The Jellybean Tunes App Report: Volume 20

The App Report, our weekly collection of product announcements and news from the members of the Moms With Apps network, turns 20 today and we’ve reported on over 300 apps so far. Are we resting on our laurels? Not a chance. Let’s see what we have this week.

Early Learning: My A-Z by Night & Day Studios gives you a way to create custom alphabet cards (and was chosen as New and Noteworthy by Apple). Learn to tell time with the Bubbimals, the names of tools with Accelerated Learning, and the names of animals with Animal Tiles. Sing your numbers with Over in the Meadow.

Hashi Khushi takes the classic book for learning the Bengali alphabet and translates it into an app.

Literacy: Sound Sort Blends introduces children to blending letter sounds.

Books: We have our first eBook this week entitled “eReading: The Best Thing” teaching Dolch sight words. Sam and Ben celebrates our differences and similarities. My Colorful Life tells a story through color. It’s Time for Carrots makes me want to eat vegetables, and The Lost Gorilla inserts your child into an African adventure.

Creative Play: Draw and Tell by Duck Duck Moose brings together drawing tools, stickers, animation and voice recording (also chosen as New and Noteworthy by Apple). Felt Board by Software Smoothie lets kids create characters and use props to tell an endless array of stories.

Photos: Dollar Dogs intriguingly promises to insert fun 3D animations into your camera view.

In other news, Murky Reef from Frolyc is now available as a series of apps organized by subject and grade level. StudyPad has a lite version of their popular Splash Math 4th grade worksheets.

Parents, please take a moment to read the iTunes app descriptions, and to screen the apps you download, to fully understand the features and elements in the app. If you find an app you like, remember to write a review.

– Garry Froehlich | Jellybean Tunes

Books

	Sam and Ben by InteractBooks LLC: Sam and Ben are twins, which means they were once squished together inside their mama’s belly. But that doesn’t mean they are like two peas in a pod. They look different, they act differently and when they see the same object their imaginations take off in different directions! Beautifully illustrated, this book about twin brothers celebrates their differences as well as their similarities. (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad
	My Colourful Life by Glitch Games: Experience life in a whole new way; through the eyes of a unique boy named Jack! Contains multiple modes: story, play and learning. Includes interactive objects, puzzles minigames and lexical and phoenetic learning elements. (Watch Video) iPad
	It’s Time for Carrots by InteractBooks LLC: ‘It’s Time For Carrots’ is the first interactive picture book in the ‘Grandpa Joe and Rufus’ series and shows just how easy and how much fun it is to grow carrots. Engendering a healthy desire in young children to eat vegetables as part of their everyday diet is notoriously difficult but now thanks to everyone’s favourite grandpa and his dog healthy food is back on the menu. (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad
	The Lost Gorilla – Mom, It’s Me! by My Digital Photo Story: This is our best book yet! This time the magical kite will take your child to an adventure in Africa – helping a baby gorilla find her parents. Your child will need to spot the different animals hiding in each page before eventually reaching the parents gorillas. All of the this embedded in a fun story in which your child is the star! (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad
	eReading: The Best Thing by eReadingbook: The story is of a prince who is on a quest to find the best thing in the kingdom in order to take it back to his father, the old king. This multi-sensory story uses ALL the 220 Dolch sight words and includes animation, individual word highlighting, easy to read text, unique illustrations with contextual clues, and comprehension questions. This eReading iBook teaches children sight words, especially children who prefer visual, auditory, and kinesthetic experiences. This is a book for the iBooks app on the iPad.

Education

	Animal Tiles for Kids by Apps and Kids: If you want your child to learn recognizing patterns, practice problem solving and coordinate their little fingers better, than Animal Tiles for Kids is a game to have. Collecting the scattered tiles, your kids will learn different animals, hear the sounds they make and will surely have lots of fun. iPhone and iPad
	Accelerated Learning – Flashing – Tools and Instruments by Mercury Learning Systems LLC: Imagine your child able to instantly remember then accurately recall hundreds of objects, their names and unique facts about them with lightning speed. This app focusses on tools. iPad
	Draw and Tell – by Duck Duck Moose by Duck Duck Moose: Draw and Tell is a drawing app for kids of all ages. Draw or color, add stickers, then talk about your drawing and create an animation! Your memories and voice recording will be saved with your drawing. (Watch Video) iPhone, iPad
	My A-Z by Night & Day Studios, Inc.: My A-Z is designed to be a way for kids (and families) to create and customize their own alphabet cards. The app includes a basic set of words and fun illustrations. Kids can build upon these basics by making their own cards by choosing the words and colors, taking pictures, and recording sounds from their environment for each letter. iPhone
	Sound Sort Blends by JFK4SDK: This game introduces kid to blending by matching pictures to the letters or blending sounds shown. The app automatically saves each child’s name and where they left off, so when they return, they resume play quickly. Teachers will love this app since it allows them to set up ten student names per device. iPhone
	Felt Board by Software Smoothie: Felt Board for the iPad is inspired by actual felt boards used by children, teachers and storytellers worldwide. Create characters by selecting skin color, hair and facial features. Choose from a wide variety of costumes, settings and props for hours of magical make believe play. And because it is an app, the pieces will never get lost. iPad
	Tell the Time with Bubbimals by Playerthree: This easy to use app features cute speaking-clock audio in a child’s voice alongside fun, rewarding, visual feedback from the cute animated Bubbimals, encouraging your child to learn to tell the time. Parents can easily see how well their child is learning to read the time, understand clock faces, and interactively set the clock’s hands. iPhone and iPad
	Hashi Khushi by NabaUnmesh Knowledge Services Pvt. Ltd.: We at Naba Unmesh India have developed an educational iPhone app to make kids learn Bengali alphabet(South East Asian, India). See your toddler touch the alphabets and how they animate and the rhyme text is played out with rich and colorful images. A cool game of “drag-and-drop” that will help your child recognize the alphabets and learn the pronunciation. (Watch Video) iPhone

Games

Over In The Meadow: Sing Your Numbers by Tiger Stripes LLC: Over In The Meadow is an Early Learning app for ages 1-5. Learn numbers through song with over 5 immersive scenes that follow the classic nursery song plus educational counting and matching games. Songs and Music were professionally recorded for this app.(Watch Video) iPhone and iPad

Photo and Video

Dollar Dogs 3D Creative Photos and Camera by Jadaplay: Dollar Dogs is a photo taking and sharing app for kids of all ages. Unlike all other photo apps, Dollar Dogs fills the camera view with fun 3D animations and augmented reality, so photo taking becomes more playful and fun. While composing a photo, open up the drawer and drag fun 3D objects on to the screen to take photos of your friends and family. iPhone and iPad

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