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Teach Your Monster to Read
Teach Your Monster · 26,814 ratings · ★ 4.5
4.5
★★★★★
26,814 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 21 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t work. Download for my TK’er and the games won’t work on my iPhone because the app does not recognize when the screen is being touched. I have made sure my screen is clean and my phone is updated. Very frustrating. Definitely would not recommend t…" - tyoung281923
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"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t work. Download for my TK’er and the games won’t work on my iPhone because the app does not recognize when the screen is being touched. I have made sure my screen is clean and my phone is updated. Very frustrating. Definitely would not recommend t…" - tyoung281923
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"games"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t work. Download for my TK’er and the games won’t work on my iPhone because the app does not recognize when the screen is being touched. I have made sure my screen is clean and my phone is updated. Very frustrating. Definitely would not recommend t…" - tyoung281923
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"does"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Doesn’t work. Download for my TK’er and the games won’t work on my iPhone because the app does not recognize when the screen is being touched. I have made sure my screen is clean and my phone is updated. Very frustrating. Definitely would not recommend t…" - tyoung281923
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"help"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Wanted to like it. I bought this app to help reinforce my son’s phonics skills in reading. The app was helpful and made it fun. The downside of this app was how much subliminal messages he would see playing the app. There were so many false rainbows trying…" - His Bow
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"hard"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too hard to setup. Too hard to setup school account." - Ctheurer20
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"kids"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not very happy. This app is so repetitive and doesn’t keep the kids entertained long enough to get any use out of learning to sound out letters and for an app the cost 9.00 you would think it would be more appealing to kids to keep them learning and enjoyi…" - Babydoll0809
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"letters"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not very happy. This app is so repetitive and doesn’t keep the kids entertained long enough to get any use out of learning to sound out letters and for an app the cost 9.00 you would think it would be more appealing to kids to keep them learning and enjoyi…" - Babydoll0809
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"teach"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "What is teach monster. It can be a little bit easy but you can always learn new things at teach monster🙂." - two5one
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"learn"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not very happy. This app is so repetitive and doesn’t keep the kids entertained long enough to get any use out of learning to sound out letters and for an app the cost 9.00 you would think it would be more appealing to kids to keep them learning and enjoyi…" - Babydoll0809
📋 All 21 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Horibal
I hate it
Doesn’t work
Download for my TK’er and the games won’t work on my iPhone because the app does not recognize when the screen is being touched. I have made sure my screen is clean and my phone is updated. Very frustrating. Definitely would not recommend this app.
Does not work
I paid and I am getting no phonics at all, just a video game basically.
Very very good all my friends fought over it at my camp at camp
Very, very good app for my brother with autism and his buddies they like it very muc
Too hard to setup
Too hard to setup school account.
Demon
The monsters look like a demon..not approved
😩
To easy!
Poorly Made
Some sounds difficult to hear. Games too hard. Too much time to move around app without any learning attached. I would like to get my money back.
UNABLE TO EASILY CANCEL SUBSCRIPTION.
THIS APP REQUIRES THE PARENT TO SIT AND MAKE SURE THE LESSON IS ACTUALLY GETTING LEARNED BEFORE GOING TO NEXT STEP. IMPOSSIBLE TO CANCEL!!
1
It is only for like 2-5 year olds. Maybe up to 8-10 year olds please? Thanks
I hated it
Worst app ever taught my kid nothing
Bad privacy policy
Really bad privacy for kids.
Worthless. Absolutely worthless.
This app is worthless. Absolutely worthless. It has games that don't work and make no sense, and the narrator has a strong British accent. That voice may work for Brits (if the app worked, which it doesn't), but we're from the States, so I don't want my kid speaking with a British accent. Nowhere in the summary or deeper descriptions of the app was it mentioned that the app was worthless and that the narrator had a British accent. I'd give it zero stars if I could.
Bad
My daughter struggled to use this app, the dragging to learn did not work. What a waste of $6
Wanted to like it
I bought this app to help reinforce my son’s phonics skills in reading. The app was helpful and made it fun. The downside of this app was how much subliminal messages he would see playing the app. There were so many false rainbows trying to normalize depravity that I deleted it. Be forewarned of the agenda be pushed through.
Not very happy
This app is so repetitive and doesn’t keep the kids entertained long enough to get any use out of learning to sound out letters and for an app the cost 9.00 you would think it would be more appealing to kids to keep them learning and enjoying more and more not a constant setting. Very unhappy with the purchase and app.
Bad
Bad
What is teach monster
It can be a little bit easy but you can always learn new things at teach monster🙂.
Theme
My son enjoyed it for short time, it didn’t help him progress to next level, and I definitely didn’t like the “rainbow “ that suggests the lqtb…community, and that the monster looked male but then was wearing a dress , that was confusing
Definitely will not use again and will not recommend this
Definitely will not use again and will not recommend this
I don’t get it
I’m so confused by the spaceship game. How does it teach letters? The flower pedal game at least makes sense, though I can’t say it’s a good way to introduce a letter to a 3 yo beginner. The approach taken by Endless Reader on level 1 makes more sense for beginners. I regret paying for this app.
This game is also a nightmare in a noisy environment like an airplane when you can’t hear all the instructions. There are no visual instructions at all for parents to help when my child is wearing headphones.
This game is also a nightmare in a noisy environment like an airplane when you can’t hear all the instructions. There are no visual instructions at all for parents to help when my child is wearing headphones.
Not for beginners
Don’t get this app for beginners to learn to read. This app is great for kids who already know all their letters and the sounds they make and want to review it. But if your kid doesn’t already know each letter and what they sound like, this app doesn’t teach them it. If they don’t know their letters and the sounds they make, it’s very hard.
Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
6%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)