Endless Alphabet reviews
What users love and hate · 500 reviews analyzed · ★ 4.3
A lovingly crafted alphabet-learning app for toddlers with charming monsters and letter sounds that parents adore — but a one-time purchase that keeps breaking turns that delight into resentment.
What users love
Teaches not just letters but words, sounds and their meaning
The app's core strength: two- and three-year-olds pick up letters, phonics and the meanings of new words — parents repeatedly report a sharp jump in letter recognition and reading within a week or two.
My 3 year old loves it and was recognizing letters and sounds after only 1 week!
My daughter just turning 2 yet she can read any random alphabets everywhere she goes because of this game.
My child is expanding her vocabulary and learning not just letters but sounds that letters make as well.
Charming monsters, sounds and animations hold a toddler's attention
Silly letter sounds, adorable monsters and funny cartoons after each word turn learning into play — parents laugh along with their kids, and the reward animation eases frustration with longer words.
The sound effects and animation are cute, funny, and engaging. I recommend it to folks all the time!
The animations for each letter help keep down his frustration with the longer words and the sounds of each letter have helped him pronounce them too!
Charming animations, good word selection.
Powerful nostalgia: those who grew up on it return with their own kids
A rare emotional bond: teens and adults who played as kids rediscover the app 10+ years later — now for their own children, nieces and grandkids. It's an unusually long-lived loyalty.
aaah!! this is my childhood game!! I used to be so little when I played this game and I still love it!!
I used to play this when I was younger, just found it again years later and unlocked some nostalgia I forgot about.
It brings me through my childhood and my child loves it
A favorite tool for teachers and parents of special-needs kids
Early-childhood teachers and educators recommend it to their families, and parents of autistic children note it makes learning letters and speech accessible and non-frustrating.
I have been an early childhood teacher for 24 years. And this is my all time favorite educational game.
Great app, my autistic child loves it. Dev team responsive and helpful when I had an error that I couldn't figure out.
This is a fantastic app for my Autistic kid to learn the alphabet.
What users hate
Paid content re-locks itself days after purchase
The single biggest and most painful complaint: people buy the full version, play for a few days, and then the letters lock again as if no purchase happened. It effectively turns a one-time payment into something that simply stops working.
I bought the game to unlock all the content but then after a few days it's locked again. basically a scam. so disappointing
i paid for it.. but after 3 days, the other tabs are not accessible again.
Really loved it until one day all the words we had purchased disappeared and it wanted us to purchase again
No purchase restore — you pay again on every device
There's no restore-purchase button: switch phones, reinstall, or add a second child, and the app demands you buy everything over again. Parents end up paying for the same content multiple times.
Please Put a Restore button so then get full content with restore
stopped recognizing my purchase on all devices after a week. and support is nowhere to be found.
But it keeps losing access to the full version, I must have paid for this 6 times now and its become a bit of a joke.
Only A–C are free, the rest sits behind a paywall
Only the first three letters are unlocked for free; everything else is one paid unlock at ~8.99. Parents resent that the child gets hooked on the opening letters and then hits a wall and melts down.
they can only access the first 3 letters before tantrum
You only get 3 letters and they want a ridiculous $8.99 to unlock the rest
Why offer a free app with only 3 letters of the alphabet and then get a child hooked and charge so much for the rest?
Purchase doesn't share across Google Family or tablet profiles
The paid version is tied to one account: it doesn't transfer to kids via Google Family Library, and you can't add it to a second profile on a shared tablet. Each child and parent has to buy their own copy.
if you use Google Family be aware that the parent purchase does NOT transfer to the kids. It makes you purchase per child.
I've paid for this app but I can't add this paid version to my son's user account on the same tablet.
it is intelligible for Google family library which means I bought a copy, dad has to buy a copy, and we have to buy a copy for her tablet
Words aren't sorted by age — a jumble for three-year-olds
There's no difficulty filter: a three-year-old gets words like ARTISTIC and CONTRAPTION mixed in with simple ones. Parents ask for age-based sorting and a mode that forces letters in order for phonics.
A 3 year would be better off learning easier words like CAR, CAT and DOG instead of ARTISTIC and CONTRAPTION.
the fact that the words presented are not organised by age is a big deal
I just REALLY wish we could lock the word puzzles to require the letters in order, which would also help with phonics.
The reward animation after a word disappears after updates
The closing cartoon after a completed word — the child's main motivation — simply stops playing for some users, especially after updates. The content seems bought, but the reward never arrives.
Animations after you've spelled the word have completely disappeared
the animation after completing a word just doesnt happen. nothing happens.
Some words like rescue dont show the animation after completing the letter match portion.
Purchases get auto-refunded, and support stays silent
Some payments reverse themselves without any refund request, content won't download, and emails to support go unanswered. People can neither get what they paid for nor get their money back.
Every time I purchase the app it gets refunded without me ever asking for one.
I bought this game twice for my autistic kiddo. I am super interested, but after purchasing it, it refunded both times so I gave up.
After sending the customer services countless emails, there is no reply and I still have no access.
Users ask for more words, languages and content expansions
The content is finite and grows stale: kids memorize the same ~7 words per letter. The most engaged parents ask for a rotating word pool, digraphs (ch, sh, ck) and other-language versions.
my son has gotten bored with the same exact words. I wish it had a pool of different words that changed periodically.
super great BUT please give us digraphs!! sounds pairs like ch, sh, ck are also so important to learn!
Please develop a learn portuguese version or add the option to select languages to be learned.
An intrusive review prompt blocks the child mid-play
A pop-up asking for a rating flashes right while the child is playing and distracts them. It especially annoys people who already paid for the full version and don't expect that nagging.
They keep flashing their reviw sign the entire time my child is trying to play.It is so distracting and that is the reason they recive a one star.I paid for this app and should not have this on it.
every time I press it it takes me off!
music disturbs child znd no way to deactivate it .