Speech Blubs: Language Therapy in IOS

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★★★★★ Beware - Seems ok but too expensive for a family

The drills are excellent and my twins love it but I can't see spending $300 for this app in order for all 3 of my kids to take advantage of the content. UPDATED After working with tech support to determine if app sharing is enabled across devices, I was advised that yes, I could purchase a lifetime subscription that would cover all of our devices. After purchasing the initial download, I attempted to restore the purchases on another device, which did not work. I thought that maybe I had to buy it again in order to get it to register that I already owned it, but it charged me instead. So, I now have two lifetime subscriptions for a terrific app that I will only need for 2-3 years. The fact that I had to email app support 10 times and be told to go to apple for my refund only to be declined by apple is frustrating and shameful. The app really does an amazing job at engaging kids and keeping their attention but it's not worth $100 per device. If they were to fix this situation, I'd update my review with 5 stars.

★★★★★ Great App but flaws

My daughter loves this app and gets so excited when the fish says Speech Blubs during start up. We started this around 16/17 months and it was way to early for my little one. We then revisited around 19 and saw she was able to begin to participate in the popping of bubbles and matching games. She also loved seeing the others kids and found she could tickle them lol. Now at little over 21 months I see major improvements. She love the new shapes game, abc game, and matching game. She repeats the letters, number, colors, and shapes. I have seen her vocabulary grow so much over a month! Not sure how much is related to the app or just developmental. But I do believe the app has helped. For some reason my little one will not repeat the words in the learning journey. Some problems I have….1. My daughter plays on my phone and an iPad but they don’t sync. It appears 2 separate profiles. 2. Every time we open the app prompted by a special deal to purchase. If I already purchased a subscription for the year I don’t know why I am getting this prompt. It is very problematic mastic for my daughter. 3. I don’t see her using this after the expiration of the subscription. It doesn’t update often enough with new games or current games that she likes. It also doesn’t provide individualized assessment even though I keep getting notifications saying there is one. With the app it should very easy to program metrics of strong and weak points.

★★★★★ My son absolutely loves this app! But…

This app is great! Love that other kids are used to voice the words- my son gets so excited about it! I believe it really has helped him learn. I recommend this app all the time! However, I do wish they add to it. He’s gone through each section over and over and I think he’d love to see new animals, shapes, numbers etc. ABCs would be a great addition too! Also- side note the cow snipet at the end (after they say cow and ask to repeat back or select which picture is a cow) is really creepy. He’s kinda scared of that one, and I don’t blame him! It says some cows get swept up in tornados and shows the cow getting picked up and blown away. Bizzare and kinda cruel thing to tell a kid when you could educate them that cows graze, are usually on a farm or basically anything else that is actually factual…. Lol Possibly consider changing that one. Otherwise we really do enjoy this app! Also think it may be more helpful if the app would say also “now you say” vs only saying “your turn” or “now you try”. Or when they guess the photos it would say “which one is a ____” vs only saying “now guess”. There is also a part in the rhyme section that shows a cat literally counting down going through all 9 lives by jumping off a bridge over and over. Then when you get to 9, it says “bye bye” to the cat insinuating it died. Definitely think you should reconsider that. Seems insensitive for ALOT of reasons. It’s a kids game!

★★★★★ Confused

So I downloaded this to give it a try bc it seemed like a neat idea for my 1.5 year old, despite the fact she's advanced or right on track with her speech development, she's always talking, can say over 50 words & understands everything she is "supposed to" (based off her milestones), so I didn't even make it past the report bc I'm lost on my child's report it makes 0 sense. Her report shows she may have hearing issues & issues with comprehension, yet during the questions everything it asked she's able to do & I answered as such. The only reason I can think it's saying those are issues in her report is they're using scare tactics to get parents to pay for the app... well guess what? That's not working for me bc my child didn't even necessarily need work on her speech, I only download it to just further her intelligence on speech & work on any words she says that isn't 100% clear. I'm just annoyed bc the issues in the report states "she should be looking in directions of noise...etc" when I literally answered she's able to do so during the questionnaire. So yeah, I went ahead & instantly deleted, if you were actually tryna be 100% honest & real then I would've gave it a shot & I'm all for somebody letting me know if my child needs help in certain areas but when I've said she can do certain things, don't sit & tell me she's got issues with x, y & z when I answered she DOES NOT have issues with those things. It's sickening to use scare tactics on parents like that.

★★★★★ Double charged

I downloaded the app to try the 7 week free trial to see if my son would like it and to try a different approach at learning to talk and interact. My son is about to be two years old and besides popping bubbles sometimes, he took no interest in it at all. I downloaded it on my phone and on an ipad. I created an account and logged into both devices with it. I tried it with him for maybe 3 days and he just ignored it, so decided to cancel before I got charged. In trying to do so, I accidentally ended up actually paying the yearly subscription. I requested a refund and to cancel the subscription with them, I ended up being refunded that amount and was told it was cancelled. A few days later I saw a charge for about the same amount on my bank account. Once I figured out it was this app, I contacted them to try to get a refund and cancel the subscription again. They told me since it was charged through Apple, that they wouldn't issue me a refund and that I had to contact Apple about it. I contacted Apple and explained what happened and they denied my request for a refund. I didn't know that I could get charged for each app download on different devices while using the same account. I had figured when I requested the first refund and cancellation, that my subscription would be cancelled. Unfortunately, now I'm stuck with an app that I didn't want and that won't even be used.

★★★★★ 50% Off When You Cancel Trial

What a racket. I cancelled my 7 day free trial two days in. My daughter is delayed developmentally so I was excited to try this app with her to help her speak. My issue with the app is that it has to use the microphone to hear the child say the word. Well…if I’m saying the word to make her try to say it, it picks me up and acts like she’s done a great thing and moves on. There’s no back. There’s no repeat. There’s no review. Just “great, someone said dog. Let’s move on.” So I cancelled. Didn’t work for me. No hard feelings. My daughter brought me the spare “kids phone” to play the app. Now it pops up, saying I’ve cancelled my trial (true) and that there are 5 days left in my trial (also true) and they’d give me 50% off the annual price to stay. I don’t want to stay. I would have kept trying it for 5 days and possibly reconsidered **BUT** the 50% off screen takes over the game. There’s no getting it to go away. So there’s really not 5 days left. I’m stuck staring at the 50% off screen. Deleted. I’ve never written a review for an app but this is ridiculous. If I don’t want your app, let that be ok. Let’s go our separate ways. Don’t then hack the app so that it’s unusable for the trial period. I might have reconsidered after a few more days but not now. Plus knocking half off? How does that make others feel that paid full price? Lame. Very lame business practices.

★★★★★ For the price! not worth it..

Well I started off as any other mother really eager and excited to have my child learn not like he was stagnant in anyway however, my oldest is 13 and his nonverbal so as far as developmental speech therapy, IEP’s occupational therapy I am relatively familiar so again has any other parent very eager to have my child start this journey and learning new sightings and new words and new visuals things along that magnitude however half of the games and or apps, especially the face recognition ones do not even work so for me to be paying $15 and some change for a learning experience and not being able to access half of it was very disappointing for me. I do love the engagement was certain things however it seems to be delayed at certain time frames and certain games do not work so it’s one thing to be. Paying for an app, but at least have your technical errors fixed so we can get the best out for our children out of what we paid for. I am a little disappointed, but not as much as him. Especially when he excels at certain things and decides to try a new thing and half the things doesn’t work. I hope this feedback helps you improve your company. Wish you the best of luck!