Hungry Caterpillar Play School Reviews

We tried the 7 day trial and it worked quite well so we decided to pay the annual subscription. Big mistake. For whatever reason, HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool started showing ads every time our kid moved in between modules. Why in the world would you show ads in an app I paid $40 for!? Also, it says we can’t play something because of a lack of storage — I have 10GB storage open.

This is a terrible experience and I wish we had never fallen for it. Anyone out there, don’t download and definitely don’t buy the annual subscription.

We have no money. HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool is so ridden with ads trying to get you to purchase their full version that our 2.5 year old gets stuck in advertisement videos. HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool opens up and asks you to pay or do a 7 day free trial that automatically bills you after the 7 days. If you manage to see the tiny text giving you the option to play the limited version, the play page is partially filled by a button telling you to start your free trial. HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool is not meant for toddlers of families who don’t have the monetary means of getting a $40 subscription.

Completely unusable during the trial period and even after. Always the same in progress messages. My children couldn’t even use the portion that was free because suddenly that was being downloaded too. It wasn’t my internet connection. I tried it at home and my place of work over four days because my kids love the books so much. All I was able to do when trying to get help was hit report bug. WFT? Of course I can’t get my money back now. I paid money for my kids to be disappointed for almost a week. 😡😖😤 hopefully this won’t happen to you if you choose to download

My children really love the Eric Carle books so I was excited to see a free trial for HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool and immediately downloaded it. However, to participate in the “free trail”, you have to select a subscription. I found that very deceiving. There are other apps (i.e. Dr. Suess Treasury) that allow a free trial then block the content until you subscribe. I really prefer that method over this since you don’t feel trapped or tricked. You are allowed to view the content and see if your children will enjoy it without hoping 🤞 that you are able to cancel your membership if you aren’t impressed with HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool . I have subscribed to several apps after the free trial...this is one I will not.

I got charged $40 for a one year subscription that doesn’t work. Full of bugs! I tried to turn off automatic renewal because I don’t want more than one year service which is already paid for in full up front and I can’t turn it off or HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool stops working. I have a brand new (1 month old) iPad with hardly any memory taken yet and I keep getting a message that their isn’t enough space on iPad to download content but when I check usage is settings there is plenty. HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool is total crap. Should not have these issues for price charged!

In the blocks-to-holes game, my daughter will trigger an offscreen event like Siri or the camera and then when I bring HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool back up, she can’t move the block; it’s locked it the coordinates where she’d placed it when the event was triggered.

Also, she often wants to just start over when painting the letters rather than painting the whole thing white. I’ve worked around this by going back, then forward, but a quick-erase and confirm option (so kids don’t accidentally erase their painting) would be good so I can just cook while she and her sister race to destroy my iPad.

Thanks, and overall, great work!

For what I pay for HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool, why is my daughter being forced to seeing an ad for Disney every time she goes from screen to screen! Unbelievable! This is not a free app!
HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool itself is fine, so giving it 3 stars, but “try it for free” Disney ad spoiling everything. Luckily my daughter is not impressed and closes it every time, but it’s everytime she goes from one activity to the next. If this continues, I am canceling my subscription and demanding a refund.

My almost three year old is learning so much from HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool. I found it after she became obsessed with the hungry caterpillar book. Thank you so much for creating such a great learning tool. I have found NO glitches and NO ads. It is very easy to pick which subscription you want (monthly or yearly). Thank you again!!

The constant Disney pop ups are ruining this great app. I find it ridiculous ppl should that you charge a subscription fee and every time our child tries to go to a new section she’s inundated by the same Disney ad.

This is a really great app for kids, done really well. My daughter and I both enjoy all the fun things to do with in HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool . I like how the content is updated frequently. My only complaint is the ads inside HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool even after purchasing subscription for one year. I often pay to have ads removed so my daughter doesn’t encounter them while playing apps. Ads are such a nuisance and distracting, especially in the middle of gameplay. It would be my suggestion that you remove ads inside the game for subscription users.

Why are all the follow along music videos not working on HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool? They look grayed out and when I try to click on any of the videos it won’t play at all. Funny it was working just fine before it just renewed, now that a whole year of payment for HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool has just been payed it now won’t work. Everything else works even though it does crash once in a blue moon.

I love HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool. My children have used it for years and it’s the only screen time I encourage them to do. But with this update the music has changed and it’s terrible. The old music was beautiful — peaceful and melodic and I didn’t mind hearing it play when my kids used HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool . (A rare thing for kids’ toys not to have obnoxious sounds/music). The new music is in-a-hurry piano music and is very stressful to listen to. I hope you all change the music back!

Originally, when I downloaded HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool, I wasn’t able to get sound. I was very disappointed as was my daughter. I emailed Support late that evening and had a response by the following morning. A very professional and detailed explanation of how to fix the problem (which was totally due to user error:)) was provided, and I was good to go! My daughter LOVES HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool...and so does her nine year old sister! Lol!
#pleased

Update 1/3/19: I appreciate the apology. Have revised from 1 to 5 stars. It’s a great app provided Mickey Mouse stays far away.

Original 12/25 review: This has been the only app I’ve ever let my 2.5 year old use. I’ve paid more for HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool than any other. After using the free trial, we subsequently paid for the subscription and it has helped my kid learn letters and numbers. I’ve appreciated the relative simplicity and the lack of flashiness when compared with similar educational apps. Until this morning.

This morning, Mickey Mouse Disney ads started popping up every minute. It’s ruining the experience and is infuriating. We’ll be cancelling if this isn’t eliminated. Please fix this and apologize for what was essentially a bait-and-switch move. Even if the frequency of the ads was an unintentional bug, its still unacceptable to try to sneakily show advertisements to my child.

My son has been using HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool for more than 3 months and weave loved the experience. We’re not happy with a recent change (only experienced today) where ads (Disney) are appearing after every screen change; selecting a new activity. This is WAY too frequent and invasive for a paid app. It takes up the entire screen... not happy

I’m paying for the full version every month but recently now there a pop up add for this same companies Disney coloring app and it is so annoying. If this pop up is not removed from HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool , I will stop my subscription

We’ve been using HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool since our child was 1 year old. He’s now 2 1/2 years old. He knows the entire alphabet, can count to 10, knows all his colors, shapes, sings along to all the adorable little songs and speaks in full sentences.

HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool is worth every penny. I love that it updates and provides new games/songs/books and it really sticks to the Eric Carle themed art. I have nothing negative to say about HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool. It’s been amazing. Thank you to the creators of HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool. Keep up the amazing work.

Hi, I was looking through my subscriptions in my account and saw you had a limited offer of 1.99. I tried looking through HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool and couldn’t find anything about it. Would you mind letting me know what it’s about because I clicked on it and I’m not sure what I am have to pay for. Thanks.

HungryCaterpillarPlaySchool is brilliant and has such an impressive amount of content. We love Eric Carle and this is a great and thoughtful extension of his books. Two notes on the last update, the tracing feature is no longer working on the numbers and the interactive pattern where you trace your finger and flashing circles are left behind, is distracting when left on top of other activities.

I had reported that there wasn’t sound, but I got a response and was able to correct the issue. No issue with ads here and my 2.5 y/o son is still obsessed (currently mastering puzzles and card matching) and I’m confident he is learning rather than mindlessly watching the screen. Thank you for your quick response.