Do you remember playing Tic-Tac-Toe as a kid? I remember playing it on long road trips to pass the time and more often than not the cat won. At least that’s what we called it when there was no winner. iGipf is hailed as an addictive game as good as old Tic-Tac-Toe, but it reduces [...]
Hooray for Splat the Cat! We get a kick out of him at our house. I love his fluffy, furry body with it’s long arms and legs and the kids enjoy his antics. We all like Seymour the mouse an awful lot. Now Splat and Seymour are in the App Store on a mission – [...]
Get your little one ready for preschool and kindergarten with the app, Abby – Basic Skills Preschool. Abby – Basic Skills Preschool is completely kid oriented; no complicating menus to navigate, bright colors, fun characters, and prizes make this app extremely easy to use and engaging for young children. Abby, the monkey train conductor, guides [...]
A couple of months ago I reviewed the entertaining iPad game The Tiny Bang Story by Colibri Games. In The Tiny Bang Story you need to put a fictional world back together that has been broken into puzzle pieces now scattered throughout sections of the world. The player collects the pieces along the way as [...]
Give your brain a challenge with the app, Fifteenky by ValentinFr. Fifteenky is a slide puzzle game that increases in difficulty over twenty-five levels. With each level the difficulty either increases through an increase in the number blocks that the image has been divided into or through restrictions of tile movement within the puzzle. Twenty-five [...]
Children can create oodles of funny faces with the silly app FaceIt. The app has a great “tap and slide” interface where players can swap out the face’s features with a simple flick of their finger. Hair, eyebrows, ears, eyes, noses, mouths and face shapes can all be easily changed out. Some features can be [...]
Marvin and Mel are monkeys on a mission, out to save the words that have been stolen from Paradise Zoo. They will travel the world to track down the missing letters and it’s up to you to help them dodge obstacles along the way. Using simple taps on the screen you can make Marvin and [...]
Letter Dino – Letter Dino teaches kids the letters of the alphabet in a fun and playful way. Kids can navigate the little dino into his 3D world by pointing where they want to go and tapping with two fingers to jump. Step in the shoes of little Dino and help the citizens of Dinoworld [...]
Get your little one laughing with the new app, Locomaster – Lucas’ crazy machine, by Nerlaska Studio. Lucas, the title character of this game, has a crazy machine that turns him into seven silly creatures: Jokyfly, Nosy Mouse, Sillyphant, Wise Turtle, Ladybugy, Crazy Crocodile and Pretty Spider. After children have transformed Lucas into a crazy [...]
Catch a Match is a great matching game for children with fantastic audio. The sound effects made me happy and that probably sounds silly but I can’t think of a better way to describe it! The game is “memory” where players turn over cards, one at a time, looking for matches. Catch a Match keeps [...]
Chalk Walk is a very unique iPad app. It has been developed to help your children improve the pincer grip they use to hold a pencil.
iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]
I review iPhone apps for moms. I have a decent grasp of techy things but the technical guts (for lack of a better word) of how the apps work are beyond me. So my reviews will be practical and purely subjective. Reviews for moms by a real life, actual mom. My kids will vouch for me.