# Spelling Bee: Practice & Games — user reviews > 18 indexed App Store user reviews of Spelling Bee by Anthony Harvey, rated 4.50/5 from 270 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spelling-bee-practice-and-games/id6477365365/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spelling-bee-practice-and-games/id6477365365.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 206 · 4★ 32 · 3★ 11 · 2★ 7 · 1★ 14 ## Is Spelling Bee safe? Spelling Bee: Practice & Games appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Spelling Bee is 89 out of 100. This assessment is based on 270 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5 out of 5. Of 270 App Store ratings, 88.1% point to a safe experience, 4.1% suggest some concerns, and 7.8% point to a risky experience. ## Is Spelling Bee legit? Spelling Bee: Practice & Games appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Spelling Bee is 95 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## What do users think of Spelling Bee? Reviews of Spelling Bee are mixed: the Education app is rated 4.5/5 from 270 App Store ratings. What users like most: great tool for spelling practice, highly recommended for spelling bees. Top complaints: SOOO robotic voice, annoying AI voice. Summarized from real user reviews. **Pros** - 👍 Great tool for spelling practice - 👍 Highly recommended for spelling bees - 👍 Good format for spelling bee simulator - 👍 Offers harder spelling levels - 👍 Uses real spelling bee regulations - 👍 Simple and straightforward app - 👍 Good for strengthening spelling **Cons** - 🤖 SOOO robotic voice - 🤖 Annoying AI voice - 🤖 Cheaply made app - 🤖 Voice doesn't pronounce words correctly - 🤖 Robotic pronunciation makes words fluctuate - 🤖 Voices make me want to rip my ears off - 🤖 Not clear voice - 🤖 Screen shrinks to iPhone size on iPad - 🤖 Weird animations/things on correct answers **Commonly reported bugs** - Forces purchase after few practice words - Screen shrinks to iPhone size on iPad - Misclick locks and asks for subscription **Most requested features** - Family sharing on paid subscription - More sampling of audio for better pronunciation - Record actual words on app's vocab lists ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — This must be a joke *2026-10-19* Started off well, spelled 10-15 words and was notified that I ran out of free words to spell and must pay a subscription for more. Would anybody on this earth be able to justify paying money to spell words? UI is not even that complicated, I could just have an AI give me a free spelling bee in perpetuity. ### 1/5 — Only allowed a few practice forces buying *2025-10-14* This app is misleading as it forces you to purchase. Don’t waste your time. **Developer response:** Although the subscription allows for unlimited use, Spelling Bee App can still be used to practice everyday without a subscription. Thank you for trying Spelling Bee App. ### 1/5 — Yay finally I can practice spelling and have fun!! *2025-07-11* This is the worst app I have ever downloaded on my phone or in any device I have ever owned. The voices want me to rip my ears off and seeing that after one mistake or MISCLICK it locks it and asks me for a subscription. What a piece of garbage, lemon lookin bee ahh, spelling bee? Nah spelling fee. **Developer response:** Hi, Thanks for trying Spelling Bee App. If you search "Live Speech" in your iOS settings and then look under "Voices" you can download enhanced & premium voices for free. Instructions for this are in Spelling Bee App settings under "Pronouncer" Also, I’m unable to reproduce a lock-out based on mis-click or mistake. Feel free to contact me with any specifics that may help me resolve that issue for you. https://anthonyharveyapps.com/contact-us ### 1/5 — Bru *2025-02-07* Good but not clear voice and not worth it **Developer response:** Hi, Thank for using Spelling Bee App. Please see the settings menu for instructions on getting enhanced and premium voices downloaded to your phone for free. ### 2/5 — I mean.. it’s weird *2026-01-24* The voice is SOOO robotic. I personally just can’t. If you get a question correctly it makes a weird animation. And also a weird thing. If you play in an iPad the screen shrinks to iPhone size. It just genuinely annoys me but idk **Developer response:** Thank you for using Spelling Bee. Enhanced and Premium voices can be downloaded for free. Instructions can be found under the list of your current voices in the menu. ### 2/5 — Really bad *2025-12-30, version 1.17* I’m sorry but this game or spelling bee app is just really bad the Ai is really annoying ### 2/5 — Nice but not really free *2025-09-05* I like the format but You only get about 3 words a day. Anything over that you have to get a subscription. Hate that. ### 2/5 — Fine *2025-01-31* I wish I didn’t have to pay for it ### 3/5 — Ok *2025-08-11* It’s a very cheaply made app, and the voice they use is just some robot so they don’t pronounce the words correctly, which makes you mess up on spelling them sometimes. **Developer response:** Hi, Thanks for trying Spelling Bee App. If you search "Live Speech" in your iOS settings and then look under "Voices" you can download enhanced & premium voices for free. Instructions for this are in Spelling Bee App settings under "Pronouncer" ### 4/5 — Family sharing? *2026-04-05* Can we do family sharing on a paid subscription? **Developer response:** Yeah! Good idea! Just enabled it. Thanks for using Spelling Bee App! ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome spelling App *2026-06-11* This is a great tool for anyone who is trying to increase their spelling abilities! If you are going to compete in a spelling bee I highly recommend it! ### 5/5 — Awesome Game *2025-04-13* It’s a spelling bee simulator. The only one I found. ### 5/5 — Straight forward *2025-04-10* Simple and straightforward app. I am hoping it will strengthen my spelling. I am enjoying the app so far ### 5/5 — This is Great *2025-02-27* Exactly what you want from a spelling app. But you need a pen and paper to really learn all the words. ### 5/5 — Spelling Bee *2025-01-22* Great for practicing your spelling! ### 5/5 — Nice *2024-12-17* Legit spelling bee ### 4/5 — Is the bee AI generated? *2026-01-04* Tbh the bee icon looks like it was AI generated **Developer response:** Thanks for using Spelling Bee App! The bee icon is not, but the more cartoonish bee character that appears in the app is created with the assistance of AI. ### 4/5 — Pretty good; only issue is too robotic sometimes *2025-05-27* The app itself has a great system! It’s the only actual spelling bee simulator I’ve found that uses the real regulations for spelling bees like repetition of the words, definitions, and sentences. I also like that it offers harder spelling levels! My only problem with the app is the voices, as they seem like they haven’t been sampled enough for recordings in order to generate proper pronunciation; I’m doing the extreme level words and some of them I knew how to spell the first time I heard it, but upon listening to it again, the robotic pronunciation makes certain letters fluctuate with every time it repeats the word. I’ve made many more mistakes due to repeated words than i have spelled them correctly. I’d recommend either more sampling of audio to generate better pronunciation in the AI voices, or maybe just have it record the actual words on the app’s vocab lists! Other than that, I love the way it’s formatted and the flexibility of difficulties! **Developer response:** Hi, Thank for using Spelling Bee App. I'm glad you are enjoying it. If you haven't yet, please see the settings menu for instructions on getting enhanced and premium voices downloaded to your phone for free. Also, that is a great idea having pre-recorded audio for the more difficult words. I will work on that for the next update. --- *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 2026-10-30.*