The app is free, but two different levels of paid subscriptions each offer more parent tools and gaming features, such as focus mode or mini-game power-ups and access to special characters called Mythical Epics. There's an option for kids to play online with friends, but the chat option uses preselected phrases only. Use the dashboard to customize skills covered in the game, create assignments, and view a child's activity, progress, and standards coverage. Parents can set up a free account for access to a dashboard. Kids answer math questions to earn spells, which they use to battle monsters as they move through different worlds on the way to Wizard Academy. Parents need to know that Prodigy: Kids Math Game is a fantasy-based web and app game that covers skills learned in grades one through eight.