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Prodigy Math Game

55
User verdict / 100 High confidence Divided

Prodigy Math Game is praised for making learning math fun and engaging, especially in classroom settings, but recent reviews highlight significant frustration with aggressive monetization, numerous bugs, and a perceived decline in quality compared to previous versions.

4.8★ lifetime (236,780) Free to download since 2015 by Prodigy Education Inc. updated 7.1 mo ago recent negative 20% 120 reviews across 4 regions
Monetization Bugs & Glitches Account & Progress Gameplay Changes Educational Value
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4★139
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1★128
recent reviews across 4 regions, vs the 4.8★ lifetime average

Prodigy Math Game is an educational app designed to make learning math enjoyable through a game-like experience. While many users appreciate its ability to engage children with math, recent feedback indicates widespread dissatisfaction with its 'pay-to-win' model, frequent glitches, and changes to gameplay that have negatively impacted the free user experience.

What users like

  • Effectively makes learning math fun and engaging for kids.R1R2R10R15
  • Good for classroom use and helps children improve math skills.R3R16R41R47
  • Offers a nostalgic experience for long-time players.R29R40

What users complain about

  • Aggressive monetization with frequent paywalls and membership requirements for core features like pet evolution, rare items, and events.R8R19R24R27
  • Frequent glitches, bugs, and loading issues, including getting stuck on screens, black boxes in battles, and music stopping.R8R11R14R19
  • Users report losing progress, being logged out, or having accounts deleted, often due to forgotten login info or system errors.R9R35R36R173
  • Perceived decline in game quality and changes to core mechanics, such as new graphics, removal of features, and easier math questions.R23R31R34R37
  • Aggressive advertising for memberships, even for existing members or after every battle.R8R23R25R57
  • Difficulty in obtaining in-game currency (Magic Coins) and items without a membership.R4R12R37R77
  • Issues with subscription billing, including unexpected auto-renewals and difficulty canceling.R56R128R152

Latest update · v4.9.8

What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):

General enhancement and bug fixes!

Recurring themes

Monetization negative
Many users, especially parents, are highly critical of the game's aggressive 'pay-to-win' model. They feel that essential features, desirable pets, and progression are locked behind expensive memberships, leading to children begging for purchases and making the free experience frustrating and unfair. Ads for memberships are also frequent and intrusive.R8R19R23R24
Bugs & Glitches negative
A significant number of reviews report various technical issues, including the game freezing, getting stuck on screens, black boxes appearing during battles, music cutting out, and general lag. These bugs often force users to restart the app, disrupting gameplay and leading to frustration. The developer's notes mention 'bug fixes', but recent reviews contradict this, indicating ongoing issues.R8R11R14R19
Account & Progress negative
Users frequently experience issues with account management, such as being logged out, losing saved progress, or having their accounts reset. The app often fails to save login information, forcing users to re-enter details and sometimes leading to forgotten passwords and lost game data.R9R35R36R173
Gameplay Changes negative
Many long-time players express disappointment with recent updates that have altered the game's aesthetics (e.g., pixel style to cartoony), removed popular features like the Battle Arena or Rune Island, and changed core mechanics such as pet evolution and how mythical epics are obtained. Some feel the game has become less educational or too easy.R23R31R34R37
Educational Value positive
Despite the negative feedback on other aspects, many users still acknowledge that the game is effective at teaching math and making it enjoyable for children. It is often used in classrooms and helps kids improve their math skills.R1R2R3R10

Who it's for

Prodigy Math Game is for children and students who enjoy learning math through an engaging, adventure-style game R1R2. It is particularly well-suited for classroom use where teachers can integrate it into their curriculum R3R41. However, it is NOT for users or parents who are unwilling to pay for a premium membership, as the free version is heavily restricted and filled with ads R8R24R118.

Evidence note: The recent reviews skew heavily negative, focusing on monetization and technical issues. This contrasts sharply with the high lifetime rating, suggesting a significant decline in user satisfaction over time. The developer's release notes are too generic ('General enhancement and bug fixes!') to address specific user complaints about bugs or monetization, and recent reviews indicate that reported bugs persist.

Frequently asked

Is Prodigy Math Game free to play?
Prodigy Math Game is free to download and play, but many core features, desirable pets, and progression elements are locked behind a paid membership, making the free experience feel limited and frustrating R8R24R118.
What are the main complaints about Prodigy Math Game?
The main complaints about Prodigy Math Game revolve around its aggressive 'pay-to-win' monetization model, frequent glitches and bugs, issues with account progress being lost, and a perceived decline in overall game quality and features compared to older versions R8R19R35R61.
Can I evolve pets without a membership?
No, many users report that evolving pets and obtaining rare or powerful pets requires a paid membership, making it difficult or impossible for free players to progress effectively R19R82R127R240.
Are there ads in Prodigy Math Game?
Yes, users report frequent and intrusive ads, often appearing after every battle or when trying to perform actions, primarily promoting the game's paid membership R8R25R71R81.
Is it difficult to cancel a Prodigy Math Game membership?
Several parents report that canceling a membership can be difficult and complicated, with some experiencing unexpected auto-renewals and unauthorized charges R56R128R152.

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.

  1. [R1] 5/5 · US Great: It’s helping me learn better and I kinda teaches not to go that fast🫥
  2. [R2] 5/5 · US It’s a good game to play: I love how it is a have fun and learn game u might like it
  3. [R10] 5/5 · US BestLearningGame!: Love it! It’s doesn’t get better than this! I love the pets and how you can fight other people online it’s not just some dull learning game you can actually have fun while doing it!😄
  4. [R15] 5/5 · US BEST GAME!: This game is soooooooo fun it teaches you math while also making it fun. I really encourage you to try it. TRUST me you will never regret it.
  5. [R3] 5/5 · US Teach tec: I love this in the classroom. It’s fun to do tournaments all Friday long win win situations
  6. [R16] 5/5 · US Best learning game: Every time I go on prodigy it helps with my learning with math,eniglish, and science
  7. [R41] 3/5 · US Very fun: Prodigy has kept me busy for hours plus it’s very good for the mind and it teaches you like fractions and if you’re like in first grade or something. And if you’re in a school, you can get your password from your laptop at school or if you’re homeschool, you can download Prodigy and you can make up a name and if you’re at school, you just hook it up to your phone or tablet at home and th
  8. [R47] 5/5 · US Best game ever: This game is SO fun.and is good for math helping
  9. [R29] 5/5 · US Peak Nostalgic: I Love Prodigy. I played it when i was in 5th Grade...Peak Nostalgia
  10. [R40] 4/5 · US Review of this game: Used to be better 4 yrs ago
  11. [R8] 2/5 · US Paywalls: It’s fun but to have an actually good time you have to pay for a stupid membership. Also it hits you with an ad every time you try to do something. I also keep getting stuck in some screens because I clocked off of a ad. This made me lose progress and made me unhappy
  12. [R19] 3/5 · US Review: Glitchy and your character is very weak if you don’t get the membership but fun
  13. [R24] 3/5 · US Fun… but not.: This game has helped me focus on math a lot, but here are the issues. There are 3 ranks of memberships with different prices, which are expensive. If you don’t have any of the memberships, you get to have boring pets and a weaker team. This is really frustrating to me. The other thing having to do with this is that this is a kids game. This is a kids game, targeted towards kids,
  14. [R27] 2/5 · US Good but: This is a good game but please either give non members some of the same stuff as members or remove membership altogether.
  15. [R11] 4/5 · US Fun game but pls FIX THIS PLEASE: So I love this game and I’m happy that I got sarasoar today but the game is very laggy and glitchy and I spotted an inappropriate thing on the game it was a glitch that showed a wizard 🧙 with its under covers I don’t know if I’m exaggerating but yeah pls fix this inappropriate glitch well to me it looks inappropriate
  16. [R14] 4/5 · US Good but very glichy: I have great internet connection and every time I attack in a battle on the target it shows a black box around the target and sometimes it is so glitched out that the music stops completely and it takes awhile for it to load. But I like the idea of the game though!
  17. [R9] 5/5 · US Awesome: I Had this app since I was like five and it’s really good I got to a lava world until the game deleted my progress so you have to play like every day or else is gonna delete your game and you have to restart. Or if you remember you’re logging info. You would get your game back, but yeah, I don’t like it when the game delete your game cause I will never remember my login info
  18. [R35] 3/5 · US Kept having to log back in and lost all my data: This is a good app in all, but every time I opened the app it would not save my username in I saved it many times. Eventually it charged my mother for the membership and then eventually logged me out and I could not log back in, and lost all my data.👎🏾
  19. [R36] 2/5 · US About my review: I loved it at the start, but then I had to be a member for everything basically. Then when I tried to log back in it’s like “Do you have an account or would you like to make an account” I already had one for me, but it wanted me to put in a code but I forgot it. So i lost A LOT of progress. If your going to make a game where you have to sign up save it. I dont understand why it do
  20. [R173] 3/5 · US Prodigy: The thing obout prodigy is that I am always getting logged out of the app when I am logged in and I am just trying to do the quests and still I am getting logged out!!!😡😭😢so please 🙏 fix this please and I will really appreciate it otherwise I would recommend the app😄xoxo
  21. [R23] 1/5 · US Why Prodigy is No Longer Fun: I used to play this game free version and get annoyed about the “get our membership” and be jealous of my friends who had them. I never asked my parents because I knew the answer would be no or pay yourself and I didn’t want to pay so I never did and stoped playing for a while then I came back a year later all of my ela prodigy gone and get our better memberships and
  22. [R31] 1/5 · US Restore the Battle Arena: Bring back the battle arena or else
  23. [R34] 1/5 · US Gamified addictive trash: Title says it all. For kids who are good at math it’s just games with like 126+234=360 coming up every 15 min. Otherwise it’s completely trashy addictive games. I am in shock that schools opt into buying this for their curriculums. No wonder the US elementary education is in the toilet.
  24. [R37] 1/5 · US Its trash: I hated the game. Rip off! It’s bad as it’s a rip off of Pokémon. The math’s also way too easy. Make it harder and at least give the kids more magic coins after battling.
  25. [R25] 5/5 · US Best game please remove memberships: This is a really good game but the memberships makes it so that if you don’t get it you can not get certain pets and get costumes and when i beat some pets there is a ad about playing at home.When I made my account tho I pressed play at home so I don’t understand why the ad keeps popping up.But still this is a great app just please remove the ads and membership
  26. [R57] 1/5 · US Prodigy sadly FELL OFF: Prodigy,Prodigy,Prodigy where do I even begin *sigh* this game used to be great 👍 but suddenly out of nowhere you fell off. And the problem is the “membership”. Ok just 5 suggestions for your crummy membership 1. Limit ads to 3 battles instead of one 2. Remove membership on dark tower. 3. Get rid of membership only items and cosmetics. It feels better to get them then pay
  27. [R4] 4/5 · US There’s one Problem It’s just not fair: The game is pay to win and basically you need to grind so hard for good stuff while members can easily get stuff a lot easier plus they don’t have a limitation unlike non members and evolving stays and magic coins are kinda hard to get.
  28. [R12] 4/5 · US needs improvements: the game and the graphics are very good, but you really need to make getting magicoin easier. it took me like 20 days to afford a legendary.
  29. [R77] 3/5 · US No p2w pls: “You need tokens to upgrade your pet” like its hard to get tokens in Prodigy.
  30. [R56] 1/5 · US DO NOT PURCHASE: Parent, here. App as a whole is fine. However, I got the notification of its YEAR-long subscription renewal on the day it renewed. Cancelled, but was still charged for the entire up coming year. The app stating it will end June 20, 2027. NOT OK. This is a scam-level billing practice.
  31. [R128] 1/5 · US Obscure on billing and auto renew.: Parents attention. While you are excited signing up for this game for kids, please be aware that the program is obscure on billing and auto renew. If you are not paying attention on cancelling on time, it will auto charge your bank account for years. There is no auto renew option on the website. But they will just charge you without your permission. And it is ve
  32. [R152] 1/5 · US No way you can cancel it: Don’t buy this app, it is very hard and complicated to cancel the membership, they scam people.
  33. [R118] 1/5 · US Money grab: You literally can’t even play in the current season event without a membership. ANYTHING regarding upgrading pets to make progress in the game costs magicoin which is extremely difficult to obtain without a membership (which they have LEVELS to by the way) and they started making you watch ADS after EVERY BATTLE. This used to be a great educational tool for kids to have fun and learn m
  34. [R61] 2/5 · US Prodigy is a bygone era: Prodigy was fun. That was in 2020. I loved the game. There was almost no membership pestering, the math and battles were fun, the pets weren’t insanely powerful or irredeemably terrible, and the game ended after you defeated the puppet master. In 2022 or 2023, I was using prodigy every summer, no more, with a membership for my math. I was happy. The summer after that, I go
  35. [R82] 1/5 · US Super good game but…: Prodigy is a decent math game but my only problem is that I can’t evolve my pets or even capture some of them because it tells me that I need membership and so I went to see how much it costs and it says $25.00 and it’s just too much money it would be better to instead of needing to have membership you could instead put that if it’s more valuable make it so that you give more
  36. [R127] 2/5 · US Boooooooo!: I do not like this game. It says you can evolve your monsters but what it doesn’t tell you is that you need to pay around $19 dollars to evolve just one monster. If you want to evolve more than one monster, you have to pay another $19 dollars. do not recommend.
  37. [R240] 3/5 · US Prodigy was fun before but now...Pls read before buy if you don't want membership: I love playing prodigy with my friends but I hate how in the new update almost everything costs the membership like you can't even evolve your starter pets or even catch rare pets anymore.🥀 The game center is fun but why do we only get 5 minutes?? Could you make it a little longer? Also wth are these furry skins😭. P
  38. [R71] 2/5 · US Not the best: The best because it has too many ads for advertising the prodigy membership
  39. [R81] 1/5 · US Prodigy is SO PAY TO PLAY (do not recommend): I played this game in 2020. It was so fun until 2023, It started getting pay to play little by little, until now every 30 second an ad pops up and advertises their stupid money grabbing membership. The ones playing are either bots or people who already fell for their scam. I wish there was a lower rating than this… 🤮

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store