20 best apps for child development

20 best apps for child development

One way or another, our children use gadgets. Whether we like it or not. Of course, a mobile device is not a substitute for a friend, parent, or a good book. But sometimes a nanny can even be replaced! Especially if a conscientious parent has downloaded a beautiful developmental application to his iPhone. And today there are more and more of them on the market. Based on the experience of a young mother, here are the twenty best children's apps for learning and developing a child from 1 to 6 years old …

ABC

Living alphabet

20 best apps for child development

Beautifully rendered, animated and voiced alphabet, in which a short cartoon or game is hidden behind each letter. You get great aesthetic pleasure from communicating with this application. Here you can try on a variety of mustaches for a gentleman, pick up skirts for a baby, paint with giraffe spots, slap a harmful speck of dust with a slipper, score a goal, cut a persimmon and much more. There is a link to download a large poster with illustrations for each letter.

Price: 33 r.

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Bubl ABC

20 best apps for child development

The alphabet as contemporary art. There is a Russian version. Audio-visual application with learning elements. One of the four Bubl art apps for young children and their parents. According to the developers, the alphabet is a song made up of letters. In this case, it is much more. However, it is better to see once than to hear.

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Price: 99 rub.

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Talking ABC

20 best apps for child development

Cheerful plasticine alphabet. 30 funny characters that transform letters when clicked. A shark doing somersaults, a hippopotamus blowing blue bubbles out of its nose, a lion showing off its muscles, and other animals are so adorable that they simply cannot get bored. It is possible to write down your own text and put it in the mouth of one of the characters. Each of them speaks in a funny cartoon voice. You can scroll through the letters one by one, or look at the clip in auto mode. There is a cute plasticine test to check the passed material and a puzzle.

Price: 99 rub.

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ABC House

20 best apps for child development

An English-language application from a voluminous ABC series (food, actions, bugs, etc.) Introduces the child to the English names of household items, arranged in alphabetical order and equipped with colorful full-screen photographs and voice acting. There are no subtitles in Russian. The app primarily teaches new words rather than letters. Additional features: watching thematic videos, chips like 'wash the mirror', 'wrap a burrito in foil' and a test on the words passed.

Price: 99 rub.

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Endless alphabet

20 best apps for child development

An animated masterpiece from a developer called Pixar in the world of mobile applications. Learns to recognize the spelling and sound of English letters. The impeccable quality of graphics, animation and voice acting delights both babies from one year and older children and their parents. Each letter corresponds to a few words that are far from the most ordinary. А – Аlarm, B – Belch, Bellow; C – Contagious, Contraption and so on. As you progress through the alphabet, new words are added to the letters. The app is called 'endless' for a reason. Each word must be collected from the scattered letters, and then, having listened to its interpretation in English, enjoy a cartoon that visualizes it.

Price: 229 r.

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MUSICAL

Toca band

20 best apps for child development

Music app from a brilliant kids developer. Simple and ingenious, even the smallest like it. With this application, a child can assemble their own orchestra of funny cartoon musicians. No matter how you compose the orchestra, the melody will turn out to be rhythmic and pleasant. One of the best apps from Toca Boca.

Price: 99 rub.

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Little fox music box

20 best apps for child development

A beautiful music app for children from 2 to 6 years old. The illustrations by Oscar-nominated animation artist Heidi Wittlinger have generated millions of downloads for the developers. The Little Fox Music Box consists of a recording studio and three animated, interactive clips of popular songs from English folklore.

Price: 99 rub.

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Nursery rhymes

20 best apps for child development

High-quality colorful music application from which you can watch cartoons on the famous English songs from the Nursery Rhymes cycle. And not only watch, but also sing along with karaoke! Like kids from one year old, although, of course, it is intended for older children. There are 24 songs in total, one of them is free, the rest are in-app purchases.

Price: free

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INTERVIEWER

Sago mini monsters

20 best apps for child development

An application from the cycle for the little ones from the developer Sago Sago. The familiar pink bird gets into the world of funny monsters, which the kid creates himself from ready-made templates and a set of paints. When the finished, painted monster comes to life, it needs to be fed with tasty treats emerging from the green gurgling liquid, and then be sure to brush its teeth. A clean, well-fed monster can be decorated with a mustache, hat, or flowers and photographed. And then a new one will emerge to replace it. And everything will repeat in the same way.

Price: 99 rub.

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Sago Mini Pet Cafe

20 best apps for child development

Another application from the cycle for the little ones from the developer Sago Sago. Simple and cute animation, not overloaded with details. Together with three characters: a brown dog, a pink bird and an orange kitten, the baby will find himself in a cafe. Here you can make a multi-colored layered cocktail yourself and drink it with friends, count to ten, placing cakes on a tray and learn to distinguish the shapes of objects by sorting cherries and muffins. By the way, all the apps from the Sago Mini series are of excellent quality and are worth showing up to your little one.

Price: 99 rub.

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App for kids

20 best apps for child development

A set of bright puzzles in the style of a childish Japanese animation. The puzzles vary in level of difficulty and develop the logical thinking of the child. An astronaut in outer space, a yellow bus with funny passengers, square birds, funny snowballs, a kind ghost in a pirate band, and much more.

Price: Free

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Toca Pet Doctor

20 best apps for child development

A touching app from the beloved developer Toca Boca. In it, children from 1.5 to 6 years old can treat dogs, rabbits, turtles, mice, spiders and other animals that fall under their hands. Beautiful animation and simple interaction teaches toddlers to care for sick animals, thus understanding the importance of caring for pets. Not only to heal, but also to feed! In fact, half of the game is devoted to the process of eating. Therefore, Toca Pet Doctor is also well suited for children who do not like to eat.

Price: 99 rub.

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TRAINING

Weather MarcoPolo

20 best apps for child development

High-quality animated game application that teaches children about different types of weather. The style of the screensaver and voice acting resembles the famous Australian developer Toca Boca. In the MarcoPolo weather trainer, the child himself raises or lowers the temperature, snows, rains, strong winds or makes a rainbow. The settings provide valuable guidance for parents on sharing the app. An interesting and useful toy!

Price: Free

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Ocean MarcoPolo

20 best apps for child development

Another educational app from MarcoPolo. This time the focus of the game is the ocean. Kids get to know the depths, replenish their vocabulary, collect coral reef, ocean herring, submarine, get acquainted with marine mammals. And in the course of the game, as the developers promise, thanks to independent research, children form the initial skills necessary in the field of science, engineering and mathematics.

Price: 66 rub.

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Hungry caterpillar

20 best apps for child development

A beautiful mobile application based on the book of the same name by the famous illustrator Eric Karl. Like the story of a very hungry caterpillar, the application is intended for the little ones. It teaches counting and basic skills: feed and walk the caterpillar, put it to bed, water the plants, harvest, put toys in place. After several virtual days, a fat, well-fed caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly.

Price: 129 r.

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Pepi bath

20 best apps for child development

A very useful application that helps to teach your baby to such important things as: brushing teeth, blowing your nose, going to the toilet yourself, washing hands and cutting nails. An irreplaceable assistant in this matter for mothers of one-year-old dolls. There are two characters in the application: a boy and a girl. Your child will be able to identify with one of them.

Price: Free

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Agnitus

20 best apps for child development

A one-of-a-kind comprehensive educational application in English. Designed for preschool children. Teaches letters, numbers, geometric shapes, colors and songs from the Nursery Rhymes cycle. The intuitive interface and friendly teaching method are designed with the child's mind in mind. In the main menu, you can adjust the age of the child and he will be given appropriate tasks. The first month of use is free, then paid by subscription. The application is interesting and understandable for children for whom English is not native. Unfortunately, there is nothing like this in Russian.

Price: Free

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Tales for the night

Good night circus

20 best apps for child development

Вторая сказка на ночь для детей от блестящего разработчика Fox&Sheep. A magical scene by Oscar-nominated artist Heidi Wittringer. Circus fleas sleeping in matchboxes, a bear twirling figures from balloons, a sleepy hare with a magic wand … Children put circus animals to bed by turning off the lights or blowing out candles. Each animal knows how to perform several tricks and shows them to children before going to bed. The application is translated into 16 languages, including Russian.

Price: 99 rub.

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Who stole the moon

20 best apps for child development

A wonderful interactive book based on the tale of the English writer Helen Stratton-Wood about the boy Bertie, who loved to look at the moon. One day Bertie did not see the moon in the sky and went to look for her.

An animated mobile fairy tale topped the top ten best children's apps for Forbes. The book is beautifully rendered by the popular Russian illustrator Vlad Gerasimov and translated into 17 languages. The famous theater and film actor Vladimir Vdovichenko reads the tale in Russian.

Price: 169 rub.

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Sweet dreams, baby Mo

20 best apps for child development

Sleepy interactive book for kids from one year to those years. The design is very similar to the real one. 3D pages turn very realistically. When night falls, the monster Mo, yawning delightfully, begins to prepare for bed. He takes a bath, brushes his teeth, wishes everyone a good night. Unhurried reading and soothing music do their job and the kids nod off towards the end of the tale.

Price: 99 rub.

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