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Product Review of Curious

By Matthew Lynch
May 9, 2022
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Use this app to exercise your brain daily using a workout designed to grow your “curious quotient.” A brief section asks about the amount of time each user wants to spend on the exercise (5, 15, or 30 minutes) and based on that, a personalized program is developed for the individual. A learning workout is sent daily to the email of the user.

Website: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id766149271

What Users Love About the App

“So far it seems like a worthwhile investment. I’ve only just started to use it regularly after having it for a month and have just been figuring out its uses. The games are somewhat challenging. After two days, I have learned how to sign the alphabet and that is something I have been talking about doing for 6 months. I will be diving deeper into this app while continuing to practice the features I have found already. I do find it expensive, but if you think about how ridiculously priced private college is this is a cheap way to learn skills that can pad your resume and make you stand out amongst other candidates.”

“I have been using Curious for several years. I have puzzles I use absolutely every day. Now my daughter also plays the puzzles. In addition, Curious offers so much in courses to learn. I find myself learning about all kinds of things in addition to what I initially thought I might be interested in. I gave Curious this rating because I have used the program without problem for so long, and have been able to satisfy myself in knowing I have grown in ways that help my brain functions by participating in courses and puzzles.”

“I really love this app! In the short time I’ve had it I feel like I have grown so much! My curiosity is back and I’m really learning again. As a 40–year–old SAHM Mom (with a PT business), I’ve tried many apps to give me the intellectual simulation that I really miss from my former career, but I’ve found most of them lead back to politics/negativity/pop culture that is making my IQ decrease by the second. It is great to see and be exposed to so many topics of interest in short amounts of time because that is all you have to spare when small kids are involved.”

“Who knew that Boston had a massive molasses flood 100 or so years ago? I do now, thanks to Curious. As an insatiably curious person with a short attention span, this app is perfect for me. I even read the articles which seem boring just going by the title. I still always come away with some small bit of information I didn’t have before. Another particularly fun aspect to the app (for me, at least) is that most articles require that I pop over to a dictionary app, which always takes me down rabbit trails; the same is true with Googling something especially interesting. This is one of the few apps not pre-loaded on my phone that I truly enjoy and use almost daily.”

“Like most of us, I let life get in the way of learning. This app gets my mind awake and functioning back at the curious state that the younger me had. The desire for knowledge and input is back. I now look at my days ready to see, learn, and understand what and why things are around me and not just cruising the day away with a zombie brain.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“This app is fun. The cool little articles are interesting. The problem is that very few of them are based on fact. They just go for sensationalism. It’s like going to the national inquirer for news. Most of their math problems have errors. The facts of their stories are certainly not checked. If there’s an internet meme, they’ll publish it as fact. I saw one last week that talks about how Wonder Woman is the oldest superhero comic besides Superman and Batman. Um, there are dozens superheroes older than that. Try Captain America, the Green Lantern, all the aAvengers, Aqua Man, Green Arrow, all the Fantastic 4. The list goes on too long. I see scientific “discoveries” that are decades old and disproven pretty much that long ago. They need to hire an actual editor for their stories before they go publishing random stuff. At least if they are claiming it’s non-fiction. I’m sorry if you are the “editor” of these things because they are full of misspellings, repeated paragraphs, missing parts of text, and general wrong information. The math is the worst. We need an informed generation to help out this ailing planet.”

“I wanted to try it to see if I liked it. So, I signed up for the “free 7-day trial” and was charged $70 immediately. What kind of free trial is THAT? I applied for a refund through Apple, so I’ll see how that goes. Why are there so many reviews like this? It’s a cool app and I’ve used it up to the 8credits every day for a long time. Thought I’d check out what the full subscription offered me. Now, I’m pretty upset. I don’t have $70 I can spare until next week when the app will renew. Terribly misleading to say the least.”

“I was so excited when I saw this app and what it offered. I like learning about everything and this app seemed perfect for me. However, I was sorely disappointed to find out I had to pay to get the full benefit of it and even more, that the free version gives very little access. I’m still not decided if it’s worth the money to get information that I can easily find myself for free online. The free services should be expanded even if only for a limited time, so people can get a better feel for how great the app appears to be and actually be convinced to pay for more access. The very limited informationavailable in the free version is just not convincing me to spend my money here. Too bad.”

“I just got this app, and I’ve already found a few bugs using VoiceOver. I have found at least three problems with the puzzles already. I had a difficult time when exercises came up in a curio because there was no way for me to navigate to a textbox where I could type my answer. Actually, no textbox showed up at all for me to type an answer. These are some of the more prominent issues with this app. Please fix this so I can continue striving towards a better education. Thank you.”

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