Endless Learning Academy

I would give this app 5 stars. However, I noticed a difference of the app on my sons kids fire tablet vs on my iPad. On the fire tablet it allows you to place numbers and letters in whatever order you want but on the iPad you have to do the letters, numbers, words everything in order which makes my son who is not 100% verbal yet very frustrated so he throws my iPad because he wants to match it the way he wants to and not in order. He doesn’t understand yet why it would be 1, 2, 3, 4 and so on. I highly suggest fixing this and having each system match for consistency.

My son loves originator apps and still plays math tango a lot. Endless academy helped him with spelling, reading, Spanish and more but unfortunately he was upset with one of the words and its depiction. He refuses to play and I have since deleted app off his iPad which is sad since I spent $100 on the lifetime subscription years ago. All in all his has somewhat surpassed what the app had to offer and learned a lot from the app but I wish he could still look at the app fondly instead of being upset when he hears about it. I literally use as a punishment threat that I will put endless academy onto his iPad. So the issue is with the reading/spelling section on the word itchy. It is a little alarming and upsetting the depiction. Although I know he is overreacting and does at times as a lot of young children do it could be perceived as troubling, He has had allergic reactions to things and felt itchy before so I’m sure he felt some extra connection to it. So in the video the monster little blue hair becomes crazy and he is itchy so he is shaved aggressively by grumpkim with a shaver in a big over dramatic way and is then left bald afterwards. My son is literally still upset and traumatized after last year and cries hysterically anytime he hears the word itchy. My sons suggests that you just get rid of the word or come up with a more sensitive way depict it.

We’ve used it less than a week so I can’t say how much my kid is learning. However, she prefers it over Hooked On Phonics which I’ve been trying to push on her. Today, she asked me if we could stop doing HOP so she could do “something fun” and then she opened up Endless Learning Academy and she’s been sitting here listening to words for over 30 minutes. Here’s my issue: We have been playing the word rollercoaster section (don’t know what it’s called). Let’s say the word is tired. At least twice, it will pronounce the word as “ired” or “ungry” for hungry. The app is consistently chopping out the first bit of every word. It sounds weird and it’s very annoying to listen to. Won’t continue my subscription if this isn’t fixed. We’re on iPad Pro (2nd gen, 12.9 inch) if that helps.