kids ipad apps
Planet Earth HD
Planet Earth HD is an incredible educational app that has everything you would want to know about our fabulous planet. Educational, interactive, and great for children of all ages.
Sofus and the Moonmachine
Sofus and the Moonmachine is an adventurous storybook app that takes readers through a magnificent and interactive journey through space. Fun to read and highly interactive, this app is great for children of all ages.
Wuwu & Co.
Wuwu & Co. is a storybook app that takes children on a 3D adventure full of magic and wonder. Exciting, entertaining and great for children of all ages!
Snot & Fluff
Snot & Fluff is an entertaining cosmic tale that takes readers on a 3D adventure through space. With great interactive graphics, a fun story, and so much more this is one app you don’t want to miss!
Shapes Builder
Shapes Builder is an easy to use, early learning app that uses geometric shapes and puzzles to help children practice their problem solving skills. Easy to use, fun, and perfect for children of all ages.
Veggies & Fruits
Veggies & Fruits offers a fun way for little ones to get excited about and learn a variety of vegetables and fruits through exciting activities. Simple to use and great for children of all ages.
Smart Color Path
Smart Color Path is a fun and unique puzzle app that offers hours of challenging play for players of all ages. Simple, fun, and challenging!
Trybie Journey
Trybie Journey is a unique storybook app that includes fun experiments and scientific information for children to learn and enjoy. Educational, entertaining, and perfect for little scientists ready to explore the world of chemistry.
Puzzle It Out Preschool
Puzzle It Out Preschool is a highly entertaining early learning app that teaches little ones valuable skills in Math, Science, and Reading. Very well done.
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!
Peekabox-Forest: Flashcards
Peekabox-Forest: Flashcards takes flashcard learning into the digital era with fun activities, videos, and interactive illustrations that children will love. This app is educational, entertaining, 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.
It’s Spring Again
It’s Spring Again is an educational app that teaches children about how the seasons change using artistic images, narration, and interactive animation. Engaging, educational, and easy to use.
Elastic Alphabets® for kids
Elastic Alphabets for Kids is a remarkably entertaining app designed to review and reinforce letter recognition and beginning phonics with young children, ESL students, and students with special needs.
Littlest Pet Shop: Pet Style
Follow Blythe on her first days in Downtown City as she shares her experiences and the fun friends she meets in the interactive storybook app Littlest Pet Shop: Pet Style. With lots of creative activities, animations, and an engaging story, this app is great for children of all ages!
Zap Zap Math
Zap Zap Math is an outstanding and versatile math practice app providing Common Core exercises for children in kindergarten through grade six that is both entertaining and educational.
Times Table Galaxy
Times Table Galaxy is a fun and effective system for practicing multiplication facts in timed and competitive settings. The app supports both development of skill at skip counting and improvement in speed and memorization of multiplication combinations 2 x 2 to 12 x 12.
Planet Lettra
Planet Lettra is an outstanding app that will help young readers develop an intuitive understanding of phonics and word analysis skills in a playful, encouraging environment.
My Town: Beach Picnic
My Town: Beach Picnic is an easy to use, interactive app that takes players on a journey to the beach to explore underwater creatures, the beach shop and so much more. Interactive, engaging, and great for children of all ages.
NextGen Maths
NextGen Maths is a specialized app that will provide supplemental review of basic arithmetic concepts and limited practice questions and problems. It is especially well-suited for visual learners with strong reading skills.
New Kids Apps – November 2015
Straight from the App Store – here are November’s “Best New Kids Apps”. The App Store isn’t always right in its recommendations, but it’s always a good place to start when looking for a new app. Some apps may be rated age 9+. Enjoy! Fun & Game Apps for Kids Read our review. Read our …
Smart Spark-Ignite Your Child’s Learning Potential
Smart Spark-Ignite Your Child’s Learning Potential will help most families and even some teachers to analyze their child’s and their own learning style and to better understand how to best take advantage of everyone’s strengths to achieve more academic success.
Verbs for Kids – Part 1
Verbs for Kids-Part 1 would be a useful tool to help students of English and perhaps special needs students hear examples of acceptable English grammar and pronunciation, as well as see clear animated illustrations of 180 verbs and sentences. It does have some flaws, however, and parents and teachers would be wise to check the app thoroughly before investing.
Sam Plays Saxophone
Sam Plays Saxophone is a pleasant e-book with a small selection of activities to supplement the story, but it may not live up to the levels that the price might lead one to expect.
Free App Friday – November 20, 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!
Sago Mini Babies
Sago Mini Babies is an interactive free play app that allows little ones to play, care for, and interact with four different baby animals. Great for families and children who may soon be a big brother or sister.
Animals: Sounds & Games
Toddlers will have fun exploring a wide variety of animal sounds and puzzles in Animals: Sounds & Games. Simple format and fun to play this app is perfect for the little one in your home.
Maths Rock
Maths Rock lets kids rock out while practicing their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills.
Astro Nora: Addition & Subtraction Maths for 4-7 Year Olds
Astro Nora: Addition & Subtraction Maths for 4-7 Year Olds is a fun and simple app that provides practice on addition and subtraction from basic combinations through problems with three digits and regrouping. Children are likely to enjoy the app’s theme and reward system for a bit, but may tire of it quickly.
Free App Friday – November 13, 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!
Programming Apps for Kids
While the Hour of Code event seems to be growing in popularity each year, don’t wait until then to download these apps. Your kids will enjoy these all year, some may become permanent residents on your device.
Orchard Toys
Orchard Toys is an all in one app that includes early learning activities with varying difficulty levels for young players to test their problem solving skills. With puzzles, matching, and memory games this app is fun for children of all ages!
My Little Place
My Little Place lets kids choose from a series of fun activities and preferences that make them feel in control.
Pock & Palam
Pock & Palam makes a gentle and simplified introduction to many types of standard arcade and game system games, and will help young children feel like they are “part of the action” as they play a game that just may entertain older children as well.
Box Drop Math Addition Game: A Fun Way for Kids to Practice and Learn Basic Facts
Box Drop Math Addition Game provides addition facts in order of increasing difficulty and encourages players to build speed at basic addition combinations. A simple but fun arcade game challenges them to stack falling boxes to earn extra points.
Keep Safe Eva… Family! Fun! Photo Sharing with Child Lock for Kids
Allow toddlers and preschoolers to view photos on your devices without worrying about them being deleted.
Free App Friday – October 30, 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!
Pronto Play
Race against another player to be the first to dress Fredo and Dressa while unscrambling words or answering basic math problems at the same time.
Big City Vehicles
Big City Vehicles is a great app for young children that offers an easy to use free play environment to explore, learn, and interact with a wide variety of vehicles you might find in the city. Fun, safe to play, and highly interactive, this app will keep little minds busy for hours.
Letter Cross-Tracking
Letter Cross-Tracking is a serviceable app that will help children remediate letter reversals and inversions and help them build skills in the areas of visual tracking, attention to detail and position in space, but they may need outside motivation to complete assigned work so they don’t lose interest.