This app has so much potential, but it’s so buggy
A beautiful and simple app and I can see where they are going, but it’s very buggy.
The first and easiest lesson has a bug and you can move past it.
Please creators; fix it because it has so much to offer the world in the form of “slow tech”
The first and easiest lesson has a bug and you can move past it.
Please creators; fix it because it has so much to offer the world in the form of “slow tech”
Very poor phonics
The person providing the instructions is obviously not a Montessori teacher. The first word the child is asked to build is “bug.” Bug does not begin with buh, but /b/ as in bit.
This is just what I’ve been looking for
It’s a little glitchy and could use an update, but this is really a wonderful tool that is helping me teach my twins to read. Thank y’all for developing this awesome app!
Great for just learning how to sound out words
I really like this app! It makes the sound of the letters when the letters are touched. It has a section to build words and breaks them down by sound for kids to start learning how to sound out and build words. It also has a free write area for kids to explore building words on their own by sound.
Poorly designed
This app offers no more than what parents can do with a pen and paper. Truly dissatisfied. I also cannot get any sound. Would really like a refund.
More for ages 3-6 than 6-8
I wish there was a preview option as I would not have paid for this app for my 8 year olds. This is very Montessori like but I think more towards ages 3-6 than 6-8. If you are looking for younger kids, this will be awesome.
Fundamentally Flawed Approach
The app has kids spell simple words, choosing letters from a list of all the letters in the alphabet. However, it treats vowel diagraphs (two vowels together that make a single sound) as if they were separate letters. These are all listed at the end of the the standard alphabet.
So, when a child is asked to spell the word "boy" they can't choose the letters B-O-Y. Instead the have to first choose B then scroll all the way past the end of the normal alphabet list and find OY from a long list of diagraphs (AI, AY, OO, OI, OY, etc.). It might make sense to a linguist, but it's confusing for a child just learning to spell.
So, when a child is asked to spell the word "boy" they can't choose the letters B-O-Y. Instead the have to first choose B then scroll all the way past the end of the normal alphabet list and find OY from a long list of diagraphs (AI, AY, OO, OI, OY, etc.). It might make sense to a linguist, but it's confusing for a child just learning to spell.
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Since the update it will not turn on
Most recent update results in the app not turning on at all. It just turns the screen black and either crashes or sits for ages until you force quit. Used to work perfectly fine before I updated it to the fancy-sounding new version.
Horrible
Not intuitive and has no sound. This is not a quality app that can be easily used by a child. This app should be withdrawn by the developer, it feels like a scam. Don't buy it.
To the developer: give me my money back.
To the developer: give me my money back.
No sound
There is no sound, settings page or guidance for parents. Any help for the sound issues?
Unintuitive and buggy
Exercises are very hard to figure out. The Graphics are overlapped one on top of another and confusing. The touch screen interface has a lag...dragging items is confusing. Do not buy this...is my advice.
Terrible
Waste of money.
not intuitive
You can only see about 8 letters, in alphabetical order, across the top of the screen, so the child has to scroll to the correct letter to find it. Then if the child accidentally drops it in the wrong place in the word he/she can't pick it up and correct the problem. Wasted 5$.
Needs clearer sound
I wish the sounds were more accurately represented ("b" says "b" not "buh," for example) but I do like that they say the word AND segment the word's sounds before the child selects letters to build it. Adding "uh" to every consonant makes learning to blend sounds difficult; the app itself reads "bed" as "buh-eh-duh." It'd be no small task to re-record the audio, but the app is not much use this way.
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Not worthwhile.
I don't mind paying $5 for a really good learning app for my child but there's nothing special about this one compared to any other .99c app - wouldn't recommend it to others, pretty sure my son will bore of this in a few minutes and I just wasted my money.
Brits beware
Bought this as a follow on to the lovely Intro To Letters, also from Montessorium, but really disappointed to discover there is no option for British English pronunciation on this app, unlike the Intro one. This means the app is practically useless to me, as the phonemes sound nothing like the sounds my children need to learn and practise. Hoping that this is rectified in a future update soon.
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Nice app but...
Nice app but you REALLY need to split the alphabet at the top into two rows to eliminate the need to scroll back and forth!
No sound after download.
Cannot access sound after download.
So disappointed.
I wish I could return this program. All of the consonants have vowel sound voiced at the end, as in /d-uh/. This makes blending the sounds back to make a word impossible. I wrote SED for "said". When I tried to quickly push the letters so it would blend and read it back to me, it said, "/s/ /e/ /d-uh/." An incorrect representation of the phonemes is not very helpful.
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Sound
This app is great , but got no sound.
