Phonics Studio Negative Reviews

Phonics Studio App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Phonics Studio app received 20 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Phonics Studio? Can you share your negative thoughts about phonics studio?

Phonics Studio for Negative User Reviews

✓ Great App!I downloaded this App for my three year old who is finding it hard to speak. We really enjoy trying to say the words whilst using this App! I really like being able to record our voices trying to say the words and the favourite word button is a great idea too! Many Thanks.BjzoeVersion: 1.0

✓ Not for articulation therapy!So many errors from a SLP point of view. Categorized by graphemes, not phonemes, so it's a mixed mess of two or more phonemes in some groups. Even the placements for final, initial, or clusters are often incorrect. I could not use this with confidence if this is meant to use in articulation therapy, so what is the point? I am intrigued by the idea of creating my own categories, I have not seen that feature in another artic app. Two stars for that, but I wouldn't pay a dime as is, fix the organization, and you'd have a good app!.BeanieslpVersion: 1.0

✓ Where’s the H ?Is there a reason the app is missing the letter H?.JNA2014Version: 2.0

✓ Good but concernsThis app does not seem to have been created by someone with a high degree of knowledge of sounds. Simple for parent/teacher letter use but not well organized for sounds in speech therapy. Record feature and emailability are pluses. Word choices are strange, e.g. "Lentils" for letter L. Curious where app developer is from that influenced word choices..None68467Version: 1.0

✓ Great pictures and ideaThe clarity of the photos are amazing. The ease of use and customizing is excellent? A speech language pathologist needs to be consulted in the word selection within a sound. If each group of words were arranged correctly this app would be an excellent partner for students receiving speech therapy. Looking forward to the update!.SLP 50Version: 1.0

✓ InstructionsNo directions at all???.RabbithashVersion: 2.0

✓ Many errorsThis app organises the pictures by letter. However, many of the pictures do not contain that sound. • Final g – includes the card of ‘sausage’ (pronounced with a final ‘j’) • Blends – there are many words which they cite to include blends that don’t. There are too many to include but this is a sample o eg broth, nature, author, hatch, illustration and thief are included as ‘t’ blends • Final 'a' - the example is soda. This is pronounced as an 'u', not an 'a' sound. Such a shame, because the pictures are beautiful. Parents need to be aware that this is teaching Phonics incorrectly..Bronwyn Sutton Speech PathVersion: 1.0

✓ Not that attractiveFor children, this app is not that attractive to be honest. Also missing british..DavisLarry7Version: 1.0

✓ Speechie79The pictures in this app are good, although some are too advanced for primary school children. This app is not arranged by sound, but by letters, which is very annoying for speech pathologists. One example is words ending with 'tion' are grouped into the t blends, even though it contains a /sh/ sound. It makes it hard when mums are using apps like this at home with their children with speech disorders and delays. They can target the wrong sounds, despite trying to do the right thing. Maybe some input by a speech pathologist would be helpful so this app can reach its full potential..SambolitaVersion: 1.0

✓ Awful!I am a school-based SLP and was very dismayed with this app! Obviously no thought was put into selecting target words for the phonemes. For example, for /s/ - in the initial position only 13 of the 20 words had initial /s/. The other words had initial /s/ clusters or "sh". Of the correct words, the vocabulary was unusual. Not many students would know ' sandbar' or 'sawdust'. I'm deleting this app!.SLP-NVVersion: 1.0

✓ Fairly good appLike the record and play back functions and ability to keep data on individual students. As stated by others, I am disappointed that sounds are organized by letter and not by speech sound. Also agree that some choices for vocabulary are little advanced for most of the kiddos that would be working on these sounds. Needs a little work, but on the right track..LP SLPVersion: 1.0

✓ Where's the H??My son's name starts with H and he is pretty disappointed there isnt one on the app..LollygalVersion: 1.0

✓ Inconsistent, not true to phonemesI'm an SLP and just looking at the medial /p/ position they included the words "telephone", "dolphin" and "trophy". If you're working on medial /p/ these should NOT be included, they are /f/ sounds! Come on, how basic is that? Also, they have a section for blends in which they include /pt/ but these same words are in the "core" medial /p/ section. If you customize and take them out, you're left with precious few words, and some, although we like to increase vocabulary, are quite obscure such as "tapir". If you're going to break it down to positions, please be consistent to the "core" position. It's hard enough to get some kids to produce the phoneme around vowels, don't make them do it in a blend in the core section! Please fix or I will have to delete..Speech mom1Version: 1.0

✓ A good startI could see how this could be confusing to parents, especially those without a child in speech therapy. This is an articulation app for speech language pathologists (SLPs) to target sounds in therapy. The app has decent number of pictures to practice. The main issue is one another reviewer already mentioned is that speech therapy is governed by the phonetic alphabet not the traditional ABCs. The developers just need to look at other articulation apps to understand what sounds to address and how to categorize them. For free though, this will work in a pinch..Kgk32Version: 1.0

✓ Awful interfaceMy 2 year old loves these apps and I give them very high ratings for that. This one doesn't even make sense and I'm 39! What are you supposed to do after you record your voice and repeat the word? The app isn't actually interpreting what you said and seeing if you said it correctly, it just records what you said and plays it back. Once you record you can't listen to the original pronunciation anymore and the X and check mark symbols just give you a score based on what button you pressed, not the answer. Disappointing..Volbeat4TheMassesVersion: 1.0

✓ Not designed by an SLPThis app has great potential. However, the sounds are organized by alphabet and not by proper phonemes. Choosing /t/ gives words that include /sh/ sounds, /tch/ sounds, etc. which is not useful for an SLP! Please hire a knowledgeable SLP to help you reorganize the sounds phonetically rather than how they are spelled! I cannot use this app the way it is now...please fix!.VashongalVersion: 1.0

✓ Very beautifulVery simple beautiful design, with wonderful pictures. As an SLP it's a great little app. But it goes by spelling not sounds- so not all words in lists actually use the sound of the letter it's representing. Also we must have a different definition for what is considered a blend as not all of the blends are appropriate..MitchrichieVersion: 1.0

✓ Not perfect but good valueI’m a parent of a toddler with a speech delay. I wanted to work with him at home with similar apps the SLP uses at school but they are crazy expensive. This is great for our needs. My only complaint is that it’s clear this app is super old and has no support team left. There are a lot of technical problems with the customization that are frustrating. Despite that it’s worth the price..AwesomesarzVersion: 2.0

✓ UsefulI agree with the other comments re being grouped by letter instead of sound,as this means it requires more prep than desirable and therefore more of a challenge to suggest for parents to purchase..HippoluluVersion: 1.0

✓ OkNot something as a speech pathologist I could recommend to parents as pictures are grouped by letter not sound. For example final g had flag/frog/sausage. Frustrating but it is a free app after all. I would use this in sessions or with my own children and skip those words that did not have my target sound..Speechie ksVersion: 1.0

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