Kids Iphone App Review

Choo Choo Time! By James Macanufo

Jason — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:38:28 +0000

Choo Choo Time! is one of those apps your young child will not be able to put down! Simply a train running through the countryside — it captures attention like no other. Check out the video for the gameplay. This is a fun app for the very young to perhaps 5. Kaylin liked watching the train and clicking on the animals to see what they would say. It captures the attention and is somewhat mesmerizing…

Fun – 5
Attention – 5
Learning – 1
Total = 11

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by OneApp Application Studio

Jason — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:38:43 +0000

I have had the review of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by OneApp Application Studio for sometime. It was one of those apps that I was sure my 3 year old could like if she had enough time to learn about it — I was right! It took some time, but Kaylin really likes the app and sings along. She still cannot follow the keys when the music is playing, but that just gives her some time to spend with the app in a few months or a year.

This app is also nice to place in the room when your child is going to sleep. Just turn it down and let it play!

I give it a 4 for fun, a 3 for Learning, and a 5 for attention for a total of 12. I think the score could go up if she could actually learn to play the song, but as you can see in the video, she is more concerned with signing and banging on the keys.

Rain Go Away ABCs

Jason — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:28:30 +0000

Rain Go Away ABCs is another great alphabet learning app. It makes learning the ABCs easy and fun. My 3 year old has known her ABCs for sometime now and still enjoys the application. The tips are a neat feature that give you ideas of something to do if it is actually raining. We live in Phoenix, so we actually go out in the rain when it rains!

Learning – 5
Fun – 4
Attention – 3
Total = 12

Check out the video for more information about the app:

Intro to Letters, by Montessorium

Jason — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:48:35 +0000

Intro to Letters is a great app for kids to learn how to pronounce (or is it enunciate?) letters. It also allows them to trace the letters to learn to write them. It features a great voice and very intuitive interface. At times the arrows are hard to follow for my 3 year old when she is tracing, but she usually figures it out. She has spent a lot of time in the app having fun and learning. Kaylin already knows the alphabet, but you can see in the video there is always room for improvement when it comes to saying and writing the letters!

Great app!
Fun – 4
Learning – 5
Attention – 4
Total = 13/15
Ages 3,4,5

Mr. Hat’s Magic Cube from Bravo

Jason — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:30:22 +0000

Wow. What a neat story and app. Mr. Hat’s Magic Cube provides both a story and a good learning experience for kids of a young age. My 3 year old liked the app and was interested in the story enough to keep playing for quite a while. Learning is a bit light since the “lessons” are pretty short. It is more practicing what you have learned than picking up new skills.

I give it a 3 for learning, 4 for fun and a 5 for attention for a total of 12.

Check out the video of my daughter playing the game:

Check it out here:

Style Studio : Fashion Designer

Jason — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:47:57 +0000

Style Studio : Fashion Designer is one of those apps that is educational but not in the sense that your 4th grade teacher might appreciate. This app allows your child to “dress” a character and even design her own clothes. I thought it was pretty cool to watch her design her own jeans in the video after touching the app for only about 20 minutes. We didn’t have an appropriate friend nearby to test out the feature where you can dress a friend, but that looks like something they will have tons of fun with. Is it entertaining? Yes. Girls love this sort of thing — at least my daughter and her friends do.

This is one of the first apps I can think that they will actually collaborate together on. That is pretty neat!

I give it a 5 for attention, 3 for learning and a 5 for fun. That is a pretty fun and entertaining 13 with some non-traditional learning built in. Remember parents — your kids need to learn more than letters and numbers right? Fashion is important to their image and self esteem.

First Words Deluxe by Learning Touch

Jason — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:38:26 +0000

If you liked our review of First Words Animals by Learning Touch, then you will really like First Words Deluxe! It includes the same game play, but with Animals, Shapes, Colors, items in the home, vehicles and all words. I like the last one all words. This keeps my 3 year old going for a long time!

The existing review stands. Great gameplay with the scrabble like interface and the repetition of the letters and words is outstanding! You cannot beat an audible and visual game with an actual tactile movement. This means your kid learns while playing.

In this case I give it an updated 5/5 for attention. The additional categories make this an app that lasts a while! And she keeps coming back to it.

So Attention 5/5, Fun 4/5, Learning 5/5 for a total of 14!

Elementary Science 7-9 – I Know that!

Jason — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:16:08 +0000

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!

First Words Animals by Learning Touch

Jason — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:30:42 +0000

My 3 year old really like to spell and letters in general. She has really taken a liking to First Words Animals by Learning Touch. It is a simple game where the scrabble like letters are scrambled at the bottom of the screen and the animal is shown at the top. If you touch the animal a voice tells you what the animal is. You can then grab the letters to match them up to the word – scrabble like.

It may seem simple, but this game is really well done. Not only are there a lot of animals and the potential for many more with updates from the developer, but also the way the letters are pronounced and repeated along with each word is fantastic as a reinforcement for learning.

This game is suited for ages 2- 5. I give it an attention of 4, fun of 4 and learning of 5 for a total of 13.

Picking up this game is a must!

Tic Tac Math by I Play Math Games

Jason — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:46:41 +0000

My 9 year old loves math. I am an educator at a post-secondary school (university) and I know that our kids need math skills! How can we help them? Bombard them with learning fun at every turn. My 9-year old was just handed down an iPhone 3G since I picked up an iPhone4 on pre-order and she has been using it non-stop!

How can I take that interest and help her learn math? With math apps! So far I have found a few apps and Tic Tac Math stands out! My Daughter is 9 and just left 3rd grade. She is in a gifted program, so is doing 5/6 grade math next year. This app can handle a 3rd grader to a 6th grader depending on their level. It is fun and will at least keep them going through 1n hour or two each time they pick it up. In 10 minutes a child could go through a potential of 20-30 questions! If they spend only 20 minutes in the app each time they play it then they are going to get 50 questions. This is homework made fun.

Kids learn by a reward system. This game gives it to them with little punishment when they are wrong. They are NOT discouraged. Even when they get a question wrong the negative is minimized. This is a sign of a great app.

If you take a look around the developers website: http://iplaymathgames.com you can tell he like math, understands learning and has apps for every age. I am hoping to pick up a kindergarten version of my 3 year old!

So I give it a 5 for learning, a 4 for attention, a 4 for fun for a total of 13. Awesome. Well worth the purchase price!

Be sure to check out the video for my daughter commenting on the app!