Educational Apps

Curious About Shapes and Colors for iPhone and iPad review: Learn about colors and shapes with everyone's favorite monkey

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, May 20, 2013 a 6:06 pm

Curious About Shapes and Colors is Curious George's newest app that helps teach kids about shapes, colors, sorting, tracing, and more. The entire app is narrated and directed by The Man With The Yellow Hat while George cheers you on.

$2.99 - Download now

Little Red Riding Hood by Nosy Crow for iPhone and iPad review: Help Little Red Riding Hood fight off the Big Bad Wolf

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Apr 25, 2013 a 9:41 pm

Nosy Crow has released an interactive story book of their version of the Little Red Riding Hood featuring fully-animated illustrations and multiple paths that let you take control of the story.

$4.99 - Download now

DragonBox for iPhone, iPad, Mac makes learning algebra fun

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 a 8:12 pm

DragonBox is an educational math game for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that teaches the concepts of algebra in a fun way. Instead of sitting in a classroom and listening to a teacher give all the rules for solving an equation, kids can simply play a game with similar rules that starts with pictures and slowly introduces algebraic symbols.

$5.99 for iPhone and iPad - Download now
$5.99 for Mac - Download now

Quento for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Jan 14, 2013 a 4:13 pm

Quento is a fun little math game that is a great challenge for all levels and ages. The objective is simple: use the available numbers and operations to get the indicated result with the indicated amount of numbers. However, not only are you restricted to the available numbers and operations, but you have to be able to create the expression by dragging your finger over them in one swipe -- and order of operations matters!

Free - Download now

Sakura Quick Math for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Oct 26, 2012 a 7:08 pm

Sakura Quick Math is an educational iPhone and iPad game for children and adults that drills your basic arithmetic skills by having you race against the clock and input your answers by simply writing them on the screen. It's gorgeous, innovative, and fun.

$1.99 - Download Now

Atlas by Collins for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Oct 22, 2012 a 10:06 pm

Atlas by Collins is an iPhone and iPad app and evolving data visualization tool that represents worldwide information on a section of themed globes with over 200,000 places you can discover and explore. Atlas is not only a great learning tool for individuals, but can also be used in a classroom environment or for giving presentations.

$9.99 - Download Now

Curious George's Dictionary for iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 a 12:15 am

Curious George's Dictionary is an educational iPad app for kids that teaches the meanings of nearly 600 words through illustrations, sentences, stories, and more. It features charming illustrations for each word as well as an example of a sentence that uses the word. In addition to swiping through letters and learning new words, Curious George's Dictionary also includes stories about Curious George using is dictionary and sections dedicated opposites, numbers, quantities, and colors & shapes.

Letters with Pooh for iPhone and iPad review

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 a 3:48 am

Letters with Pooh is an educational app for the iPhone and iPad by Disney to help kids identify and write letters of the alphabet. Your kids will join Winnie Pooh on his quest for honey by tracing letters, collecting letter balloons, finding missing letters, and more. Letters with Pooh is very interactive and even lets you personalize the experience by allowing you to record all the leters of the alphabet in your voice.

Best back-to-school apps for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Aug 21, 2012 a 7:52 pm

The new school year is upon us, which means it's time to go back to school and hit the books! Lucky for us, the iPhone and iPad are excellent devices, not only for study time but right in the classroom. From storing important files, to learning math and chemistry, to writing papers, to taking notes, and even staying safe, there are many apps in the App Store to help you go back to school and get your learning on. And iMore is here to show you the very A+ selections, the perfect 4.0s -- the very best apps for education.

Best free educational apps for iPhone

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 a 1:42 am

Looking for great educational app 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. Some of the most beneficial free apps are free educational apps.