LeapFrog Academy™ Learning

First off, I will say the human body external body game is kind of confusing because it doesn’t tell you how long to hold the enemy. Other than that awesome app! I’ve used it before a few years ago ago and it was good but very glitchy so I ended up not using it again again for a while. They’ve made it a lot better and the improvements are Absolutely amazing! After trying other apps. The price is amazing for everything that you get. They certainly haven’t cut that many corners. Please add more books that would be awesome. And add some more non-fiction books. As a blind and autistic user of leapfrog products I can tell you they are awesome. Once you get them set up. They are a nightmare to set up, but very easy to use once you set them up. And thank you for listening to us about letting us sign in through things like iTunes or whatever again because I don’t like having to sign in through the website and having to give a credit card and everything else. That is totally ridiculous to me. Like I said the set up of leapfrog stuff is a pain but otherwise everything is very awesome and fun. Like that they added the game buttons to the books just like the V reader or tag or leap pad and leaf start systems. Nice awesome job. The only other kink that I found is not being able to exit out of videos tutorials when you start certain activities and hit the tutorial by mistake. This is for the books. Also when some books start I just don’t like having to listen to the tutorial every time. Other than that, those few things are my only gripes but other than that awesome app and keep up the good work! Awesome as always! This is from a person that has used leapfrog from The old create a word, traveler and phonics games and letter alphabet boards to leap pad learning systems, where I learned so much that my family wanted to have it brailed so that it could help help me with with my braille as I was having a hard hard time. And leaf pads Helped me thrive in certain areas. That’s how I got interested in things like algebra expressions, and how I learned about bottlenose dolphins and aging. Also being interested in whether I would play the weather activity over and over again and I really enjoyed it. It helped me learn about people like Marie Curie and learn about things like Suffixes. Also helped me learn about how much I like the music from schoolhouse rock. Lol! It’s nice that a company that’s been around for such a long time has made a very amazing app.

This app is frustrating. My 4 year old loves it, loves the games and learning and collecting rewards and that’s why we bought a subscription. Unfortunately the app hardly ever works consistently. It has major issues loading just about anything so when we complete an activity it will crash, when opening the app it will crash, when we finish a Learning Adventure lesson to collect a reward it will crash, etc. The worst thing that has happened to us is that my child had collected a fair amount of collection pieces as well as character customization options that just disappeared and the app acted as if we had just started the app for the very first time despite us having 12 certificates and saving our progress. We have contacted customer support a few times and they’ve been less than helpful. I uninstalled and reinstalled the app (three times) which didn’t solve our issues and the only response I received was “It seems to be working on our end.” Based on the reviews I really doubt that considering I know somebody that has the Leapfrog tablet and they have the same issues we are having on iOS. I caution all parents because while the games are great the execution is incredibly frustrating and the lack of concern for support is downright infuriating. I was hoping they were fixing these issues but reviews from 3 years ago tell me that the concern for the developers isn’t in fixing these issues.

My daughter is having a hard time making progress in letter recognition, so I’m looking for apps to supplement our efforts on the ground, so to speak. This app is highly rated and I was willing to pay a monthly fee for something that worked. Instead, I got an app that freezes so often I had to delete and reinstall it twice during the first two hours we had it. Also, I’m not sure if it’s a bug or poor design, but 99% of the app is eerily silent. No feedback noises and almost NO audible instructions.( For an app aimed at pre-reading kids. Hmmmmm.) To test whether or not it was broken I found a “Read to Me” option and lo and behold, the words are highlighted but no sound comes out. My bet is on a bug. Every once in awhile there will be a blast of feedback— “PRESS PLAY TO CONTINUE!!!”— followed by another totally silent level. It’s maddening, especially because my daughter was excited to try it out before it became a struggle. Now she’s more disheartened than before because she can’t get the cool new app to work since, you know, she doesn’t know how to read. Finally, the “learning adventure” options are pretty much all over the place. I set her on a level that was supposed to be aimed at letter recognition and sound identification and the first game was aimed at getting her to count syllables in words. She shies away from identifying the letter “b” and they want to start her out on syllables. I’m very surprised at how deeply bad this app is considering its high rating. I suggest parents stay far away from this nightmare, or at least thoroughly test drive it before your kids.