Reading Plus Reviews 386

TrustScore 1 out of 5

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Evaluating 174 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people found the user experience to be extremely negative, citing issues with the app and website being outdated, buggy, and slow. Customers frequently mentioned that the product itself, particularly the reading materials, was boring and unengaging, leading to a decrease in their enjoyment of reading. The quality of the content was also a major concern, with many feeling that the questions were often irrelevant or misleading, and the system for tracking progress was flawed. However, some people did find the app to be enjoyable and helpful for improving their reading, comprehension, and vocabulary, with a few even recommending it highly.

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User experience

People report negative experiences with the user experience, often describing it as mentally draining and... See more

Product

Users describe negative interactions with the product, consistently reporting it as a monotonous,... See more

Application

Customers had negative experiences with the app. Many reviewers describe the app as a source of stress and... See more

Website

Customers consistently express strong dissatisfaction with the website. Many reviewers describe it as boring,... See more

Quality

Consumers find quality to be negative, consistently describing the reading materials as "awful," "trash," and... See more

Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This app is worse than horrible it is hell literally the only people who like this app are teacher who hates there students (yass)cause you book selection is bad you website is worse this is pure tort... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If I could I would give this NEGATIVE stars. Reading Plus is a Bug Filled heckscape. They say it's primary goal is to "increase your reading speed" when in reality it's "decrease your reading speed".... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely terrible. Forces you to read at a slug's pace, while trying to get you to answer stupid questions about some random book you didn't want to read anyways. I have to install ReadingPlusClues... See more


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  1. Elementary School
  2. High School
  3. School District Office

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Reading Plus is a personalized adaptive reading intervention. Our program gives students the online tools they need to improve reading levels at their own pace, and teachers the ability to measure their progress and motivation. Reading Plus has partnered with some of the most well-respected names in publishing, publishers whose texts meet our exceedingly high standards for texts worth reading and provide students opportunities to learn about themselves and the world them. Contact our team for a short demo or to learn more.


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TrustScore 1 out of 5

386 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is torture

This app is genuinely horrible. It used to be good back in Pre-A level but since then the books are awful! If I could it give it -100000000 stars!

April 26, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

THIS IS TERRIBLE

This is the most doo-doo dinosaur poo website/app it makes so mad when I get paused it hope however made this gets… you know what I mean.

April 29, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Parent watching their child getting…

Parent watching their child getting bored of reading and hating the idea of books thanks to this absolutely awful app. I don’t know how this got approved for schools - someone somewhere making a pretty penny I imagine. If you’re a teacher - please resist. If you’re a parent - your kids aren’t just moaning. If you’re a student - I’m so sorry adults did this to you.

April 27, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

WASTE OF MY EVENING

Absolutely waste of my time my children were crying in there room because they were reading TO FAST like WTF and then I had to email there teacher to unlock there entire laptop

April 14, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely awful

As a parent I would love children to be enthusiastic about reading. Reading plus does everything it can to make reading a chore. The books are weak, really boring with little substance and a poor vocab range. The questions just tackle low level comprehension. Nonfiction books you can often answer the questions without actually reading the book. It really doesn't help deeper comprehension. The flash and scan is pointless.

April 10, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolutely HORRENDOUS

Absolutely HORRENDOUS so let me tell you why😁
Basically in my school we have to do 6 "stories a week" tbh they aren't even stories just PROBABLY ai generated slop and some books are just news articles copy and pasted in like. Girllll and they NEVER add new books🙄🙄 so I'm stuck reading the same books every year and when they do update they just change the name of the book and tell you Its a new book. Also the vocab is STUPID it uses simple words and sentences NOBODY every uses unless trying to max out words in an essay like whos using the word Stupendous or something it like RUINDED reading for me like. If I was a teacher I would actually give my students good books to read and not "pips. Adventure"

1 star I would give lower if I could...
༻۩۞Best regards Opal۞۩༺

April 4, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

SSOOOOO BAD I hate this website it does…

SSOOOOO BAD I hate this website it does the complete opposite of what it’s supposed to do. I used to love reading I read every day BUT now I HATE IT so much I terraformed mars just to DESTROY IT RIGHT IN FRONT OF ELON MUSK.I TOOK THE SKIBIDI OUT OF SKIBIDI TOILET AND BECAME SO UN SIGMA

March 31, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not what you would expect of a reading website

To me, I don’t know to anyone to else, this website is absolute rubbish. I have no idea why schools use this but I certainly would not if I were them. I find it rather difficult to read on screens and this does not help as a solution to this problem, in fact it makes it worse. The questions just confuse me and the support mode has no affect on my brain except make it harder. None of the stories I read are my kind and even the vocabulary doesn’t help. I usually have to ask another person what the words mean or search them up myself. I don’t see why people couldn’t just read on paper, but I certainly would and do because I cannot with this website. In The subject of this, I think their should be more popular stories on here like whatever the world likes nowadays. On hold does not help at all because it just slows me down to the point I just refuse to go on this website and I pull out a book instead. So, as a final, I don’t suggest this to anyone and I am sticking to books thank you very much

March 29, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

not slay at alll!!!!!!!!!

not slay at all. i find it rather hard to read on screens AND THIS DID NOT HELP. none of the stories are my type and the questions do not help at alllllll. reading wikipedia is easier and better than this. I BET FIVE YEAR OLDS HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS. i cant even read at my usual rate and this just traumatises my brain and if i read at my usual rate I GET PUT ON HOLD

March 28, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

not sigma,such a bad app i have…

not sigma,such a bad app i have emotional trauma from the barrage of combos it shats at you,dont get me started on support mode. i ready a story and genuinely i couldve done better if all the questions were just about skibidi toilet, reeview from home teacher dont get mad but the amount of one star reviews is concerning like if its 1.2 stars then why did u choose this good for nothing makes u worse dung beetle brained app.Please just let us read a book and leave this prison, i read a book then i learn then reading plusd gives me social trauma and support mode just makes it worse,if anything support mode doesnt provide a pinch of support and actually takes some away. this is not ohio because im reading and the text is basically not moving,couldnt even finish a story then my teach is like YOUR SO BAD im like BECAUSE THE WEBSITE SUUUUUUUUUUCKS

March 28, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

let mee start right- reading plus…

let mee start right- reading plus hasn't been flipping updated since it was first founded in 1930... my guy its the most boring, most hair pulling, most mentally draining god dang thing to exist. i hate it dude like add some stories like aliens in underpants or sm bro im crying. update it or take it down at this point. shame on u and yo mama

March 25, 2025
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