Early Years (EYFS) Apps

By Spencer Riley | Updated on

Finding the right apps for your child can be tricky and tedious - it's tough to know which early years apps are truly educational and skill-based. Educational App Store has found a few apps for early years that we think you may enjoy!

With wide range of apps for nursery and reception classes across various subjects like English, maths, PSHE, expressive arts and design and understanding the world all covered, we have everything you need to make sure your EYFS class is having fun and learning across the entire early years’ curriculum.

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    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Letters, phonics and handwriting for preschoolers.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    The Choiceworks app is an essential learning tool for helping children complete daily routines (morning, day, & night), understand & control their feelings and improve their waiting skills (taking turns and not interrupting).

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Customize the closet, customize the temperature range, iDress for Weather is for anyone, any age, and any ability anywhere in the world! iDress for Weather can be assistive technology for individuals with disabilities, an educational tool for children, or just plain fun for everyone!
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    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Touch Trainer is a simple cause and effect app designed for an individual diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, or other special need, or a young child just learning about touch screen technology.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Exclusive PicsArt Kids edition!

    The best coloring, drawing and learning app for kids (parents will love it too!)
    PicsArt Kids edition has exclusive high quality content created with our artists and it combines 3 applications in one:

    * Drawing - on empty canvas ...

    Devices: Android


    Fun literacy games for kids ages 3 to 6.

    Devices: Android


    Art can be easy, or hard.

    Devices: Android


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    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Now this best-selling counting & sing-along book is an interactive app! Like its award-winning cousin, the Over in the Ocean app, Over in the Jungle is “jam-packed with vibrant colors, engaging interactivity, fluid poetry, predictable text and ‘teachable moments’.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    An app from the British Council to aid young children in their reading and understanding.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


    This app aims to teach children specific relaxation techniques.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    A super little animated story creator

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Useful app to help children learn to draw cartoons. The app contains seventy two different cartoon drawings, each of which is broken down into steps to make it easier to copy and follow the process.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    LAMI find notes app is an educational app to help children to train their ears to find the perfect musical pitch and enjoy the musical world. This apps uses the characters of the multi-award-winning animated series LAMI. Including Best film for children, LAMI was selected for more than 100 international film festivals. The educational game based app introduces children to a variety of musical instruments and sounds. The app allows children to become familiar with the pitch of the sounds and their representation in a musical score using instruments, animal sounds and chords. Each musical note is a character with a different personality, colour and shape. This enables the children get used to identifying pitch in a fun and stimulating way. The games featured cater for a range of differentiation and ages with multiple levels. There is also a Play Music mode where students can create and experiment with their own musical compositions. 

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    Hairy Letters provides an introduction to single letters.  It is aimed specifically at those who will be using phonics to learn as it does not give the name for any letters – just the sound that they make in words.  Containing colourful and humorous animation it entertains while it teaches.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


    Many and varied are the educational mini-games that make up this free advertisement supported app.  Literacy, numeracy, colour recognition and problem solving are all covered in one form or another.

    Devices: Android


    An attractive app aimed at helping young people learn the alphabet in a visual way

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    An incredible system for schools to streamline and revolutionise reporting and parental engagement

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad , Windows


    With fun activities and stories, this app is great for independent and adult supported learning.  Carefully designed to teach effectively, it uses a novel approach to introducing letters and words to young learners and constantly reinforces past learning.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    An extensive collection of fairy tales to browse.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


    A great app to initiate learning of phonics at home or at school.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


    Hairy Phonics is a great app to initiate learning of phonics at home or at school. Using humorous animations and clearly pronounced spoken phonemes, this app provides a fun way for children to be introduced to nine phonemes and to learn to use and recognise them in words.  Subsequent apps in the series build upon the learning.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


    An interactive story app covering some of the most exciting real life stories from all over the world.

    Devices: iPhone, iPad


    A visually appealing and warm app that gives the user 110 ideas to keep their young charges occupied, stimulated and happy. The activities are broken down in to 2 main sections, Rainy Days and Sunny Days. Each of these has as sub-section; Imagine, Create, Move. Essentially each if the sub menus goes to a suggested activity and there the user can “Love It”. Their choices can then be viewed in that bookmark section. A really neat app that can help those of us who suffer the odd case of “brain freeze” when faced with our sometimes grumpy kids in those situations where we need a little help in focusing all of that energy in to a positive, creative activity.

    Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad


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