Frustrating
My son loves all the features, but he gets frustrated with having to write in cursive while all the words he is reading on the screen are in print. Also, the jack in the box game is highly annoying and is usually called something else like a joker. The app will also freeze up and not load. Would love to see some updates made so that the writing matches up with the reading, and the bugs get worked out.
I’d recommend it to start with, but now that we are in the higher levels the games are more frustrating.
I’d recommend it to start with, but now that we are in the higher levels the games are more frustrating.
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Might be the worst app
Had to create account 3 times, each time I would enter in my subscription and pay, then it would freeze and sign me out so I would have to sign in again but then saying I had to create account again and pay a AGAIN. Not exaggerating when I say the literal worst app
Clunky
I have used this app on and off for years. The app is so incredibly clunky and difficult to use. Even just at the beginning when I can't even rotate my phone to enter the login and password. Or that I can't paste my login and have to keep reentering it if I get the password wrong or need to have a password reset done. I did the password reset twice and only got one email. Then, the updating of the profile takes a very long time. Then the app itself is very difficult to navigate. The song is of utmost importance yet extremely difficult to find. This is supposed to supplement the curriculum that we use at home. Quickly and readily available. But it's not. It is easier and less complicated to use Phonograms as a free app then pay $10 a month for an app that is so antiquated it's incredibly difficult to use.
I would love it if this app was updated to be more updated (not the characters but the app itself, and was more user friendly. It has always been the way it is now so I don't know that it will change but even over the last several years nothing has changed and the reviews are pretty accurate.
I would love it if this app was updated to be more updated (not the characters but the app itself, and was more user friendly. It has always been the way it is now so I don't know that it will change but even over the last several years nothing has changed and the reviews are pretty accurate.
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Tried it for ten minutes
We tried this for about ten minutes. The explanations and gimmicks are overdone, and the kid in the museum starts out saying how dumb art is and keeps it up from there. The whole tone is “we’re trying really hard to make boring learning fun” - a good app would show kids how fun real learning is just by helping them do it!
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Wanted to love it.
We tried using this app for over a year. My child really liked it and was improving in her reading with it. But it has lots of glitches. I wrote in several times describing the glitches. They would correct them but we would be without the app for a week or 2 at a time while we waited for them to fix it. We then got to a level that 50 something. That it freezes on the same exact part every single time. The app won’t advance past that part. I wrote them and it month later it still wasn’t fixed. I even sent videos of the problem. This is an expensive app and has far to many glitches to pay a premium to not have it work. We have abandoned the app because it interrupted our daily flow to often and cost too much for me have to keep writing in about glitches. I think they have a good idea but it needs some polishing for the price. The customer service is kind and responsive but we don’t have the budget of time or money to continue helping the app reach its full potential.
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Issues with app
I loved the content of this app, but there were glitches in the app and it would not let us log in. After erasing and redownloading this app multiple times and doing all the things, I am giving up. I wish I had not based our curriculum around this app!
Could be a lot better
For the price you pay for this app, it is super glitchy. For example, my daughter can’t complete a lesson because one of the games asks her to click on the box if she hears the “a” sound and it only says the “r” sound over and over.
It also just shuts down a lot as you playing on it.
It also just shuts down a lot as you playing on it.
Great Supplement
We really enjoy Veritas press phonics museum curriculum for our kindergartner. She still struggled with a few concepts and staying focused. The app is a great compliment. She finds it fun and engaging. Helps reinforce the material we cover each week.
My girls love it!
It’s one of the favorite parts of my girls’ day! Fun songs and activities
Doesn’t Even Work
It won’t even let me sign up in the app and continually crashes. Get a new app developer, please. I’m sure this would be helpful to have as a resource for homeschooling. It looks promising but doesn’t deliver.
Hasn’t worked
I used to use this app, and liked it for my preschoolers, but haven’t been able to use it for years. It always crashes. Too bad!
So much potential-nothing has changed
2022 Review:
Appears the developers have not fixed the issue from 2017. Web developers in the family and wonder if the developers who work on this are stateside or overseas. We are through the first 2 floors of the museum-equivalent to 30 lessons in the paper curriculum. The app has hung up 3 times so far. Logging out and in has allowed kiddo to continue, but this last time she only progressed through a couple of items in the first portrait before it stopped working. Currently using 3.5 gig’s of storage on our device with 30 of 155 lessons completed. We've removed all photos, movies, and music One should not have to remove and reinstall this completely.
2017 review There really is potential here, but it needs more work. The data is stored server side, but as we progress the app takes up more and more space on our device and we have to delete it and reinstall from the App Store with greater and greater frequency. We are currently 18 letters in on part 1 of 2 for kindergarten. We are using the app in conjunction with the print curriculum, so still making progress but I kind of wish there was a parental way to skip lessons as we sometimes work through a good chunk on paper and it would help if I could progress from where we are rather than having every activity locked. At first my child was excited to do the lessons, but some of the listening ones like the jack in the box or pig laughing are getting old and she has started to refuse to do some specific ones. Also, the pronunciation of the phonic sounds includes a very strong shwa or a vowel, like saying rah for R rather than urh in songs and videos, which the written text instructs to be careful not to include. It’s frustrating to experience the contradiction.
Appears the developers have not fixed the issue from 2017. Web developers in the family and wonder if the developers who work on this are stateside or overseas. We are through the first 2 floors of the museum-equivalent to 30 lessons in the paper curriculum. The app has hung up 3 times so far. Logging out and in has allowed kiddo to continue, but this last time she only progressed through a couple of items in the first portrait before it stopped working. Currently using 3.5 gig’s of storage on our device with 30 of 155 lessons completed. We've removed all photos, movies, and music One should not have to remove and reinstall this completely.
2017 review There really is potential here, but it needs more work. The data is stored server side, but as we progress the app takes up more and more space on our device and we have to delete it and reinstall from the App Store with greater and greater frequency. We are currently 18 letters in on part 1 of 2 for kindergarten. We are using the app in conjunction with the print curriculum, so still making progress but I kind of wish there was a parental way to skip lessons as we sometimes work through a good chunk on paper and it would help if I could progress from where we are rather than having every activity locked. At first my child was excited to do the lessons, but some of the listening ones like the jack in the box or pig laughing are getting old and she has started to refuse to do some specific ones. Also, the pronunciation of the phonic sounds includes a very strong shwa or a vowel, like saying rah for R rather than urh in songs and videos, which the written text instructs to be careful not to include. It’s frustrating to experience the contradiction.
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Will not let me sign up
I keep trying to create an account and the app will not move on to the next page. Even tried it on different devices. Still nothing.
We LOVED Phonics Museum BUT…
We have used this app for years with multiple children. We lie the app itself and the way it teaches phonics, but after numerous, repeated technical issues I am losing patience. We’ve reached out to Customer Support many times. We got a response once, with a suggestion that didn’t work. No response to later emails. My kid keep asking to practice their phonics, but we’re now going on four months that I’ve been paying and couldn’t access the app at all on any device and still no help from customer support. I think we’re done with Phonics Museum.
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Do Not Buy!!!! Can’t Cancel!!!
I’ve been trying to cancel for weeks. Every time I try I get an invalid link or a webpage with random letters and numbers. So frustrated!!!!!!
Stopped working after a week
This is my second attempt at purchasing the app a year apart from each other. The kids love it when it works, but the app is unusable. It stopped working after about a week. It is frozen on the log-in page. My kids are disappointed, and I’m frustrated they don’t have access to something we purchased. I reached out to veritas press and have heard no response. Also, they have to start from the very beginning of the program each time - there is no measure of prior knowledge, so my older child is stuck having to go through the content he has already mastered to get to skills he needs to focus on. It would be great if I could use it, but I can’t. Save your money.
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What app?
The app was included with a package we purchased. After several months and many phone calls, emails and service chats, we have not accessed it once. I have it on my calendar to call or email every two weeks just to be told the “supervisors” are “working on it.” This is an improvement, however, I was previously told I had a log-in email but must not know how to read email. I love so many things about Veritas, but it goes this way sometimes.
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Hot garbage.
App doesn’t work most of the time. Unable to progress and have to call support. Super frustrating. Used for several months, wasted way too much time and money. Trying to cancel is beyond frustrating.
Great supplement to curriculum
This is great as a fun way to reinforce the concepts taught in the Phonics Museum curriculum.
I do wish you could skip ahead and that it continued through to the first grade lessons.
But both my little ones enjoy it.
I do wish you could skip ahead and that it continued through to the first grade lessons.
But both my little ones enjoy it.
Love this app... BUT .. waiting....????
Hello! I’ve been using this app for over a year now with my younger twins— they’ve both reached floor 10 a bit ago- cannot go any higher in this app...
I recently bought the 1st grade curriculum -
and was told LAST YEAR- (when i had called about an order)
that the plans were in progress for this app to have a total of 25 floors (so that it could be used seamlessly in conjunction with the phonics museum First grade level...)
14 months later.... I’m still waiting...
and hoping!!
My boys have enjoyed the app (and with their 2 younger siblings) I really hope you DO continue to grow this app out to coincide with the first grade curriculum. It was a big pull for me (as a mom of 6- the app time freed me up to work with another child more easily... and knowing it was enforcing what we’d been learning together.
Can you please give us an approximate date? My plan expires soon- I’m unsure if I should renew subscription (?)
🤷🏻♀️😬😊
Thanks
I recently bought the 1st grade curriculum -
and was told LAST YEAR- (when i had called about an order)
that the plans were in progress for this app to have a total of 25 floors (so that it could be used seamlessly in conjunction with the phonics museum First grade level...)
14 months later.... I’m still waiting...
and hoping!!
My boys have enjoyed the app (and with their 2 younger siblings) I really hope you DO continue to grow this app out to coincide with the first grade curriculum. It was a big pull for me (as a mom of 6- the app time freed me up to work with another child more easily... and knowing it was enforcing what we’d been learning together.
Can you please give us an approximate date? My plan expires soon- I’m unsure if I should renew subscription (?)
🤷🏻♀️😬😊
Thanks
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