Phonics Genius App Reviews

My 5 y.o little girl is struggling in kindergarten because Portuguese is my first language and it is very hard for me to make her believe in my English . I bought a letter factory from Leap Frog to help "us" practice the phonics and it did helped a lot, but my little one is having a hard time putting them together. When I downloaded this app I read all the reviews and decided to give a shot. Im very surprised on how it is divided in groups of sounds and the first group we worked was the magic e (made), Chloe got the hang of it after the fifth word and she IS reading the words in that group. The only thing I didnt like is that the audio doesnt give the child the chance to try by herself first because it says the word as soon as she clicks on it. I fixed that by putting my phone on mute and she can change that when she is done trying to ready, so its only to check if she ready correctly. Besides that I really liked the app :)

I like this app except for one thing. The words arent completely on the screen. There are some words I cant even see at times

I checked out the game section where it will say a word then have the child pick the word out of 6 words, half the time the word was not even there, making a right choice impossible. Definitely not designed by a phonics genius. Otherwise it can be a valuable app for the other sections.

I have an older child who struggles with reading & spelling. This app is great practice & confidence booster!!

Highly customizable can delete combine add along the way very easy to use

I cant wait to use this app with my students. I could not get the recording feature to work though. Perfect for practicing phonemes!

Using this with adult literacy students. Its especially helpful with students learning English pronunciation and vocabulary.

I downloaded this for my dyslexic son to help him read. Yes, there is a an enormous list of words but aside from listening to a voice read word after word, what else are we supposed to do? There is a record button but nothing ever happens. What is the point of recording if you cant play it back. And yes, I enabled the microphone. Everyone says this is awesome but I think it is monumentally boring. How is this helping my child to read? There is nothing engaging or interactive about this. I can only surmise that I am missing a key component here but have been unable to locate instructions anywhere on the Internet or within the app other than to change fonts and colors, whoopdedoo. There must be something more here, hoping someone from alligator contacts me or this is being deleted.

Just downloaded the app and so far I like what I see.