Apps by Age and Grade
SAT Vocab – MindSnacks
SAT Vocab – MindSnacks is a great tool for increasing your vocabulary.
Sight Words & Spelling with Pixopop
Sight Words & Spelling with Pixopop is a fun and engaging way for kids to learn their sight words. Though the app offers many features and a price that parents will like a few improvements are needed.
FaceIt
Looking for a universal app that will not only entertain the kids, but get them to use their imagination? FaceIt is the app for that; simple and easy to use for kids of all ages.
iLuv Drawing People
With a multitude of features, iLuv Drawing People will appeal to artists of all ages.
Creative Book Builder
This is an app that provides kids & adults with powerful tools for serious book creation, and does it very nicely. The productivity is well worth the $3.99 cost.
Stack the Countries
Whether you are looking to learn world geography for the first time or to brush up on what you learned years ago, Stack the Countries is a fun way to learn about one continent at a time or the whole world.
Shake the States – Fun Games for Kids Series
Shake the States – Fun Games for Kids Series by Third Chicken Incorporated was #6 in our Readers’ Favorite Geography apps.
Miss Spider's Tea Party
Join Miss Spider as she works to host a tea party for her friends in this interactive version of David Kirk’s children’s book.
Lume HD
Lume HD is a beautiful and challenging game unlike others you may have played.
Draw and Tell HD – by Duck Duck Moose
Draw and Tell HD by Duck Duck Moose is a simple and easy to use drawing and storytelling app. It’s loaded with features and reasonably priced.
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff
The Shape of Me and Other Stuff is another Dr. Seuss gem. The app is consistent with other Oceanhouse Media Dr. Seuss apps; well done and reasonably priced.
Middle School Confidential 2: Real Friends vs. the Other Kind
I highly recommend downloading Middle School Confidential 2: Real Friends vs. the Other Kind. It’s an invaluable tool for kids, parents, teachers and counselors.
Frosby Learning Games
Frosby Learning Games is an educational game intended for kids 2-5, but is lacking in variety of content.
Perky Pranksters Have Fun in the Country
Perky Pranksters: Have Fun in the Country contains six games and an e-book that is entertaining, yet will teach young readers about life on the farm.
Bug Games – by Busy Bee Preschool
Bug Games HD provides basic counting, phonics, and logic skills through four engaging activities and games.
Times Tables Machine
Parents and teachers will both like the flexibility and price of Times Tables Machine; kids will enjoy improving their multiplication skills.
Sticky Words
This app appears to be all positives and almost no negatives. It is easy to use, entertaining, educational, and allows for creative expression in all age groups.
Kandoobi
This amazing app goes out of its way to rock an entirely kid-friendly interface, and manages to be lots of fun for tykes along the way.
Are Squirrels Smart, or What?
This app uses a brief and highly entertaining story to propel language lessons, and it really delivers.
Build Cars with Edward and Arthur
Who knew building cars could be so fun! Build Cars with Edward and Arthur is a fantastic app that will entertain kids of all ages.
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
Keep your eyelids up and see what you can see.
Montessori Letter Sounds HD
The Montessori Letter Sounds HD iPad app combines some of my favorite Montessori learning methods in an app with a few neat tricks up its sleeve.
Montessori Letter Sounds HD in French
If you’ve been looking for an app that can double as an immersive French language lesson for tots, the new Montessori Letter Sounds HD in French app from Les Trois Elles Interactive might be just what your family is looking for.
Akzara
Akzara is an adorable app for toddlers and preschoolers learning the alphabet.
Factor Samurai
You really can’t lose on this one. The game is free, fun, and educational. Best of all, it is made for intermediate age kids who often get a little left out when it comes to educational apps.
Toddler's Seek & Find: My Little Town
Toddler’s Seek & Find: My Little Town is an ideal app for any toddler, preschooler or child who loves to touch anywhere and everywhere.
Division For Kids
Division for Kids is a simple and easy to use math app for kids in grades 2-6. The in-app purchase may deter some from purchasing the full app.
Writing My First… 5in1 for Kids, Toddlers
This app combines lessons on colors, letters, numbers, shapes and positions, and even contains a fun drawing board.
Splash Math – 3rd Grade HD Full
Splash Math 3rd Grade covers a wide range of math skills, not just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Splash Math – 2nd Grade HD Full
Splash Math 2nd Grade HD is a fully loaded math app worth checking out. Kids will be entertained while learning.
Splash Math – 1st Grade HD Full
Splash Math 1st Grade HD is a well designed comprehensive math app. This interactive workbook is much more fun than paper worksheets!
Perrette and the Pot of Milk
Perrette and the Pot of Milk is not only a beautiful multilingual fable, but can teach children basic words, in multiple languages, through word association.
Itsy Bitsy Spider by Duck Duck Moose
Itsy Bitsy Spider is so much more than just a musical book based on the popular children’s song.
Lulu in Polynesia
Lulu in Polynesia is an adventure worth taking. It is a reasonably priced e-book with a lot of activities. A bonus, your children will have fun while learning about Polynesia.
The Big Spill
The Big Spill is an endearing story of three African penguins whose lives are changed due to an oil spill.
Thumbnail Theater-Macbeth
This hilarious, well-crafted app is appropriate for Shakespeare lovers of all ages.
Chalk Walk
This app for iPad acts like a virtual sidewalk, and challenges kids with increasingly difficult chalk patterns that they use a real pinch action to trace.
My Big World
This app is absolutely amazing and sure to draw your little ones in to a world where learning is as cool as it gets.
Super Harry HD
Super Harry’s Rotten Luck is a sweet and humorously uplifting story.
Abby – Basic Skills Preschool: Counting, Letters, Puzzles Colors, Shapes, Patterns, Matching and more
This tot-friendly app touches on letters, puzzles, sizes, counting, matching, colors, shapes, shadows, patterns, differences and more, in one streamlined package kids of any age are going to find easy to navigate.