Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a highly-regarded free educational resource, praised for its comprehensive content and clear video explanations, but recent user reviews highlight significant technical issues and a frustrating mobile experience.
Khan Academy is widely appreciated for its extensive, free educational content across various subjects, with many users finding it highly effective for learning and review. However, recent feedback indicates a decline in app performance, with frequent crashes, login problems, and a less functional mobile interface compared to the website. The app's core educational value remains, but its usability is currently hampered by these technical and design flaws.
What users like
- Provides comprehensive and free educational content across various subjects, including math, science, and coding.R39R52R55R58
- Videos and explanations are generally clear, understandable, and helpful for learning new topics or reviewing old ones.R12R28R35R47
- Effective for self-paced learning and preparing for tests, helping users improve grades and understanding.R6R8R24R28
- Offers a good alternative to other learning platforms, with some users preferring its system.R5
What users complain about
- Frequent app crashes, glitches, and loading issues hinder the learning experience.R2R51R247R455
- Login and account management are problematic, with users reporting incorrect password errors and lost progress.R2R10R15R103
- In-app keyboard is finicky and often registers incorrect numbers or symbols, leading to frustration and wrong answers.R2R13R17R32
- Many features and courses available on the website are not accessible or functional within the mobile app, often requiring users to open a browser.R45R100R127R143
- Some users report incorrect solutions in lessons and practice questions, or that the app marks correct answers as wrong.R2R7R23R43
- Explanations can be vague, unclear, or incomplete, sometimes not covering all material needed for exercises.R17R141R151R196
- The app lacks engaging elements and can be perceived as boring, especially for younger learners.R14R26R33R40
- Navigation and course progression can be confusing, making it difficult to find specific content or track progress.R73R153R266R278
Latest update · v8.4.1
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
∙ Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Khan Academy is for individuals seeking free, comprehensive educational content across various subjects, particularly those who appreciate video-based learning and self-paced study R12R35R39R47. It's especially useful for students needing to catch up or get ahead in subjects like math R6R8R28. It is NOT for users who require a highly stable, bug-free mobile app experience, or those who get easily frustrated by technical glitches, inaccurate input, or a lack of engaging features R2R13R26R51.
Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative regarding app functionality and user experience, which contrasts with the high lifetime rating. This suggests a recent decline in app quality or a shift in user expectations for mobile platforms. The developer's notes mention 'bug fixes and performance improvements,' but recent reviews directly contradict these claims, indicating ongoing or new issues.
Frequently asked
Is Khan Academy free?
Does Khan Academy have technical problems?
Is the mobile app as good as the website?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R39] Khan academy: It’s an awesome educational app. It has very descriptive videos and it’s free no ads no pop-ups for “ get your subscription”. If you’re looking for an educational app, I recommend this.
- [R52] Great App for Learning: I love all the free educational resources available on Kahn Academy
- [R55] Amazing Learning Platform!: Khan Academy is a great place to learn anything you want from coding, to English, to Math. It’s course formatting makes a great start to learn anything topic
- [R58] Free education: Learn on here for 30-45 mins a day. I probably get the same amount of knowledge as in school in a fraction of the time.
- [R12] Luv🌟: I have a quiet fear of going back to school now that im in my early 20s, and this has helped me find an easy service that helps me learn on my own in an easy and digestible way. I reccomend if you want to kickstart yourself in different topics!! Thank you!
- [R28] Great app, learned all of algebra 2: I was behind a year in math and I wanted to take the ACT early into my junior year. So I tried Khan Academy and I was pleasantly surprised by the helpful format and style of reviewing the material. Great app that definitely helped me and would 100% recommend
- [R35] Redeeming my old education: I am going back to take Algebra for fun, but also to help my own kids. It would have been amazing to have had this resource available when I was taking it for the first time. I am so appreciative of the thorough and clear teaching, along with the interface, usability, and motivation-enhancing setup. Thank you!
- [R47] Impeccable App And Website: Khan Academy is truly a godsend. When you desperately need a topic laid out to you, Khan academy and Sal have your back! Each lesson feels like I’m in the room with the instructor. Each lesson (even mathematics lol) feels special and far from the typical boring lectures you would hear from most professors. Truly, I feel everyone owes a special place in their heart for S
- [R6] Good app: My son is getting ready for fourth grade and he has learned so much on khan academy what he learns on this app will surely help him later
- [R8] Tuff: Peak bro helps me maintain my 99.99% in math
- [R24] Really helpful: Literally have never seen an app do so well at helping with courses I’m going to high school and wanted to get ready this is already really cool wish I found it sooner
- [R5] Khan Academy is better than IXL: This is way better than Ixl because Ixl smartscore system is making me very angry. I rather not recommend to use Ixl ever again. Ixl, this is all your fault, khan academy wins forever.
- [R2] Needs more work: Videos sometimes do not play, app crashes frequently and lessons also very frequently have incorrect solutions and glitches requiring you to restart the lesson. Typing using the in-app keyboard is also very finnicky, creating and logging into accounts do not work well, and things taught in the videos aren't in the lessons after.
- [R51] Worst app I have ever used: Whatever you do don't get this app it does not teach you anything accept for crashing out 🤬🤬🤬🤬
- [R247] Trying to log in back into my account: It is very a good app to learn but it often glitches a lot and doesn’t load even though I have internet. I’m currently trying to log back into my account because I thought deleting it will fix the loading issue but it say an error login into my account
- [R455] Khan Academy 🙁: It takes very much Time to load and it has much bugs
- [R10] Fix this!: I had an account for a couple months and I made 5 accounts because of this problem!when I'm signing in my account it's saying "you password or username is incorrect" even though i know it is! Looks like I have to make another 2 accounts.
- [R15] Khan academy deleted all of my progress: So I just came back to do khan academy and I see a screen telling me to sign up even though I was at the end of 4th grade. Khan academy should see what happened. Now all of my progress is gone and I was on my last unit in 4th grade
- [R103] Sign in: unexpected error: Could not sign up to sign in do to “unexpected errors” upon multiple attempts.
- [R13] keybord ragebait: the keyboard is absolute ragebait it thinks 2 = 1 and 7 = 9 the keyboard is the most annoying form of ragebait Hope to see more content too My parents make me do this a million times a day and learning is not fun and you cannot learn anything Unpurposeful app = this Ragebait app = this Uidfciugreifugiuefrgiufre
- [R17] ABSOLUTE HORIBLE: IT DOESNT LET U RESTART, EXPLANATIONS AND PROBLEM ARE UNCLEAR, AND APP DOESNT SUPPORT ANYTHING INCLUDING. TYPING EXPONENTS ON THE KEYBOARD THE CONTROL CENTER IS TRASH AND THE FEEDBACK AND ACCOUNT SETTINGS DONT EVEN MAKE SENSE
- [R32] So bad: Makes my kids cry. Every time they click it does the wrong number don’t add
- [R45] THIS IS A NON WORKING APP: Since update i cannot access anything because the app keeps taking the user out of the app into online content. Defeating the whole purpose of this app. It no longer works efficiently. Want donations Khan Academy?? You need to revamp and fix this app. No longer user friendly. Sad. Deleting app.
- [R100] nOt aVaiLaBLe: dude, how is nothing available on the damn app. if i wanted to "open in browser" for half the features, i'd just do it on pc. the hell? it doesn't even let me log in with google, "unexpected error occurred". ok man
- [R127] ⭐️App ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Laptop: The mobile app doesn't have student access from my parent account. Totally worthless. It shows the course in my feed as if it is MY course, but there is nothing linking my account to my child. In fact, my account looks like a student account, because there is an option to "manage teachers". So I attempted to use the browser on my phone to access the full account. I did
- [R143] ehh downloads arent good: love that it has all the languages and materials adapted to mobile. problem is it wont save data (even after getting back on the internet) when doing bookmarked courses. downloading stuff is kind of the reason i have the app and use it online, but besides that its good.
- [R7] This is not math: They said 12 equals 10
- [R23] They need to learn their math: Bro so I was doing this for online school right and I was doing this question abt rounding and it said it was wrong but ts was right and I asked my teacher she was like it’s right and gave me a low score
- [R43] Review: 2 stars, The reason why I’m rating it 2 stars is because my daughter was doing math. Equivalent fractions to be exact. And she got the correct answer, she put in 6/8 in a fraction way (khan academy has those fraction tools). And she got it wrong 😑, she tried and tried but khan academy kept on saying wrong, wrong, and wrong.she came and showed me and I was sure it was the correct answer so
- [R141] Do not recommend this: No offense, but it doesn’t teach you that good because the person in the video doesn’t always explain clearly. It helps, but mostly, my mom teaches me because the videos are confusing. Plus, if you get only two questions wrong, you have to restart. Only use this app for practice on things you already know.
- [R151] Too complicated: I hate this app it just a secondary report so i get yelled at more its lessons don’t relate at all to what I’ve done in class and when the videos explain it just complicated
- [R196] Want to like.: I want to like Khan Academy but the explanations are way too vague. I like detail.
- [R14] Let’s talk: It’s good and educational but can you add some play or something and also can you make the lessons more fun cus they get boring on the third lesson so can you please add a bit of play and fun and can you make the videos better and fun please but out of everything it’s pretty great
- [R26] Worst app ever!: I hate khan academy!!!!!!!!!its soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo boooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg! Absolutely hate it and it doesn’t help with anything at all
- [R33] Boring: No creativity
- [R40] It’s fun needs more: I got this app it’s a good learning app just I think it could have some mini games with math or reading just to make it more fun I know that is on khan academy kids but I just think it could also be a lot of fun with games
- [R73] Khan academy: It was OK but it never showed me where I left off in the unit so I ended up retaking a whole unit over again!!
- [R153] Confused: How to do a. Course is confusing to me. I don’t see a clear path. I don’t see how I’m so supposed to move through the course. There is no way to understand what’s next. Perhaps as I go through it I will understand the process but it is not obvious to me as a beginner.
- [R266] We need this pls 😭: This app is goated, we just need y’all to put the courses in the app, it’s hard to find the chrome tab with the course when it’s surrounded by a million others
- [R278] Ok until subject: I love khan academy, and it’s great until you need a specific subject then… not that great. For me I was trying to get khan academy to explain something for my homework, but I just couldn’t find the exact thing I needed. So it’s great and all if you don’t need a specific subject question and are fine with just following their ways.
- [R11] Good but one thing for mobile users: This app is very useful and helpful, but there is something you should know. If you are on an ipad or a phone, beware that the answers won’t fully show up. If your on a computer than your totally good to keep on learning.
- [R497] Features Missing...: Lots of the features on the website have left out in the app. WHY?
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store