The World of Children’s Apps: A Shake Up?
As a GeekDad who spends a lot of time playing with, reviewing, and talking to those who develop and design apps for children, there is one thing that most people agree on: it is not going to stay like...
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Shuttle Passengers Around Your House With Helicopter Taxi on Your iPhone/iPad
iDevices allow us and our kids to play all kinds of games to test our skills or pit us against each other. But this is the first app I have seen that turned my iPod Touch into a toy. With ...
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Toca Boca: Social Play on the iPad
Toca Boca is a European App Development team that are approaching the whole app business in a different way to many of the developers out there in the children’s app space. Their first two apps,...
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Pocket Zoo Goes HD, Celebrates With Custom Panda iPad Case Giveaway For...
I reviewed a very cool iOS app called Pocket Zoo just about this time last year and thought quite highly of it; Pocket Zoo subsequently made it into the pages of Wired magazine as a “must have” app, so...
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Last Chance to Enter: Toontastic Summer Cartoon Competition
GeekDad and Toontastic have teamed up for a storytelling competition. You can read all about it in our previous post a few weeks back. To participate in the contest, get yourself a copy of Toontastic...
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Vote Now in the Toontastic Summer Cartoon Competition!
Well, creative young people from across the globe have been creating videos of the Summer Holidays and sharing them with us in our Summer Cartoon Competition. The short-listing has taken place and now...
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Me Books – A New Approach to Digital Picture Books
A while back, GeekDad Dan Donahoo wrote about a new desktop learning adventure for called The Land Of Me, which weaves a kids learning experience into an illustrated storybook, complete with games,...
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Duck Duck Moose: Now More Than Just Apps
Duck Duck Moose has always been slightly in front of the pack. Early on in the days of iOS apps they developed a little musical app called Wheels on the Bus which is well known in Pre-K circles and...
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Learn Multiplication Tables the Visual Way With This App
Unlike Esa Helttula’s other apps, which allow kids to practice specific skills through a no-nonsense kind of interface, Esa’s latest app, for the iPad, gives kids a playground of sorts to play around...
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iOnRoad Collision Warning App for Android
For some reason, I’ve always spent a lot of time driving. There was that decade where my in-laws lived 650 miles away, making for many long weekends spent on narrow, Northern Ontario highways. Then 13...
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Review: Ranger Rick’s Raiders of the Lost Aardvark App
My kids and I really enjoy hidden picture games. We also really like Ranger Rick magazine. Now there is an app that combines the two: The National Wildlife Foundation has come out with a new app where...
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D’Oh! The Simpsons: Tapped Out Is an Addictive Time Waster
I pride myself on having avoided many years worth of time-sucking, premium content peddling, screen-tapping social games like FarmVille, CityVille and Mafia Wars. However, I do have a weakness for The...
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Movie Trivia Is a Blast with Name That Movie
Movie buffs often get a raw deal when it comes to trivia games. Many games either focus on a single studio or offer questions that are far too simple. Fortunately, there's a new option that is neither...
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Ansel and Clair Apps Branch Out, Lower Price
Following their most excellent iPad app from 2011, Ansel & Clair's Adventures in Africa, Cognitive Kid has now come out with a new iPad app, Ansel and Clair: Cretaceous Dinosaurs, as well as...
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Those wonderful toys | PBS’ Quest to Build a Better Kids’ App
PBS Kids history of producing strong and purposeful learning content for children has continued into the mobile space. With a series of quality apps aligned to their PBS Kids programs like Super Why,...
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Design Apps for the Aesthetically Challenged
In recent times I have found some fantastic iPad apps that allow me to create cool posters and websites and stuff with my kids. Of course, their domains are registered and WordPress installed, but as a...
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GeekDad Approved | Motion Math Offers a Pro Suite of Kids Math Apps
At GeekDad we are big fans of apps that actually use mobile devices in innovative ways to support children's learning. Motion Math Games are one of those developers who have led the way in thinking...
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GeekDad Approved | Curious Hat: Building the Education Apps of the Future
Curious Hat is an emerging children's app developer who is offering apps that will help to transform the way we think about mobile devices supporting children's learning and development. Its two apps...
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The Simpsons: Tapped Out Comes Back to Life With an Undead Upgrade
In the spring, I wrote a review of The Simpsons: Tapped Out, an iOS game released by Electronic Arts. The game — a freemium casual Sim City-inspired grinder for fans of The Simpsons — was great up...
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GeekDad Approved | Common Sense Media: Now in App Form
Commonsense Media remain a standout in the world of children's media. If you have not discovered them, you should. They offer high quality reviews and advice about children's media and have probably...
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