HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids

The only thing I would like

Man, this hurts to write. Subscriber for 6 years or so. Was such a GREAT app to have my first son learn READING and WRITING. This has become buried in so much other fluff and games (yes, some DEFINITELY have purpose in teaching coordination skills or pattern recognition) that the balance skews FAR away from being a focused app on reading and writing. While it (eventually, with GREAT amounts of supervision and “let’s move to the next step instead”) allowed my second son to learn letters and SOME sounds, I’ve basically given up on Homer and got my second son watching old Electric Company. I am SO, SO thankful for what Homer have my first son. But I am SO, SO disappointed in what it is no longer possible to achieve in any pre-planned pathway that I can ever hope to walk away from as a parent and trust that my son will be guided and self-guided through. It’s almost like the reading and writing has been supplanted on even the home selection screen by all the other fluff that has been built in. If I could even lock him into an “old-school” READING AND WRITING-FOCUSED pathway — ideally with only me able to allow him out of without relying on built-in iOS protections (won’t currently help), then I would reconsider. But I can imagine that in its current form, it would be difficult to quickly implement this in the App in any meaningful, quickly-trusted (by me) way. I’m going to have to cancel my subscription. It’s too much money for what remains for him to to learn, and I can’t even use it in its current form without me having sit there WITH him 90% of the time to hand-select individual lessons based upon what I know about what he needs next. That is definitely one way to go about this, and as someone who will do my best to be a responsible parent, will probably be what I end up doing to help him grow and use to accomplish what the App used to claim to accomplish. But I know what this app used to be capable of, and what I wanted to trust it to help me with now with my second son. And it’s just not capable of providing him and us a pathway by which I can trust him to sit with the App even 50% of the time to learn what it is what I want for him to gain in life so he can read and write and start to operate more independently for his age in ways that require him to read and write in his expanding world. So disappointed it went this way. Would be miffed at all the wasted money the last 2-3 years, except for the fact that it was SO HUGE in the development of my first son — and I kept hoping it would come around and offer the same (AGAIN) for my second son. Oh well. A real shame. The older reviews are accurate — it used to be GREAT. Teachers and parent used to rave about it. But it is no longer this. Even just providing a pathway that allows me to bypass all the (to me) distracting stuff that doesn’t accomplish reading and writing would be a solution. But that solution in the current and last few years of updates doesn’t exist. Am forced to unsubscribe.

I’ve had the Homer app for awhile and I’ve never been able to have my son get on because it keeps telling me reset my password and yet o get no emails. I emailed support and have yet to hear from anyone. So I finally took off this app back in September. I happened to look at my Bank statements over the months and see they have been charging me 9.99 twice a month since September. I reached out to support and they said Apple has to help me. Apple tells me it’s Homer who does. Jefferson from Homer was not helpful. I want a refund for the past three months and I asked to speak to someone above Jefferson and to no avail.

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so I gave this to my son and then he started learning curse words by the way he’s 4 so when I went to check his iPad for this app, he was learning curse words from the app I don’t know why I don’t know how but I think there’s a glitch. This is not a glitch. I hate this app.

My son is 3 and loves the games/activities but he does not like the music section. He loves the actual songs like BINGO and such but the ones in the app are overboard. I am not trying to be rude but they tried too hard on the singing and sounds like a choir audition instead of for kids. Wish they just had one voice singing and sang it normal. He loves kids songs so that is a major drawback.

You cant go past 2012. Why. What if my child needs this and was born in 2000 or something? It’s a good app overall, but why this year limit?

I think this going t be a good game🙂

My son is learning so much and has so much fun using this app!

The app is not cheap and 99.9% of the time I need to use it, to distract my child for a few minutes, the login and “restore purchases” (why do I have to do this every time on an app for a child?) NEVER WORKS. It ends in my child crying and me incredibly frustrated.