Happy App Friday!
Play a quirky game of hide and seek with Wimmel Bandits, and learn letter recognition and spelling with Juno Lamb Learn Letters. Plus, the controversy around Apple’s move to limit third-party tracking in apps for kids.
Garry Froehlich
Jellybean Tunes
Wimmel Bandits
by Constance Silvestrim
Boars are running loose in the bandit camp, and it is up to you to find acorns to feed them. Wimmel Bandits presents a simple game of hide and seek on a single large scrolling background. There are nine boars (and their acorns), plus lots of little animations to search for and find. The artwork is lush, the animations well done, and the style is a little different than you’ll find in most kids’ apps.
Juno Lamb Learn Letters
by Appelsin Apps AB
Juno Lamb Learn Letters is a straightforward app of spelling and letter recognition. The app presents a picture of an object and a word at the bottom of a tree with letters scattered throughout the branches of the tree. You then find the letters in the tree to spell out the word. At the easiest level, the word is already filled in and you simply search for the letters, while at the hardest level you must spell the word yourself. There are several languages (although there are no spoken pronunciations) within the app so kids can play with spelling words in other languages as well.
Apple’s privacy moves to change the rules for kids’ apps raise concerns
Apple plans to limit third party tracking (used to build profiles by advertising networks and analytics software). It’s a touchy subject as free apps cannot generally survive without ad revenue, and privacy advocates say that banning third-party tracking doesn’t actually prevent larger app companies from tracking you directly. Personally, I’m in favor of just buying an app for a couple of dollars and not worrying about ads, but I understand that not everyone feels that way, or is able to do so.
