Build a sentence, capture a moment, or read a big bedtime book. The 25th app report brings the latest news and product announcements from the members of the Moms With Apps network. This week, due to demand, I’m going to add prices to the apps. Remember, these prices can change at any time and some may be introductory offers or limited time sales, so please check the actual price before you purchase.
Apps for Little Ones: Dr. Panda has lots of preschool activities. ABC-Park invites little ones to match pictures to letters.
Literacy: Abitalk returns with with the fully customizable Sentence Builder. Princesses Learn Sight Words teaches Dolch sight words through stories, games and songs.
Books: For the visually impaired, Lily’s Picturebook from Rosemary Sanford comes in high-contrast black and white, and also includes sign language videos and an introduction to Braille.
PicPocket Books brings us Nora’s Crabby Day. Oceanhouse Media delivers more Dr. Suess and Berenstain Bears in two new book apps. Finally, re-live a Beatrix Potter classic with Benjamin Bunny from Brindleware.
Math: Bush Math offers math practice all the way from addition and subtraction to square roots.
Teachers: Quickly create lessons involving compare and contrast activities with Compare a Twist.
Parents: Keep track of baby’s feeding times and chat with other parents with Baby Yummy. Save and share pictures, videos and stories with MomentGarden.
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
| Lily’s Picturebook by Rosemary Sanford: A unique app with black on white and white on black images for the visually impaired. Lily’s Picturebook includes ASL (American Sign Language)videos with over 50 different word signs, simple, fun games, and an introduction to the Braille alphabet. Interactive Touch Book $1.99 (Requires the free app:Interactive Touch Books – for Kids for iPhone and iPad) | |
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Nora’s Crabby Day HD by PicPocket Books: How do you get through the day when you’re in a bad mood? A new App for children, “Nora’s Crabby Day,” by Jan and Todd Graveline tells the story of one very unusual day in the life of a little girl. PicPocket Books is delighted to release this App about Nora, who wakes up crabby and just can’t shake her bad mood. Through a charming rhyming story and eye-popping visuals and animation, we see her foul mood follow her throughout the day, no matter where she goes and what she tries to do. In the end, Nora finds her smile and so will you. iPad – $1.99 |
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BenjaminBunny by Brindleware LLC: Taken from the 1904 publishing – this talking story book will delight your little ones with the classic story of Benjamin Bunny and his cousin Peter Rabbit. iPhone and iPad – $0.99 |
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Horton Hatches the Egg – Dr. Seuss by Oceanhouse Media: Kind-hearted Horton the elephant is persuaded to sit on an egg while its mother, the good-for-nothing bird lazy Maysie flutters off on a vacation. Horton is teased and taunted by his jungle friends, “How Absurd! Old Horton the Elephant thinks he’s a bird!” He’s captured by hunters, even placed in a traveling circus, but he keeps his promise and protects the egg. When runaway Maysie stumbles upon the traveling circus and demands her egg back, something incredible and unexpected occurs teaching children that virtue earns a reward! iPhone and iPad – $2.99, Amazon – $2.99 |
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The Berenstain Bears’ BIG Bedtime Book by Oceanhouse Media: When Mama and Papa Bear go out for the night, Brother and Sister aren’t too sad. Why? Because they have wonderful Mrs. Grizzle-the best babysitter and storyteller ever! The Berenstain Bears’ BIG Bedtime Book features six original bedtime stories from Mrs. Grizzle’s beloved collection. So climb into bed and experience bedtime at the bears’ treehouse! iPhone and iPad – $4.99 |
Education
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Dr. Panda, Teach Me! – Preschool by TribePlay: Join Dr. Panda as he visits four different landscapes (Meadow, Jungle, Farm, Arctic), each with their own set of animals to meet, fun and vivid sounds to experience, one or more of our 10 activities to complete AND animals for your child to choose to decorate their own landscape when they’ve completed an activity! Designed for children ages 2 to 5. (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad – $1.99 |
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Compare a Twist by App of Approval, LLC: Compare a Twist is an engaging interactive lesson platform that allows learners to leverage learning through the personalized creation of compare and contrast activities. As educators, we utilize compare and contrast lessons on a daily basis. They are essential activities that ask learners to think about how things are alike and different. Now, with Compare a Twist, we can create lessons quickly and easily that are engaging for students and provide immediate feedback and results about their learning. iPad – $2.99 |
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Sentence Builder – Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade by Abitalk: A fun new sentence builder app to learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation. The ONLY sentences app that can be fully customized with your own pictures, words and sentences. We worked closely with teachers, parents and kids to design and test this app. Students can move the words around to build the sentence themselves. Start with the built-in sentences. Then create your own sentences, use your own images, and use your voice to record your own sentences and words. (Watch Video) iPad – $0.99 |
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Princesses Learn Sight Words by earlylanguages.com: Princesses Learn Sight Words helps children learn high frequency words in English through stories, games and songs. In the “My Cards” section of the app, the 220 Dolch sight words are offered for free, organized in categories. The 1st story in the app with games and a song is also free. Additional books are available for purchase within the app. iPhone and iPad – Free + In-App Purchases |
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Bush Math by Mintmomeg: Bush math continually developed from basic up to intermediate Math skill that kids should know in Primary unto Secondary School age program. Good for parent and teacher who may have a wish to teach your kids via activities, you can also choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, Square and Square Roots of which level you want your child to practice. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be kids friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. iPhone – Free, iPad – $0.99, Mac – $0.99 |
Games
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ABC-park by Mind Vitamins: Look at all the letters who visit the theme park. Each letter conceals one or more pictures. Point to a letter to open a picture card. Then tap the card to close it down. It will be up to 7 pictures and letters. The goal is to match each picture with a letter. Want to see the words? Just tap the the picture and a picture card will open. Close picture card by tapping on the card. Drag an image to correct letter. When all pictures are in place, a little clown will come out and dance. iPad – $1.99 |
Health & Fitness
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Baby Yummy by Cognoscens: Baby Yummy records breastfeeding duration and/or bottle feeding quantities, with a simple tap or swipe, no typing required. It also tracks your baby’s weight and height. After spending many nights awake while nursing, we have added a chat room to enable new Moms to share their thoughts, ideas, tips and worries. iPhone – $1.99 |
Lifestyle
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MomentGarden by Moment Garden: Moment Garden lets you save photos and record stories of your child, directly from your iOS device, and re-live the memories from anywhere at anytime. Each moment you save with Moment Garden is automatically shared to your closest family and friends. Don’t risk losing any of those stories, pictures, videos or funny things your children say: start today! iPhone and iPad – Free |
App News
| Fido Goes Places by Pixel Interactive: now includes a spelling activity with 90 words as an in-app purchase, and adds audio in the item-to-find list. iPad – Free + In-App Purchases |
| Little Star Piano by Fun To Learn Apps: now availabe in a lite version. (Watch Video) iPhone – Free |
| Baby Monitor 3G by TappyTaps s.r.o.: chosen as iPhone app of the week in Germany. iPhone and iPad – $3.99 |
| Kids 1st shape puzzle – learn animals, alphabets, numbers by Gil Weiss: now a universal app for iPhone and iPad – $1.99 |
Thank you very much for sharing Compare a Twist. We think App of Approval is a strong app because it provides the users with control of the content. Hopefully, people will give us good feedback so we can make it even better!
Mahalo for this great review of these apps!