Alphablocks: Letter Fun 4+

Half the alphabet

I’ve downloaded this for my daughter who has just started school. Only letters A-L work. I’ve even done all the games for A-L in case that in some way unlocked M-Z but that didn’t work. This is very annoying because my daughter has learnt S and A at school this week and it would be good to practice the letters as she learns them!

Edit: I’ve just rebooted the app and that solved the problem. I wish I’d done that before spending half an hour playing every letter!!

Developers listened and I’m happy my kid will learn more!

Edit: updated from 4 to 5 stars after the proactive work of devs on resolving unexpected way kids behave!

Our school recommended this app and the quality of the app is worth the money easily.

However there’s a couple of things which I would love to get a response from the devs about.

1. the painting game has already been mentioned as it’s not very articulate due to the chain of sounds it produces. But we have an answer from the devs about that.

2. If there was a competition to find out which kid pronounced the letter “a” best, my kid won win.

You see the problem is when the games starts, it starts with the letter “a” my son will just play the games associated with that over and over again. He won’t move to “b”.

There needs to be some kind of voice prompt or even “disable” feature which forces a child to move to the next letter. I can’t remember my son ever willing moving beyond the letter “a”. I think “c” is the furthest he’s gone. I’ve tried to explain to him but to no avail.

Please find a solution!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback. We have made an update that we think you will like.

The game now moves automatically to the next Alphablock when they have finished the current Alphablocks games so hopefully, your son will now be able to get past "c" :)

We have also included an option to disable the Painting Sounds which I'm sure you will be happy about.

Thanks!

Solid but basic

My son loves Alphablocks and really enjoys this app, and he’s young enough (two) to not mind the repetition of the mini games. However it’s a much more basic reading level than the TV show. It focuses just on the letter sounds and there’s no progression in difficulty to give kids practice at combining those sounds into words.

It’s also a shame that you have to pick between either letter sounds or their names, instead of incorporating both, something the show is very clear in differentiating.

There’s also an annoying bug that if you tap the bottom right corner the ad for Numberblocks comes up, as it would on the home screen. My son has got used to dismissing it now but it disrupts things a lot when one of the bubbles he needs to pop is in that area.