Epic: Kids' Books & Reading

We love the audio books but really prefer the read to me section. It reads to them as well as lets them follow along with the story. Quizzes really help make sure they are paying attention. We also really love the added music/sounds that help bring the words to life and helps paint a clear picture in your mind of what is happening in the story. I have the unlimited and have an account for myself (30) , my oldest (9), my middle (3), and the youngest (2). We all LOVE epic reading!"

User interface needs some work since you're unable to search by age range. You can only filter the search results after picking a topic. It would be far more useful to browse by appropriate material rather than topic alone. There's also a lot of junk books used as filler as well as kids picture books that were converted to audio books, making them essentially worthless. Overall, a mediocre experience."

Epic is the #1 suggested reading app, I use this for my school and it’s fun! But for some reason when I first got the app, before that I’d always use my laptop to read on it and when I got it all my profile pictures, backgrounds, badges, etc. were locked even tho I have unlocked them and when I reached level 30 I didn’t get the badge. I find this very odd, still happening for the locked items that are supposed to be unlock it today as well. I have to go on the website to change my profile pic because sometimes my classmate or a glitch or some sort would change my profile picture and my other stuff (I use my epic account for school purposes!) I have can’t do it on the app. But there’s lots of good things as well, this makes reading fun for me especially the quizzes. I really love the app, the books and collections. And do not get me started on the audiobooks, my teacher was playing an audio book for me and my class (we had the actual book as well) and I love the voices! You guys get amazing narrators and voice actors, my teacher says the voices as well! Really love it, it’s amazing and the ultimate reading app for school as well. ❤️ Thank you for reaching out!! We apologize that you’re having trouble with your account and we’re grateful for the chance to make it right. Please visit https://getepic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new to reach our Support team as we'd love to figure out what's going on. Thanks for your patience! "

This app is great! I like the variety of books available, though I hope the library continues to expand. The user interface is easy to navigate and I love being able to download for offline reading. Two things I'd like to see added are a repeat button so the littlest readers can easily replay the same book again and again. Add the ability to download the book from the non grid style list along with the available options, collection and/or favorite."

I’m in the first few days of subscription, and wondering if I’m missing a better way to search? It’s horrible! Literally the poorest search function I’ve yet to experience. Can’t type more than one word without getting hundreds of irrelevant results. Clicking on Boxcar Children in “popular series” offers only three books, although 60+ are available in epic! The series I’ve looked at are completely unsorted, making it very difficult for children to use those independently if they have a continuous story from beginning to end. The thumbnail view, even on large screen tablet, can’t be zoomed, so subtitles and numbers within series are not readable. I attempted to create collections and assign to my homeschooling student, following the directions on epic’s site, but “My Library” is missing entirely, so can’t get past first step. I’m using the app on iPad Pro. One good thing is children can comfortably browse featured items, although I’d love to adjust what’s there since my child is mostly reading Halloween titles (in mid November). The library definitely has liberal leaning options (ex. several books about Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Big Bang ‘science’) but none to be found leaning conservatively after much searching. I’m disappointed that so few Caldecott books are included. Also lacking unabridged classics. There is no shortage of Twaddle. Not sure this is anything I expected or want to pay for. Thank you for reaching out!! We apologize that you’re having trouble with your account and we’re grateful for the chance to make it right. Please visit https://getepic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new to reach our Support team as we'd love to figure out what's going on. Thanks for your patience! "

I've been using Epic! with my now 4 year old for over a year. It's awesome. There are a plethora of great books. They miss many of my absolute favorites, but the ones they have are very good and we've found new favorites. And tons of audiobooks! Those are fantastic to have. However, finding all the books in a reading level is impossible, and I very much wish that was MUCH easier. I create lists myself and have found workarounds, but it's annoying and I wish we could search by reading level only."

I have to be honest and say that purchasing this app for a whole year was not my intention. And to my surprise, it has been the best accidental purchase. This app has helped my 1st grader to enjoy reading. When he is on Epic he is having fun and learning in a way that doesn’t make reading a chore. My 4 yr old daughter is obsessed with this app. It’s given me the extra support I’ve needed in helping both my children read. It’s extremely user friendly and the amount of books and videos available continues to surprise me. This app is a must have for all parents. It’s an amazing gift to give young children. I know my kids love it. In my house, Epic has become a constant resource for entertainment and education. It truly is an extension of our home library. It’s my virtual bookshelf and our nightly bedtime story. I don’t know what I would do with out. I know for a fact that my life n the lives of my children would be less wondrous n beautifully illustrated without Epic. Thank you to everyone at Epic. Because of your app my kids are reading more. And during this difficult time in the world, you have helped make my life a little easier n more quiet."

Epic is really good for every body but I think it would be much better if you could put books for adults so they can enjoy reading too and just so you know I just gave this idea if you guys want this app to be much popular and more fun for everyone. Also some thing that will also help your app is that it does not have to be with money because why not we use it for free because maybe some people don’t have the money and because every body wants to talk about it they really want to try this app and they download it but then they see oh no "

The best feature of this app by far is the appearance of the digital books, as compared with books on Amazon Freetime, which download slowly, and are hard to read until you double click the paragraphs, which is difficult to get right with a child, etc. Even the digital books on Libby are sometimes frustrating to read. Every book, audiobook, read-to-me books, and videos play seamlessly. The selection is excellent including books in Spanish! I also love that it's free to educators."

This app has helped to spark my son’s love of reading, and that spark has been eluding us for some time now! There are so many well written stories and age appropriate books up to age 14 that I saw. Even on the app you can search for books by their grade, make a collection for your child (under the parent avatar) and assign those books for them to read. They can favorite books, adding them to their library, etc. Many of the books will offer a quiz at the end, giving your child the opportunity to earn points and badges, and every kid loves being rewarded for their work! There are books they can read themselves, books that can be read to them, some that do both, and audio books for when they just want to listen or have a night time story! This app offers a nice bit of customization, you can have words highlighted and defined, search through books, collections others have already made, etc. It’s very user friendly and will suggest books based upon what your child has already read. I love that I can assign him a collection of books I’ve picked out and can separate them in collections however I like. There are also educational videos as well, we just love it. This app has become indispensable for us! ❤️❤️❤️ Thanks for the feedback! We are delighted to hear your son is enjoying Epic!. :)"