“SCAM — The absolute worst. I downloaded it because it was advertised as free. Once downloaded, you open it and it asks for your e-mail and if you are a parent or teacher... and that apparently is when I agreed to a monthly subscription…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 656 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
Kids Academy Learning Games
Kids Academy Co apps: Preschool & Kindergarten Learning Kids Games, Educational Books, Free SongsPre-K-3 Kindergarten Preschool
4.3 ★6,463 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
156 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Prepare your kid for success during the whole school year with our complete learning course for AGES 2 to 10. 5,000+ activities: GAMES, VIDEOS, WORKSHEETS & QUIZZES
COPPA and FERPA compliant, 100% safe with parental control and no ads.
---------Recommended by The Guardian---------
Over 25,000,000 kids around the world learn with Kids Academy apps!
Talented and Gifted learning academy was created to help identify and nurture the talents of every child from the earliest stage! Hone writing and reading skills, develop a mindset for math, sharpen visual perception and hand-eye coordination - all through engaging gameplay!
PLENTY OF LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Over 5,000+ educational games, videos, and printables developed by experts in early education:…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.2.23 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.2.23, updated 2025-06-13.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Raised by 30 distinct reviewers — 4.6% of the 656 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.1% of 656 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 656 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 656 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“They tell you it costs money after you sign up and then make it very difficult to cancel — They tell you it costs money after you sign up and then make it very difficult to cancel”
“Won’t allow me to cancel subscriptions — My daughter is Pre-k and doesn’t use this app, but there’s no way to cancel as it does t show up in my subscriptions.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.2.23.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.