App Reviews
Real moms rating apps for children. That’s what we do. Get the inside scoop on the best apps for children and honest reviews on all the apps you can find across all the major mobile devices.
Super School Kids
Super School Kids is a fun and educational collection of games, music videos, ebooks, and more designed for preschool children. It includes over 50 activities that span the typical preschool curriculum and is a good tool for helping young students explore and develop crucial concepts.
Spelling Stage
Spelling Stage is an engaging app that makes spelling practice as much fun as it can be! With a paid subscription, it offers a wide range of words that will be suitable for everyone from preschoolers through adults and makes a great practice tool for an amazing array of situations.
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting
Math Bakery 1 – Start Counting is a wonderfully hands-on and manipulative app that will help preschoolers, kindergarteners, and first graders master basic addition and subtraction skills. It not only helps children practice simple problems, but it reinforces the underlying concepts such as making groups of ten while the children play.
Puzzingo Toddler Kids Puzzles – Holiday Release
Overview Puzzingo is an engaging puzzle app designed for young children between the ages of 2 and 5. Unlike other puzzle apps, Puzzingo teaches more than just the drag and drop abilities. With every drop of a correct puzzle piece, kids get to hear the name or the sound of the complex shape they just …
Mussila
Mussila is an amazing example of the power of immersive education. Players (no matter what their ages) will discover that they can read music and enrich their lives as well as improve their overall mental sharpness.
Very Veggie
Very Veggie is a high quality recipe app that includes countless healthy recipes that will appeal to families with children of all ages. The offerings are appetizing, nutritious, and will easily coax even non-vegetarians to try some.
7 Apps to Help Your Elementary-Schooler With Math
Help Your Elementary-Schooler With Math by Downloading These Awesome Apps Take advantage of the power of your mobile device to help your elementary school student practice math. Math apps are designed to be powerful, yet engaging. They often can provide motivation for drill and practice that traditional paper-and-pencil activities cannot. Check out this selection! Practice …
Best English & Language Arts Apps for the 2017/2018 School Year
Best English & Language Arts Apps For Every School Age For some students, digital practice is the key to academic success. Give your techie student all the help they need with language arts with these great apps. Imagine a huge and growing library at your fingertips or cool way to learn parts of speech our language …
Toddler & Kids Learning Games
Todder & Kids Learning Games is a fun app that allows families to try out a selection of game activities for free. Children will be engaged by the fun and colorful animations, and parents will be thrilled at the embedded learning opportunities and concepts.
ABA DrOmnibus Home
ABA DrOmnibus Home is an outstanding app designed to help autistic children and those with similar conditions practice early social, language, attention, cognition, and comprehension skills. The exercises are plentiful and appropriate for the target audience, and the app includes an excellent scaffolding system to help children feel successful while they build skills.
Dr. Panda Trucks
App Info Price: Overview As always, Dr. Panda has created a high-quality app that kids will love. This time truck loving kids get to drive around and explore construction sites. Basically, most boys’ dreams! There are seven different trucks that all have different jobs. Kids – mostly those around the age of 5-8 – …
Wonster Words Learning: ABC Phonics & Spelling
Wonster Words Learning is an outstanding phonics and spelling practice app that will help young students develop understanding and internalize common spelling patterns that will help them memorize familiar words and learn to decode new ones. It’s fun and entertaining as well as very solid educationally speaking.
Amazon Best Black Friday Tech, Toy & Prime Deals for Parents & Kids
Amazon 2017 Black Friday Deals – TVs, Toys, Tablets and More Shopping on Amazon is pretty satisfying, right? Free shipping, fast delivery, every product you can imagine, deals, buying with one click of a button….we could go on. So what could Amazon do to make shopping on Amazon even better this Holiday season? How about …
Stage Fright
Stage Fright is a unique and entertaining app that is well-designed for young children to enjoy. It’s modeled after popular singing competitions on television, and the music is upbeat, catchy and positive. Check it out for your 2 to 6 year old!
We ARGH Pirates
App Info Price: Overview We ARGH Pirates is an entertainment game for kids, around the age of 8, who are looking to just have some nice, clean fun! Kids go on a treasure hunt adventure throughout the Island of Gems, and come across funny scenes and characters along the way. Along the treasure hunt, they …
Poncho: Wake Up Weather
Poncho: Wake Up Weather will add its own unique sense of fun to your weather-checking each day. Share fun memes with friends, grab your daily horoscope, and enjoy the Hair Forecast while getting your fix of real and accurate weather data for your area.
My Molecularium
My Molecularium is an entertaining and educational app designed to give high school students a healthy dose of gaming fun while they learn and practice chemistry concepts related to molecular structure, chemical formulas, and skeletal formulas. Optional competitive features and social media sharing for achievements make the app a must-see for chemistry students who are also gamers.
Pegs ‘n Holes
Pegs ‘n Holes is an outstanding game for older players. The range of options makes it perfect for all levels and abilities, and the competitive option will be very motivating for players who enjoy head-to-head competition.
Zap Zap Math
Zap Zap Math offers a wealth of free math practice at grade levels from K to 6, with even more possibilities available through an annual subscription. Since it’s based on Common Core standards, there’s no doubt that kids will be on the right track to build important skills.
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep
5th Grade Reading Comprehension Prep is a simple and effective app that will help students practice vital comprehension skills in the classroom or at home. The feature of highlighting text evidence to support the correct answer is particularly valuable to learners.
MyStoryMyLife
MyStoryMyLife is a modern, up-to-date variation on an age-old theme: keeping a personal diary or journal. Older children, pre-teens, and teens will love the privacy and the potential for creativity through the use of not only text, but also drawing tools and photographs.
Traffic Racer – Wild Run Car Racing
Traffic Racer – Wild Run Car Racing is a fun app that allows users to take the wheel of virtual racing car navigating freeway traffic. The user has control of the make/model of the car, its color, and a host of other options. There are also various options to customize game play. The main drawback is the extreme number of advertisements that run after nearly every click in the app.
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets
Romeo and Juliet’s Secrets is a creative and entertaining interactive ebook that makes the famous Shakespearean play more accessible with modern language narration and historical background and information.
Gold Rush 2
Gold Rush 2 is a fun role-playing game set in the old west around the time of the California Gold Rush. Players take the role of the lead character as they try to right wrongs and solve mysteries.
Miniwalla The Forest Story
App Info Price: Overview Miniwalla the Forest Story is an ebook designed to teach children about values and conservation. There are six chapters, each centering around the main character, eight year old Henry who lives at the animal sanctuary, Miniwalla, on the island of Java in Indonesia. Henry has adventures and learns lessons in each …
Teachley: Fractions Boost
App Info Price: Overview Teachley: Fractions Boost is a program designed to help third through fifth grade students deepen and internalize their understanding of fractions and the places where fractions are located on a number line. Players drive down a futuristic highway full of hills, banks and curves, and more, and periodically are challenged to …
SecureTribe Review
See the App in iTunes JustTwoDudes Price: FREE SecureTribe is a new app designed for parents who want to use a secure social media account. With SecureTribe, parents can share life’s memories and moments with only their closest family and friends. I thought that this app would be perfect for those looking to have a …
Three Good Things – A Happiness Journal
App Info Price: Overview Three Good Things is a journaling app that prompts users to write down three positive sentences each day using notifications and messages. The goal is to build a habit of thinking in a positive manner each day to improve mental health. Features include: Simple user interface Game-like atmosphere Optional social media …
Preschool & Kindergarten Math Learning Game
{price} AppStore User Rating: {stars}[/app] Overview Preschool & Kindergarten Math Learning Game is a simple tool to help children practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using either a multiple choice or input answers format. The game awards a star rating after completion of each level, and levels become more complex and challenging as the previous …
Name the Animals
Overview Name the Animals is a English-Spanish vocabulary game that will delight young users with engaging animations and fun activities to learn to spell animal names in either English or Spanish. Children are invited to explore 28 different animals by watching animated videos then dragging the letters to spell the names into the correct order. …
Spots Connect
App Info Price: Overview Can you connect the dots to remove lines from the puzzle? That’s the goal of Spots Connect. This colorful dot game has players complete challenges to advance through the levels. It also has lots of surprises that pop up along the way. Features include: Complete challenges Advance through levels Use special …
Bilingua
App Info Price: Overview Bilingua is designed help people learn a language by conversing with others. Users are matched with conversation partners based on personal interests and the languages they want to learn. Through games and fun conversations, they begin to build their language skills. Features include: Take a personality quiz Play fun language games …
Scribble Cards
App Info Price: Overview Kids can learn how to write their letters and numbers with Scribble Cards. This very simple app basically offers what the name suggests, cards on which kids can “scribble” and practice early writing skills. With just a little guidance, kids can become pros at writing their letters and numbers. Features include: …
How to Entertain Your Kids During a Road Trip
The concept of an amazing road trip adventure is one that’s becoming more popular, particularly with safety concerns at more crowded tourist hotspots throughout the world, and the problems that plague airports and airlines on what seems like a daily basis. A road trip can be great for a family with kids as well because …
My Fixie Town: Collection of Games for Childrens
App Info Price: Overview My Fixie Town is a collection of game activities for the very young. Preschoolers are challenged to various types of coordination, placement, matching and sorting games as they help the main characters solve “incidents” and put the town to rights after trouble strikes. Features include: 13 different mini games Earn presents …
Animal Sounds, Photos and Info
App Info Price: Overview Animal Sounds, Photos and Info offers 50 animals in the free version with high-quality pictures, recordings of sounds, and fact sheets about each. The app includes a match the sound to the animal game, and a jigsaw puzzle activity. Features include: 50 animals in free version, 60 others available as in-app …
Missing Friend – Lite Review
See the App in iTunes ICKYPEN Price: FREE Missing Friend – Lite is the free version of a cute, interactive storybook for children. With Missing Friend, kids can join Mr. Rabbit on an adventure to rescue his friend Mr. Mole from the mischievous Icky Mr. Fox. I thought that this app had cool scenery and …
Dr. Panda Train Review
See the App in iTunes See the App in Google Play Dr. Panda LTD Price: $1.99 Dr. Panda Train is yet another great addition to the Dr. Panda series of preschool games. With Dr. Panda Train, kids can help Dr. Panda as he puts on his conductor hat and takes passengers on a journey! I …
Your word against mine
Overview Your word against mine takes the traditional word game to the next level. At the basic level, it’s a simple word game. However, the app combines scrambled letters with multiplayer components to create a fun and challenging game for kids. Features include: Make words quickly Climb to the top of the leaderboard Enjoy four …