# Montessori Crosswords for Kids — user reviews > 133 indexed App Store user reviews of Montessori Crosswords for Kids by Pierre Abel, rated 4.40/5 from 127 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/montessori-crosswords-for-kids/id384334005/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/montessori-crosswords-for-kids/id384334005.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 94 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Montessori Crosswords for Kids? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Great learning tool for early readers - 👍 Customizable to child's needs - 👍 Fun and engaging for kids - 👍 Excellent resource for literacy and phonics - 👍 Wonderful app for Montessori and special education - 👍 Fantastic for spelling and reading development **Cons** - 🐛 Pronunciation issues with certain letters/sounds - 🐛 Lack of sound/audio in some versions - 🐛 Overly stimulating/distracting animations - 🐛 Some images/pictures are unclear **Commonly reported bugs** - Crashing/freezing issues - Incorrect letter sounds **Most requested features** - Option to change voice/accent - More advanced/challenging word levels - Ability to create custom word lists - Vowel letters displayed in a different color - Ability to disable animations/rewards ## Newest reviews (17 of 133) ### 3/5 — Great but some sound errors *2023-06-08* This is a fantastic game to play with my students. We play as a group by projecting the iPad to the tv. Unfortunately the L and I are spoken incorrectly which makes it confusing. The L sounds like and N and the I sounds like a U. If this were to be fixed it would be perfect. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Pronunciation of L perhaps incorrect *2022-08-23, version 5.2* One thing that frustrates me about the app is it’s pronunciation of the phoneme /l/. I wonder if that could be changed in an update? ### 5/5 — Great Speech Therapy Tool Too!! *2022-03-30, version 5.2* Awesome app, my favorite therapy app for developing both phonemic awareness and the essential foundation of phonological awareness (how/where sounds occur in words, the fundamental skill for reading). Another plus is that the voice and effects are not 'babyish', so my older students love this too. Best app I know of for spelling and phonological awareness development, for both regular and special ed students, and for home use as well. I recommend this to everyone! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2022-03-07, version 5.2* Great learning tool for early readers. You can tailor it to meet the needs of your child, and change it as they master each section. Love it and the kids do too! ### 5/5 — Literally the best app ever for early readers. *2021-12-09, version 5.2* I have used this app continually for 12 years with early readers. ### 5/5 — Best app *2021-09-25, version 5.2* I always tell families if they only buy one app, this is the one to buy. ### 5/5 — Great app *2021-05-17* I need to be able to change the vowel letters to a red colour and the consonants blue. Can this be an option? Use the app every day with my grade ones. Thanks. ### 5/5 — Great addition to Montessori Home School *2021-04-21, version 5.2* Great addition to Montessori Home School ### 5/5 — Excellent Application *2020-08-26, version 5.2* Montessori Crosswords ### 5/5 — Awesome App *2020-03-04, version 5.2* A fun app where I get to play with the letters and animation 😀👍 ### 3/5 — Good *2020-02-02* This app ### 5/5 — Cool app *2020-01-12, version 5.2* Great for learning how to spell. I love the part at the end where the balls fly around. Really fun. I love this app. I discovered this at school, and now I play it at home. ### 5/5 — Emma *2019-11-27, version 5.2* it helps me learn how to spell ### 5/5 — Montessori *2019-11-16, version 5.2* Awesome keeps them quiet and learning in the car! ### 5/5 — Love this app! *2019-10-08* Perfect learning tool for my preschooler! ### 4/5 — Goo *2019-09-24, version 5.1* App is good, interaction is fine. ### 5/5 — K *2019-07-13, version 5.1* Great ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Easy *2022-06-11* To easy please add harder words ### 1/5 — Needs to be updated!! *2017-11-29, version 5.1* This was such a great app until the update. I am not even able to open the app until it is updated by the developer. Please fix this ASAP! ### 1/5 — Not for self learning *2012-12-19* A nice app but fundamentally broken in many ways. Most obviously, the app is not navigable by a child that cannot read fluently. Instead, the parent needs to manage the app at all times. This is fine but it limits children who may want to explore the app or switch between apps and come back to a new activity. This app assumes that the parent is there every step of the way. The instruction screens are always there and there are lots of sub-menus you need to read. It would be much better if a parent could configure a reading level and then let the child play and join in when necessary or fun. Instead the app becomes a teaching prop -- there's nothing wrong with that but there is so much more that the app could do. Just be aware. ### 1/5 — Awful *2012-06-21* What a waste of money, there is no sound!!! I want my money back! ### 1/5 — Frustrating!! *2010-11-21, version 0* Unfortunately, I can not play this game with my grand children because it crashes as soon as it is about to open! What a waste of money. Maybe someone can come up with a ways tio fix this problem? ### 1/5 — Ms *2010-11-04* This is not a montessori tool as there is currently no audio pronounciation of either The word or the letters when you tap them. It is a lie to call this Montessori. Do not buy until pronounciation available ### 2/5 — Well built, overstimulating *2023-01-12, version 5.2* The app is lovely, well built and has a good depth of content. The “interactions” after the word completion is completely unnecessary and over stimulating. I’ve tried the setting to skip completely and not having any luck turning if off. If I could turn this off, I’d continue using this app. But with that on i don’t want my little people on this app. ### 2/5 — OMG *2020-03-25, version 5.2* It is to easy. ### 2/5 — Great Concept... Needs updates *2014-04-29, version 5.0* I love the concept and would love to use it in my kindergarten classroom, but the letter sounds are incorrect for certain letter and blends. I would not want to teach my students the incorrect sounds. For instance, the letter l makes a sound similar to /m/ and -ng makes the sound /ow/. I do love the concept and would love to rate this higher if these can be addressed. Thanks. ### 2/5 — Only for Americans *2012-11-10* If your not American forget it, the vowel sounds are hard to distinguish, the o and a sounds are identical. Good idea, poor execution, really need to redo the voice or at least have a choice of accents. Do not recommend this which is a real shame as it could be fantastic. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — sight words *2025-11-27, version 5.2* admire ### 5/5 — So............ I’m really great *2025-11-17, version 5.2* ☺️😘☺️🙃☺️So so much better for the kids I have a few more hours and they don’t want anyone who want them I just really know I know how they feel when they’re so cute they have fun with me so they’re going out for fun fun I have to get it for the day so I’m just getting ready and then I’ll get it done ✅ was that they didn’t want you in your art 🖼 is a fun day to be so fun to play for you so I just can’t wait 😊 I don’t have a chance and you know how I want it but you have fun with your mom I know that they don’t have to do so I know they’re just like they have a really fun time but they’re just like you know I just can’t say I want you know how to make a fun game but I’m sorry 😐 I have a really fun and good day so much and it’s fun but it just makes it really really hard and I’m so much more to get better than that I’m just going back in my mind to have fun with it so much and it’s fun I love 💕 is my day I have lost my money and I’m not really going back I don’t have money 💴 was my way of going back in time for fun so I’m sorry 😐 I have a really fun game but I’m so much more to love 💕 is a game like this I just can’t even make the best app ever and it’s fun but it’s really really hard for us and it’s fun but it’s really really hard and I have a good app I can’t stop ✋🏾 it’s really really so so good 😊 I really really love 💕 I’m not even the same people who lost the best and the game I just can’t stop 🛑 it’s a really fun I can’t really do anything like it but it’s really really good fun game I really love ❤️ it was fun to have it so fun but the lost game and the app just lost it I don’t have a problem I have no problems so I’m going to have to anyone else to say it and it’s fun but it’s really really good and fun but it’s really really good and it’s so so good 😊 new fun I just don’t have the app for it and it’s fun but it’s really really good fun game I love ❤️ new things and fun and it’s so so good 😊 new game fun I really love this app so so fun I love the game it and it is so so fun and fun to get it to get to know me so so I don’t have any fun I want it so so fun and I really like the new game I love this app so so fun I have a good time here it and fun to get to the point I don’t want it I just really don’t know what else I want but it does not make me play the same app so so much fun and fun to use but it does not make you even better if I don’t have a game like it and then it back up to my phone I don’t want it I just can’t even play the app it and it is fun to get the game and it is so so fun and fun to use but it does have fun but it makes you want more money to buy more fun game please fix it and I don’t want it I can’t stop looking for a game that they are going through I have to say this game has a good selection and I love 💕🥰🥰😍😍🥰🥰😍🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️💕💕💕💕💕💝🖼🖼🖼🇮🇨🇮🇨🖼🖼🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨💴💴💴💴💴💴💴💴💴🇮🇨✨✨🇮🇨❤️❤️💝💝💕💕💕💝💝💕💕❤️❤️😦💴😵😤😣😵😤✅😴🖼🙃🥰🤨😉🙃😋🙃🙃🙃🥰😋🤣😚🤣🙂😄🥰☺️😉☺️🙃🤣😚😃 ### 5/5 — Awesome Literacy App *2025-07-25, version 5.2* Wonderful app for literacy and phonemic awareness. May be used as a digital literacy center! ### 5/5 — Special Education Teacher *2025-05-26, version 5.2* Excellent Resource for children who need Sounding and Phonics for Reading…😍 ### 5/5 — This app teaches my brother and me to learn words! The letter q sounds like k and must fix it. *2024-08-16* I love your apps so much! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2024-04-04, version 5.2* Great learning tool for early readers. You can tailor it to meet the needs of your child, and change it as they master each section. Love it and the kids do too! ### 5/5 — The Right Way To Learn How To Spell *2024-03-14, version 5.2* I love this app! I love it because it teaches my kids how to spell and it gives them a reward after they complete a word. I also like how it has different levels and if something is to hard or to easy they can move down or up a level.Another reason I love this app is because it has a level that allows my kids to focus on one spelling pattern such as ow and magic e.That is why I think that this app is the right way to learn how to spell. ### 5/5 — Bh *2024-01-03, version 5.2* Hvbb ### 5/5 — Very interesting *2023-09-27, version 5.2* My grandchildren love this app! It’s visually pleasing while learning. Look forward to seeing other programs. ### 5/5 — Montessori Crosswords for Kids *2022-09-27, version 5.2* My 5-year old granddaughter loves it. --- *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 2026-09-22.*