Interested in an effective “teach reading app” for your kids? Time to try Rivet.
Few days ago, google has launched “Rivet” for children.
Rivet is a new reading app that helps kids practice reading and is created by the Area 120 team of Google suitable for 6-years old children and older.
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Now back to Rivet reading app review.
For kids struggling to read fluently, using games, activities, and online reading apps may be the perfect solution.
The idea of Rivet teaching reading fluency through books in a fun and engaging way.
Children choose between 8 different fun avatars to play with and rewarded points and badges while using the app making it an exciting learning experience.
Rivet reading app provides over 3500 reviewed and categorized books for all reading levels using speech technology to train kids on how to pronounce words.
Making it a huge engaging kids’ friendly library. Children can tap on tricky words and the app help them read and identify.
Testimonials:
“My toddlers have used Rivet for only a few days now. They enjoy the book library so much, and their vocabulary has increased.”
“My 6-year-old couldn’t stop at one book, she wanted more. She loves that they have youtube books by her favorite youtube videos. I love that it is timed and easy to use, with a microphone feature to boost the overall confidence of the child. This is a quality learning app.”
“Rivet is a great app and it helps my children read. One wrong thing is that I can’t block books I don’t want my kids to read. Other than that is app is great. You should download this app if you have kids that love to read but don’t have a lot of options.”
This is a sample of testimonials showing how much is this app from google useful and not only my personal opinion.
Rivet reading app from google can read highlighted words and identifies a child’s own reading and correcting it through speech recognition tech.
Rivet app is actually based on Bolo a reading app by google and launched in India.
After the success and loving reviews, Google decided to expand the app in nine languages including Hindi, English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Now it is available worldwide where you can download the app or try the limited web version of it.
Considering google respect for privacy and users security Rivet app:
1. doesn’t include advertisement
2. can work on devices offline
3. google states that it collects minimum data requirements for the app to function and doesn’t record your child’s voice.
What about Rivet price?
Rivet is 100% free to use including all the +3500 books to read and download ( thank you google ).
This is a really helpful app to use during school closure due to the current situation worldwide.
Rivet comes in both Android and iOS versions suitable for smartphones, iPhones, ipads, tablets, and Amazon kindle fire.
Operating on Android 5.0, iOS 9.0, or fire OS 5.0 or higher.
Conclusion:
With over 10 M download till the time this review was published and 35,000 votes, this app is rated on google app store 4.4 which is great. Showing how much is this app really good.
Totally recommend it.
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