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MASH

MASH

Remember playing MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) as a kid to find out your future spouse, home and job? Now you can play it on your iPhone, iPod Touch or your brand-spanking new iPad. MASH ($1) is a digital version of the pen and paper fortune telling game. It has been featured by [More]

ABC Zoo

ABC Zoo

Do your kids love your iPhone as much as you do? Now you can put something on it just for them. ABC Zoo ($5) is an educational iPhone and iPod touch application for kids. This useful and funny app will keep your child busy on a trip – or wherever you are – while teaching the [More]

Mandy and Andy for iPhone

Mandy and Andy for iPhone

It’s story time in a whole new way with Mandy and Andy for iPhone ($2). Kids can read along on their own, or be read to in this interactive book. Explore each page to find the hiding animals and see the fun animations, while Mandy and Andy work to renovate their friend’s [More]

Elmo’s Monster Maker

Elmo’s Monster Maker

Design a whole parade of new friends for Elmo with Elmo’s Monster Maker ($4) for the iPhone. Just select a featureless monster body, and tap its hat, eyes, and nose as many times as you want to change its features. Once you’re happy with your monster, you can make him dance, [More]

iPhone LEGO App

iPhone LEGO App

You’ve built cities, heavy machinery, and futuristic battlecraft from those busy little blocks, and now LEGOs will build you. For free! The iPhone LEGO App (free!) lets you snap a pic of yourself or your kids and then LEGO-izes it, turning your face into a rainbow of tiny blocks. [More]

Toy Kit iPhone App

Toy Kit iPhone App

A bunch of circles, squares, and lines don’t look like much on their own, but when kids put them together in the Toy Kit iPhone App ($1), a firetruck, helicopter, or police car magically takes shape from the chaos. Once assembled, the vehicle animates and sounds its siren. When [More]

Number Peek and Letter Peek

Number Peek and Letter Peek

That classic game of peek-a-boo just got educational with Number Peek ($1) and Letter Peek ($1) for the iPhone. In Number Peek, each of the numbers 1-20 curls up with a tap to reveal a group of that many items, such as four peppers. A voice speaks the number aloud, as well as the name of [More]

Peekaboo Barn

Peekaboo Barn

Now kids can take a trip to the farm without getting their shoes dirty with Peekaboo Barn ($2) for the iPhone. The big red barn is full of farm animals that pop out one at a time with a tap on the doors to make their signature sounds and help little ones learn their names in English and [More]

Animal Sounds for iPhone

Animal Sounds for iPhone

Going on the idea that little kids can’t possibly be upset while elephants are trumpeting, chickens squawking, or dogs barking, Animal Sounds for iPhone ($2) gives you animals from the zoo, farm, and house pets, all in one app. Full screen, high res images of each animal engage your [More]

Tickle Tap Apps

Tickle Tap Apps

Simple and fun, with a different educational element in each game, TIckle Tap Apps ($2) are designed just for preschoolers. Silly animations that aren’t too complex or cluttered, keep the child engaged as they learn to count by twos and threes, match shapes, experiment with sounds, [More]

Pediatric Symptom MD

Pediatric Symptom MD

Even if you have every medical reference ever published on your bookshelf at home, that won’t help when your little one takes a tumble at the playground or spikes a fever at Grandma’s. The Pediatric Symptom MD ($2) app for iPhone gives you instant access to symptom care guides used [More]

Bean Cards

Bean Cards

Right when young children are learning different animal names is the perfect age for them to start learning a second (or third) language while they’re at it. Bean Cards ($1) for the iPhone are like virtual interactive flash cards. Each of the 24 animated cards features a different [More]

iMoo

iMoo

Now your iPhone can moo, can you? That little cow-in-a-can that we couldn’t stop turning over and over as kids has been given a new life in iMoo ($1), a simple app that does an amazing job recreating the charm and fascination of the classic toy. Flip the iPhone upside down and then [More]

Langu iPhone

Langu iPhone

Learning 100 new words is a fine accomplishment, but if those words are in Mandarin Chinese, then you’ve really got something to be proud of. Langu ($5) for the iPhone offers a simple, yet effective interface for teaching foreign languages. Just choose a category, such as numbers, [More]

Baby Connect

Baby Connect

Other baby tracking software exists, but Baby Connect ($3) for the iPhone does everything but change the diapers for you. Caregivers and parents can post updates about everything from the usual naps and feedings, to baby’s temperature, what kind of mood he’s in, and even who or what [More]