Oh-em-gee, holy moly, shucks, wow, amazing or oh my squid (as Lisa R likes to say) - whichever way you describe it this is one EPIC post containing 28 good, completely free apps.
There are ABA, sight words, phonics, monsters, animals, flash cards, numbers, emotions, memory games and the kitchen sink in this post.
Once you've downloaded the apps you like, please take a moment and share this post on Facebook, Twitter, email etc to help us get the word out about these fantastic, mostly customizable free apps.
Grab a cup of coffee and click, click, click :)
** Only the app's developer can control when an app is free or not. All apps that we post as Good Free Apps of the Day are verified to be free at the time of this post. We make no guarantees otherwise. **
Some of the apps below have in-app purchases available within the app. In-app purchases can easily be disabled through the Settings of your device.
ABC Ninja - The Alphabet Letters and Phonics Slicing Game for Kids
I have a confession to make. My son's favorite game was Fruit Ninja and I was getting increasingly frustrated with having my son waste a lot of time on a fun but mindless game while he was still struggling to master his letters.
So I decided to create our very own ABC letters slicing game and to my and my son's delight, he now has a new favorite game where he is having fun and learning at the same time.
World Flags Quiz - Trivia Game
We see flags on a daily basis but how many country flags do you actually recognize?
Take the World Flags Pop Quiz challenge to find out!
Unlike most world flags quiz games, with World Flags Pop Quiz you will never be stuck. You can always keep playing and you will automatically learn and discover the logo's that you don't recognize on your first attempt.
Learn English Vocabulary Pop Quiz -
Unlike most "learn English" games, with the English Pop Quiz you will never be stuck. You can always keep playing and you will automatically learn and discover the meaning of the words you don't recognize on your first attempt.
✔ Includes thousands of words across 50+ levels (more coming soon)
✔ Adaptive gameplay shows you more choices as your skills improve
✔ Fully customizable - setup your own levels for family and friends
✔ Unlock new levels and track your progress
Free Logo Pop Quiz - We are bombarded by hundreds of logos on a daily basis. Logos are everywhere but how many do you actually recognize?
✔ Includes hundreds of logos (more coming soon)
✔ Adaptive gameplay shows you more choices as your skills improve
✔ Fully customizable - setup your own levels for family and friends
✔ Unlock new levels and track your progress
✔ Unique game mechanics that will make you want to keep playing
Story Creator - This is the way stories are meant to be told! Story Creator offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures, videos, and experiences with family and friends. Even kids will love this app because it is so easy to use.
✔ Creating stories is fun, simple, and easy… even a child can do it
✔ Supports gorgeous photos and videos
✔ Can add text and audio recordings with every page
✔ Supports text highlights - which makes is it easy for kids to learn how to read
✔ It's super easy to share stories with others and copy stories across devices
My Little Suitcase (iPad only)
The premise of the game is really simple - each player (of up to four) has a suitcase with six different items. Each of these 24 items is represented on a small card. The small cards are turned face down and players take turns to turn the cards over. If the card is one of theirs, they put the card in their suitcase. If not, the card is turned back over and the next player gets to pick a card.
The game involves finding all the cards that go into your suitcase. The best way to do that is to remember where other items from your suitcase are if the other player has previously turned them over.
Little Stars - Word Wizard - While your kids will enjoy playing this game, they will be learning new words, their spellings, and phonetic sounds.
✔ The app is super easy to customize so you and adjust everything to your liking
✔ You can turn individual topics ON or OFF and introduce them based on the player skills
✔ The app is super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities
✔ You can customize everything - record your own language or add your own items
✔ Two player mode makes learning even more fun for kids
✔ The achievement screen lets you see how your little one did at the end of each round
Little Writer - The Tracing App for Kids - This app has featured previously in Deanne's Top 10 Free Apps for ASD Kids! Little Writer is a tracing app that's done just right. Little Writer is super fun and so easy to use that your kids will think letter tracing is a game vs. a boring chore.
✔ ABC uppercase letters
✔ abc lowercase letters
✔ Numbers 1 to 10
✔ 20 basic shapes including lines, circles, rectangles and more
✔ Dozens of 3 and 4 letter words to make practice more enjoyable and interesting
✔ Ability to add an unlimited number of your own words and pictures for maximum enjoyment and variety
✔ Additional letters for foreign language characters. Just go to settings to turn additional characters on and record their sound
Little Stars - Toddler Games - Little Stars - Toddler Games is a fun educational app for Toddlers that covers ten age appropriate topics including: First Words, ABC Letter Names and Sounds, Counting and recognizing Numbers, Shapes, and Colors. While your toddler is enjoying his race into space he will be learning core skills that are critical for the development of every child.
✔ First words flashcards
✔ Farm animal flashcards
✔ ABC uppercase letter names
✔ ABC lowercase letter names
✔ ABC phonic sounds
✔ Counting Apples 1 to 10
✔ Counting Fingers 1 to 10
✔ Numbers 1 to 10
✔ Shapes
✔ Colors
Action Words - This app focused on helping kids learn new action words by showing gorgeous photographs where the actions are clearly acted out.
The app is so easy to use that even toddlers will delight in the gorgeous pictures as they start to explore and learn over 100 new action words.
✔ 500+ gorgeous photos keep kids engaged and wanting more
✔ The app if fun, simple, and easy to use
✔ Kids love hearing everything in mommy's or daddy's voice
✔ Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay
Monster Hunt - The Memory Game - A brilliantly simple and fun memory improvement game that is great for all ages
A winning combination of simplicity, creativity, and addictive gameplay make this the most enjoyable memory improvement game yet for the whole family.
✔ Gorgeous monsters keep kids engaged and begging for more
✔ Builds attention and concentration skills
✔ Helps kids to improve their working memory
✔ Helps to sharpen young minds
✔ Adjustable field size makes game great for kids of all ages and abilities
✔ Adjustable reveal time makes game great for kids of all ages and abilities
Touch the Sound - Touch the Sound is a fun new game that allows your kid to explore the world of sounds one touch at a time. This app focused on helping kids learn to recognize familiar sounds and match the sounds to the picture. The interface is so simple to use, that even little babies will delight in using this app.
✔ The app is super easy to customize so you and adjust everything to your liking
✔ You can turn individual concepts ON or OFF and introduce one new sound at a time
✔ Sounds are grouped into 5 selectable categories (animals, home, music instruments, nature, and transport)
✔ You can add new concepts (emotions, actions, etc.) in one click
✔ The app comes with 170+ fascinating sounds
Little Finder ABC - A winning combination of simplicity, creativity, and addictive gameplay make this the most enjoyable ABC game yet. A fun game that build concentration, improves reaction time, and helps kids learn their letters at the same time.
✔ Includes two gorgeous letter fonts
✔ Includes both uppercase and lowercase letters
✔ Includes both letter names and letter sounds (phonics)
✔ Multi-sensory learning tool - combining seeing, hearing, and tactile feedback
✔ You can play choose to have each game last 60 seconds, 120 seconds or play in Zen mode and play as long as you like
Little Finder - A winning combination of simplicity, creativity, and addictive gameplay make this the most enjoyable hidden objects game yet for the whole family. A fun game that build concentration, improves reaction time, and helps kids learn at the same time.
✔ Audio hints - ability to turn audio hints on or off. This is great if you want your kids to learn how to read ;)
✔ Sound effects - ability to turn sound effects on or off. This is great if you want eliminate all distractions
✔ Spawning of tiles - If you don't want more tiles to appear during the game, you can turn this setting on or off
✔ Adjustable field size - while 20 hidden objects is the default, you can go down all the way to just 4 (great for toddlers) or all the way to 56 hidden objects for the ultimate challenge.
✔ Image rotation - you can turn image rotation on or off. Its turned OFF when you first launch the app but if you like to make it more challenging, then turn it on and the hidden objects will show up in a random rotation such as upside down
Mini Adventures - Music - The app is ideal for Kids of all ages and even parents and teachers have been spotted watching the pictures and videos on their own. :-)
✔ Over 120 unique words included from A to Z
✔ Includes over 500+ gorgeous photos and engaging videos
✔ Teaches letters and word recognition - words are highlighted in red on click
✔ Tested with mothers, teachers, kids, and toddlers
✔ Designed for ease of use even for little kids
✔ Each word comes with at least three stunning videos - over 500 unique YouTube videos are included in this app. Each video is child friendly and selected to be fun and educational. Internet access is required to view the videos.
Fry Words - The Fry 1000 Instant Words are a list of the most common words used for teaching reading, writing, and spelling. These high frequency words should be recognized instantly by readers.
Dr. Edward B. Fry's Instant Words (which are often referred to as the "Fry Words") are the most common words used in English ranked in order of frequency.
To make learning the Fry Words fun, simple, and easy, we have broken all 1,000 Fry words into unique sets of 10 words each.
Ideal for Kids 1 - 4 Years Old
Mini Adventures - Let's Go and Learn the Alphabet - ABC Let's Go and take your kids on a mini adventure and discover the world all the things we use to move by air, land and sea.
The app is ideal for Kids of all ages and even parents and teachers have been spotted watching the pictures and videos on their own. :-)
✔ 124 unique words related to things we use to move around included in this app from A to Z
✔ Each word comes with at least three stunning pictures - over 500 stunning photos in total
✔ Over 120 unique words included from A to Z
✔ Includes over 500+ gorgeous photos and engaging videos
✔ Teaches letters and word recognition - words are highlighted in red on click
Phonics Genius - We featured this app last week by itself and it got a HUGE amount of hits.
One of the best ways to rapidly learn how to speak, read, and recognize words is through phonic awareness. This app is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by sounds. This app is loaded with content. We are talking over 6,000 professionally recorded words carefully grouped into 225 categories by phonics. Ideal for Kids 1 - 6 Years Old
✔ Added articulation practice mode so users can first record their own voice and then listen and compare it to the recorded pronunciation
✔ Ability to add your own cards - you can add an unlimited number of new words and record your own voice
Learn Spanish Vocabulary Pop Quiz
Looking for a fun and addictive game to rapidly expand your Spanish vocabulary?
Then download the Spanish Pop Quiz app right now!
Unlike most "learn Spanish" games, with the Spanish Pop Quiz you will never be stuck. You can always keep playing and you will automatically learn and discover the meaning of the words you don't recognize on your first attempt.
• Includes thousands of words across 50+ levels (more coming soon)
• Adaptive gameplay shows you more choices as your skills improve
Sight Words List - Learn to Read Flash Cards & Games
Help Your Child Learn to Read
Sight Words, also known as the Dolch List are an integral part in learning how to read. The Dolch Word list contains 315 words that are broken down into appropriate age groups. It is important for young readers to be able to instantly recognize these high frequency words in order to be proficient and fluent readers.
Why Sight Words from Alligator Apps? We believe that educational apps should be ridiculously fun, immensely educational, and affordable for all.
Touch and Learn - Emotions
★★★★★ Omg... these pictures are amazing. What a fun way to learn about emotions and so easy to customize too!
Endorsed by tens of thousands of satisfied parents, teachers, and kids the world over.
Touch and Learn is a powerful new gaming platform that allows you to introduce new concepts in a fun and exciting new way.
This app focused on helping kids read body language and understand emotions by looking at gorgeous pictures and figuring
out which person is expressing a given emotion.
ABA Flash Cards & Games - Emotions
✔ Add your own cards - record own voice and add own pictures!
✔ Includes 200+ gorgeous photographs that are carefully hand picked and selected
✔ Fun & engaging voice artist keeps kids engaged
✔ 8 different play modes to show the flashcards anyway you like. Play modes include (image only, word only, flashcard only, word then flashcard, word then image)
✔ 8 unique game modes including find the item, listening, and reading games
✔ Fully customizable font size, font color, spelling (upper case, lower case, etc.)
Touch and Learn - ABC Alphabet and 123 Numbers
Touch and Learn is a powerful new gaming platform that allows you to introduce new concepts in a fun and exciting new way.
You can use this Touch and Learn app to:
- Teach letters from A to Z
- Teach numbers from 1 to 20
- Teach concepts - letters vs. numbers, big vs. small letters
- Teach phonics - touch the "buh" letter
This game comes pre-loaded with dozens of unique images to provide hours of entertainment.
ABA – Problem Solving – What does not belong?
The "what does not belong apps" do the opposite of the basic Touch and Learn applications. Instead of asking kids to find "the circle" or the "red square" the "what does not belong apps" display 4 images and require the child to identify the one item that is different. The difference could be due to the color, name of the object, type of object or concept being presented.
This app can be challenging or easy depending on the difficulty that you select and is ideal for ages 2 to 4.
Telling Time Quiz - Fun Game to Learn How to Tell Time
✔ Includes 18 unique levels to learn to tell time from easy to hard
✔ Adaptive gameplay shows you more choices as your skills improve
✔ Unique game mechanics that will make you want to keep playing
✔ Super easy to use for all ages
✔ Unlock new levels and track your progress
✔ Fully customizable - setup your own levels for family and friends
ABC Alphabet Letters by The Little Book
The "Little Book" series is a fun, simple, and engaging way to learn. The books offer a great learning experience for small children. The little ones will enjoy listening to colorful examples while looking at gorgeous photos that are carefully chosen. Toddlers will love the interactivity of the little books and click on the images to hear the sound of the words play back out loud.
If your little one loves hearing new stories and learning about new things, then The Little Books will become one of their treasured apps and soon they will even be able to read them on their own!
Football Kits & Logo Quiz
You see football kits and logos every week. However, how well can you recognize them on the spot?
Take the Football Kits & Logo Quiz challenge to find out!
Unlike most quiz games, with Football Kits & Logo Quiz you will never be stuck. You can always keep playing and you will automatically learn and discover the kits and logo's that you don't recognize on your first attempt.
Memory König - Das Kartenspiel für Kinder
Memory König hat bereits den US-Markt erobert und ist ab sofort auch in deutscher Sprache erhältlich!
"Memory König – perfektioniert das Memo-Spiel"
http://appgarten.de/kinder-app-memory-koenig/
Bei Memory König handelt es sich um eine ganz neue Variante des traditionellen Lernkarten-Spiels, das schon seit 50 Jahren Jung und Alt Freude bereitet.
Diese neue Version bietet originelle Funktionen, die nur auf dem iPad und iPhone möglich sind. Zum Beispiel haben wir "Magie-Karten" hinzugefügt, die das Spiel noch unterhaltsamer und abwechslungsreicher gestalten.
Lisa M is now exhausted after checking out all these apps and compiling this post. Hope y'all like them!
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