Osmo World Reviews

I have owned Osmo products for the last 4 years and love the apps and products however, the last 2 days I have been unable to login to our osmo account to access our kids saved progress. I have emailed any email related to osmo that I can find but every single one gives me the run around and no one is available to help me. The osmo website is not working and the emails I get in response sending me to the osmo website are driving me nuts. I utilize these games for homeschool and my kids are devastated that they can’t play the games we own at the progress they have because you have an option to skip sign in to just play but then you have to go from the beginning and my kids don’t want to do that. I just wish I could contact anyone for help but no one is there to fix this login issue.

Osmo has some great apps, but it also has lots of Disney promo toys that each require 10 bucks to play. My daughter has the little genius kit and enjoys it but inevitably finds herself back in the main osmo app mindlessly looking at the frozen 2 or incredible ADVERTS and just tapping alll the sound effects. Nothing could be further from my goals when we spent money on osmo. The response from the developers is that they find users “like” to see all their games - NO SHEESH SHERLOCK! Please understand that osmo, OsmoWorld you made, is used for unattended kids play. At least offer an option to hide uninstalled apps or make them only visible in the parents viewer. All in all, it’s an incredibly frustrating capitalist example of how a company can take a great idea and totally mess it up. I can’t let my daughter use osmo now and am going to just ask for a refund.

We received a free trial set. My son enjoyed one of the games, but overall he was not impressed. Basically it uses a mirror to see what is on the table. Yes, it had tangible objects to move on the table surface, but overall it’s not that impressive. As an educator, I believe there are many more apps that are education with far less cost. In addition, the iPad can not have any protective cover on it to work with OsmoWorld ...a nerve racking thought for any parent. In order to try the trial you have to give your credit card information. There is NO where to cancel the trial in their app or website. The company is supposed to send an email to cancel prior to charging, they did NOT!!! BEWARE IF YOU DO THE TRIAL, AS I GOT CHARGED!!! You must email customer service to cancel. Who knows how long until I get a refund!!! 😡

This umbrella “launcher” app works pretty well for how it was designed, but it has a bug and a fundamental flaw.

The bug is that it won’t open the Word Explorers app (the paid app, not the one that came with the Genius Kit). It keeps directing me to buy the Genius Kit, which I already have installed, and my son has played at length. I should mention that the Word Explorers app open correctly from it’s own icon, so the problem is definitely this launcher app. And for what it’s worth, this launcher opens the Numbers Toybox correctly (Osmo’s other paid app). I’ll add a star once this bug has been corrected.

The fundamental flaw is that there isn’t a version of OsmoWorld that is compatible with Guided Access (i.e. a single app that includes all of the Osmo games). While this would have an effect on required iPad resources, it should be fine since this is the only thing these iPads are used for. Guided Access is a big deal to us because we have these iPads set up as dedicated learning stations that are out of our sight. We need to be able to just leave the iPads plugged in on their bases and open for use, and know that they aren’t being used for anything else. I’ll gladly add the other two stars once there’s a solution for those of us that need to use Guided Access.

I understand the strict necessity to use the stand and once we figured out that was more about the height from the table surface for focal distance and less about the exact angle, we were able to put a case back on the iPad to prevent damage ….which literally happened the one time it was put of the case to put on the Osmo dock……ughhh…..sigh! The real problem I’m writing this review for is OsmoWorld glitches. We are on the latest iOS and have a relatively decent iPad, but internally apps don't work the way they imply they should. The best example of this is the green arrows at the end of “floors” ( levels) in shape builder….. the arrow is never pressable ….it just locks up…..requiring you to push the gear settings button go home and re-enter the game ….whereupon you are taken to the new level….so it’s clearly not a loading issue but happens every time …..it it so consistent that it has to be a bug. It’s not a dead spot in our screen, it’s not due to any other variable in the iPad I can suss out…. But other games have this same level loading freeze-up issue as well. And the remedy is the same…. Back-out and re-enter ……works but tethers me to every activity my daughter does. Hopefully this gets fixed with an update that pushes out then I can rate this higher.

Hi! My name is Kalib! My iPad is in a 6th generation and this in not working very good. First of all, OsmoWorld need a lot of game to set up. Second of all, Two games are compatible but others are not. Osmo is the best thing ever when I first got it in target. Now some are just compatible. I don’t know what’s happening because I’m 6 years old and I still don’t know word that are big. Please help me with the compatible issue. The issue is not good. Please help Bye.

My daughter loves the different Osmo games, and we try to play regularly to get her to expand her knowledge. However, I have one major issue about Tangram. It is very glitchy. We always check and double check the design positions of the shapes, and they don’t go through. It is all in color, Meaning that it’s correct but we Can’t move forward.
Please fix this, it is very frustrating.

My son loves Osmo! And it is great for him, but he loves stickers and the gift / sticker function of OsmoWorld is so complicated that he can never get enough stickers or tickets! Then there was one time where I had helped him get the stickers so that he had a bunch, but all of a sudden he doesn’t have them any more! We can’t get them back, no matter what we do! The bubbles don’t work anymore, which used to give him the stickers. It’s always the first thing that he asks about and tries, and we can never get any stickers.

My daughter got this game today from my mom. She LOVES it! My only problem is that in the creative pack app it doesn’t always show the drawings on the page. The monster just seems to be interacting with an imaginary drawing that you can’t see. I made a profile for both of us and it did it on both. It happened when we were trying to create his bedroom.

I love Osmo world with the little stickers but then for a while, I stopped playing it and then, when I came back on all my stickers were gone please tell me how to fix this well, it says that I need to download the arcade games to get more tickets but my parents won’t let me please tell me how to get my stickers back

First off these are great, we have multiple games for our 3 yr old and she loves them. The trouble is I’m often force closing and re-installing apps bc they get stuck at the different load screens. The iPad is not old and is always current on iOS. This is annoying for an adult but obviously significantly more so for a 3 yr old.

So I flippin downloaded the Tangram game and it’s not letting me access the world! I cleared OsmoWorld I did everything I could but nothing worked! I got my IPad 2 years ago and it works very well but it’ll let me access other worlds! What’s going on with Osmo? Please help me! I’m very mad about this! I enjoy OsmoWorld tho.I’ll add the last star if y’all fix it my problem is the same as meemslou’s problem

Hi Osmo! My son has had an awful lot of fun with this suite. An issue have recently taken place, though.

Newton, Masterpiece, Monster, and Pizza Co do not launch correctly from Osmo World, but they used to. Clicking on he greyed out icons sends us to OsmoWorld store’s page for them to have them installed… which we have. Luckily, they launch from OsmoWorld Store and from their own app icons, just not from Osmo World. There doesn’t seem to be a way to fix this, it’s just an annoying middle step.

The only problem I have with OsmoWorld is the fact that if you don’t have any app you don’t have the world on this Osmo World. What say you don’t have Coding Jam, well there’s thousands of coding jam characters.(34) But if you don’t have the world which means you don’t have OsmoWorld , you have Coding Jam characters that don’t belong anywhere. So why even download an app when you can’t use it and you just want OsmoWorld so your characters belong somewhere. Please fix that. Thank you for reading this and I hope this really gets fixed... like NOW 😐😐😐😞😞😞😉😉

I just got this all setup for my kids from Christmas and they are LOVING it. That being said, we have had a couple issues. The biggest issue is that when they switch accounts on the main page it doesn’t switch the account in the games. My kids keep accidentally ending up on each other’s accounts which is making them all really frustrated.

We also can’t figure out how to change the avatars and nicknames. It said they were temporary when I set it up but we can’t figure out how to edit them. It’s a little thing but my kids wanted to pick out their own.

Ok first I love dis game!, but whenever I playing a Osmo game those update bubbles pop up and messes meh up oh and there is a big bug that when u at da start screen I go to taragram but it says I don’t have it it says “watch the videos or” install so I go to the AppStore. But it says I have it!!!!!! Plz fix this

We’ve been using osmo for more than five years. I recently started homeschooling and my 8 and 10 year old still use it. They have come out with so many super cool games, we have most of them. I hope you come out with some older kids things so we can keep using this as a supplement to the curriculum. I recommend this to everyone.

I got this thinking it was just a hub for the Osmo games. But, then I realized that it was nothing like just the hub for the Osmo games. It was even better! The stickers give you the freedom to make up any story. I am 10 and I am kind of losing interest in the Osmo games, but this is really fun. Osmo, if you just made a game with the stickers, I would get it and play it every day. My one wish, it’s for you to make the locations bigger. Otherwise, this is probably the best Osmo thing I’ve played!

We bought Osmo for my son when when was almost 4. He’s loved using it to help learn his letters and numbers. Occasionally there’s a lag, it usually restarting the iPad or OsmoWorld fixes it. Overall, he’s loved every app he’s played with. He can stay occupied for well over an hour, and I don’t feel guilty letting him use it.

OsmoWorld is amazing overall. But, I just wish you’d show all of the Osmo apps on OsmoWorld . I sometimes find it hard to find the apps because there is so many. Maybe you could just put the apps in catigories so it’s easier for us to find the apps. Thanks for he amazing app/apps!