# Merge Explorer — user reviews > 64 indexed App Store user reviews of Merge Explorer by Merge Apps, rated 4.10/5 from 279 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-explorer/id1453098606/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/merge-explorer/id1453098606.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 185 · 4★ 28 · 3★ 20 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 40 ## What do users think of Merge Explorer? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy for young students - 💡 Flexible for lesson needs - 🔬 Used for research and experiments - 💡 Introduces new content exploratorily - 🤩 Engaging and versatile for learning - 🧑‍🏫 Great for capturing student attention - 🧑‍🏫 Meaningful interactive lessons - 🧑‍🏫 Fantastic tool for parents, teachers, tutors, homeschoolers - 🔬 Science tools are educational and engaging - 🚀 Brings science to life - 🧑‍🏫 Connects students to learning - ❤️ Incredible for student learning and engagement - 🔬 STEM lessons align with curriculum - 💡 Multiple view modes available - 🧑‍🏫 Great for large classes or group work - 🤩 Students amazed by VR experiences - 🤩 Wow factor leads to engagement - 🔬 AR STEM tool - 🧑‍🏫 Free options available - 🧑‍🏫 School subscriptions for paid version - 🧑‍🏫 Teachers and students love it - 💡 Lots of lesson ideas for C&I integration - 🧑‍🏫 Students hold and view objects not possible in real life - 💡 Students can create and place objects - 🚀 Elevates lessons with Merge cubes - 🔬 NGSS aligned activities - 🧑‍🏫 Students interact with normally inaccessible objects - 🚀 Great product - 🚀 Immersive learning - 🧑‍🏫 Useful tool to make learning fun - 🧑‍🏫 Wish it was used in schools - 🚀 Amazing impact in the classroom - 🚀 Supporting apps get better - 🚀 Active learning tool - 🧑‍🏫 Hands-on learning - 🔬 Manipulate cube to explore dissections, space, body - 🧑‍🏫 Lessons across content and grade levels - 🧑‍🏫 Versatile product - 🧑‍🏫 Engages all students meaningfully - 🧑‍🏫 Memorable learning experiences - 🧑‍🏫 Usable in classroom and digitally - 🧑‍🏫 Best investment for students - 🔬 Very educational - 🚀 Wonderful app for teaching - 🚀 Great app - 🧑‍🏫 Teaches lots about different subjects - 😄 Amazing app - 🚀 Coolest potato creation - 👍 Nice game - 💡 Great activities - 💡 Expensive product - 💡 Great content - 💡 Fun hands-on activities - 💡 Engaging activities for all ages and subjects - 💡 Fun to do - 💡 Helpful and resourceful content - 😄 So cool - 🚀 Perfect app - 🧑‍🏫 Inspires imagination - 🧑‍🏫 Introduces educational information - 💡 Great use of AR for learning - 💡 Stimulates curiosity - 🚀 Future of technology - 🧑‍🏫 Must-have for all ages - 🚀 Easy to use - 🧑‍🏫 Helps you study **Cons** - 💰 Expensive purchase - 💰 Forced subscription for software - 💰 Cannot view software before paying - 💰 Money trap - 💰 Only for rich people - 💰 Requires additional payments beyond cube and goggles - 💰 Required sign-in and money grab - 💰 Wasted money on items - 💰 Premium features locked - 💰 Expensive subscription model - 💰 Extortionate subscription model - 💰 Play to pay model - 💰 Force to pay money per week/day/year - 💰 Expensive and doesn't pick up cube well - 💰 VR function broken - 💰 VR doesn't work with iPhone XS Max - 💰 Totally useless - 💰 Automatic subscription after free trial - 💰 Waste of money - 💰 Cube is a redundant purchase - 💰 Want more games, not education - 💰 Bring back fun apps - 💰 Makes phone hot - 💰 Screen freezes - 💰 Hard to share with kids at home - 💰 App crashes often - 💰 Silent video recording - 💰 Not ideal for second graders - 🐛 Crashing on iPad - 🐛 App crashes when pressing play - 🐛 Keeps on crashing - 🐛 App crashes or loads forever - 🐛 Problems with galactic explore - 🐛 VR doesn't work - 🐛 Bad functionality - 🐛 Not good times - 🐛 Super bad - 🐛 Actual ass cheeks - 🐛 Not what I expected - 🐛 No instructions - 🐛 Instructions on box not helpful - 🐛 Camera doesn't work in app - 🐛 Black screen when using cube or camera - 🐛 Defeats purpose of merge cube - 🐛 Mid. - 🐛 Un skibidi - 🐛 So un Ohio rizzler - 🐛 Only for rich people - 🐛 Premium - 🐛 Garbage - 🐛 It is not the same - 🐛 Midway - 🐛 Takes long time to load - 🐛 Reset Quiz issue - 🐛 Does not pick up the cube well at all - 🐛 VR function is completely broken unfortunately - 🐛 VR doesn’t work with iPhone XS Max - 🐛 Am trying to use with an official Merge Headset and Merge Cube, but always get the same behaviour. - 🐛 Works fine in 2D normal screen mode, but switching to Headset Mode results in a black screen that never changes. - 🐛 Problems - 🐛 This app when ever I try to do anything it just won’t let use the galactic explore - 🐛 Keeps on Crashing - 🐛 Whenever I use this app and try to access a lesson or something Of that sort it crashes or it loads forever - 🐛 Challenging to use during distance learning - 🐛 Not there yet for remote teaching. - 🐛 App still has trouble recognizing the cube - 🐛 No way to record experience without additional device - 🐛 Screen recording only records cube, not overlay - 🐛 Words appear sideways in horizontal mode - 🐛 Content appears incorrectly - 🐛 Developers need to consider remote teaching - 🐛 App crashes. **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on iPad - App crashes when pressing play - Camera not working in app - Black screen when using cube or camera - VR function broken - VR doesn't work with iPhone XS Max - App crashes or loads forever - Problems with galactic explore - App has trouble recognizing the cube - Screen recording only records cube, not overlay - Words appear sideways in horizontal mode - Content appears incorrectly - App crashes **Most requested features** - Make the app free to play - Add more fun things, not just learning - Bring back the fun apps (time bomb, block courses) - Allow users to create their own games for the merge cube - Add a way to reset quizzes for class sets of devices - Improve functionality for remote teaching, including screen recording - Add more content in the future - Add dark mode option - Add advanced analytics dashboard ## Newest reviews (10 of 64) ### 2/5 — Payment and 14day trail *2026-03-16, version 1.8.6* I would love it if you guys made the app free to play I would very much appreciate it. But it’s your choice ### 3/5 — 작동이 안 됩니다 *2023-06-26* Ios 업대이트 때문에 안 되는거 같은데 수정 부탁드립니다 ### 4/5 — Great fun for student engagement & interaction! *2023-04-28, version 1.7.2* My students really love using the Merge cubes as it allows them to hold and view objects they may never get a chance in real-life. The feature I am really excited about is the ability for my students to create and place their objects on the platform for others to interact with. My students really love creating objects for 3D printing, but sometimes we do not get a chance to do so. Now we have an alternative that allows us to still create, but with an added bonus! Merge cubes really allow us to elevate our lessons. I do miss some of the older apps that were available through Merge, so I am hoping that more content can be added in the future! ### 4/5 — Please take away the need for a subscription for access to the full experience!!!!! *2023-03-19, version 1.7.2* Because of this I am going to have to give you a four out of five for your game so if you could please change that it would make me a very very very very very very very VERY happy person! :) ### 4/5 — Fun and immersive *2022-12-25, version 1.6.17* Very good for immersive learning. A couple of glitches with the cube but not too many. Overall, it’s a very useful tool to make learning fun and I wish they would use it in schools. ### 2/5 — The app has potential but… *2022-07-07, version 1.6.12* I know it might just be my device, but the app takes a long time to load even with strong wifi, and if it finishes loading, the camera doesn’t work in the app. Sure, I get 3D models, but when I want to use my cube or just view it on my camera at all, I get a black screen. It defeats the whole purpose of getting the merge cube. ### 1/5 — What *2022-06-19* This app is actual ass cheeks ### 2/5 — Not what I expected....? *2022-06-10, version 1.6.11* It was nothing like expected no instructions the instructions on the box were not helpful I bought the merge cube in hopes it would be as easy as VR but no!When I click allow it does the opposite and makes me exit out to turn it on and when I click on something it goes to something completely different and why is their Jurassic period and dinosaurs when the dinosaurs in that category are also in the Jurassic period category and more!When I tried to use the game cube it would not work I could not see it and I blame the poorly explained instructions!The instructions were worse than a 10 year old whose writing and spelling skills are horrible! ### 5/5 — Learning in your hands! *2022-06-06, version 1.6.10* This is a fantastic app to use for hands on learning. Students can manipulate the cube to explore items such as frog dissections, outer space, and the human body. There are lessons across contents and grade levels. ### 5/5 — Excellent Educational Resource *2022-05-15, version 1.6.10* Such a versatile product. The Merge Explore allows me to engage all students in a meaningful, hands-on way. The impact it has on memorable learning experiences continues through my year. The Merge can be used in the classroom (individually or in groups), and digitally through online recourses. Whether you are a classroom teacher, online teacher, tutoring, or home schooling, this is the best investment you will ever make for your students. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Un skibidi *2024-09-12, version 1.7.23* This is so un Ohio rizzler ### 1/5 — So bad! *2024-05-11, version 1.7.18* The cube is an expensive purchase, followed by an expensive forced subscription for software you can’t view before you pay, that really is terrible. So disappointing for a product claiming to be educational, to be such a money trap. ### 1/5 — 망할 ㅅㄲ들 *2024-02-14* 야 확인 코드 한번 주고 숨기는게 어딛냐 빨리 뇌나라 차라리 이거할 버엔 코스페리시스를 쳐하고 있겠다 ### 1/5 — only for rich people *2023-12-16, version 1.7.13* This was a useful app when it didn’t require additional payments beyond the cube itself and the goggles. Object viewing is all processing done on device and should not require uploading to some website. Very disappointed with the required sign in and money grab. Wasted my money on these things. ### 1/5 — Mid. *2023-08-31, version 1.7.8* Ok ### 1/5 — Not Good Times *2023-08-22, version 1.7.7* At first the app was fine but then suddenly some golden bear suit kept popping up and claiming he’s him. I thought nothing of it then I woke up at 2 am to the bear raiding my underwear. Weird time. ### 1/5 — Inutilisable en classe *2023-05-16, version 1.7.2* Application autrefois gratuite, mais devenue accessible uniquement avec un compte individuel, premium, et payant bien entendu. Les quelques modèles gratuits sont trop maigres pour offrir un quelconque intérêt. Application supprimée. ### 1/5 — Premium *2022-12-15, version 1.6.17* Everything is locked ### 1/5 — Besoin d’un compte *2022-10-18, version 1.6.16* Maintenant il est impossible d’utiliser l’application sans créer un compte, donc inutilisable avec les enfants en classe a part en payant un abonnement a 1000€/an pour 30 utilisateurs….. encore une belle arnaque avec une appli qui était gratuite et accessible sans compte il y a encore quelques mois, maintenant nos Cubes sont inutilisables……. ARNAQUE ### 1/5 — Super bad *2022-06-23, version 1.6.12* It was so bad,I tried opening it and it kicked me out of my phone this is horrible don’t get it my 16 children yes that’s a lot hate it oldest child is 19 youngest is 1 week old horrible app I wish i could rate it 0 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A Must-Have App for Engaging Student Learning *2026-06-15, version 1.8.6* As a Technology Coordinator and former classroom teacher, I am always looking for tools that genuinely engage students while enhancing learning. Merge Explorer does exactly that. When paired with the Merge Cube, the app transforms learning into an interactive, hands-on experience. Students are fascinated as they explore 3D objects, scientific concepts, and simulations that appear right in their hands. The level of engagement and curiosity it generates is remarkable. What sets Merge Explorer apart is how easy it is to use while still providing meaningful educational content. The lessons and activities are well-designed, curriculum-friendly, and help bring abstract concepts to life in ways that traditional instruction simply cannot. Whether you're teaching science, STEM, or simply looking for innovative ways to engage learners, Merge Explorer is an outstanding tool. My students consistently ask to use it, and it has become one of the most impactful educational apps in our learning environment. ### 5/5 — Instructional Technology Coach *2026-05-06, version 1.8.6* This app is easy for even our youngest students to use. It is flexible to meet your lesson needs. We use it to do research, conduct experiments, and provide an exploratory introduction to new content. ### 5/5 — Fun and engaging learning! *2024-06-03, version 1.7.18* My grandkids love using Merge Explorer. It’s so engaging and versatile. This would also be perfect for capturing students’ attention in the classroom with meaningful interactive hands-on lessons. Whether you are a parent, classroom teacher, tutor, or homeschooling, this is a fantastic learning tool! ### 5/5 — Huge Merge Fan *2024-03-22, version 1.7.17* This app definitely gets 5 stars in my book! It works amazingly well and the science tools viewable are truly educational and engaging for students! This app definitely brings science to life and allows students to become personally connected to their learning! ### 5/5 — Love love love!!! *2024-02-06, version 1.7.15* This app is incredible for student learning AND engagement! The science and STEM lessons provided work perfectly with our middle school curriculum. Bonus! Students can use two other view modes instead of utilizing the cube!! This is great for larger classes or group work! I can’t wait to work more within the explorer app! ### 5/5 — Merge Cubes make learning fun! *2023-06-28, version 1.7.4* Student’s are always amazed at the VR experiences that are available. The wow factor always makes my day when students are completely engaged. ### 5/5 — AR STEM Tool *2023-05-11, version 1.7.2* This app is used with the MERGE Cube. It has several free options. My school subscribes for the paid version allowing simultaneous use of 30 students at a time. Teachers and students love it. Very engaging and lots of lesson ideas for C&I integration. ### 5/5 — Excellent resource for STEM classes! *2023-02-08, version 1.7.1* The activities are not only NGSS aligned but students are engaged and get to interact with objects they normally wouldn’t be able to! Great product! ### 5/5 — Amazing impact in the classroom *2022-07-29, version 1.6.13* I’ve been using Murch cubes for about four years and find that the supporting apps just get better and better ### 5/5 — Active learning *2022-07-21, version 1.6.13* This is a great tool to get the kids actively learning! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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