Android

With funky modern illustrations, TinyBop invites kids to play with the six classic simple machines (lever, screws, wheels and axles, inclined planes, wedges, and pulley) and make adjustments (like moving the fulcrum on the lever) to see how the action changes. Each machine has its own unique scenario (knocking down a castle, breaking up icebergs, lifting heavy objects) and the option to "peel back" the top layer of the animation to get a closer look at what's going on with each adjustment made (lines trace trajectories, arrows illustrate the amount of force needed, etc.).

Being able to identify “same vs. different” is an essential building block for science and math skills, but it’s also an important early literacy skill (otherwise, how could you ever decipher the difference between the letters p, d, q & b?).

A tiny bird is stuck in a cage with 7 colorful locks and players must earn the keys for each lock to release the bird.

Learn Spanish vocabulary words, hear both the (Spanish) name of each letter in each word and the sound it makes as you spell it, the hear the word used in a Spanish sentence.

This app is divided into thirteen “episodes” each featuring two letters of the alphabet (so all 26 are covered) and a lot of laughs. Episodes are organized around themes (Pirate Day!

Want to learn some words in American Sign Language? This easy-to-use, clean designed app does a nice job of teaching signs through very short video clips of kids doing the signs.

Although millions of kids apps use the concept of a memory matching game as one of the elements of their app, this one, which focuses solely on the memory game, rises to the top.