Education Apps

PinYinPal makes learning Mandarin fun for kids

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 a 9:45 am

It's the lunar New Year, so what better time to look at PinYinPal, and app that hopes to make learning Mandarin fun for kids. We had to a chance to talk to Jen Gross about PinYinPal at Macworld|iWorld 2013, and if it looks like Words With Friends meets Chinese 101, that's not by accident.

Free - Download now

Learn the systems of the human body with Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED: Skeletal & Muscular

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Jul 24, 2012 a 2:18 pm

Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED: Skeletal & Muscular is a new education app by book publisher McGraw-Hill that will help students learn the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body. It features a beautiful layered UI that is jam packed with over 5,000 anatomical structures, videos, and animations.

Mathemagics for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012 a 4:48 pm

While at WWDC 2012, I had the opportunity to sit down with Shane Crawford of Blue Lightning Labs and take a peak at his Mathemagics apps, Mental Math Tricks and Easy Algebra Fast. These app are design to teach you special rarely taught tricks and tips that can be used when solving different types of math problems. Most of the techniques can be done mentally and make it possible so solve math problems at lightning speeds.

Best free iPhone apps

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Apr 16, 2012 a 11:59 am

iMore's authoritative guide to the very best, absolutely free apps and games for iPhone and iPod touch

Looking for great free apps and games for your iPhone or iPod touch? The App Store is home to over half a million apps and games, and a surprising number of them are available for free. That's free as in free of charge to buy, free of subscriptions to use, and free of any crippling or time-bombing to make you pay later. They're just free. But which free apps are the best? Which are the top free apps you just absolutely have to download right now?

That's where iMore comes in! Here's your ultimate, authoritative guide to the top, 100% free iPhone and iPod touch apps for social networking, IM and communications, education, entertainment, finance, fun and games, health and fitness, kids, music, navigation and location, news, photography, productivity, reading, shopping, sports, travel, and general utility.

Whether you're new to iPhone or iPod touch and looking for a fast, free way to get started with apps, or you're just bored and looking for a little free fun, check out the apps and games below. And hey, since they're free, you can download them all!

Have the entire world at your fingertips with Barefoot World Atlas for iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Mar 21, 2012 a 2:09 am

Barefoot World Atlas is an educational iPad app that is essentially a globe filled with information in the form of text, narration, and photos. As you scroll around and zoom in on the globe, you will discover various points of interest along the earth's surface and the official flag for each country.

How to create and share digital flash cards on your iPhone and iPad [App for that]

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Feb 13, 2012 a 7:56 pm

Our challenge this week was to find an app that would allow my parents, who are taking a Spanish class together, to create flashcards of vocabulary that could be shared on two iPhones and one iPad. With the Spring semester well on it's way and the first round of tests approaching, my parents surely are not the only our student readers that looking for ways to be better, more efficient studiers.

With over half a million apps for just about everything, you’d figure there’d have to be at least one in the App Store for this. But with so many apps, it can be hard to find the one you want. That’s where we come in. We’re sorting through the App Store and we’re going to help find just exactly the app for that.

Manage your student life with College T.A

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 a 2:46 am

College T.A is an app to help college students balance classes, clubs, work, and social life. Manage your coursework, events, to-do lists, professors' info, and more and keep your calendars synced in College T.A and your iPhone's built-in Calendar app. The recent update also brings a new UI and other optimizations.

For many college students, the Spring semester is right around the corner (or has just begun), so now is a perfect time to picks up College T.A before you're helplessly disorganized!

Learn the Alphabet with VivaKids' ABC for iPad [Kids Corner]

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Sep 14, 2011 a 9:33 am

VivakIds' ABC is an iPad app to teach toddlers and pre-kindergaten kids the alphabet. The alphabet will com alive with stop-motion animation with the help of internationally renowned artist, author and educator Ulrike Kerber.

NxtApp 4 Kids now available for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Aug 13, 2011 a 3:27 am

NxtApp 4 Kids, an educational math app, has updated with universal support for iPhone and iPad. The goal of the game is to complete number sequences by choosing which number comes next.

I'll admit, the misspelling of the world "next" in this app's name really bothers me, especially since it's an educational app targeted towards children; but putting that aside, NxtApp 4 Kids looks like a great app for learning about sequences.

[App Store link]

Details and screenshots after the break.

Teach your kids to read and write with Pre-K Letters and Numbers for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 a 8:11 pm

BrightStart LLC's educational app, Pre-K Letters and Numbers for iPhone and iPad, aims to teach children to read and write. The app displays a letter or number, calls it by it's name, has the child trace it, then phonetically pronounces it and associates it with a word.

Individual user setup (optional)
Online child performance Report Card (optional)
Simple and easy to use design
Memorable characters, pictures, shapes and sounds
Positive learning experiences
Numbers, words and phonics include a full word set of animals, fruits, vegetables and items around the house
Learn early foundations of language and numeracy
Learn how to recognize, read, write and pronounce upper and lower case letters
Learn consonants and vowels
Learn phonograms
Learn early stage numbers and counting

In just the few moments I spent with the free trial, I was impressed by this app. It runs very smooth, has soothing music, and speaks clearly. I look forward to letting my daughter learn from it when she gets older.

The initial download for Pre-K Letters and Numbers is a free trial and to unlock All Letters and Numbers and the Report Card, there is an in-app purchase for $1.99. Screenshots after the break.

[iTunes link]

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