The voices are analogue horror type voices and glitch every 2 minutes (not even joking), looks like it was made on scratch windows xp version, and is just a quick cashgrab, don’t buy it. It does what it’s supposed to but SOOOOO awfully (if you can use it, it doesn’t help you give new passwords or work like 90% of the time.) If you want a fun math game that actually works, go to prodigy. ### 1/5 — LOL WHATTT??? 💀💀 *2023-03-31, version 3.0* THIS APP HAS ME DEAD LOL ITS A JOKE WHO MADE THISS? BAHAHHA ### 1/5 — Glitchy App and Overpriced *2023-02-02, version 3.0* I rarely write an App review but this one was so terrible that I had to do it. The games are boring and outdated, we could never get the sound to work, password reset wouldn’t work, and I reached out with support and never received an answer. $50 down the drain. I canceled my subscription 2/1/23. Hopefully they don’t continue to charge me. ### 1/5 — Can’t login *2023-01-16, version 3.0* No matter how many times I give my email & it tells me it’s sending my password, it never does. Yes I’m getting all the email advertisements. ### 1/5 — Boring with creepy voices *2022-12-04, version 3.0* Maybe for older kids it is fun, but not for my 4 year old. She was over it in less than 5 minutes. I then played it with her to help her get further and see if it got more interesting, but it did not. I agree with her in that it is quite boring. I have free math apps that are far more entertaining. Also, the voice-overs don’t work half of the time (she can’t fully read yet, so that’s a big issue), and when they do work, they are extremely creepy robot sounding voices. Nothing screams “fun” or “for kids” about this app at all. I hardly ever leave negative reviews and give things the benefit of the doubt often, but with this I cannot and must leave my honest review. ### 1/5 — WOW eeeek *2022-10-01, version 3.0* I guess it’s ok. Did not like the robotic voices it’s says that you can change it but it just gets worse. And it is confusing don’t spend the money🙄 ### 1/5 — No sound *2022-09-03, version 3.0* No sound on iPhone & troubleshooting did nothing. Very disappointed. ### 1/5 — Free *2022-08-21, version 3.0* The app says free but it is not ### 1/5 — So bad *2022-07-18, version 3.0* This is so old it’s like windows Xp and my daughter is scared To use it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not worth it *2026-02-26, version 4.3* This was a wast of time of my phone and my sons time ### 1/5 — bad app *2025-09-24, version 4.3* super glitchy. ts app pmo. shut it down. ### 1/5 — The Worst app ever *2025-03-17, version 4.3* We tried to sign in, and it wouldn’t let us every single time we tried. It said you have no connection connect to the Internet. AndIt said unavailable to connect to a server ### 1/5 — Horrible! *2024-12-22, version 4.3* This “game” is absolutely ridiculous, I get that this is supposed to supposedly help kids but this is just hurting them! Have you ever started crying at the fact of doing a single game for 20 minutes? I didn’t think so. This game causes depression and serious anxiety and disorders as it does nothing educational to your brain. Absolutely do not get. ### 1/5 — Don’t get *2024-11-21, version 4.3* So bad ### 1/5 — Not Worth The 15$ Subscription *2024-08-20, version 4.1* Elephant Learning promises a year’s worth of math in three months, but it took my child six months to get there. They also claim lessons are only 10 minutes, but they usually take 20. The app’s touch controls are frustratingly unresponsive—I even checked to make sure my kids’ fingers were clean and dry! The lesson interface looks clunky and outdated, and the animations after each question are “cringe,” according to my kids, offering little motivation. Overall, the app feels misleading, not worth the time, and not worth the money. ### 1/5 — Don’t buy!! *2024-08-01, version 4.1* This company has been charging me monthly on my credit card after asking them to cancel my subscription. I cancelled and it still charged on my new credit card! They are frauds!! ### 1/5 — My questions are impossible *2024-07-10, version 4.1* I’m doing functions and it’s saying N and not telling me what it is. When I get stuff wrong it doesn’t tell me what I’m doing wrong. I don’t recommend this unless they fix. ### 1/5 — Stupid *2024-06-28, version 4.1* This app has been so helpful! No!!! It has not at all and it has some issues with the nosies that have made my ear hurt 😢 I hate this app 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 ### 1/5 — Waste of time *2024-05-30, version 4.1* Just want to rip off ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Math *2026-06-26, version 4.3* Elephant math is helping so much! I ❤️ elephant math!! 🐘📲 ### 5/5 — So good *2025-05-19, version 4.3* It has helped me a lot. It’s so true that it will get you caught up in math in three months. I love this app. ### 5/5 — Definite recommend *2024-02-04* Very impressed. My grandson started 3rd grade this year and his math skills were at a 1st grade level. I subscribed to this and by the end of his first 9 weeks of school he was on current grade level. I would definitely recommend this program. ### 5/5 — Really Helping A Struggling 5th Grader! *2023-12-10, version 3.0* I’m a busy mom with as is the case with most busy moms, a LOT going on. My issues aren’t only with the life, but with the brain cancer and seizures I battle daily. I say that to let you know, I don’t write reviews. Ever. Good or bad, unless I’m really, really ticked off, but usually, there’s something far worse to worry about than an app. However, in this case, I can’t not praise Elephant Learning because it is helping my daughter who has been struggling through private Christian school with an inadequate teacher for the last two years. She’s lost her confidence and with a child who has a lot on their plate, as well as a diagnosis of ADD, and a new diagnosis of scoliosis requiring her to wear a back brace for 16hrs daily, she has pretty much lost hope in learning math. However, since beginning Elephant about a month ago, she’s gained a month’s progress in her development. We were even granted a scholarship to allow us to better afford the already affordable costs. I’d found this platform while searching for low-to no cost forms for home school math. I found that there’s a lot of mamas out there who also recommend using Elephant, so I’m not sure why all the negative reviews. Those are baffling to me. We took advantage of our first of two counseling sessions of the month last week and I was blown away! Not only by Ms. Saunders herself and her obvious desire to help her students with a compassionate care, but her knowledge, experience, and patience. She couldn’t have said anything more that I could have possibly have even hoped to have heard in the Zoom meeting. She went over strategies, reassured my child and myself, showed us more ways we could utilize the platform- I can’t even tell you what all her time with us meant for my daughter and I. My daughter is 10.5yo, and she’s a gamer kid by nature. She’s not complaining whatsoever about the games or interface, which if it was boring to her, she would. And I’d have to fight to get her to play it. Usually, she plays her Elephant without my prompting. All in all, this was a great investment and one I plan on keeping, even after she begins a more formal home study program in the next year. I’d recommend this to anyone who has a child, whether it’s a child struggling with math or not, this is a great opportunity for learning. Thank you, Elephant! We’re so grateful!! ### 5/5 — App is great *2023-12-02, version 3.0* This app is great you get better and better it helps in school too no lagging or nothing don’t let the comments take you down ### 5/5 — I LOVE THIS APP *2023-03-15, version 3.0* FUN,EDUCATIONAL,LEARNING!!!!!!!! I can’t but help say… BEST APP EVER ### 5/5 — This is a great game *2022-09-24, version 3.0* Lol ### 5/5 — Amazing - my kids are ahead a full year now *2021-07-09, version 2.04* I don’t understand any of the negative reviews - they must have been from the old version of the app. This app is amazing, it’s the been learning game in my whole library. The kids have been using it roughly 2x per week, 20 minutes per session. It’s been about 4 months and already they have both advanced a full year in their math abilities. My daughters had a 2 in math (on a 4 point scale) after her first term. We installed Elephant Learning and by the end of the school year (about 4 months or so?) she had not only finished with a 4, but was axing her tests. I can’t say enough good about this app and I recommend it to all my friends with kids. My pre-school age son has also been using it and is already testing at a first grade level. Get it, use it. ### 5/5 — Mega chill *2020-07-21, version 2.04* Yass queen ### 5/5 — Fun learning *2020-07-09, version 2.04* My boys have struggled with maths. This seems to explain maths really well and makes them think in clever ways. They are loving this program. I’m really looking forward to seeing the results. They seem to improve each day. Thanks elephant learning. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*