Prodigy Math Game vs Khan Academy Kids
Khan Academy Kids is the better choice for early childhood education due to its completely free, ad-free experience and broad curriculum, while Prodigy Math Game's aggressive monetization significantly detracts from its educational value.
Prodigy Math Game offers an engaging, gamified math experience, but its heavy reliance on paid memberships and frequent ads frustrates many users. Khan Academy Kids, in contrast, provides a completely free, ad-free, and comprehensive learning platform for younger children, though some users find its content too basic for older kids.
Head to head
you have a child who is highly motivated by gamified learning and you are willing to pay for a membership to unlock all features, or if your child's school uses it and provides access R8.
Evidence note: Reviews for Prodigy Math Game are heavily skewed towards negative feedback regarding its monetization, while Khan Academy Kids reviews are generally positive, with most criticisms focusing on age appropriateness.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R5] Prodigy Math Game It’s a good game to play: I love how it is a have fun and learn game u might like it
- [R6] Prodigy Math Game 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,
- [R8] Prodigy Math Game Teach tec: I love this in the classroom. It’s fun to do tournaments all Friday long win win situations
- [R11] Prodigy Math Game 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.
- [R1] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R9] Prodigy Math Game 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.👎🏾
- [R19] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R23] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R3] Prodigy Math Game Review: Glitchy and your character is very weak if you don’t get the membership but fun
- [R49] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R54] Prodigy Math Game No support response: We have issues with the app not tracking usage. Sent email to support and never heard back. The end. Old review: On iPad 7th Gen iOS 13.2 the latest app keeps hanging at a point where you need to choose a spell. It doesn’t hang fully coz you can toggle back to home screen for 10 seconds and go back in - then it works but then the sound is off. But then you can toggle one more
- [R91] Khan Academy Kids Unable to register: I never receive the email to register the account. I’ve checked spam folder and internet connection. When I go to your website to create a help desk ticket I’m asked again to verify my email. THAT email I receive but every time I try to create a ticket, I’m asked AGAIN to verify my email. I’m at a standstill!
- [R25] Prodigy Math Game Prodigy Math Scam For Kids: I’ve tried to write reviews so long about why this game sucks, that my phone crashed. There are so many reasons why not to download it. The basic are, you used to have a good game, dedicated to making something boring fun. Then developers got greedy, and TECHNICALLY, you don’t have to pay to play. But TECHNICALLY, 90% of stuff now costs money, or requires money in order
- [R40] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R62] Khan Academy Kids Age is annoying: So the game is really fun but the age range is to small I like it and I’m 11 so the highest it goes is 2nd grade even though older kids like it too. Just try to put the age range a little higher like maybe up to middle school, thats all I’m asking.
- [R63] Khan Academy Kids Too Simple: I’m homeschooling my daughter and the exercises are tedious and far below her ability. I raised her grade level to see if the activities would move faster and expect more from her and they were too slow paced. If you have a child that struggles to understand the basic problem solving process, this will be good for you.
- [R66] Khan Academy Kids Don’t get unless your a baby: So I downloaded this game thinking it would give me harder work since I’m older well it didn’t it made me do little math equations and match the word to the picture and things like that idk if I just got me started but idk unless your five or under I think you should get the game but if your older than that I don’t think you should get the game I know it’s disappointi
- [R77] Khan Academy Kids The Best!: This is the best app for preschool learning! My 3 year old granddaughter enjoys the interactive activities and the story reading. It’s a calming app for her, it’s free, there is always something new, and, best of all, there are no ads
- [R71] Khan Academy Kids outstanding and free!: In 2022 we looked for a free app when our son was traveling cross-atlantic for the first time. He was then just 18 months old, and it was the first ‘thing’ to teach him a word that was not me! Now at 5 3/4 we still use it and love it, so educational and fun, and learned it goes all the way through AP! App of the year is a truly well deserved accolade, well done!
- [R80] Khan Academy Kids The best kids app ever made: My daughter absolutely loves it and can spend hours learning in it without getting bored. It’s been a lifesaver during long road trips and flights, when there isn’t much else for kids to do. I also love that she’s learning instead of just watching cartoons or playing random games on a tablet. And the fact that it’s completely free, with no ads or subscriptions, makes i
- [R106] Khan Academy Kids Amazing!: This is our kids go to App- so many activities and endless fun! We appreciate that its layout and activities are very well structured for kids- plus everything is included at no cost!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store