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Product Review of ABC Alphabet Phonics

By Matthew Lynch
April 4, 2022
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A free app that teaches toddlers and young kids who are learning to speak. By applying various senses (sight, sound, etc.), kids can learn the alphabet and a few other optional subjects. Parents can also customize the app using their voice and take photos of their kid’s favorite items to make the experience more stimulating and personal.

Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/abc-alphabet-phonics-preschool-game-for-kids/id415071093

What Users Love About the App

“I NEVER leave app reviews, I just delete them and ignore them. However, my 5 year old failed PreK a few times. She never learned to identify even one letter. During the pandemic we began homeschooling. I ran into this app after many frustrating sessions trying to teach her; she would often forget the letter we were working on 5 minutes later. She has brain damage and low IQ. 5 days into this app, using it for 15 minutes a day, she can now identify SEVEN letters on her own! SEVEN! Two years of special education and she couldn’t even do ONE. I’d love to see more added to this, perhaps a separate app for sounds. This is my daughter’s saving grace right now. Thank you!”

“This is a wonderful app with so many options to make the letters more fun and appealing to kids. I also love that the multiple options allow you to go from teaching the plain letters to being able to generalize them with embellishments. I also love the option which just plays the sounds if you’re trying to focus on phonics. Another awesome feature is the min and max options for the number of choices presented. You can start with 1 letter for error free learning and then move to a larger field of choices to make the tasks more complicated. As a special educator this is the perfect app for teaching and assessing letter identification!”

“Great for learning the ABC with our toddler. He claps and shouts when he chooses the correct letter. Thanks!”

“This is great because you can personalize everything! By default it says “touch the…” letter, but you can record your voice saying different things like “Can you find the” or “Here is that…” to keep it upbeat and a little different. You can have friends and family record a few, too. That will really grab your toddler’s attention! If your child doesn’t know their letters yet, you can shut off the error noise OR change it to say “Let’s try that one again.” If they know letters backward and forward you can make it say “No! That’s so silly.” I think this app would be great for toddlers at all different levels! Best of all, it’s free. So why not take a little time to personalize it and try it?”

“I love this app! It’s a great learning tool for my 2 year old nephew. When I introduced it to him, I thought it would only demand his attention for 10 mins. My nephew played for nearly 30 minutes. He loves the celebrations after every success! He was able to navigate it by himself. I love that he doesn’t have to figure out how to flip the page like on other apps. I love that it narrates the instructions, too. We both love that I can record and personalize the affirmations that play when he chooses correctly! He was tickled to hear my voice and beside himself when he heard his name! I hope to find other apps by Grasshopper to help him study shapes, colors, numbers, and animals. I’ve searched for an app that is simple, useful and that will hold his attention for a while, so I’m overly excited to have found this!”

What Users Dislike About the App

“My grandkids love this app on my iPad. They are 4,3 and 2 years old. I could customize it with my own pictures and sounds. Now, however, every time I try to record a sound to go with a picture the app crashes. SAD! This was seriously the best app I found for my grandkids, I could customize it to suit their ages and interests. I would have gladly paid for this app. Too bad I can’t find one like it. I just spent hours taking photos of scenes from my grandkids favorite movies. What a waste! VERY SAD!”

“The app works well, but the phonics game is missing some letters. There is presumably an option to add them yourself, but the app crashes every time I try to record the audio. If they could fix that part it would be perfect. Too bad they have stopped updating this app.”

“The game seems useless if you can’t record any sounds. Every time I press record, it crashes. Unless I can figure out how to keep it from crashing when choosing to record, this app is completely worthless and will be deleted upon sending this review.”

“I like the app, and I can definitely tell that my daughter is learning her upper and lower case letters. The two issues that I have are that the letters “I” and “a” on here are not how the children learn them in school and its gets very confusing for her. The capital I looks exactly like the lowercase L, which does not help her to understand. Also, the lowercase “a” looks different as well. Other than that I do love the app, but I’d definitely wish to see that being considered for change.”

“After reading the description and seeing that this app was highly rated, I was excited to check it out. I was happy to see a fun, educational children’s app with so many customization options. Unfortunately, none of the customization options work. I really wanted to use our own pictures! When I try to “take a new photo” the app freezes up when you try to save it. I took a few of the pictures I wanted first and then tried the “choose existing” option, and as soon as I hit that button the app crashes. I am so disappointed. The app is boring if none of the features work, just another mundane ABCs app at this point!”

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