Readability - Learn to Read

Mixed feelings for the price. My 8 yr old son loves this app as we road school and don’t have a ton of room for books and this app gives him a wide variety to practice on. The ai does have some competence issues, like not hearing a word, mispronunciation of a few words, and not correcting others. Also, I’ve not received a single report in the, nearly, 10 weeks we’ve been using this app, which, as someone who is required to keep records by the state, is rather important, and there SERIOUSLY need to consider adding a passcode to access parent mode…. He’s deleted his profile twice while trying to add others! The negatives being said, he not only has started to love and request time to read, his performance has improved significantly from a pre-k level to nearly a second grade level in a very short amount of time. He is now trying to pronounce random words he sees irl, not just asking me what it says, and his confidence is growing in leaps and bounds despite his mild dyslexia and extreme adhd. Issues aside, I’d recommended and look forward to some significant improvement of this app over time.

I don’t even know what to say other than thank you! To whoever designed and created this…THANK YOU!! My daughter is 9 and is severely dyslexic with speech apraxia. She’s reading at about a 1st grade level, if that, and the mention of ‘reading’ would cause a huge meltdown because of how difficult it is for her. I’ve tried every app out there that ‘guaranteed’ success but all they did was cause her to get frustrated and break down because she couldn’t succeed on them. Because of her speech apraxia, apps could never decode what she was trying to say and it was heartbreaking to see her give up. I decided to try this and the free month long trial is what sold me, to be honest, because I didn’t want to pay for something that wasn’t going to work. The first time she tried Readability, not only was she able to read at her own pace, but the technology UNDERSTOOD her unique speech patterns and she was able to complete an entire book without breaking down into tears. She is now starting to choose her own books and reads every night on her own and she even told me she ‘secretly’ likes her new app, even though it has to do with reading. Her attitude towards reading has completely changed now because she feels successful and is able to do this independently. So from the bottom of my heart and soul, thank you for this. Your program helped my little girl who had given up, believe in herself again.

Homeschool mom here with a struggling reader. I love the concept of the app but the app needs a lot of work. It doesn’t give the reader enough time to sound out the words, when the reader does sound out the word the app would register the first letter sound of the word and the app would register the word as if the child said it when they didn’t and the app would move on to the next word. It would take sounds or noises and register it ad a word and then move on. The app didn’t give my child enough time to figure out the word and would give him the answer. Which I don’t mind but I would rather my child figure out the word himself and the app not give the answer unless my child taps on the word himself asking for assistance. The books also are not great quality. My son became frustrated with the app within 5 min of using it for the first time, and that is the worst thing for a struggling reader. I’m teaching my child to have grace with himself cause he has dyslexia and adhd so reading does not come easy for him and he can get discouraged and frustrated really fast, and I want him to love to read. If they get easily frustrated or bored then he won’t enjoy to read. Your asking way too much money for you app when it needs a lot of work.