Apps by Device
Find the best apps for any device with our comprehensive list of app reviews specifically curated by moms for kids and parents alike.
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center
Lagoona: Kids’ Activity Center is an engaging and delightful romp through an underwater paradise complete with friendly fish and other creatures. It includes seven different mini games and a host of levels within each game that will keep preschoolers and young elementary-aged children happily playing for a very long time.
American Wordspeller ESL Edition
Word Speller is an outstandingly useful app that will quickly become indispensable for anyone who struggles with spelling in English. The app will be very useful to special needs persons, to ESL students, and to anyone who simply never got the hang of spelling.
Dr. Panda Restaurant 3
Dr. Panda Restaurant 3 is a small free sample app that allows players to create unique restaurant dishes in a virtual kitchen and serve them to cute, animated customers. Kids will enjoy chopping, frying, and other kitchen activities in a low-key free-play environment.
Krakeln
Krakeln is a simple yet fun app that will help young players learn to spell words related to sixteen themes, and can also be used to help older players build vocabulary and spelling skills in other languages such as French, Spanish, and German.
OOKS
OOKS is a kid-friendly story-telling app that encourages language, memory, organization, and other important skills. It incorporates user choices, artwork, and other information to create personalized, unique stories within a colorful and entertaining universe.
Issa’s Edible Adventures
Issa’s Edible Adventures is a great app that will encourage young children to play and explore cultures and other lands. It’s engaging and entertaining, and best of all, it encourages real-world experiences in addition to the digital play.
MAYU – Animate Text for iMessage
MAYU – Animated Text for iMessage is a fun and engaging creative outlet. Users will love the colorful, hand-drawn and animated fonts and frames, and will revel in the ability to combine and recombine the elements to create unique and eye-catching messages.
Learning Upgrade
Learning Upgrade will provide hours of productive content for students learning English (K-5 level) or math (K-adult level). The lessons are engaging, animated and musical. The practice games are fun and provide valuable review of the material. All in all, it’s a really great app!
Legends of Learning
Legends of Learning is an engaging set of science games and online activities designed for students in grades 3-8. The system is designed for classroom use, but could be adapted to family use. It features lots of content that is aligned with the NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards).
Learnia
Learnia is a game-like, 3-D world that mimics many popular video games. Players have access to activities, lessons, and games covering concepts from spelling and math in grades 1 to 3. The free game includes a wealth of content, and there are more complete versions of each subject and grade level available as in-app purchases.
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic
MathLand: Mental Arithmetic is a fun, arcade-style math practice game that offers a heavy dose of play sprinkled with math problems. The app will appeal to most elementary-aged students, and will motivate many to practice critical addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and number sequencing skills.
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.
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.
10 Apps to Enhance Your Winter Wonderland
Winter is coming, so you might as well embrace it with all of your might! Here are some great apps that put winter fun into your digital world. Snowy Games and Fun Snowboard Party World Tour Pro Maple Media Holdings, LLC / $1.99 This amazing high-resolution game is the next best thing to having your …
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 …
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.
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.
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!
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.
5 Great Math Apps for Elementary School Kids
Practice is key to success in math, particularly at the elementary levels, and one popular way to accomplish the task is by using engaging apps. Apps have the advantages of offering stimulating activities that are intrinsically motivating for children. The action, sound effects, bright colors, and feeling of competition all serve to keep children engaged …
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.
15 Apps Great for New Parents
Baby’s here! Discover how you can use your mobile device to help you and your family get a handle on this parenting gig. Why not check out some of these apps to get answers to your questions, organize your world, take care of the little one, and generally make your life a bit easier? Baby …
Our 21 Favorite Thanksgiving Apps
Thanksgiving conjures up images of huge meals, family get togethers, and warm memories, as well as turkeys, pumpkins and cornucopias. Americans, Canadians, and some other countries celebrate it as a fall harvest festival. Give thanks for these apps, and enjoy! Games and Activities Thanksgiving Games Free Kids Play N Learn / Free Here is a …
The Best 17 Apps for Helping Kids Learn the Alphabet
When your toddler or preschooler is showing interest in letters, it’s time to break out the ABC apps! Nurture readiness and beginning reading skills by providing practice on letter recognition, letter writing, and letter sounds at just the right time. ABC Ebooks Animal ABC Book Uniplayapps / Free Wildlife abounds in this unique ABC book! …
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.
Ahgoo Baby Monitor Review
See the App in iTunes Academtech LLC Price: FREE Ahgoo Baby Monitor is an awesome new app for parents. With Ahgoo Baby Monitor, parents can use their mobile devices as baby monitors! I thought that this app would be great, especially when traveling, if you don’t want to worry about packing your actual baby monitor. …
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 …
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 …