High-quality apps you can feel good about using with your child.
Librarians have been giving advice about how to make choices in media forever! Books, music, movies... Apps are simply another form of media to hit the market and for families that are choosing to use apps with their kids, it can feel overwhelming deciding which apps to choose.
There are a number of great resources about using apps with kids. Here are a few favorites:
- Family Time with Apps
- Apps en Familia
- iPad apps and your Pre-Reader
- Tips for using screen media with young children from Zero to Three
Read to start browsing apps? Check out our most recent app reviews below:
Caspar Babypants is the most prolific indie kids’ musician of recent years and his music is consistently high quality and enjoyable for listeners of all ages. You can now enjoy his music while singing and playing along via this well-designed app.
Although this app was originally designed to be used by professional and aspiring musicians, it is simple and entertaining enough to be a great app for kids as well. The screen has 8…
Sweet, simple app where users say goodnight to a…
Explore increasingly complex mazes filled with…
Car enthusiasts will love working in this garage! Customers drive in and request (through pictures in speech bubbles) a few of the seven different services that the garage offers…
Have you ever looked up to the night sky and…
Create Rube Goldberg-like machines in increasingly complex puzzles with multiple correct solutions in this fantastic physics and engineering app.
Build a rocket (or castle or pirate ship or bunny rabbit or hamburger) from "blocks" or mix and match the blocks to create your own wacky tower! As an extra bonus, the blocks are moved into place (and eventually knocked down) using a giant construction crane. There's some minor physics lessons involved here (if your block isn't balanced well, it will fall off) as well as some silly animated…
Kids love dramatic play that allows them to step into different roles and pretend. Toca Store provides an on-screen opportunity for player to pretend that they are a shop keeper. First, they must decide what five products their store sells (dolls? carrots? laundry soap? There's a whole catalog of options!). Once the store has been stocked, they are open for business. This is where the…
The creators of Endless Alphabet and Endless Reader turn their talents to the realm of numbers. This app sneakily teaches so many different math concepts (counting by ones, twos, threes; addition; place value, etc.) and yet it's simple enough for a preschooler to navigate without problems. Each number features a short, humorous animation to illustrate the quantity, which kids will want…
This app should really be labeled "all ages" because it has so many different options to explore on so many different levels. Babies will be entertained by the kaleidoscopic swirls, toddlers will love the opportunities to create swirls of color using the slightest of touches, older kids will enjoy making careful spirograph-like works of art and adults can spend a long time…