Hippo Magic 4+

Cute Idea, Instructions Need to Be Better

I had to come to the reviews to see if anyone could explain why the sound wasn’t working (I had to turn the ringer on). Having that in the instructions would’ve saved me a lot of aggravation, trying to figure it out on my own. Once I got it working, it was pretty cool. My son enjoyed it!

Fixed Review! Love these books!

This is the coolest thing! I got the app, scanned the cover and bam Goldilocks and The Velveteen Rabbit pop out of the cover...THEN they tell me to open the book and keep going on the adventure and nothing else happens. I hold the phone over the marked augmented pages and nothing happens (full page in view). I click the camera and video icons and it just saves videos and pictures of the flat hook page to my media. I can’t get the rest of the AR pages to work. Really disappointed. I would’ve bought many more of these books if it had worked.

Two days after my first review, the developers answered below and the app updated. Now ALL of my books work! It took some trial and error to get started, but now all pages work when I flip them. This is the coolest and cutest thing I’ve seen. I can’t wait until my baby is old enough to read and interact with the books. Until the , mommy thinks they’re just awesome, and we will read the stories to my baby or look as the cool characters come to life. Thanks for the fast response and fix on the app! (We now own 4 of these books, and will be looking for others to make a complete set).

Developer Response ,

Hi!
Now the application works properly! Thank you so much for your patience!
If everything is OK we will be happy to see more stars :) Thank you!

Great idea but poor execution

This is a great app with a lot of potential. My 2 year old daughter loves it when it works. We have “Let’s Learn Counting”.
First off, the app doesn’t always recognize the correct book. When it does, then another problem occurs. After I scan the cover and the next scannable page, it often still plays the cover animation while trying to play the new animation. This happens most with the number 4.
Another problem that I’ve often experienced is when using the pages with the bigger numbers and more things to find. It’s rarely recognizes the finger taps when looking at the off the screen view.
I am using a fully updated iPhone 11.
I hope these issues can be fixed, because this app has great potential to be awesome!