iphone apps
How To Rearrange Apps on Your iPhone
Customizing your iPhone to your liking helps you find the apps you need as quickly as possible, making you a more efficient smartphone user. No one wants to hunt and peck around miscellaneous screens in search of a particular app, especially when you have more important things to contend with. Want to learn to rearrange …
Chortopia
Chortopia makes chore time fun with stories, games, and lots of adventures. Perfect for families with multiple children and parents who want to teach a bit of responsibility.
Cosmic Paul
Cosmic Paul is an early learning app that helps children practice their alphabet and spelling skills using a unique and very entertaining search and find concept. Interactive, educational, and tons of fun, this app is great for children of all ages!
Group Apps on Your iPhone Using Folders
Your iPhone comes with a healthy selection of Apple apps pre-installed. And, great as they are, they don’t and can’t do everything you want and need to do with your phone. You’ve likely made more than a few trips to Apple’s App Store to download and install apps for your specific needs. Maybe you needed …
Turn Your Phone Into a Fitness Tracker
Warmer weather is finally on its way, which means swimsuits, shorts, and tank tops become our main clothing staples. Many people want to get into shape before they start shedding their layers of cold weather clothing. Devices like a Fitbit are great tools to get you moving, but they can be a bit pricey. Fortunately, …
How To Fix a Stuck App Download on Your iPhone
Poor cellular or Wi-Fi connections and Apple Store issues can cause downloads from the App Store to stall, where they’ll live in limbo forever on your iPhone until you manually get rid of them. Here’s the step-by-step process to do just that. What does a “stuck” app look like If you’ve tried downloading an app …
Sago Mini Trucks & Diggers
Sago Mini Trucks & Diggers is an easy to use app that allows children to explore the fun world of construction. With trucks, diggers, and homes to build, this app is going to keep little ones busy for hours!
Using LED Flash Alerts
Some smart phones have a dedicated notification light, or flash alert, that comes on when receiving an incoming text or other notification. IPhones do not have this, but instead are equipped with an accessibility feature that does pretty much the same thing. This accessibility feature was added for the deaf and hearing impaired, and it …
Pictoword
Pictoword is a fun and possibly addictive word puzzle game that is sure to provide hours of problem-solving fun. Note: Not recommended for children.
Fun With Colors
Fun With Colors is an app that uses underwater themed games to teach children a variety of vocabulary words in both English & Mandarin. Educational, fun, and easy to use for children of all ages!
Multiplication with Ibbleobble
Multiplication with Ibbleobble is an excellent educational app that offers children a fun way to practice their multiplication skills. Fun, save, and easy to use.
Apps To Get You Up In The Morning
Many people have made New Year’s Resolutions to exercise more, become more organized, or find more time for themselves. One of the best ways to accomplish these goals is to get up earlier in the morning. Believe me, I know how extremely hard that is. A few months ago I began the habit of waking …
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab
Thomas Edison’s Secret Lab is an exciting app full of great educational material shared through fun music videos, interactive games, and entertaining lab experiments that kids will love.
OMG. I Can Meditate ! – Meditation and Mindfulness Made Easy!
Learn how to relax and find some daily peace with a large collection of topical meditations.
Space Taxi
Space Taxi is a fun, free play gaming app that takes players into outer space as they help transport passengers to their spaceships while trying to avoid the obstacles that get in the way. Great for children of all ages.
Wonster Words – ABC, Phonics, and Spelling
Wonster Words: Spelling with ABC and Phonics by Puzzlingo is an amusing and entertaining way to help children practice reading and spelling words that review basic phonics skills such as word families, rhyming, consonant digraphs, and more.
Free App Friday – September 11, 2015
Welcome to another Free App Friday! If we’ve reviewed and recommend the app, a link to the review is included. Always check the app store for the most recent price before downloading. Enjoy!
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – High School
In high school, students are getting down to business, and they need apps that will support their learning. Bells and whistles of entertaining educational games often (but not always!) give way to practicality as kids focus on the job at hand. Our selection of recommended apps will help students review important concepts in core subjects, …
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids
My Alphabet: Underwater ABC for Kids is a great early learning app that teaches children to learn, recognize, build words, and write the alphabet. Perfect for young children!
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – 8th Grade
Our reviewed and recommended apps for 8th grade offer review of middle school science concepts, inspire kids to start writing as well as quiz them on verbs, nouns and adjectives, work on foundational concepts in Algebra, and provide a homework planner to help students stay better organized. There’s a nice review of challenging skills in …
MARTi
MARTi is an innovative and outstanding tool that will improve quality of life for individuals struggling with learning problems, dementia, cognitive challenges, autism, traumatic brain injury and many other conditions that impair reasoning, memory, sequencing and other vital skills.
Duolingo-Learn Languages for Free
Duolingo offers a positive and comprehensive language learning experience that most middle school, high school, and adult students will find engaging and fun. It features short, effective lessons and practice, motivational rewards, and a built-in goal-setting feature.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy’s app provides a comprehensive library of topics and skills that support Common Core goals. It includes a wealth of information particularly on middle school and high school classes, as well as useful topics for college students and adults.
CK-12
CK-12 offers a comprehensive system of review resources and practice questions that will help students get ahead in school. The app does a thorough job of covering vital ideas in elementary math as well as middle and high school high school math and science.
Homework List
Homework List is a handy tool that will help students get organized with school assignments and stay that way with minimal effort. The fact that it is digital should be appealing to most students.
Toddlers Musical Tunes
Toddlers Musical Tunes is a cute musical app for young children that allows players to explore a variety of sounds and instruments. Easy to use and fun!
Say Word
Say Word is a perfect tool for students in middle to upper elementary on up to use for practice with difficult homophones and easily-confused words. Most will find the vocabulary and concepts challenging and interesting.
Star Gurus
Star Gurus is a great app for young children that will help them practice important counting skills which are foundational to learning math in early elementary school. The dot-to-dot game is rewarding in its own right, and the teaching is so gentle and unobtrusive that kids will not even know they are practicing important skills.
Kids U.S. Atlas
Explore the United States through its animals, landmarks, and geography with this exciting virtual atlas for kids.
At a Glance: Road Trip Apps for Kids 2015
Summer is here and that means it’s time for family road trips! We have put together a list of apps that will help keep kids engaged and entertained on long trips. Sago Mini Road Trip Sago Mini Road Trip is a free play app with lots of friends, interactive activities, and magical destinations for children …
Napoleon Bone Apart
Discover the bones of the skeletal system in this simple, but fun kids app with a punny name.
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Car Trip
The Berenstain Bears are going on a car trip and they’re inviting kids to read along in this illustrated ebook.
Mochu Pop
Mochu Pop is an interesting app designed to help young children retain and build their ability to learn sounds in other languages. Its fun, balloon-popping format will intrigue toddlers and preschoolers and keep them engaged for quite a while, and they will be building a host of important skills in addition to hearing the sounds of English, French, Spanish or Italian.
Motion Math: Cupcake!
App Info Price: Overview Motion Math: Cupcake! is an incredibly entertaining and educational app that teaches children a variety of math skills in a unique and fun game. With a cupcake business and the freedom to create exciting new cupcakes, players must create, sell, and deliver their orders in order to make money and keep …
Bogga Magic
App Info Price: Overview Bogga Magic offers an interactive look at the magic of illusion for the very young. Preschoolers can dress the star of the show, choose magic tricks for him to perform, and exercise their creativity and language skills as they play this low-key, stress-free activity. Features include: Creative control over look and …
Georgie and the Birthday Girl
Join Georgie and friends as they get creative and prepare a fun birthday present for their friend Pebbles. A cute story that teaches children to be resourceful when things go awry.
MathLab for Grade1
MathLab for Grade 1 is a simple app that will help preschoolers through first graders learn age-appropriate foundational math skills while having fun. The app is fast-paced and unpredictable, and kids will benefit from the wide variety of math skills that it covers.
Lazoo Art Box
Broaden kids’ artistic horizons as they squiggle, draw, and color, and then watch their artwork come to life with fun animations.
Twist and Count-Pinball Math
Twist and Count-Pinball Math is a simple yet entertaining way to introduce young children or challenged math students to basic addition. The game features high-action animations, colorful graphics, and delightful sound effects.
Season of Tree: forest animals friends story
Season of Tree is a unique app full of wonderful images and great learning activities that allows little ones to explore nature from their home. Educational and fun to play!