Thu Aug 04 2022
This update includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
Endless Alphabet is essentially a masterclass in how to make educational software for children. It completely removes the stress of 'winning' or 'losing,' replacing it with pure, tactile joy. The quirky monster animations are Pixar-quality, and the way the letters 'talk' as you drag them is a brilliant phonetic reinforcement.
What makes it an expert-level tool is the vocabulary. It doesn't stick to 'cat' and 'hat'; it teaches words like 'gargantuan' and 'cooperate,' explaining them through hilarious animations that kids actually remember. It’s an essential app for any parent looking to build a child’s literacy foundation while keeping them thoroughly entertained. It's polished, funny, and immensely educational.
Over 100 words to explore and learn
Interactive talking letters
Delightful monster animations
No high scores, failures, or stress
Designed for independent play
Select a word and watch the monsters scramble the letters. Drag each letter back to its silhouette. As you drag them, the letters make their unique phonetic sound.
After correctly spelling a word like 'Hilarious' or 'Tidy,' a short, funny animation plays showing the monsters acting out the word's meaning.
The app includes a large set of words, and additional word packs have been added over time to expand the vocabulary.
I know I’m not supposed to write this review on this app and I was supposed to write it on either endless reader or endless numbers but that’s OK. Anyways, I forgot about the ability to restore purchases after purchasing Endless Reader and Endless Numbers. I’ve owned these apps before, but when I deleted them all of my word packs were gone and number packs. If I would’ve re-download them again, I would have to restore my purchases further down the road, since most of my words and numbers are missing. Took a long time for me to notice but thanks. Shortly after I’m done writing this review, I’ll download Endless Reader an Endless 123 (as well as endless alphabet) on my iPad so I can enjoy.
My 2.5yr old is recognizing letters when out and about, saying their names and the sound they make. That is entirely thanks to this brilliant game. The letters are stylized as wacky monsters that speak their sounds as you drag them into place. Then the friendly narrator speaks the letter’s name. When playing, I added a rule that my kid has to say the name of the letter every time, to reinforce the learning. After he spells the entire word, he’s treated with a delightful animation. There are tons of words! I really can’t say enough good things about this app. I’ve researched and downloaded all the top rated learning apps. Some are really good. This one is by far the best. Thanks for making it. I can’t wait to check out your other apps!
My 22m old loves playing this game. He can complete 2-3 words before getting bored which is impressive given his age. He also likes that this gives him screen time that is interactive. Expensive, but great game. Developers: the “home” button is easy to hit when moving letters around - especially if playing on a phone rather than iPad. It would be great for a confirmation message to pop up, make the button smaller, and move it closer to the corner to reduce chance of error.
My 18 month old son loves this app! He obviously doesn’t know the fun squiggly shapes are letters making words, but it’s a fun way for him to learn shape recognition. And when he is ready to start reading, this will give him a foundation to build on. And I feel like I can let him “play” on the iPad without feeling too guilty. A few suggestions I have: 1) The repetitive background music does wear on a parent’s ears after a while; mixing it up or having a variety would be a relief. 2) Is there a way we could create our own words? It would be nice to have personal words available for him to learn, like his own name, “Mommy” and “Daddy”, his street and town, etc. 3) Different difficulty levels. While his spacial recognition is able to figure out where all the letters in “gargantuan” go, he’s barely saying more than 10 words, let alone able to understand a third grade vocabulary word. Love that difficult words are included, but could there be levels of words, like “dog” and “cat” for preschoolers, and work up to “hilarious” and “lopsided” once they’re ready? Thank you for making these apps!!
My kids are teens now but we found old videos of them playing this when they were preschoolers so I wanted to leave a review just for the historical records I guess. Everything about the app was so amazingly put together and taught my kids so well - who by the way are top of their class in school now; I like to pretend it’s because of stellar parenting but honestly a lot of their academic success could maybe be traced to their early learning through endless alphabet!
I love love love this app as a first learning app. It only does letter puzzles so it’s not too complicated/requires constant parent help. My only 2 change requests would be that they make a version for lowercase only. (Almost all reading is lowercase letters, not uppercase. Look at this review lol.) Second change request would be to be able to sort the words by number of letters to start my child with the shorter puzzles first. The 9+ letter words can be a little too much and my child moves on to something else.
I love these apps. I had one I paid for by the same company for the alphabet that was fantastic. They no longer support it so I bought this one. Not an equal trade. Kids learning the alphabet are not the same kids that need to learn super long words. For 8.99 The creators need to make options for you to tailor to your child’s age. To be able to only have the alphabet and not only words since it is called Endless Alphabet. And for the love of Pete to be able to use lower case letters. Kids need practice on lower case way more than uppercase letters. As a preschool teacher I’m pretty disappointed by the missed opportunities for this app for the price.
This app could be soooo amazing and I would even pay a little more for it if they would just update it a bit. First off, the letter sounds aren’t totally accurate like the letter F for example sounding like “Fah” instead of just an F. Second, I like with the Spanish Alphabet app they have how you can set it so the letters have to be placed in order. On this app there’s no setting adjustments. Third, they could really make it possible to tailor this to your child’s age and it could be very educational instead of just a fun app I let my daughter play with every now and then. Definitely not a positive teaching tool but I would say it’s a fun teaching enforcer to an extent.