Kodable Basics Reviews

by Ggacha Girl 💕

1. I collected most of the fuzzy sand once I turned of my phone and it deleted all my stuff!
2. I got made at that so I waited a while before playing again but when I did I could not even get in, now I’m not sure if it’s the fact that my phone is old but still it was disappointing.

So I know there’s not much but I want to keep it simple but still make my point that you shouldn’t download KodableBasics.

by MattTheRatKing

This learning tool was one of my daughter’s favorites. She had lots of fun collecting all the fuzzes. When she attempted to play it again she was extremely disappointed that all her progress was gone. Now instead of a couple of inexpensive lesson add ons I am confronted with a $60 purchase and that buys me, what, a year of your mediocre content? Infuriating. I’m not sure how you are convincing schools to buy in at that price, but if you somehow still believe you are having “a transformational effect on a child’s life - regardless of race, gender, or even economic background” you are fooling yourself. Disgusting.

by OGSkullkid

They don’t tell you it’s a 7day subscription based game and it forces you to put in information before moving on to the trial version. It may say that in app purchases are in it but it fails to say it’s purely a subscription based concept. That being said I think it’s terrible business to hide behind the initial download before mentioning that as it’s a great idea to allow people to understand coding languages. Should probably allow for a broader audience rather than sticking to only those who can pay. Really tired of seeing educational help on this platform become a classist thing and only open to those who can afford to foot the bill. Kinda disgusting how capitalism has negatively effected everyone to become so greedy. Why not charge for KodableBasics overall? I’d pay 14 upfront over a stupid subscription.

by FirmwareWriter

Bought KodableBasics early on, the paid nearly 30 dollars for upgrade. App never worked after that, won’t let anyone in. Now they want a subscription fee for a non-working app. Kode for Kodable needs significant work on program state. The iPad Pro is in restricted mode ( pretty common I’d think for children’s use) but even out of restricted mode app is a dud. Good idea for app but needs a LOT of improvement. Change to subscription model makes sense but only if app works AND there is support when app breaks!

by Thefranzi

First of all, you have to pay $6.99 per month to use anything on KodableBasics, which I was willing to do if it was a good app. KodableBasics worked for about 5 days. When my child reached a certain level, the screen blacked out so that when we open KodableBasics , the screen is just black and we can’t go anywhere. We can’t even go to settings to unsubscribe. Now we are stuck with $6.99 per month until I can figure out another way to unsubscribe.

by 1K3C

We purchased this for our 7 year old due the high positive ratings but we can’t believe how awful this is! Our kid who normally loves coding, games, iPad, computers, etc., wouldn’t touch it after just 5 minutes of playing. So I tried it myself to see why he gave up and I can see why! It’s badly designed, not user friendly and fluctuates from being stupidly easy and esoteric. If this is their idea of getting kids excited about coding, I’m frightened for the future of coders. Not a good coding tool.

by Cal&hobbes

For an app that is supposed to teach programming, it crashes way too much. Also, there is only one activity that actually teaches programming (the smurgle maze thing) which is quite good. The rest are just bad clones of popular apps (like Plants vs Zombies or Match-3 Bejeweled games).
Also, I signed up for a 7-day trial, but after 6 days, I went to cancel, and I couldn’t because it already charged me for the month unlike what the trial offer stated.

by Prefrontal Cortex

Updated review:

1) after several months and several updates to KodableBasics , it continues to crash All The Time. The kids just yell out “Kodables crashed again” and restart, usually having lost some of their work. There is usually 5 minutes or so between crashes.

2) KodableBasics is very limited as to content. Both kids quickly finished all the puzzle levels, and there is nothing left to do but play the games (of dubious learning value). Please add more real content!
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I got this for my six-year-old. He got to the Asteroid level where he was changing parameters in games. KodableBasics crashes every time while he is working on a new game. It has also crashed playing bug world. Nice concept, but kids are not very tolerant of seeing their work disappear in a crash.

by 2CAKids

I have a question why is it called bug world when you defeat the slimes with fuzzes? Also bug world is busted. every single time I’m on the final round my I pad goes back to the home screen any way you can fix it.
Please
After that I lose my progress on the level NOT the hole game once I go back and play it again same thing happens. no matter what I do I don’t get to finish the level I am extremely lucky if I complete ONE level. other people would say why don’t you play the other part of the game that’s a good question IM BORED I’ve basically played all the other parts of the game that I CAN play even level three is hard on astropida THREE. other wise the game is the best game ever I just LOVE that you can make your own fuzzies. Now back to the question can you please please please fix the game. please write back people

by Alli3455

My son (4) enjoys and I played it through to the (rather uneventful) end just to see what happened.

Don’t play it on a PC. It is terrible on a PC.

On an iPhone it’s decent but sometimes cuts off the edge of the screen and won’t let you scroll over —> lots of force quitting, which might be frustrating for some kids.

You can’t get all the content on an iPhone so for that we used an iPad after determining that the PC experience was awful. iPad experience was probably the best one; no issues with cut off screens and bigger buttons which 4 yr old found a lot easier to manipulate. Still a fair amount of force quitting though when it did really strange things.

Overall - get it, pay for a month, and let your kids binge it. I suspect we will be done with it by then, and after a month I am not willing to donate additional $ to such a clunky platform.

by Bubbynoms

I have 2 kodable accounts and my home one is PRO member…On my school account, however, everything needs PRO members. At least let us do every level without pro members…… And another small problem. I can’t get past one of the levels on BugWorld. You only get DiamondShield. Please add BlueBlaster or at least remove Crusher from lvl Also it’s called BugWorld bcs of the old version. There were bugs that created asteroids to destroy plus glitchy

by Hihytfkljhygtdftgy

Can you guys make some new planets? I love the game but I finished all the planets and I was hoping you could make some new planets and also may you please please please make more hats the hats I see are awesome but I kind of want some more of those little cute hats and more items please the things I see in items BORING a make some shoes like pants shirts or even AN Outfit so please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please do my request It could make Kodable a better game than it is right now.

by Ugh Grr Smhsbbd

This is amazing! On every device so much fun! My teacher made us play this game. I’m glad he taught us it. To those people who said “iTs cOnfUsiNg.” Thats just your BRAIN. It’s pretty easy so I don’t know how dumb you are. If it’s confusing un download it if you have nothing good to say. It just downgrades confidence c:

by Pcm70.3

My two boys have really enjoyed playing through all of the coding puzzles especially the new maze challenges in the Smeeborg world. The Kodable worlds got them used to the programming concepts and made it easier to transition them to text based coding. Fun game!

by Rubicle

This game is so fun because I have a chrome book and there are two versions of how to play it and it also has almost everything and even if my progress cannot be saved, this game is so fun because actually, it has everything if you play without saving it and also because I made my fuzz be a owl and it is adorable!

by Skeirjiemf

I like this game because you can buy items with Kodable coins. The coding is really fun. I enjoy playing Kodable because you can make your own fuzz. The more you play it the more coins you have. My favorite coding course is asteroida.

by Gdjhdudjdi

App is a bit confusing to use and it doesn’t look very appealing for a couple hours but it’s not worth a download and it’s just the same thing to say that you can’t use your Facebook app for your iPad to see you have KodableBasics and the other one you need a few more things like it is worth a download for your phone to get it fixed for your phone or phone phone to get the iPhone and the iPad and

by Coolestmom1

My three kids (6, 8, 9) love KodableBasics! It is definitely a family go-to for game time in our house. Instead of fighting over the iPad, they’re helping each other beat and build levels. Thanks, Kodable- keep the updates coming!

by Poper Guns Two

All of my friends play this game and all my friends LOVE but there are some issues I want to play the full game but I have to do a parent login and I don’t want to do that. Please make an update to fix this so I can play all of it

by Mr. Yambo

IF IT WAS NOT FOR MONEY!!! I didn’t play the game and it probably was fun just it cost money to actually play! If it didn’t cost anything, man I bet you a million people would have loved it including me! But unfortunately, this game is a scam! Just don’t have people pay you and you’ll be fine!

by Kristin 82

My daughter completed all of the free content during the trial. I purchased a subscription, but there is NO ADDITIONAL CONTENT with a paid account. When she logs in, she just gets a message saying all available levels are complete. Why would you sell an annual subscription when ALL levels can be completed by a 7 year old in a single week. I want my money back.

by Jkc38c

I canceled during my trial period because it took too long to load new levels. My oldest used Kodable and I paid for the extra levels, now you switched to the monthly plan and I lost what I originally paid for. Either way, new version seems to be a step back from old version. I didn’t have these glitches before.

by Priority2

I’ve been using Kodable as a volunteer teacher for years. As a volunteer, I couldn’t afford the school price. Kodable promised they’d get back to me about a possible solution, then they never did. It’s hard to move with the ever-shifting price landscape for me, but I hope Kodable is still a useful resource to the students of more important customers.

by The Unspoken Kid

I have played kodable since third grade and I still love it! I would never have downloaded this game until my tech class teacher introduced this game. Right when I got home I downloaded right away. Great job!

by Jessiesays

I really enjoy this game so far! It’s teaching my six year old daughter to use her critical thinking skills, memorization, and all helping her with her directions (up, down, left, right, etc.) she is also using her counting skills a little too, believe it or not! She and I have been playing this since I download this yesterday and we love! My mom even played and she was stumped on the ‘loops’ and my daughter explained to her how to play lol! Keep up the great work and I will be purchasing the full game!!!!