Posts Tagged ‘good for kids’

If you have little ones like I do then Kideos might be for you. Earlier Media brings the aggregation of kid videos to your device.
I don’t have the time to comb through YouTube for kid videos so I was hopeful for this app. The app does do just that, it just does it in a [...]

A take on a ‘sliding’ puzzle game, SlidR takes a photo, divides into square segments, and forces it upon you, the mighty adventurer, to slide the photo to correctness before the evil dragon* destroys your village and the helpless peasants.
The app has a slick, clean interface and a variety of high quality pics to choose [...]

Imagine a game with pictures straight out of your favorite childhood picture finding book. Now combine that with the technology of an iPhone and the great game play from Ludia. Add some cute music, bundle it all together and you get  Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey.
This app is a Where’s Waldo book with some extras. [...]

Save The Planet is way more colorful and somewhat more entertaining than its App Store icon suggests… no, this isn’t a list of things you can do to be “green”, it’s a game where trash is falling from the sky and you’re sorting it into three different recycling bins. According to iPhoneSmartApps.org, “your mission is [...]

Yumsters! 2 is on sale for free – normally $.99-$1.99
Yumsters are crazy about fruit and music! Yeah, who isn’t. Yumsters! 2 is one of those match 3 games that’s won awards and has apparently gained a big following in its PC incarnation. There’s a whole story about how these cute Yoshi-looking creatures won some kind [...]

Styx Halloween is was on sale for free – apparently the price has gone back up to $2.99
Styx Halloween is one of those match 3 games where you run your finger across matching units that are either touching or diagonal from each other. I guess that technically makes it a “match as many as you [...]

Day of the Flying Pumpkins is on sale for free – normally $.99
Pop  the pumpkins, but it’s Game Over if you touch a skull! That’s pretty much all there is to this game, but as Halloween-themed apps go it’s not bad for a few minutes of amusement.
Load it up, hand it to the kids, and [...]

All Hallow’s Eve: Witch’s Ride is on sale for free – normally $.99
Being a witch has never been easy, what with crazy villagers wanting to burn you at the stake and all, and now it’s even harder as you try to survive in All Hallow’s Eve: Witch’s Ride. Your job is to fly as far [...]

I’ve never been a huge fan of apps that show a mouth that you hold in front of your face, but I have to admit that ustwo has put together a pretty good app here! I mean, if you’re gonna replace your mouth with your iPhone, you might as well do it with MouthOff.
When you [...]

Scrawling evil messages across photos in blood is soooo messy! GhostWriter will do it for you, and after you take your photo it’ll even throw in some Ghoulish Miasma if you want it to.
Ghoulish Miasma is really just some weird-looking orange fog that you probably won’t want on very many of your pics (don’t worry, it’s optional), [...]

Need a diversion to keep the toddlers busy? Treat Street should fit the bill, for this week anyway!
Treat Street is a painfully cute trick-or-treating game where the goal is the same as in real life: ring a lot of doorbells and accumulate as much candy as you possibly can. There’s no score to keep and [...]

* “POV” (Point of View) is a new feature that we’re testing out *
MediaBrand’s rating: 8.0
IAR’s rating: 7.0
Women tend to run away screaming when I approach and that makes it hard for me to reproduce, so in order to test drive MonsterABC I recruited the help of Ella, a sassy little four-year-old whose parents I’ve [...]