Have your kids played with the Endless Alphabet app yet? It’s brilliant: getting them to drag chattering letters into place in various words, before watching monsters act them out. Now it’s got a sequel that’s just as fun: Endless Reader. It’s by the same developer, although it has changed its name from Callaway Digital Arts…
The Talking Friends apps are a phenomenon among children and adults alike, with Talking Tom Cat, Talking Ginger and friends having been downloaded 1.2bn times, with 170m people playing with them every month. The release of a new Talking Friends app is big news, then. Developer Outfit7 has just launched My Talking Tom, the latest…
There’s a growing number of apps that teach children how to program, with Light-bot the latest hoping to get kids interested in coding. Available for iOS and Android, it describes itself as a “programming puzzle game”, aiming to make learning the basics of coding fun rather than a dry experience. “Light-bot lets players gain a…
The most popular app genre by far for children is games, which has made some parents and teachers concerned that they’re just playing rather than learning. But there’s no reason kids can’t do both. The latest app trying to make this possible is Medieval Math Battle, an iOS and Android app from developer SpinFall that…
There’s definitely a lure of the sea for our two children, who love finding out more about strange sea creatures, whether through TV shows, books or apps. We think they’ll love A to Sea, an app by developer The Happy Dandelion – a couple called Josh and Donna Wilson – which grabbed our attention on…
Our six-year-old hasn’t quite got the Horrible Histories bug yet. I’m nudging him towards it for purely selfish reasons: so I can watch lots of episodes of the marvelously gruesome children’s TV show. If your kids are already fans, here’s some good news: the official Horrible Histories magazine has just launched a digital edition for…
Earlier this year, the UK’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced plans to investigate children’s apps and games for their use of in-app purchases, advertising, and personal data. Tonight, it has published its initial report, based on examining 38 apps and web games, and around 200 submissions from parents, developers, and other interested parties. It’s…
Wondering whether the animated film Hotel Transylvania will be up your children’s street? There’s an app for deciding that: Hotel Transylvania Movie BooClips. It’s a storybook app by Castle Builders based on the vampiric Sony Pictures Animation flick, with animation, music, and voice narration complementing the text. Meanwhile, 19 clips from the actual film are…
In March last year, we wrote about an augmented reality app for kids called AR Flashcards – Animal Alphabet, which involved printing out special markers and pointing your iPhone’s camera at them to see virtual animals. Now developer Mitchlehan Media has released a follow-up that ditches the animals in favor of something more… galactic. The…
When our six-year-old started school, one of the surprises was how well-versed his schoolmates were in the world of Star Wars. It’s a combination of parents sitting them down in front of the six films, and the newer Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series, I think. Plus the enduring appeal of spaceships, lasers, and…