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Epic Creations, Inc. · Education · Free · v7.56

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Review-rating drop
0.82

2025-Q2 3.81 → last 90 days 2.99, text reviews

Peak quarter
3.81

2025-Q2, text reviews

Last 90 days
2.99

text reviews

Store rating
4.72

all 519230 ratings, incl. star-only

Store gap
1.73

store minus reviews

Est. MRR
$304k

#27 top-grossing, Education

store 4.72 · reviews 3.81 → 2.99 · gap 1.73 store 4.72 reviews 2.99

Store ratings include star-only taps from in-app prompts, which skew high. The peak and recent figures come only from people who wrote a review, which skews low. Compare each against itself: the drop is the signal, and a big gap between the two usually means heavy rating prompting is masking unhappy users.

Average rating by quarter from 500 text reviews

2★3★4★5★ 1★ 2025-Q2: 3.81★ from 54 reviews 3.81 2025-Q2 2025-Q3: 3.25★ from 67 reviews 2025-Q4: 3.36★ from 99 reviews 2026-Q1: 3.34★ from 96 reviews 2026-Q2: 3.48★ from 96 reviews 2026-Q3: 2.88★ from 72 reviews 2026-Q4: 3.19★ from 16 reviews 3.19 2026-Q4
Faint bars have fewer than 8 reviews. Text reviews skew negative versus star-only ratings; read the direction, not the level.
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QuarterAvg stars Reviews
2025-Q23.81 54
2025-Q33.25 67
2025-Q43.36 99
2026-Q13.34 96
2026-Q23.48 96
2026-Q32.88 72
2026-Q43.19 16

Recent 1–2 star reviews

I hate this

★ · v7.55 · Oct 12, 2026

I got my son this game and after one week of reading he has read books about gorilla glue washing for hair I do not recommend

Butthole App

★ · v7.55 · Oct 11, 2026

I HAVE TO PAY 85 FRICKING DOLLARS JUST FOR YOUR SLOP YALL NEED TO GET A RAISE BUTTHOLES

I can’t read the books

★★ · v7.55 · Oct 9, 2026

Just why, why is there a subscription before I can read books about grassland? Simply need help.

Worst one

★ · v7.55 · Oct 6, 2026

Bro I wanted to read books but it says I need to pay

Do not buy

★ · v7.55 · Oct 6, 2026

Download the 7 day trial. Needed to cancel at 9:24 am. I didn’t till 10:24am. So it billed through $90 instead of the $9.99 Monthly. Called Apple because till I let it bill though my account was frozen. I was forced to pay the $90 to unlock my account. So just know if you don’t cancel it they will bill you for the largest amount, and Apple will hold your account hostage to you pay.

Stupid

★ · v7.55 · Oct 6, 2026

I can’t believe you have to pay for this app, it is stupid and I hate it. It should only be used for school

i just wanna read manga

★ · v7.55 · Oct 5, 2026

im in 4th grade and i wanna read manga alone but this doesnt let me and i dont wanna pay and i CANNOT read anything i just see 5/6 pages

Not for older ages

★ · v7.54 · Sep 30, 2026

Not a lot of good books for older ages add my hero academia books or dork diary

This is why Epic! is so bad. It’s like they’re trying to be mean to us.

★ · v7.54 · Sep 30, 2026

Why are they forcing me to get the Epic! family subscription. That’s just mean.

Terrible app

★ · v7.54 · Sep 26, 2026

Subscribed, but keeps asking me to subscribe. App support is an endless loop asking you to login. How is this editors choice?

Not loading

★ · v7.52 · Sep 17, 2026

Epic is extremely slow and keeps freezing. Sometimes the pages won’t even load or open. I’ve tried restarting the app, but the problem is still happening.

why why why

★ · v7.52 · Sep 15, 2026

he clicked on a book and it told me to read more. I needed to pay money just to read a book.

This app sucks

★ · v7.52 · Sep 12, 2026

Every book that I want to read is like 20 dollars and I don’t want to pay for a app that isn’t just free and I’m not going to pay every month if this is the only way to read books I like I’m going to write my own books

One😐

★ · v7.52 · Sep 11, 2026

1 because I don’t know if you have to pay even if your not on the game.

Kind of upset

★★ · v7.51 · Sep 3, 2026

You would think that they would WANT you to read but NOoooOO you have to PAY just to READ I’m really upset

I hate it

★ · v7.51 · Sep 2, 2026

I can’t read anything without a stupid subscription. I was gonna read my favorite book from the library, but I couldn’t without a subscription. There’s no way I’m paying 62 or 63 or $64. This is the worst app.

TERRIBLE A MOTHER SHOULD NOT BE CHARGED FOR HER CHILD TO BE READING

★ · v7.51 · Sep 1, 2026

I HATE THIS. I USED TO PLAY THIS IN SCHOOL WHEN I WAS LITTLE AND THEY PLAYED FOR THE GAME NOW. I JUST HATE IT THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY MONTHLY SO MUCH MONEY. IT’S JUST RIDICULOUS. THIS SHOULD NOT BE HAPPENING. THIS IS NOT USEFUL. IT IS DISGUSTING TO BE LIKE THIS I HATE THIS APP NEVER DOWNLOAD IT.

It sucks

★ · v7.51 · Aug 29, 2026

It took for ever to lood its not epic if it doesn’t read

Broo :(

★ · v7.51 · Aug 28, 2026

I wanna read butttt not one book is free without premium

Pay?

★ · v7.51 · Aug 26, 2026

Why do we have to pay it's annoying and difficult

PUT AN UPDATE

★ · v7.51 · Aug 25, 2026

i don't like when yall put only two pages and i dont like the two pages of the book so please put an updat

They lied

★ · v7.51 · Aug 24, 2026

When I was reading the bad seed they made me pay 13 dollars it the app said it had no in app purchases

Dumb game

★ · v7.51 · Aug 20, 2026

I couldn’t even type in the freaking search bar whenever I tried to type in the search bar, it would just kick me off and then when I tried reading on it, it wouldn’t let me when I tried watching videos on it. It wouldn’t let me.

Please fix page loading!!!

★★ · v7.51 · Aug 20, 2026

It seems like many books don’t work, specific ones where multiple pages in the book are stuck on infinite loading states. So annoying!!

Amazing

★ · v7.51 · Aug 8, 2026

I came home one day to see my children at the front door, begging me for epic so I gave them a year ever since I keep coming back home, they would be in their room reading a book or listening to a book. This is amazing of you. You should totally get it.

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