I don’t even know where to start! I am so impressed by this FREE app! Searched on google for the best “free” or “ONE-TIME purchase” apps for small toddlers and Khans Academy made every Links Top-List! For a free app it’s amazing! They work on everything imaginable! They ask you questions in the beginning to help accommodate the age level in which will be playing on their app (it also has MULTIPLE kid account option incase you have multiple children, which is even better!) so I made an account for my 2 year old and my 3.5 year old… so far I have watched my 3.5 year old work on phonics matching, letter writing and also number counting as well as number searching/association! The cartoon graphics are SO IMPRESSIVE! the team that put this app together really put A LOT of thought 💭 & heart ♥️ into it and let me tell ya: it really shows! It keeps the attention span going! Every few games they will throw in a Super Simple Song/Video! So far I truly love everything about this app! They find themselves on the #1 slot to all these websites for “Top Recommendations FOR A REASON! I thought I found a gold mine when I found “Monkey Preschool Lunchbox” (that I had to pay a one-time VERY SMALL payment) I’m just so blown away that something so amazing (Khan Academy) was FREE! Thanks for listening to my Ted Talk! 😆

I have used this app for years with all 3 of my kids. They all love collecting the prizes and exploring the library on there. It is EXCEPTIONAL quality and I am so grateful they keep this resource completely free. I have tried subscription based education programs similar to this. My kids liked Khan Academy better. It’s more engaging, has the same content quality and it is super cute too. You know how some of the educational stuff for young kids out there is just kinda.. cringy? Makes you scrunch up your face and you can’t look away?? Khan isn’t. That’s a nice bonus.. I added my youngest on there probably around 18 months. His older siblings got screens, he wasn’t going to tolerate being left out. So might as well make it something productive, right? I was curious to see how it would make activities interactive for such a young age group. The lowest age group, I think, is designed for 2 years old. It was definitely just blindly poking every option on the screen at first, but now that he’s nearly 2 he can definitely get through the activities by himself much easier. My oldest doesn’t really use it anymore, but I credit this app for helping him learn to read. When he entered kindergarten, he was evaluated and found to be, at least, 2nd grade reading level. Thank you for creating this wonderful resource, Khan Academy. I am truly grateful.

Having learned a lot from Kahn Academy over the years, I was excited to learn of Kahn Academy for Kids. The positive points are that the interface is adorable and clearly a lot of effort went into the UI development. However, I wish they had spent as much time planning out the learning as they did the UI. This is not a platform that you would use to TEACH a child skills. This is a platform you would instead use to quiz a child on skills they already learned elsewhere. For example, in an actual snapshot of seconds they show a bunch of animals lined up for ice cream and say, very quickly, “This one is first, this one is second, this one is third, and this one is fourth. Which one is third?” If a child had never before been introduced to the concept of sequencing, then that is definitely not enough of an introduction for the child to answer that question correctly. Lots of tears will be witnessed. Also, I feel there a better job could have been done of assessing a child’s skills at the start. The only thing they ask is age and then they put your child in the “grade” that a typically developing child would be at that age. Not all children are typical, and those of us without typically developing children are looking for extra tools to help us along the way.