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Considering 60 reviews, most reviewers were unhappy with their experience overall. Many people expressed frustration with the platform's system, especially the inability to redeem mistakes and needing to restart courses after a single incorrect answer. Reviewers also found the content and teaching style problematic, describing videos as boring, too long, unhelpful, or unclear. Additionally, users reported issues with the website and app, citing an outdated interface, slow loading, and frequent errors. However, some customers appreciated the platform's accessibility and its ability to explain subjects in an easy-to-grasp manner. They found resources helpful for reviewing fundamentals, filling knowledge gaps, and preparing for exams, praising the comprehensive range of subjects offered.

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Well, I tried a unit test, and I got 100% well guess what it gave me? Familiar? Do you know how stressful that is to look at a whole bunch of orange and also make your website more fun or something? A... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

I always used Khan Academy for Maths and English when I was 4th grade. For Maths, the content were too slow and is lagging behind the Common Core Standard, like books such as Everyday Mathematics. For... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

As a student, the website is not that bad, but khan just lacks an explanation as to why the formulas are written in a certain way. What I absolutely HATE about this platform is that if you get a quest... See more


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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A parent who despises Khan Academy!

As a parent, I genuinely despise Khan Academy. My son is in sixth grade, and he is required to do assignments in this program. Mr. Khan requires problems to be done the specific way that he wants them done, even if it is a more complicated and roundabout way that makes no sense! And if the problem is not done that way, it’s wrong! The questions are sneaky and expect students to guess how the problem needs to be done, and complete instructions are not given. For example, finding the surface area of a rectangular prism must be done by drawing the “net” (which is something I was never taught when I was in school) and the instructions do not state that it must be done this way. Mr. Khan rushes through the videos instead of going slowly and breaking concepts down simply and clearly. My son is sitting there crying, struggling and frustrated, because of this terrible program.

9 April 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Awesome sauce

Awesome sauce. The pace is just right. If you're stuck just rewatch the lecture. A lot of the complainers have genuinely no discipline or love for learning, like you're the issue bub💔

26 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The questions are HARDER than what they taught you in the first place!!!!

Look, I just want to get my work done... not have 150 questions in a course and when I get one wrong it brings my score down so much the course needs to be restarted! I HATE this site! The reasons for getting the questions wrong make no sense and the questions they give you are 10 TIMES HARDER than what they JUST tried to teach you before the assignment!! I don't know why schools force kids to use this horrible excuse for an educational site!!

25 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I love Khan Academy

I love Khan Academy! It has everything I need and it teaches all the way from the start of school to even medical school! Khan Academy's teaching style is great, and I wish I had that. I can't recommend it more!

22 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Khan academy=ragebait app

Annoying and basiclly a ragebait to every kid who uses this i only use this cuz my mother told me but it is annoying time consuming overcompicates things the videos are 6 minutes long for things like addition and overall just trash no fun in it and is a avrage adult app for studying

10 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

This app wasn't too bad but not good.

This app wasn't too bad but not good. All they would teach you is from videos and little lesson in-between. You could skip the lesson to get exp points to get more monsters/ creatures. Though it was only fun for a moment but then was super boring. This isn't a good app but also not a bad one. It's just super boring.

16 March 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Bad website

Nice at first but they changed the whole user interface... Now the chapters are all mixed up and I found that the lessons are less interesting and dig less deeper than before... I will buy some books unfortunately because theses changes are frustrating and infuriating me...

25 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

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Title: Khan Academy Is a Total Waste of Time – Wrong Answer Every Time!

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19 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Khan Academy is the worst website I have ever used

Khan Academy is the worst website I have EVER used. It does not help you to prepare for the SAT, it does not help you when you get questions wrong, and it is plagued with network timeouts and errors that make using the website a frustrating experience. Also, it does not even calculate accurately the time you spend on it! On one occasion I spent 2 hr 30 min on there and it only recorded about 1 hr of time! This website is HORRIBLE!

15 February 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Khan Academy – 0/10 – Would rather gargle broken glass than log in again

Listen up, because I need to warn the children of the world before another soul is dragged screaming into the beige-and-blue abyss that is Khan Academy.
This is not an educational platform.
This is a psychological torture facility cleverly disguised as “free learning.”
Sal Khan is not your friendly neighborhood tutor. He is the final boss of soul-crushing boredom, the Dark Lord of droning voice-overs, the architect of a digital Panopticon where the only escape is either mastery… or death.
Every time you click that cursed play button, a little piece of your will to live quietly evaporates. The man speaks in the exact monotone cadence of someone reading the terms & conditions out loud at 0.75× speed while being waterboarded with lukewarm tap water. You can hear the existential despair in every “let’s try another example.” He knows what he’s doing. He enjoys it.
The exercises? Pure sadism.
You solve 17 nearly identical problems in a row and finally feel a flicker of hope—only for the 18th to introduce some brand-new cursed wrinkle that wasn’t in any of the videos. “Oh, you thought you understood slope-intercept form? Cute. Now do it when the variable is hiding in the denominator and the y-intercept is imaginary.” Die.
And don’t even get me started on the mastery system.
It’s not mastery. It’s Stockholm syndrome with a progress bar.
You’re on 90% “proficient” in something, feeling like maybe—just maybe—you’re almost free. Then one wrong answer and it drops you back to “needs practice” like a guillotine blade. The little sad emojis they give you when you miss one? Those aren’t encouragement. Those are war crimes.
The interface is stuck in 2012 aesthetic purgatory—Comic Sans’s slightly more depressed cousin. Every page loads like it’s personally offended you asked it to exist. The videos buffer just long enough to make you question whether reality is even real anymore. And when they finally play, the captions are always 0.4 seconds off, so you’re constantly gaslit by your own subtitles.
They make $50+ million a year doing this.
FIFTY. MILLION. DOLLARS.
A year.
From parents who think “it’s free!” and school districts too cheap to hire actual humans. They’re monetizing child suffering at scale and calling it philanthropy. That’s not a business model—that’s a cartel.
I’ve stared into the void of ALEKS.
I’ve been spiritually broken by Membean’s vocabulary death march.
I’ve suffered through NoRedInk’s passive-aggressive grammar sermons.
None of them come close.
Khan Academy is the Thanos of ed-tech torture. It snaps its fingers and half your weekend disappears. Your friends vanish into group-study Discords that slowly turn into group-therapy sessions for Khan survivors. I haven’t seen my best friend in three weeks because he’s still trying to master logarithmic inequalities. He texts me at 2 a.m.: “bro i got it wrong again i think im gonna kms.” I don’t even try to comfort him anymore. I just send back the crying Wojak.
The “personalized learning” is the cruelest lie of all.
It’s not personalized. It’s procedurally generated despair. The algorithm doesn’t care that you’re crying at 11:47 p.m. on a Tuesday. It sees “75% correct” and thinks “MORE RADICAL EQUATIONS FOR YOU, SLAVE.”
In conclusion:
If Satan ever decides to open an online charter school, this is the LMS he’s using.
If you’re a student forced to use Khan Academy, I’m sorry. You didn’t deserve this.
If you’re a parent making your kid use it, know that every “just one more video” is carving another scar into their psyche.
If you’re Sal Khan and you’re reading this… good. I hope the guilt keeps you up at night the same way your voice keeps me up at night.
Delete your account. Burn your device. Move to the woods. Raise goats. Anything is better than logging back in.
Khan Academy isn’t education.
It’s punishment for the crime of wanting to learn.
Run.

- A survivor

31 January 2026
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Educational and good app

Compared to other apps like IXL, Khan academy provides educational resources that are easily availible, Courses are easy to follow and learn overall, a good experience

26 January 2026
Unprompted review

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