Lingokids: A Playful Path to Early Learning - An In-Depth Review

Lingokids is the fun, safe, educational kids learning app that toddlers and children aged 2-8 love-and parents trust! Packed with over 3000 shows, songs, coloring games, cooking games, and interactive activities, it lets your child play, learn, and grow at their own pace. With over 185 million downloads and 10 million monthly active users worldwide, Lingokids has captured the attention of families across the globe. This review delves into the features, benefits, and drawbacks of the Lingokids app to help parents make an informed decision about its suitability for their children.

What is Lingokids?

Lingokids is an English learning app for kids from two to eight years old. It is an education app that promotes independent learning through a series of interactive games. At Lingokids, we believe learning sticks when it’s wrapped in fun. The app covers lots and lots of preschool subjects that you want your kid to work on, including literacy, numeracy, science, technology, music, creativity, and daily routines. It’s got so many different categories!! But it’s especially good, in my opinion, for English: for learning new vocabulary, language acquisition, and literacy in general. And, as I said before, it’s great for young English learners. There’s a special section for them.

Content and Curriculum

Lingokids offers a wide range of games, videos, lessons, and activities on offer. Lessons are split up into categories with specific content aimed at pre-K, kindergarten, and first-grade age groups. The app boasts over 3000 interactive games, coloring games, and toddler-friendly challenges covering 650+ learning objectives-all through play! Subjects include math, literacy, science, engineering, art, music, and more. Kids can move at their own pace through a curated curriculum using fun toddler games, books, videos, and songs.

Your kid can now play brand-new Disney Mickey & Friends, Disney Zootopia, Marvel Spider-man, Disney Moana and Disney Frozen-themed activities. From math to literacy to creativity, help your kid practice at their own pace with activities featuring beloved characters. Kids jump into Spidey’s world through fast-paced missions packed with number challenges, logic puzzles, and word play. With every web-slinging adventure, they stay engaged, build confidence, and strengthen problem-solving skills, one heroic challenge at a time.

Key Features

Play-Based Learning: Lingokids uses a play-based learning method. This approach helps children stay engaged and motivated while learning.
Variety of Content: The app offers a wide variety of content, including games, videos, songs, and activities. This variety keeps children interested and helps them learn in different ways.
Personalized Learning: Kids can move at their own pace through a curated curriculum. This personalized approach ensures that children are learning at a level that is appropriate for them.
Safe and Ad-Free Environment: The app is a completely safe, ad-free environment. Parents can be confident that their children are not being served intrusive and inappropriate ads.
Parental Controls: Parental controls, like daily limits and section selection, give parents the power to manage their child’s screen time as they see fit.
Offline Access: You don’t need an internet connection for all the activities. A few of them can be downloaded on your device and be done offline!
Progress Tracking: Parents are given access to a progress area that details progress that has been made across the last two weeks. This includes activities completed and skills achieved. You can then see which specific areas your child needs to work on before suggesting specific activities they might want to try.

Benefits of Using Lingokids

Educational Value: Lingokids sets kids up for success in school and beyond with thousands of activities that cleverly disguise education as entertainment. The app’s methodology has been evaluated through independent research by universities worldwide, and the results have been incredible: Kids learn more, stay engaged, and are motivated to keep learning (and playing) with Lingokids.
Engaging Content: Children really enjoy using the app. At least, that has been our experience. The graphics and the songs are super sweet and captivating.
Safe for Children: Not only the content is super safe for young children, but you can also rest assured that this app doesn’t feel like a video-game (we don’t want that with young children, especially with children from 2 to 5 years old). While children love to use it, it’s not addictive.
Develops Essential Skills: Saide loves playing the math and spelling games, which are woven in with activities that make her feel like she’s getting points and winning - but she’s actually learning addition, spelling, phonics, social skills, and so much more.
Accessibility Features: Lingokids has broad appeal across a wide range of different types of children. It also has specific content for children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia. These lessons can be accessed through the literacy and math sections.

Potential Drawbacks

Subscription Cost: Lingokids is far from the cheapest app. It’s not free. That’s what you normally get when you don’t want ads and you want really good content.
Limited Free Content: When you don’t pay a monthly trial or yearly trial, you have a daily learning schedule and when you finish, you have to wait for a whole day for more adventures.
Age Appropriateness: If your kid is older than 8 (or 9, maybe, depending on the kid) some of the content in this app, might feel too childish.
Technical Issues: Some users have reported technical issues with the app, such as lagging and difficulties with Wi-Fi connectivity.
Customer Service: Some users have reported issues with customer service, citing slow response times and unhelpful replies.

User Reviews and Testimonials

The specific and personal comments are backed up by a download count of 165 million. This is clearly an app that has captured the hearts of children around the world, and one that parents are prepared to spend money on to gain access to its features. Many families may already know Lingokids from our videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids, where over 3 million subscribers enjoy our playful, edutaining content.

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"The best kids app in the universe."
"My daughter loves this app."
"My two-year-old can’t get enough."
"Lingokids is such an exceptional educational tool, so impressive!! My granddaughter really enjoys learning with this program, we LOVE Lingokids!!"
"Best Educational App! My 2.5 year old loves Lingokids! She’s been playing games on the app since she was 2 and every time she plays she gets more and more engaged and discovers new games. I love how many activities there are and that there are games for such a wide array of interests, and educational levels. I know she’ll be using the app for years to come!"
"Wow..Wow… No words for this app! My kids are obsessed with it, and honestly, I think I am too! What better way to keep your kids entertained while knowing they’re learning and developing new skills, all while enjoying their connection with the characters? Amazing! I’ve recommended it to all my mummy friends!"
"We love Lingokids! We've been using Lingokids for more than 2 years now and I couldn't be happier! My 4-year old kid loves all the games and he's learning many things with them!"
"I love the app for my daughter who uses it to play while strengthening her English skills"

However, not all reviews are positive. Some users have expressed concerns about the app's content, customer service, and technical issues.

"Lingokids cartoons are too stupid. Baby Bot is ugly and doesn't really look like anything. The voice acting is poor and you can't understand what they're saying, or what they're doing. It would be nice if they would make some effort on the animation of the cartoons, which is really too sloppy and failed."
"Really annoying, no visibility, not possible to start using by kids between 5-7 years on their own. Singing is for adults too difficult, not mentioning 7 years old. Baby robot terrible, you cant understand what this is doing and films, OMG, no idea what they do. They have subtitles, but for who, if they show them for 2 seconds max. Terrible experience, kids have no idea what is to do, because the orders are difficult to understand by parents. Stay away!"
"HORRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE - THEY IGNORE PARENTS! I had high hopes for Lingokids, but their customer service is an absolute disgrace. But guess what? They IGNORED me. Not for a day. Not for a week. But for nearly TWO MONTHS. How can a company claim to care about children’s education when they can’t even be bothered to reply to a parent’s concerns? If this is how they treat paying customers, imagine how much they actually care about improving their content. Spoiler alert: they don’t."

Awards and Recognition

It’s always a win when your child wants to play or watch with an app that we know is educational and safe. And the many industry awards Lingokids has garnered only reinforces my confidence (seriously, they’ve gotten more than 30, and seals of approval, like Good Housekeeping’s Best Parenting Award and TIME’s Best EdTech Companies in the World, among many others). It’s been awarded the “Best Original Learning App” by Kidsscreen two years in a row (2022 and 2023), which is apparently a big deal.

Device Compatibility

iPhoneRequires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPadRequires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touchRequires iOS 15.1 or later.
MacRequires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Languages Supported

Languages English and 16 more English, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese

Age Rating

This app has an age rating of 4+ with content restrictions. Some content may be rated higher, but access is managed by the developer through in-app controls.

A Personal Experience

There is so much judgement around parents’ use of screens, whether it’s phone, tablets, or TVs. I’ve seen comments on social media from people who are not parents, judging those of us who are trying to keep our kids calm and entertained while at a busy restaurant or at home while working. But I can’t lie, handing my phone over to my 4-year-old, Saide, so she can let me get through just one more afternoon meeting comes with a heavy dollop of guilt. If you are a parent and relate to this statement, stick around - there’s a special gift waiting for you and your kid at the end of the article. Lingokids is trying to change all that. The number 1 interactive app for kids under 8 has been a game changer for my daughter - and it’s been a total guilt-killer for me! We started using Lingokids a couple of months ago after I had been searching for fun learning games that would keep Saide interested. Everything I found was either not worth it, full of ads, or just kinda shady. Enter Lingokids. The app interface is easy for her to follow along: at the top there are icons for Games, Theater, Lessons, and Family Time, each with their own activities within. The Games area is brimming with exciting topics for Saide to explore, all with the help of her favorite characters, whether it’s Elliott, Baby Bot, or Lisa from Lingokids, or Pocoyo, Blippi, or Meeka. Theater gives her safe, high-quality videos featuring her character friends that make her time watching impactful, all while learning about her emotions, curiosity, her body, and more. Lessons and Family Time reinforce what she’s learned throughout the app. The best part for me? The app is a completely safe, ad-free environment, so even if I’m not always screening what she’s watching, I can be confident that she’s not being served intrusive and inappropriate ads for her age and that she’s interacting with games, activities, and videos that are 100% made for kids. Plus, parental controls, like daily limits and section selection, give me all the power to manage her screen time as I see fit. Beyond the app, I can also click over to a printables section that supports the lessons and games that she interacts with. But the most important reviewer for me is my Saide, who almost every day asks me, “Can I play Lingokids?” You most definitely can!

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