BabySparks - Development Activ

I want to update my review! Beyond 5 stars! I've never had such wonderful and fast customer service! They emailed me right away and fixed the problems! ---I have a daycare baby that i watch in my home, and I love the daily activities this app has! But, the app is not saving the progress I have with her. It's frustrating, I put in that she achieved a specific milestone, then when I look later, it's gone. I just paid for the full year and already I'm disappointed

Great learning activities. I am always trying to figure out what me and my child can do together that doesn't include toys, TV or tablet. I used the free version for the longest time and the available actives were enough to keep us learning and interacting. I bought the paid version, which has opened up new learning activities to fill the void of time. Was well worth the purchase. Even if you don't purchase, great app. I would definitely recommend.

It's ok. I paid for the subscription and won't be renewing. I wanted tips and ideas for ways to interact with my baby and while it gave ideas, they weren't always realistic for me to complete. The app itself is extremely laggy. When I do bother to sign in (which is rarely now), I like to check off milestones to see if we have anything to work on and the app always freezes. It doesn't have any updates pending, so it's just the app.

Good to have ideas for activities with a 3-4mo, but I regret getting the subscription, especially for the whole year. This is because even with a year subscription, I got ads every day, it is disappointing that I can't block them. Also, when a child hits a milestone and I put it in the notes, I still get the exercises that are supposed to develop that skill on the beginner level.

I guess the app is alright. Read some of the articles, did a couple of the activities. Feels more like something that aggregate into a one stop shop. I don't find this to be the most use ful app, but quickly became quite annoying with all of its notifications and emails (in duplicate at that!). It felt constant. Only way to do anything with the notifications is by your phone's permissions. This app does not give you any options on frequency or type of notifications it sends to you....

The milestones are interesting and useful but the app does not respond to updates in the milestones. At 4 mths old, my baby was sitting. I updated this milestone but the activities did not update, still showing me exercises to prompt baby to support himself. At 5 months, he was crawling. Again, I updated the milestones, and noted the exercises as "completed" and "too easy", but still more advanced exercises were not offered. I chose not to buy the app since it didn't respond to baby's growth

I have a 3 month old and I'm always looking for new activities to do with her. The free version was very limited but it seemed worth it to get the lifetime version. When I went to buy it the app opened but whatever selection I made it crashed. I'm very disappointed. I tried the free version of Kinedu and Playfully but this is the only one I really like. My daughter needs stimulation. I hope the bug is fixed soon or I will be using one of the other apps.

This app provides some pretty cool activities to do with your little one. The educational articles are useful too. They provide information, are easy to read & you don't feel adrift after reading them unlike other media on parenting. The one thing that the app doesn't have that I wish it had were notification or activity reminders that synced with my calendar. That way planning activities would be a little easier. It could be as involved as syncing each activity or a broad & general reminder.

Do not purchase!!!! I made a mistake of signing up for annual membership. Now app is broken and i am out of my money. 1. Use kindedu app instead. It is better because it customizes activities based on achieved milestones. . Free version will get you a lot. In baby sparks, i still get activites for premie at 4 months. 2. Now list of milestones disappeared. empty(no items) showing 0% progress, no support. 3. I gave 2 stars vs 0, cause they have articles. But Find similar info on babycenter app.

Very irritated. I was using this app. I wanted to use this for 8 children. So I tried to purchase the professional. And had me pay $39.99 for the activities then when I contacted customer service they switched me to professional which then I lost all my activities and $39.99. I have sent many emails and no one can get back to me. All I want is the basic app with my activities or my money back. I didn't think it would be this difficult.

Like this much better than Kinedu. I like that there are extensive descriptions of milestones each month, and a catalog of activities you can do (by age, or milestones) in addition to the daily plan. I also like that you can mark activities "try again" or "too easy" and they will adjust accordingly

EDIT: 2.7.24 I adored this app. Unfortunately it's been over 4 months where despite paying a premium for membership and reaching to costumer service repeatedly, I cannot access my classes. To make matters worse, they won't even respond to me after I left this review. It's an expensive app to have such big tech issues and the lack of follow through with correcting them is unprofessional.

I started the trial and found it somehow useful. Then I decided to buy the lifetime subscription. However I was charged again for the one year subscription after the trial expired. So I was actually charged twice for the same thing. Contacted customer service but refused to refund me the one year subscription charge. If this is the way to get people's money I doubt the tutorial it provides for the kids may be also faulty.

I had a different app for baby activities but when I saw the great articles on this one I decided to purchase this one instead of the other. I got the lifetime deal but the activities are not as engaging or fun as the other app, they are also very repetitive and kind of boring. I actually don't recommend the lifetime deal but rather use the free part and hope to get a refund. I totally regretted spending money on this app.

Free app - until you try to use it! Downloaded, got really excited, went through the whole sign up process, clicked on the first activity, was stopped by a paywall! Only two of the seven activities were free and there is an activity tracker to see the percentage that you have completed which would remain looking like I wasn't doing anything to help my baby's development. Nice guilt trip, trying to trick new parents into paying a premium for this app! Don't waste your money! Find them fee online!

This app looked like a good one for me to use for learning and tracking for my baby. However I have only had the app/subscription for a couple of days and I was charged $130.67.... the yearly shows it's one time payment of $59.99..... I am waiting to hear back from this as I did not approve for over double the subscription cost and will be canceling this.

It's an excellent tool for daily activities and information, and well worth the money. I find that when I use the daily activity plans less prescriptively and more as an activity repository to use throughout the day, it's very effective. That said, I do think categorizing activities by skill set lends itself to your own prescriptive plans. I don't like that you can't replay videos without exiting them first, or that you get prompts every time you move on from an activity.

The bugs are super super annoying... this is a great app in the making.. get new developers and fix all the issues. I cannot believe I paid for this. I am reading the reviews now about all the bugs... did you seriously tell me reinstall the app when you know it's an ongoing issue?! it fixes the issue for a day. get rid of all your pop ups that should fix half your bugs

Thank you for fixing the previous problems but there are still major bugs that are very irritating. It keeps unchecking activities that we have done, sometimes seconds after checking it off and sometimes I go back in and all our progress is gone. This bug has shown up again almost 6 years later. I enjoy the app and am currently using it with my 3rd child.

Not worth the money. I can't figure out how to cancel my subscription or make full use of this app. It provides quality information but I have to navigate tech issues to get it. I found better for free.