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8 Must-Have Apps for Your Kids in 2019

We have to admit that we’re constantly amazed by the creativity, professionalism, and outstanding design, including educational design, that we see in apps for kids in the App Store. We love checking them out and discovering which are the best ones is something that we greatly enjoy sharing with our loyal readers.

Here are 8 of our favorites that are well worth a download, even the ones that aren’t free 🙂

Learning Games 4 Kids Toddlers  / Free w/IAPs / App Store Rating: 4.5, 21.4K Ratings

We became aware of this app via a recommendation from a friend. And boy was she right! It’s an awesome collection of learning games and puzzles that uses “Funny Food” as the delivery vehicle for all the activities and FUN!

“Funny Food consists of 17 various educational games for your children. Funny Food addresses various topics such as: geometric figures, colors, units as parts and as a whole, logic, sizes etc. It also has puzzle games! Funny Food has endless possibilities to keep your children busy with very useful and engaging games!”

HOMER Reading: Learn to Read  / Free w/IAPs / App Store Rating: 4.6, 7.2K Ratings

The right foundations for reading are critical to establishing a love of reading in your kids. This app does a great job of not only making sure all the building blocks are covered but also does it in a personalized way.

“It includes thousands of lessons on phonics, sight words, ABCs and more and grows with your child from age 2 to 8.

HOMER Reading has been proven to increase early reading scores by 74% with just 15 minutes a day. And with stories and activities customized to each child’s interests, they’ll learn while having fun.”

ABC Animal Toddler Adventures  / Free w/IAPs / App Store Rating: 4.7, 5.1K Ratings

When children have the flexibility to learn at their own pace and be rewarded for being successful along the way they also learn that leaning itself is rewarding.

This app does an excellent job of breaking down reading skills into games that are easy to maneuver for non-readers and provide stickers as rewards for progress.

“ABC Animal Adventures is an easy, fun & simple game which is adored by kids worldwide. The app endeavors to be enjoyable and educational at the same time. It has been tested by several kiddos to ensure an effortless and smooth game play without the child getting frustrated by confusing pop ups and menus.”

Little Fox Animal Doctor  / $3.99 / App Store Rating: 4.6, 626 Ratings

Learning is about more than reading and math. It’s also involves learning about the world around us. This app brings the world of animals and pets to your child in a wonderfully engaging way.

Children naturally love animals and being helpful. In Little Fox Animal Doctor your child can be creatively entertained while helping an animal in need.

“The app is full of humorous animations, amazing 3D illustrations, and funny short movies. In the animal doctor’s office, located in a magical treehouse, the animals are waiting to be cured. Kids are playfully guided through applying treatments that they might have experienced themselves: measuring temperatures, taking medicine, getting a plaster. And of course, eating a snail is probably just good for owls! ”

Toca Life: Neighborhood  / $3.99 / App Store Rating: 4.3, 1.5K Ratings

We suppose the first effort to give kids an alternate neighborhood to play and learn in happened when Sesame Street went on the air back in the ’69.

While this app has nothing to do with that show or its producers, it also creates a fun learning environment with a “neighborhood” setting.

“Welcome to your new neighborhood, filled with friendly faces to hang out with. Explore your new block, where you can check out cafés and shops, and meet a new set of characters. And guess what? A Toca Life app has never had this many homes!”

YouTube Kids  / Free / App Store Rating: 4.7, 462.1K Ratings

Let’s face it, the internet is here to stay. No matter how many times you read about its dangers or too much screen time or any other of its negative aspects, your kids will grow up in a world where it is just there; all the time.

So you might as well provide a positive and controllable introduction to its most compelling content – videos. This app, from Google (the developers of YouTube), gives you a way to insure that your kids are only seeing safe, kid-appropriate content.

“We created YouTube Kids to make it safer and simpler for kids to explore the world through online video – from their favorite shows and music to learning how to build a model volcano (or make slime ;-), and everything in between. There’s also a whole suite of parental controls, so you can tailor the experience to your family’s needs.”

BANDIMAL  / $3.99 / App Store Rating: 4.6, 271 Ratings

It is often said that kids are like sponges in terms of how easily they can learn new things. Music is an excellent example of this.

Creating music may seem daunting to adults who are not musicians. However, when introduced to children in a well-designed, friendly, non-threatening and playful way they will take to it quite easily. And once that happens the sky is the limit.

“BANDIMAL is a fun and intuitive music composer that lets kids discover the creative world of making music. Set up a drum loop, swipe through animals to change instruments, compose melodies, change loop speeds and add a quirky effect on top. Amusing animals animate in hilarious ways as you perfect your song.”

Little Stories. Bedtime Books  / Free w/IAPs / App Store Rating: 4.6, 5.6K Ratings

A big part of learning to read, and loving to read, is for kids to have content that they find entertaining and fun. The titles that are part of this collection fit that bill to a T. Your child becomes part of the action to make the stories that much more engrossing.

Using beautiful images, melodies and stories your child will want to come back to this app time and time again.

“The “Little Stories” series present fairy tales, in which your kid plays the main part. It’s quite simple – just enter your kid’s name and gender in the settings window and enjoy reading fairy tales about your son or daughter.”

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Do you agree? Disagree? If you have some other apps in mind that should be on this list let us know about them in the comments section.

8 Must-Have Apps for Your Kids in 2019 – TheiPhoneAppReview.com

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The mobile strategy MMO genre has been thriving ever since 2012, when Supercell’s Clash of Clans burst onto the scene.

Since then, developer IGG has specialized in perfecting the strategy MMO genre, with games such as Lords Mobile and Clash of Lords dominating the app store charts thanks to their professional sheen (and canny choice of names).

Mobile Royale, the studio’s latest, demonstrates the same commitment to high-quality game production and sneaky zeitgeist-borrowing titles.

Despite appearances, Mobile Royale is not a battle royale game. Instead, it follows the strategy MMO formula pretty closely. That means it involves building up a city by adding and upgrading buildings, while also venturing out to fight for the resources and experience you’ll need if you want to dominate the game world.

Unsurprisingly, Mobile Royale has a fantasy setting, which means you’ll come across elves, humans, dwarves, beasts, dragons, monsters magic, and so on as you romp your way through the single-player campaign.

The dragon is a particular point of interest. This magical beast has apparently taken a shine to you, which means it’s prepared not only to smite your enemies during battle but also to help you at home by bestowing boosts on your city-building efforts.

The Good

As you’d expect from a studio with IGG’s clout, Mobile Royale looks terrific, from the impressive introductory cut-scene featuring a Kratos-like warrior to your city, which is spread out across a lush cloud-draped mountainscape, giving you an impressive area to scroll around and zoom in and out of.

The battles are distinctive in themselves. Rather than moving through stages with a party of heroes you engage in full scale battles, with rows of infantry charging up the screen in block formation.

Before each battle you can examine your opponent’s army to inform your own tactics. There are three different troop types, each effective against one of the others and relatively ineffective against another. Think rock-paper-scissors, with your three brigades hopefully outranking your enemy’s.

On top of that you get additional effects for sending more than one brigade of the same kind into battle. These include Shield Wall, Charge, and Barrage. Since three brigades is the maximum number you can send into battle, you have to go without a unit type if you want to make use of a bonus effect, lending the game an extra tactical dimension.

You have a relatively high degree of control during battles, too. Each hero on the battlefield (you can have up to four) has a spirit bar that charges as you fight. One a bar is full you can unleash that hero’s skill, aiming it by tapping and dragging. You can also choose when to deploy your dragon and, of course, your brigade effect.

Naturally, you spend the many spoils of war on upgrading your city, buying new buildings and levelling them up. On top of that you need to summon and upgrade heroes, trade with other players, hunt monsters, occupy villages, and so on. There’s always plenty to do in Mobile Royale.

The mission system gives you a rational path through this abundance of activities, prompting you to do the things you need to do to keep your forces and your city ticking along and winning battles.

All of that will be familiar to anyone who has played any one of the countless strategy MMOs that have hit the app stores in the last few years. Mobile Royale sticks to the formula in most regards, but it brings new features too, and

The Bad

The only real issue with Mobile Royale is that it won’t be winning over anybody who isn’t already an MMO fan. Although it’s polished and has stacks of features it doesn’t particularly do anything hugely different to other titles in the genre – but that could well be seen as a plus for those who are just looking for another MMO to sink some hours into.

The Verdict

If you’re looking for a new strategy MMO to fill the hours, Mobile Royale is up there with the best of them.

8.2

OVERALL

Replayability 8.1

Game Controls 8.2

Graphics 8.5

Sound/Music 8.4

Gameplay 8

FREE

Mobile Royale

IGG.COM

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