App is great and fun for the kids when it works. Three stars bc most of the time it is very slow loading (turning on, switching activities, etc.) We are still using the app during the free trial but will be cancelling at the end due to how slow it is. Would give 5 stars if it was faster...
Reviews for HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids
← Back to HOMER: Fun Learning For KidsThis was a great app at first. The content was perfect for my kids but then the app stopped letting me log in. I uninstalled and reinstalled, I contacted customer support, I tried to change my password, and again contacted customer support. It has been months and I have had zero contact from them and cannot cancel the subscription nor can I access the app. I am highly dissatisfied and quite upset at this point.
Downloaded for my son (6) and daughter (3), and they are loving it! We really like how it progresses through learning and has multiple teaching activities to keep things from getting boring. Also love the art and narration - way more interactive and organic than other learning apps. I'm excited to see how quickly my 3yo can learn to read, she's been asking to play every night so far, and making good progress!
Don't purchase, too many glitches, not worth it. We have two other subscription services but my 2 year old loves homer, unfortunately the app goes black while it's still talking numerous times in a single session of playing and is frustrating for both of us. I would uninstall this if it were free, certainly not worth paying for with these glitches.
Never could get it to even work. App is perfectly fine up until the point you agree to the terms of the subscription to the fee, then suddenly it can't find your email, doesn't load or just can't locate your information even though you have a receipt from Google. The one positive is that you can easily unsubscribe from Google play apps and very easily delete the app. Never got to see the app actually work and couldn't even get it to the point my son could actually use it. Waste of my time.
I really wanted my 2 year old to try this . And when they said 30 days free trail I believed them. But like always they ask for a credit card number which tells me and shows me that these 30 days really are not free and so if after 30 days you decide it's not for you the odds will be they are going to charge you for something and then say it was in the fine print. Now , I did find another app called playgarden pen and it truly is 30 days free. It does not ask for any kind of card. Try it!!!
I cancelled my subscription almost immediately after signing up 2 months ago. I opened my paypal to see that I have been charged two months. I did sign up for the free trial but after playing around I’m the app the same hour, I cancelled it. I read other reviews stating this happened (continuing to be charged after cancelling) and just knew their was no way a company could get away with that. It’s fraud. THEN do not try locating a contact number. It does not exist!
We used this app awhile ago and was great. Signed up again and it crashes ALL the time. My kids wont even try it anymore because they are so frustrated. I uninstalled every other single app on their kindle fires to ensure enough memory. And still crashes. My subscription renews at the end of the year and I will be canceling it if the issue isnt resolved.
After we made our account it just keeps saying loading and switching between landscape mode back and forth over and over until it finally freezes. Doesn't matter how many times I force quit and restart wont get out of that stage I even uninstalled and reinstalled. Such a joke. I don't understand how it's so highly recommended when it doesn't even work!
The program does an excellent job of teaching children to read. Unfortunately, it frequently has errors that their IT seems to be unable to fix for weeks at a time. Technical support is never any help, just asks the same question, "What OS are you using?" which is always up to date. The issues always magically resolve themselves after several weeks.
The Homer app is very easy to navigate and all of my kids have loved using it. It has been a great resource as a learning aid and I haven't come across any weird content in it. When my kids aren't doing the parts that are focused on learning, the recreational activities (videos, drawing) keep them entertained as well. My oldest aged out of it at 8 at a time when the app had much less content. Currently my 6 and 3 year old enjoy it.
APP IS NOT WORKING. Glitches occasionally, and things do appear right, on the screen. My son and I have games not loading for us. We click on things over & over & certain games still don't load. Then for art, you can't erase the stickers... you can't delete them, you have to close out of the art game completely, and then go all the way back in just so you have a clean slate to do art work & drawing again. Very frustrating for my 3 year old with low patience tolerance. 💔 PLEASE FIX!
Probably a great app but the advertisement is misleading. You have to purchase the app to use it. It seems like a free app as it allows you to download and create an account for free, but then you hit the paywall before you get to any content. By pay wall, I mean "free trial" which will charge you after. I know myself and my child, taking away apps is difficult and I don't like to pay for apps because I'm a poor millennial 😅 I'm sure it's probably a great app, but it isn't free.
I signed up for the trial offer. My kid loves Homer so far, but there are technical issues. Most games have been functioning, but a handful or so wont load and eventually takes us back to the home screen. I'm at a crossroad. I want to keep the subscription for my kid, but am nervous these glitches will not be fixed and may potentially get worse. Leaning more towards ending subscription near the end of the free trial.
Gets stuck on the paint level every time. I feel bad leaving two stars for a trial of this program, which has clearly had a lot of thought and effort into it, but like many reviews i see on here, it just gets stuck on the paint level and stops progressing. I found a work around by logging in the website and turning off the track restriction for one level and turning it back on after that, but there's a lot of steps to be had. Any time you need to do something, you have to put your birthday in.
I can't get it to go past the letter A. We are stuck on the short video about CAKE! my kids have watched it so many times but it won't give them the blue ribbon and let us move on. Id really like to get this fixed so they can keep using this app. We are in the trial period of a 1 month subscription...going to cancel if not promptly resolved:( Updating my review...after reinstalling the app it finally let us move on. My kids love this app. I love the learning parts but not all the songs etc.
Best content of any kids learning game that I have downloaded by far. That being said, the game freezes up every two minutes. If you close out and re-open the game it works just fine for a couple minutes and then freezes up again. This would be fine, but progress within each lesson is lost making it frustrating for my son to have to repeat half of each lesson. I uninstalled after about an hour of dealing with this .
There needs to be a confirmation prompt when hitting the back arrow in the upper left hand corner during a lesson. My son constantly bumps it unintentionally in the middle of a lesson and it goes back to the map losing his progress and making him start over. Not worth the money. At least if no prompt then save the spot in the lesson instead of forcing the user to restart the entire thing.
Love the app and how easy it is to use and navigate. The only problem I come across at least 1 time every time I use the app is that something always freezes and I have to close out completely and choose a different game or activity. The app will just stay stuck on loading and nothing ever loads. Maybe in the next update they can fix that issue.
I downloaded this like 5 seconds ago and I already have a complaint. I can't even make it past the loading screen. And why isn't this advertised as something you have to pay for, with the price next to it, like every other company that doesn't wish to trick its consumers? Because, it's NOT FREE. Tons of negitive comments, but I just wanted to try for myself. Cool idea, horribly executed. Should be free. Not even worth the download and delete. NO STARS!