SUPER WHY Alpha Boost! App Reviews

Only 5 words!

The 5 and 3 yr olds both love it... So theyre also learning to take turns!

I cant imagine this game holding either of my preschoolers interest for more than one or two turns. All you do is choose a character and then collect letters and balloons as the character flies up in the air for 30 seconds or so. It doesnt matter if you miss any letters because they keep reappearing, and it doesnt count how many balloons you gather. (So basically you figure out pretty quickly that no matter what you do or dont do in the game, the same thing will happen. Boring.) In the end, the letters spell a word, but they arent even words that are worth learning (like sight words) or even words that teach phonetics. Top example: karaoke. Why would a preschooler want to have that word as their big discovery? Thumbs down. Graphically very attractive-- it does look like you are moving characters from the show-- but the content is just dull.

My son loves the original Super Why! Game, but this one not so much. There is not a whole lot to do, it gets boring pretty quickly, and because he doesnt have to do anything to get the correct letters I dont feel it is very educational either. It is pretty though.

I thought this would be an educational app with word building activities. It is... but is not engaging at all. It is very monotonous. I bought it before there were any reviews. You have a review now... Do not buy. Not worth it. The free app...Spelling with Cimo is much better.

Its simple enough that very young kids can figure it out. They dont have to know the alphabet to play and they can learn letter names. Audio is good quality.

Was babysitting my 3 year old niece and ended up getting this. It took her a while to hold my phone right but we had a lot of fun screaming out letters and guessing things. Too bad she couldn’t keep my phone.

Easy to play + fun + alphabet + words + appealing graphics = AWESOME

After multiple reinstalls I have given up on this app. It immediately crashes after start up. They have not responded to my problem report. This version of this app will rob you of $2.

Could be paced a little bit faster. Kids have short attention spans.

Pretty limited game play, repetitive kept my childs interest for 5 minutes then she back to other aps, not normally disinterested in stuff so quickly

Freaked me out, in a good way, when my almost 4 year old read beach. Good sight words. Good kinesthetic learning.

This is a very disappointing game. My son had just been playing a wonderful Super Why game on pbskids.org, and this looked similar. It is not even close. All you do is tip the phone back and forth. There is no interaction with the letters other than running into them as you fly. In the time I have taken to write this, he has already lost interest. 2 stars for cuteness; thats about all it has going for it.

This program is awful. There is no letter or word learning aspect at all. The child tilts the ipad, rolls a character over some balloons, and occasionally a letter which then goes off to the side. When there is a random word created, the word announces itself but its nothing that would encourage a child to read. This is a throwback to the earliest days of apps in being completely simplistic, poorly designed, and not worth its price. Extremely disappointing.

This is waste of time, no sound, and nothing that would keep my child interested....Wouldnt give it a star but cant submit without.

My son loves this app, but most of all loves super why in general ! its a great observation skills app for kids

I thought this was the same app that is used at preschool on the I-pads. It is not! It is not worth $2. I wish I had not bought this app, my 3 year was bored in 3 minutes. There is no phonetics. The only participation for the player is tilting the phone. If you are looking for something to teach your child to tilt your phone down and up, then this is great. Boooo :(

To complicated for the little ones, and Im afraid of them dropping the I pad shaking to compete the game. Dont like

You, as an adult, will not feel like this is worth the $1.99 you paid for it. But remember, it is for your 4-year-old. There is only one game: collecting letters as you fly through the sky. You can play as any of the four main characters. There is a single mode of interaction (tilting the device to steer left and right) that might leave some children bored after a few minutes. That also means that your child has to be holding the phone/iPad and moving it around which will probably make a lot of people nervous. The replay value is limited since it very repetitive—which is, albeit, good for learning—and the only novelty with each play is that you are collecting letters for a different word. On the plus side, the graphics and sound quality are top notch. And if your child is at just the right stage of physical coordination, ability to pay attention and interest in reading, then they will have fun with it.

Huge super why fan, however this app is less than sufficient. No sound, cannot seem to trouble shoot, and requires only motor skills to operate. Hopefully the sound being fixed will prove otherwise. Please fix or issue a refund.