Smart Apps For Kids

Good Free App of the Day: Drawing with Carl! (Free for a limited time!)

Today's Good Free App of the day illustrates perfectly why developers working on drawing apps need to come up with a unique or exceptional proposition in order to generate interest in their app. There are so many art apps that are inexpensive or, like this one, free (Drawing Carl is, however, only free for a limited time.)

In this app you can import your photographs and "improve" them with designs of your own making, create scenes with Carl and his friends or just use the pencil, marker, stamps and other features for free drawing fun! Two words of caution - there is an in-app purchase for 99 cents but it's not obvious and all the features of the app are available for free. Secondly, the drawings can be shared directly with Facebook which may concern parents for privacy reasons.

Each winning iPad to come with FIVE @Reks apps!

So we're giving away four iPads. (Click here to enter.) Check.

With each iPad will come codes for $45 in Mobile Education Store apps, a code for The Social Express, and $45 in codes for Good Karma Apps. That's $180 in additional winnings! Check.

$45 of Good Karma apps to come with each iPad given away!

You may not be aware of this (because we’ve kept pretty quiet about it) but we’re currently giving away FOUR iPads. If you haven’t already entered then click here immediately after reading this post as the giveaway closes in a couple of days!

As if an iPad wasn’t enough for four lucky winners we’ve also secured app codes from Mobile Education Store and The Social Express to include with each device!

Well, hold onto your hats because the giveaway just expanded AGAIN. We’re partnering with iHelpSNKids and Good Karma Apps to ensure that all four iPads will include copies of:

Good Free App of the Day: Numberland - Learn numbers with Montessori! TODAY ONLY!

Today's Good Free App of the Day is a beautiful little app that you need to download quickly because it's only free today! It's a native iPhone app but well worth adding to your iPad (use the x2 to make it full screen). Numberland helps children learn their numbers 1-10.

Sunny's Story Paint (finish the drawings app)

 

 

Bottom Line: Needs improvement to be a consideration among the many strong art apps.

 

Word Wizard - Talking Movable Alphabet GIVEAWAY!

Today we're starting a giveaway for another of our Top Picks, Word Wizard by L'Escapadou! This is a terrific app that Deanne gave four-and-a-half stars.

Good Free App of the Day: WebMD!

Today's Good Free App of the Day is a must-have for every parent with an iPhone or iPad. It has been downloaded over six million times!

Let's be honest here. We have all been in medical situations with our children, spouse, parents, relatives, or friends where we thought "Wait, what the heck is going on here?" While certainly not a replacement in any way for appropriate medical attention, WebMD can almost always help answer those questions.