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No one will write back to help me cancel full subscription

I no longer use these games,but no one will write me back to help cancel auto renewal! That is cheating.

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Happily Returning

I taught ESL to young children for many years, retired three years ago, and just started volunteering as an adult ESL teacher. Couldn’t cope with the boring textbook. I’m back to Bitsboard and my new older students are just as happy as my first graders used to be!

Not the easiest to learn

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Exactly what I needed!

This app is perfect for reviewing vocabulary with my special education students. I love the immediate feedback after every answer, and reinforcing auditory feedback only after the correct answer. I love the large size of the buttons... this makes it easy for students with fine motor difficulties. It is so easy to create boards with my targeted words. It is my most useful educational app. My only question is why is it only available for Apple products and not Android?

I can only say good things

This app is simple and fun so children remain focussed yet energized in their learning efforts. If you are educator this app gives you an idea of what you can do but you will need the pro app to create classes and at our school we shifted to the student app to remove any distractions of the catalog.

the app couldn't let me join class in my ipad

i just subscribed for 1 year using my iphone and it works. but when i tried to open in my ipad, couldn't let me join class. everytime i click the join class button it always shows the subscription but i already subscribed. please respond.

Is anyone missing boards????

This is my favorite app to use with my dyslexic students, but slowly my boards have disappeared.... I had 481!!!! Please let me know if you have the same problem so we can get it addressed.

Great app to build vocabulary and discrimination skills!

Finally an app that we can share remotely AND be able to collect data! I’m a BCBA working with children with special needs. They love this app and actually prefer it to other programming. The settings allow to change sounds, the array, the pictures are a great quality and you can always add your own. The range of games allows for generalization and multiplayer functions. I highly recommend this as a way to support VB MAPP programming for LR, tact, echoics, etc. And to support any existing programming. A web-based model would be ideal for those not on iOS.

Fantastic

I can not believe how this has become so integral to my therapy! I use it with mixed groups working remotely and it has saved me so much time. Worth every penny.

Amazing app

Incredible. Really useful for SLPs

GREAT educational and fun app

I homeschool my son who has special needs, and there are SO many ways to use this app. There are countless boards and classes already set up, but if you want to create your own it easy to do. If your child has a communication device because their nonverbal, you can use this to help teach the icons for words. I also homeschool my daughter who is atypical and this is very helpful with some aspects of her homeschooling. This is one of the best educational apps I’ve found for children with special needs. Kids with autism will also love the photo focus of this app.

Bitsboard- Speech Therapist

I love this app! I appreciate the time they put into to making a fun and engaging platform for students and teachers. It makes planning for sessions easy and fun. I’ve been looking for a platform to allow me to make interactive games like this, but have been spending/wasting time. This app is spot on everything I need. I also appreciate how accommodating customer service is and will be recommending this app to my fellow SLPs out there. 11/10 for me!!!!🤩

Excellent App

This app is amazing! I’m still figuring it out and there are a few things I’d like to see changed, but as other users have said, endless opportunities for learning!

Good

The best, but is there a way to put a password on my account?

Clunky interface and terrible paywall

I enjoyed using Bitsboard in the past however it a cumbersome process to add boards and the video tutorials aren’t the best. Also, the free version only limits you to creating a board in your device and there is no way to share it with kids/families unless you pay for the app

AMAZING …but…

Seriously this app is incredible - almost endless possibilities to teach a wide variety of material in a wide variety of ways - in particular if you are willing to create your own boards. I have used very extensively homeschooling a child with special needs - and it has been an invaluable resource. My teen daughter creates her own boards to study spanish and science! We have dealt with many bugs over the years that have caused much frustration and the catalog of photos includes a ridiculous amount of provocatively dressed women so nearly all boards with women have to be reviewed and sometimes edited by me which is not only annoying - but just plain puzzling. Can’t imagine my life without Bitsboard - but there is room for improvement! I’d like to suggest some new voice choices - after years of use- it would be a nice change. Also, the fact that board edits can only be made while in the board creator “game” is a pain - the old way was much better!! I’d also like to suggest the addition of an auditory memory game that provides for a delay before displaying the image/word after it is spoken - and an option in settings to at least slightly alter the voice “speed’’ to allow for individuals with auditory processing challenges to hear sentences spoken at a slower pace.

I love this app and it’s potential

What an amazing educational tool. Not only does it give you the ability to upload and make your own great lists, it gives You access to a multitude of lists already made. A favorite must have tool for parents and educators (I am a speech-language pathologist). I have used this app for 8 years, since the days of only a few games. I believe this app has a lot of potential, but feel like using it to its full capacity is not completely easy.... yet. I think there needs to be tutorials on how exactly to organize your super user and student lists, quickly add targets to students lists, and personalize for each. You could better understand this with directions, or video instructions on YouTube. Lastly, the server used is very slow. Unfortunately, I set up my original lists inaccurately and am now trying to transfer my key lists to the super user account. This process is taking soooooo long. I need to upload to Dropbox and then download to my super user from drop box. This takes minutes to transfer just one board and sometimes crashes. I truly love this app, and feel like it has so much potential to be customized and keep data but needs those 2 things to get my 5 stars. Keep at it! You developers are getting close!

Great, will give 5⭐️ if..(UPDATED)

I have Bitsboard Pro but I’m thinking of purchasing the $20 full app from the App store so that the full versions can be used on my kids devices as well. For me to do that what I would really like to see is the option in the app to arrange games as needed so that my child can follow a set pattern of one game after another (example, Review, then Flashcards, then True/False and so on) so that it’s a progression that makes sense to learning the material. Other than that we love this app. ***UPDATE*** With the new takeover by happymooseapps my request has been fulfilled and they seem to be on top of addressing concerns so am giving 5*. There are still improvements that could be made and I hope they will! Worth the monthly 99c subscription to pro. ***3/10/2020*** Why can’t the developers get the tracing game corrected. Known issue been going on for ages where the tracing doesn’t line up with the letters and is in general buggy/laggy/freezes just with this one activity.

Do NOT buy to create your own tests

I suppose if you are looking for pre selected lists this may be helpful. Or if the only words you need to study are basic K-2 This is the only way I can imagine the amount of positive reviews it has received. Trying to study for your spelling list at school or creat your own is a disaster of time suckage. In theory, to add words specific to you or your child, add a picture, add a description and have a test plus games would be amazing! In reality you will add words, pictures and boards just to find that they disappear. I have spent hours trying to create lists only to have them revert back to empty or the default (bizarre) picture. The app crashes every 15 min or so and locks up periodically. Trust me I have tried everything! Like I said, if it worked it would be great! Unfortunately the program is just not there. This goes for all Bitsboard apps, I have tried several in past years, upgraded to PRO several times to no avail. Don’t do what my family did, we wasted many hours and money. Tried again this week (2/2/20) to set up a board, spent at least 2 hrs, only to have the board disappear then reappear with half the words and back to the “default” pictures. Also on several games the audio does not work.

Great tool

Overall, this is a great app for language learning. I use it nearly every day. I upgraded to Bitsboard Pro so that I can share boards with others and so that I can bulk edit. Well worth it. This is a very versatile tool, but there are a few bugs that, if fixed, could make this even better: In order to edit a board, I have to select my user, select "user settings," which takes me straight to my account, and then I have to hit the "back" button in order to select "boards" under settings. This is annoying to do every time. It feels like a have to ride past my bus stop every time, get off, and walk back. It would really help to be able to get to editing my boards more easily. It would really help to be able to import audio files from elsewhere instead of having to record them straight into the app. You can do that with pictures, just not with audio files, which is a real bummer. It would be really nice to have multiple fonts supported; specifically, it would help if IPA (phonetics) fonts were supported. Bitsboard makes my foreign language entries look weird and hard to read by converting those foreign characters to cursive while the other letters in the word are in comic sans or another common print font. All that said, it is an awesome tool for learning and reviewing things. The many different games for reviewing the same pieces of information is one of the best features of this app. Great job, developers! Keep up the good work!

Bugs and crashes when rearranging pics

Crashes every timeI try to rearrange pictures in settings.

Works Poorly, If At All

My time with Bitsboard has been less than exemplary. The search functions for the internet result in poor and sometimes inexplicable results. The pictures are often out of frame or blurry. The app has recently started to black out parts of text and fail to load others, resulting in an inability to read anything short of squinting at the screen. And this is after having purchased the full version. Please, PLEASE fire the people in charge of programming and hire someone useful. A lot of this stuff seems pretty basic.

Sound

Not all the words are being pronounced My students sometimes find difficulty finding my classes or even my board although they write the name correctly

Wow

This is the third year i used this app. It helps me a lot in my classes. Make it easy and fun for them.

Several Features I'd like to be added

I purchased the pro version of this app, and while I enjoy the features it offer, I really wish I could get some more flexibility in the Spelling Bee part of the app. I wish I could see how many words are in a board, and I wish I could require capitalization of words.

Love Bitsboard and their Helfpul team!

All four of my kids have loved and learned from Bitsboard for the past 8 years! It’s an App the whole family can use! We love Memory and our kids learned the World Flags, Cities, Animals, Vehicles, Spanish, YOU NAME IT, beginning around 18 months old! We love the 4-player feature so that “Mommy and Daddy” can play too! When I needed help with the app, Michael Reining was quick to respond to my needs! He was so helpful and made everything right again! Bitsboard is definitely our FAVORITE app we’ve ever downloaded. It’s great for all ages, babies-adults. It’s engaging and filled with endless education. We’ve been using the app since my first child was about 2 years old and she’s 9 now. We have a 7 year old, a 3 year old, and a 2 year old as well, and they’ve all been using this fantastic app since about 16 months old! THANK YOU BITSBOARD!!!

Latest update

Been using this app for years and loving it. But the latest update has altered the size and centering of the words on the bottom of the Flashcards.

Very buggy and slow to not usable

Used to be an okay app, with a good idea and mediocre app design and programming. But recent upgrade yielded this app to be near unusable in my iPhone X, as well as other iPads. It’s super slow now, some images will not load, and flashes out when running. I really hope it could work, but now it is just terrible.

Create, assess, collect

The app lets me create instruction aligned to goals and assess children, collecting data through email which can be saved in their drive folders. This is amazingly helpful. The new structure is tricky to adjust to, but I love having classes in which individual children may be added.

The BEST app ever!

Excellent for SLP needs...

Awesome and recommended

I first got bitsboard more than 2 years ago and it is still MY GO TO APP for everything educational. As a special educator and Autism Specialist I fully recommend and endorse the Bitsboard App. I had written a bad review recently, as bitsboard hadn’t been updated in over two years, however I found out that it is now under new developers and they are to thank for the updates that bitsboard now has. I’m thankful that it has come under new ownership so that Bitsboard can be all and more than it was! Love it ❤️

Updated review... Bitsboard under new management...

My original review... Which I emailed to the contact us email this morning... I love this app for spelling and sight words practice for the kids. But this recent update totally wiped my settings which means I have to redo all the settings on four kid's ipads. 😭 all the favorite cards got reset, all the games I'd made to not not show up in their user are now back and ALL the settings I'd meticulously set for four kids are now reset. I'm super bummed. 🙄 I bought the paid version too. Sigh. Not ok bitsboard. 😳🥺 Update.... Customer service responded within 30 minutes with this reply... Eek! I am so sorry and totally understand your frustration. The Bitsboard app had been neglected by the old development team and we bought it and had to rewrite most of the code because the old code was not maintainable. That took us almost one year. Unfortunately, when working with code that is 7 years old, some problems were bound to happen. I am really sorry about that. On the plus side, moving forward things should be much better than before. You can even turn on Cloud Sync for your account and link your kids accounts to your main account. This way all boards and settings will automatically sync to each iPad. So all you have to do is configure the first iPad, turn Cloud Sync on and then everything will be mirrored when you log in with your main account. How to turn cloud sync on? Go to Settings > Account Turn Cloud Sync ON How to link users to your main account? Select the child account Go to Settings > Account Press on "Edit User" Now link each child to your main account (i.e. link the child to the superuser) I hope that helps. Please let me know if you have any questions and if there is anything else we can do to help, Mike PS: I hope your forgive us and don't leave a 1 star review on the App Store. Lots of users have done that to vent their frustration. The frustration is understandable but if we get buried with bad reviews it likely means the end of Bitsboard because Apple immediately cuts exposure for apps with bad ratings and if that happens that is the end of Bitsboard and we will have to turn off the lights and shut down the app. ............. So.... I'm updating my review based on the fact that I LOVE the customizable nature of this app. It has worked very well for me. From what it sounds like... It'll only get better!

Zero Customer Service

The app used to work okay, but after the updates about two weeks ago, the speed became slow and some sounds/images would not load. Worse still, they have removed their contact method on their website. Nowhere to give them feedback or get support.

Canceling

Used free trial, wanted to use more and tried next level for a month. Could not get to cancel. Still have problems with. Do not recommend

Very useful for my first grader

Audio,draw,text,picture all can be used in the board. My daughter usually is interested in drawing, so it is help to attract her.

Trace it doesn’t work.

Very disappointed with this app. They need to update it to fix trace it. It now traces off of the pattern and not where it’s suppose to be. I even bought the pro and deleted it off of my phone because I didn’t like how it was working.

An excellent tool for Aphasia therapy!!

I appreciate all those who have created such practical vocabulary and sentence boards for E101 to E104. Great for adult speech therapy for those with acquired cognitive-linguistic deficits. The activities work for a variety of skill levels. I highly recommend this app.

Wonderful

Very good and versatile app for speech sessions!

Bitsboard

I just discovered this app and am thrilled that I can use it for my kindergarten students and the fact that what I need is free to download at the present time.

Versatility for perfect speech therapy

I love this app. As a speech language pathologist, I can use this and WordVault to tackle all kinds of communication goals. Access to the user-created boards and various incentivizing games are what sets Bitsboard apart from other apps. I love that I can toggle the verbal feedback, written words and such on or off to give more cuing to some clients and reduce auditory and visual distractions for others. My only complaint is the relentless crashing but the app is useful enough that I keep working around it.

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Great app ,very helpful.I really enjoy using it.

Teacher

I have been searching for useful and fun apps to download on my LI iPad. This one by far proves to be awesome! Very versatile and user friendly! I am looking forward to exploring it further! So many games! Thank you!!

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very good app

The Best All Around for Homeschool

Such a wonderful tool, it is amazingly easy to use and create lessons. Share your creations and see other ideas. Trust that I am a critic, this is really the best of the best. Grammar, Phonics, Parts of Speech, Vocabulary, French, German and Sign Language are just a few of the items available to study in several different ways.

Very versatile app

I have been using this app for 2 years with my adult ESL literacy group. The extensive audio and image libraries are high quality and huge time savers. I can customize my boards quickly with the bulk add feature. The variety of games is awesome.

So good!

This is my firs review in years, this app is excellent. You can customize it just the way you want it and it keeps the interface of new vocabulary as straight forward as it can be for the student. So long powerpoint presentations! If you want to memorize stuff, this is IT. Ah, it’s own images are great too, a real help, they’re very expressive!

Can’t connect

I️ love the content that I️ can get into on this app. But it won’t let me connect to the catalog no matter what I️ do, which makes me feel like I’ve wasted my money if I️ can’t get access to all the content! I’ve reached out everywhere for help on this matter and have gotten no responses. Really disappointing because I️ want to love this app!

Paid for Pro, Inaccessible! No response from developer

I just paid for the Pro version. The help guide is outdated. I do not have access to create a class or add students. I emailed the developer, then read on many forums that they have not replied to people with the same problem. Now...how to get a refund.

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