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Best Educational Apps for Kids - App Review

Best Educational Apps for Kids - App Review

With over 1.3 mil Apps in Playstore, are there apps that actually help toddlers learn?

99 kids out of 100 are usually of the opinion that learning and boredom are one and the same. We swear we didn’t make up that figure. Well, maybe we did. But you get our point, right? We have a hunch that it is maybe hardwired in their brains that learning is boring. No, we aren’t scientists by any stretch. But if you accept our logic, the only way to make it non-boring is by cajoling them into learning but without them actually realising that they are learning.

It is nothing out of the ordinary to see a 3-year old toddler straddling a Kindle Fire or an iPad Mini. In fact, Santa Claus is becoming increasingly inclined to drop a tablet under Christmas trees these days. With an array of quality value-for-money devices out there in the shelves, our best bet would be to use the kids’ addiction to tablets and Smart Phones to develop cognitive skills in them.

Android Play Store is always flooded with apps and games that claim to do just that. We took it upon ourselves to test a series of apps and this is the first of the lot.

Kids Preschool Games

Do you want to give your child a head start in school? Look no further, this app lives up to its claims. It’s a bundle of games all rolled in to one. You name it and this app has it. Some of the games which our reviewer (my 4 year old niece) enjoyed playing were:

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• Hungry (number eating) Frog

• Tricky Maze

• Jigsaw Puzzle

• Fill Colors

• Missing Objects

• Trace Alphabets


Kids will also love collecting animated stickers as rewards after completing each stage.

If you have a toddler who knows how to use a tablet (who doesn’t!), this is something that you should definitely splash your money on.

Our Rating: 4.5/5

Download here:

Google Play Store

Amazon App Store

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