Prodigy Math Game vs IXL
Choose Prodigy Math Game for a more engaging and fun learning experience, but be wary of its paywall.
Prodigy Math Game offers a more enjoyable and interactive way to learn math, with a higher lifetime rating than IXL. However, it faces criticism for its monetization strategies, which frustrate users who prefer the free version. IXL, while also educational, has significant issues with its scoring system that many find discouraging.
Head to head
you want a more engaging and fun math learning experience, especially for younger users.
you need a structured learning app with a focus on multiple subjects and are okay with a more traditional learning approach.
Evidence note: Prodigy Math Game's reviews reflect a mix of positive engagement and frustration over monetization, while IXL's reviews highlight significant dissatisfaction with its scoring system.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R2] Prodigy Math Game Great: It’s helping me learn better and I kinda teaches not to go that fast🫥
- [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
- [R68] IXL Good but not perfect: You see it’s pretty good how it teaches people languages,math,reading and more but I don’t like how it like makes your progress bar go down and I’ve realized that the more progress you get the more the thing that fills the bar goes down, but at least it’s better than abc mouse and lingo kids and in some ads like abc mouse copy lingo kids ads CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!?
- [R66] IXL things that NEED to be changed: this app is ok. it’s good for learning, but why the heck do you drop lower when you get something wrong? that discourages students like me. it takes longer to finish the ixl. JUST KEEP THE STUDENT IN THE SAME SPOT DONT MOVE THEM DOWN!!!!
- [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.👎🏾
- [R54] Prodigy Math Game Good but buggy: Very buggy. Frequent issues like overlays popping up with the close X missing so you can’t close and have to kill the app. Or making progress and being told have gained a new spell, but then it’s not showing when you enter a battle. Other bugs through too, so quite frustrating to play in earnest.
- [R69] IXL Rager Learning App: This app frustrates me a lot because every time you get something wrong, you get 5-15 points off and each time you get one correct you get 10 at first in the beginning for about 5 times until 53 and then you only get 1-3 points for each you get correct. The app is a great learning app for kids and all people and i would recommend this learning app for people who likes to rage😅😅
- [R88] IXL very horrible: Overall, this app isn’t a great way to learn. Not only is it not free, but every time you get an answer wrong, it bumps you down like 15 points. When you finally get an answer right, you only go up like 4-5. It’s very frustrating and especially stressful when you are being timed and scored on every problem. The feedback is disorganized and confusing. I often don’t understand the pro
- [R61] IXL Someone needs to hire a hit man: When I put a correct answer it says it is incorrect and proceeds to show me the same exact answer as I put. I have been working on this code for the past 6 hours.
- [R90] IXL Not as good as before..: IXL is a great app for learning stuff - don’t get me wrong. BUT, now I cannot access the learning bits (the roman numerals e.t.c). It shows the loading screen and I wait A LONG TIME JUST FOR IT TO NOT LOAD.
- [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
- [R4] Prodigy Math Game 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
- [R75] IXL Good but Not impressed: This is a good app but I don’t wanna pay cuz I’m looking forward to studying for Sats but it pays to go allll the way! I understand that this is how you guys make money but just not the money for me as I can use different apps for free **•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚ I hope you understand 😉˚*•̩̩͙✩•̩̩͙*˚*
- [R82] IXL Worst app ever: This app is horrible for learning you install it for free then have to pay to use it and when you pay you have to do a dumb quiz that “shows” your level in school and it starts off hard, if you get a question wrong it takes you down like 3 grades and it’s hard to do anything on this app and not only is it hard it’s a long process the quiz takes over 3 hours in total just to give yo
- [R60] 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
- [R106] IXL ixl review and requests: ixl is helpful, and it helped with my studies a lot. there are some things though that make my review a four. one thing i would want in the app were the analytics that you can see in the website. that would make it easier to see my progress. also, whenever i get i get a question wrong in the higher smartscore level, it pushes me way, back which doesn’t help with the motiva
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store