As some of our readers know, we have a 3 month old son and we have already started to look for iPad apps that are useful for kids. So, I figured I might as well start a page here in our site where I can continuously add cool childrens iPad apps as I come across them.
With so many amazing childrens iPad apps coming out every day this is no way a complete list. We want your suggestion and input to make this list even better. Please bookmark this page and share it with your friends of family who might find this list useful.
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We have tried to categorize childrens’ iPad apps into the following broad categories and have tried to find a lot of cheap and free apps sp it is affordable for everyone. You will find iPad and iPad 2 apps in these sections
- Fun iPad Apps for Kids
- Drawing iPad Apps for Kids
- Education iPad Apps for Kids
- Interactive iPad Books for Kids
- Memory iPad Apps for Kids
- Pre-school Kids iPad Apps
Best iPad Apps for Kids & Toddlers
Fun iPad Apps for Kids
One of the popular game that lets you build Smurf’s village from scratch is available on the iPad. Be careful of the in-app purchases your kid may be making.
Price: Free
2. Kids Song Machine HD iPad App
A fun musical application, that is both stimulating and educational, it’s guaranteed to keep your children entertained for hours. The paid version includes 10 songs like the Old MacDonald, If You’re Happy and You Know it, etc.
Price: $2.99
Bring the fun of Lego to your iPad for your kids to enjoy. Start building in one of 4 categories - nature, vehicles, buildings or things. Have hours of fun with your kids on your iPad 2 for free.
Price: Free
Lego Creationary iPad App
An awesome little app for the young ones. The app features images in several categories like animals, wild animals, wild birds, vehicles, musical-instruments and household. And touching on an image brings a full sized image of the animal or bird and makes the sound it makes. Just swipe to make the picture disappear.
Price: $2.99
5. Dress Up with Angelina Ballerina
Help Angelina, Gracie and Viki get ready for their dance performances. Explore hundreds of possible outfits and accessories for tap, ballet, hip hop or mix and match your own fashions.
Price: $0.99
There are many talking apps but this one is a good one. Like Elmo toys, you can poke, tickle Carl and also he repeats what you say in a hilarious tone. It is also available for the iPhone.
Price: $0.99
KiDSAPP offers kids a playful and colorful immersion into an interactive farm. Your kid will play with cows, horses, cats, bees, pigs, chickens … 26 animated animals and elements your kid could touch and hear in a day and night farm environment.
Recommended ages: 2-6
Price: $1.99
Drawing iPad Apps for Kids
Kid Art iPad App
With over 20 backgrounds to draw on and easy drop animals and objects, 10 colors to choose from this is an excellent iPad app for kids to get started on their art interests.
Price: $0.99
2. Coloring Book Color Mix HD – Paint, Draw, Coloring
A fantastic coloring book app for the iPad. Keeps it simple for beginners as well as advanced enough for those who wish to explore the color wheel and mixing colors. Supports multi-touch painting – a life saver since siblings can share the iPad.
Price: $1.99
Educational iPad Apps for Kids
Letter Tracing iPad 2 App
1. Ace Writer – Alphabet Series
This iPad 2 app teaches letter tracing, letter recognition, alphabet animals and sounds. A great app for learning the alphabets. Also check out the Ace Writer series iPad apps like Numbers, Word Family Series, Animals Nature, etc.
Price: $1.99
The game has 5 different levels each designed to boost your child’s math skills. A must have app to help your child be good in math.
Recommended ages: Kindergardeners
Price: $0.99
Got a budding reader in your family? This is a fantastic app to encourage just that habit. This iPad app encourages your raders to see and recognize words, hear the word pronunciation, and are prompted to say the word as well as write to make that visual connection. With 75 sight words, 12 word families and 65 family words, it is bound to keep your reader busy.
Price: $0.99
A great game to take on the road for your child while making learning fun. The game works by your kid having to spell a 3 letter word correctly to free the bee. It works like the scrabble app where you can drag and drop the letters. There is the picture of the word in the game and your child can tap to hear a recording of the word to spell.
Price: $1.99
Here is a mega book with 24 books in one app. Best suited for children between 2-6. Each book is for each alphabet in English. ‘Read to me’ feature reads the story by highlighting the words in the page as they are read. ‘Read it myself’ lets the child read the book. The text is geared for beginner and dveloping readers. There is also a lite version to try before you buy.
Recommended ages: 2-6
Price: $5.99
Tam & Tao our twin heroes will guide your child through Numberland; 10 beautifully animated worlds. Each scene will give him/her the possibility to: See how to write a number, hear its name and count objects to reinforce the learning, Practice writing numbers on a digital notebook using color pencils, etc.
Recommended ages: 1-3, 4-7
Price: $4.99
ABC Expedition iPad App
Princess Ph.D. is unique from other apps as your child gets rewarded with coins for each correct answer and can use those coins to upgrade the princess’ outfit. The store itself is educational and teaches your daughter prioritization, saving, and basic math skills. Once your child earns enough coins to fully outfit her princess, she’ll be off to the ball for the evening. Her character will have gone from pauper to princess!
Price: $0.99
A beautiful app that teaches alphabets to your child with a fun zoo like environment with incredible animal pictures. It has large buttons making it easy for small hands to navigate with calm pleasing animations.
Recommended ages: 1-4
Price: $2.99
9. Hello Hello Kids Language Learning
A unique app that offers content in 7 different languages in a single app without in-app purchases – English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese. The app has animated flashcards with adorable icons, animations and sounds featuring numbers 1-20 and Quiz on numbers to improve retention. Child listens to the audio and chooses the correct number.
Price: $2.99
An app kids of all age and parents can enjoy together. Explore the night sky with this app finding star locations, constellations and build the curiosity in the young astronomer in your family. A must have for star gazers of all ages.
Price: $4.99
Finally, an awesome, interactive, learning tool designed for your grade school Smarty! This application consists of 26 lessons that review and 26 corresponding mini games for repetition and reinforcement. Features: Spelling, Geography, History, Reading, Science, Math.
Recommended ages: Grade school
Price: $1.99
Interactive iPad Books for Kids
Dora Adventure iPad Book
1. Toy Story 3 Read-along iPad Book
An immersize and interactive read-along iPad book app from Disney on the famous movie Toy Story 3. It has 2 reading modes where you can follow as the story is narrated or you can explore the book at your own pace. The best feature of this app – You or your child can record narrating the story and hear it instead of the default voice. How personalized can you make the iPad for your child? It even has games based on the story. A visual page index makes it easy to jump to the page you want to go to.
Price: $8.99
An animated storybook from Samsung features 100 sentences + 200 words and pleasing animated graphics. This app has support for 4 languages – English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Price: $0.99
3. The Deep Blue Kingdom iPad Book
Ocean, water and fishes appeal to most kids like nothing else. This interactive iPad book takes full advantage of the iPad interface to provide an immersive experience for your child with the creatures of the deep blue kingdom.
Recommended ages: children under 10
Price: $2.99
Another app from the previous app makers Imagitronics – again an incredible introduction to the dwellers of the zoo to get your child enjoy, play with the animal kingdom.
Recommended ages: children under 10
Price: $2.99
Meet our old friend Peter Rabbit in person. Tap Peter to make him jump for the carrot. Help Peter escape from Mr. McGregor’s garden. Enjoy the numerous interactions while reading the story and listening to the cheerful country music.
Price: $0.99
6. Old Macdonald Had a Farm – interactive children’s sing along book : HD
Animated, Interactive Sing-Along story book for children: The famous “Old Macdonald’s Farm” comes to life in an interactive rich song and dance experience. Carefully designed for babies, toddlers and children of all ages this sing-along experience is a unique, new and high quality musical production of the song joined with fabulous animated activities joining through the verses.
Recommended ages: babies, toddlers and children of all ages
Price: Free
Teddy’s Day unites innovative technology and high quality animation to create an interactive, entertaining and fully immersive children’s storybook experience. The app is based on the bestselling print edition, “What Does My Teddy Bear Do All Day?” written by Bruno Hachler, illustrated by Birte Muller and published by Minedition, who co-released the app with Auryn.
Also, check out Teddy’s Night iPad book.
Price: $3.99
Don’t forget to checkout more ‘Best iPad Apps for Kids‘ in the next page with the following sections.
- Memory iPad Apps for Kids
- Pre-school Kids iPad Apps
