App Profile: Mentava Reading

Zvarhesj

Rating: 3/5

Duplicate review

Tech dad in NYC

Rating: 1/5

My 4.5 year old loves iPad games and has experience with educational reading games like Homer and reading.com. So when I heard about Mentava, an app whose outrageous price meant it was going to be great, I was excited for us. Unfortunately, the app is low quality. My child pushes back when I offer to load it for her, saying it’s “too boring” - a statement I’ve never heard her utter about an app of any kind. And it is boring - the games are too repetitive, the graphics are poor, there aren’t interesting game mechanics to keep her excited, and nothing to warrant paying close to the price they’re asking. If the app were free I’d give it 2-3 stars since it is better than nothing, but I can’t in good conscious recommend anyone in any condition, even with unlimited funds, use this app given what else is out there. I wish I could attribute the above to poor execution of a great idea and I could just “wait until the next version”. This is just poor execution of an unoriginal idea.