Kids Iphone App Review
Our kids test them, we review them!

World of Safari 123 by CocoMayo is an interesting app for kids that challenges them to answer questions to earn more animals. The questions are usually matching or sequence and do serve a learning purpose. The intention of the game is to edutainment, but in this case I think the interface is just a little too hard.

Kids can earn different animals to place on the Savannah? floor and the interact with the animals and place trees and other plants too. The animals can be made different colors and all of that adds up to some real attention and some fun. When your child wants more animals though they need to answer some questions like I mentioned before, but the interface is too hard for a young child and the questions to easy.

My 10 year old liked the app a lot because she was able to accomplish this massive amount of animals and forest. She found the questions really easy, but at least she was entertained. The questions do get harder as the game continues and the controls are top notch. You can tilt, shake, and mess with the app in just about every way imaginable.

Attention – 4
Fun – 3
Learning – 1 just because it is too hard for a young child to get to the learning part and an older kid will know these answers.

Total 8

Lola’s Alphabet Train By BeiZ Ltd. is a spelling learning app. It teaches the alphabet in several languages and in a way where the child feels a sense of accomplishment as she helps Lola get her presents to their destination.

That is an important distinction. Just like Farmville on Facebook you want to see how far you can make it in the game. Lola’s Alphabet game is similar.

The graphics are very well done. The panda is cute and the train and alphabet are clear as can be.

I like the idea that the game can grow with my daughter. it has different levels. At four she is playing the easiest level, but I am looking forward to cranking it up.

Fun – 3
Learning – 5
Attention – 5

Total – 13

Bob Books Reading Magic is another reading app, sure, but it is also a lot more.

The people at Bob Books came up with a way for your child to learn to read or spell while having fun. Sure there are other apps where your child is asked to drag letters to make a word, but this app says the letter when you pick it, it makes you place them in order and the process is part of the story as a whole! Together this makes for a really great learning app. My four year old sure does enjoy the process as you can see in the video below.

After each picture is spelled it then colors it in and adds it to the book. This progression seems to gain the attention of the child and gives them a sense of accomplishment. The graphics are simple, but the work on the pronunciation pays off. Navigation is simple and effective.

Learning – 5
Attention – 4
Fun – 3

Total – 12

Nusery Rhyme Singalong by WookSoft is a simple app that has about 15 preloaded songs for you and your child to, well, sing a long with. The interface is simple enough for a young child to figure out and the screen has some motion to keep your child interested while the song is playing. I would recommend the app for back seat rides for sure.

Attention – 5
Fun – 3
Learning – 3

Total – 13. It really is an app designed for a bit of learning, but more attention. Good job!

Toy Story 3 Matching Game is just one of those games kids like to play. It has familiar characters and the graphics feel like watching a movie at home. The gameplay is a large card matching game and is very interesting to a 3 year old.

We give it a
3 for learning
3 for fun
5 for attention
Total 11

Elementary Science 7-9 from Aimer Media is a great learning tool for your 2nd to 3rd grader. The questions are well done as is the gameplay which we will see more of in future reviews of the company’s apps. You can see that my 9 year old is having a pretty easy time with the questions, but she has left 3rd grade and is entering 4th, so still age appropriate. She has been a bit ill, but thought that she could play the game for a good 30 minutes at a time and would probably play it for 10 hours total – that is a lot!

After we shot a few videos she was left with my phone (3G in this case) and played for a good 20 minutes then asked if this was on “her phone too?” It is.

I give this one a 5 for learning, 4 for attention and a 3 for fun. As you can see from the reviews not all apps can be fun and learning. So far this score of 12 is really good. Well worth the purchase price.

The developer has different versions for the US as well as the rest of the world. We have another set of apps to review my Aimer Media and think they are doing an outstanding job! It is a great thing to build a learning application and provide it at a reasonable cost as a majority of our apps on this site have done. Thanks guys!