Spelling Bee Reviews: Is It Legit?

Spelling Bee - Beezone
Spelling Bee - Beezone
Metronome Software Pty Ltd

Customer Experience

Positive experience41.5% of reviews
Neutral19.5% of reviews
Negative experience39.0% of reviews

~ Based on 41 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Spelling Bee

Is Spelling Bee Safe?

Spelling Bee - Beezone appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Spelling Bee is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 797 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 791 App Store ratings for Spelling Bee.

Is Spelling Bee Legit?

Spelling Bee - Beezone appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Spelling Bee is 95/100.

Based on 95 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

So helpful for my kid

Love adding the personal levels- great for practicing phonics skills and heart words. Has made learning more fun and improved with just one lesson a day.

Sad

So bad

Not free

$10. A month for a spelling app that was “free to download”. No thank you. We will stick to pencil and paper.

Free to dl but you have pay to play

You can’t even try the app without a subscription. Yes you get 3 days free but if you forget to cancel you are charged.

Paywall

No way to sample or test the app before use. Requires immediate payment after child’s information is given

Words aren’t spoken clearly.

Love the games and option to add our own spelling words but the app doesn’t speak the words clearly therefore my child is starting to spell incorrectly.
For example the spelling word is ‘dot’ when the app says the word it sounds like ‘dod’.
I’ll be canceling my subscription.

Slay

So helpful I learning so good

Pronunciation problems

The voice doesn’t know how to pronounce words like and

best one

is good but idk how to get to the next lesson

How do I get my money back?

I just signed up for this. Went to create my first custom list and the keyboard covers the continue button so there’s no way to complete the list? Does not work.

Response from developer

Apologies for the issue you were having. This must have been a bug. We have released a new version of the app that resolves this issue. You should now be able to see the Continue button above the keyboard and scroll the whole view if needed. Apologies again for the issue.

F

Doggy

Paid and now won’t work

I’ve set up the monthly bill and now it won’t let me use the app keeps asking me to pay

Response from developer

Hi there, sorry about the issue you're having. This could be because you set up a new device. Please tap on the 'Already Purchased?' button in the pay screen to restore your previous purchase. Please reach out to us at support@prasannag.com so that we can help you get up and running.

Trooly amazing BUT

It is amazing but the ai voice is ether glitching or saying something
Wrong ha not my hearing is wrong but it does help

Response from developer

Sorry about the issue you're having. Most of the words should have clear spoken voice. Could you please let me know which words you're having issues with and we can improve them. Thanks so much!

Pretty decent - and customizable- spelling app

PROS:
- Good, clear unaccented voice stating words
- ability to slow down the voice to hear more distinctly
- Three interactive different exercises to learn the correct spelling from, which makes it more fun and reinforces learning
- Ability to customize which exercise type(s) will be used
- ability to create your own custom word list (valuable feature!)
- Repeats exercise with words that were spelled incorrectly
- Praise given for correct answers by a warm encouraging voice
- Ability to add multiple children separately, so each has their own individual progression

CONS: - Initial interface is confusing; there is no indication of which levels correspond to school grades, or if they are even organized to parallel the specific spelling curriculum taught in each grade. Uncertain how the progression through levels is organized (by most common words? by high frequency words? by often mispelled words? a blend of everything?) It does not appear to be organized by the different phonic sounds, etc.
- custom word lists cannot be edited after creating, only deleted, which is annoying if you make an error while typing it
- praising voice gets a bit repetitive (Dev, add some short quick ones like "yeah!", "cool." "correct! "That's right.", "good job." with descending pitch for some, instead of the always-ascending pitch of an exclamation.)
- outside of the actual spelling exercise, order of buttons to click for lists and levels can be slightly confusing.
- no explanation as to why when you finish a set of questions in a level and are returned to the Levels Menu, that level is not yet finished, or why there are different numbers of question sets in different levels. This makes it impossible to know how long it will take to finish one level, which a person usually wants or hopes to complete in one sitting.
- a bug where the Level button doesn't display, but the clicking functionality for it IS present
(Dev, also please add Return to Main Menu (or Main Page, Home or Dashboard) button when a set of exercises has been completed. Because the set is finished, the user expects clicking Continue = "done here, close window and return to neutral home page. Instead they discover they are suddenly forced to do a new set of exercises or else their progress tracking is affected. To that end, it's even more crucial to allow the user to EXIT from a set of exercises that has been begun, WITHOUT recording/saving any of the responses. Mistakes happen, and an EXIT button with a sub-pop-up of Cancel this Set Without Saving Responses? paired with Continue or Cancel is realllly essential.

All pretty fixable, and mostly tweaks, thus still 4 stars!
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Response from developer

Thanks for this thoughtful review and for your suggestions. Some of your suggestions are coming soon, but some are new. If you can, please reach out at support@prasannag.com - this would allow us to ask clarifying questions about your suggestions. Regards - PG.

Why

When I tried to do a second lesson in one day it said that I needed the premimium account I feel like they should make it for all accounts

Help plz

Plz refund my amount .Deducted 1 yr pay mistakenly by app. I cancelled subscription.nor useful at this stage.

Response from developer

Hi there, pls reach out to us at support@prasannag.com and we can guide you with receiving a refund. Thanks!

Ok

Ok

It looks great but..

The game look exactly what I was looking for but then froze :( 😞

Response from developer

Hi there, sorry about the issue you are having. Please reach out to us at support@prasannag.com so that we can help with this.

Horrible app

Terrible app, has wiped out my list and now won’t let me access my account after paying $30 for a year subscription. Have only used it for 3 weeks. Absolute waste of money. Very frustrating

Response from developer

Hi there, sorry about the issue you are having. Could you please reach out to us at support@prasannag.com so that we can try and resolve this for you?

What are the words?

Half the time the game miss pronounces the words you’re supposed to spell

Response from developer

Hi there! Thanks for your update. We’ve just launched a major update to the app that now has beautiful natural-sounding pronunciations for 99% of the words! Excited for you to try the feature and hope it addresses any issues you previously had. Please reach out if you have any questions or suggestions.