Sad
Not free
Free to dl but you have pay to play
Paywall
Words aren’t spoken clearly.
For example the spelling word is ‘dot’ when the app says the word it sounds like ‘dod’.
I’ll be canceling my subscription.
Slay
Pronunciation problems
best one
How do I get my money back?
F
Paid and now won’t work
Trooly amazing BUT
Wrong ha not my hearing is wrong but it does help
Pretty decent - and customizable- spelling app
- 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!
