Are we ok?

$500 a month? Are we ok? Did you invent reading?

Kid loves it

Only 3 days in, but my kid loves this app. My kid can spend 15-30 on this before he gets gassed out. Also I feel like the parent is required to be present, it’s not something you just hand to your kid on a long drive. Really looking forward to seeing where he is at in his reading journey in a few months of using this app.

Well done

Highly recommend this app. We used the app for exactly 6 months. Started when my daughter was 5.25 years old. I had to sit with my daughter and make her see the value of practice and repetition while helping her stay focused on the app for 10 mins everyday. I will say parental involvement in the beg is required. Else I don’t see this working. Patiently watching was hard but it surprised me when I saw her struggle and helped me appreciate when and how she needed support. Once she learnt to persist, the app worked like magic!!! She fast tracked as soon as she got the hang of the phonetics and within 6 months moved on to advanced reading. Thank you Mentava! You’ve a valuable app here.

Pretty buggy

Duplicate review

Wouldn’t Use it, even if Free

My 4.5 year old loves iPad games and has experience with educational reading games like Homer and reading.com. So when I heard about Mentava, an app whose outrageous price meant it was going to be great, I was excited for us. Unfortunately, the app is low quality. My child pushes back when I offer to load it for her, saying it’s “too boring” - a statement I’ve never heard her utter about an app of any kind. And it is boring - the games are too repetitive, the graphics are poor, there aren’t interesting game mechanics to keep her excited, and nothing to warrant paying close to the price they’re asking. If the app were free I’d give it 2-3 stars since it is better than nothing, but I can’t in good conscious recommend anyone in any condition, even with unlimited funds, use this app given what else is out there. I wish I could attribute the above to poor execution of a great idea and I could just “wait until the next version”. This is just poor execution of an unoriginal idea.