Children's Games

Braincraft is a fun brain-training app full of colourful graphics and well-designed games that address different thinking skills. Children over the age of five will enjoy the games and develop how they deal with various problems and challenges. The Braincraft app is available on iOS and Android as a free download and as a web app. Newly registered users can access a limited selection of the app's features and games. You can unlock the full Braincraft experience through a subscription.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Let's Go See is a unique educational app that helps children discover and learn interesting facts about the world. The application centres around the adventures of aeroplane pilots Polly and Ollie as they travel the world with the Junior Jets. With stunning 3D images of landmarks from around the world, the Let’s Go See App lets children create, colour, play puzzles, explore the world, and even fly a plane. The application is available on iOS and Android platforms and is free from in-app adverts. The app Lets Go See provides in-app purchases for further individual content and subscriptions. The application is available on both mobile and tablet devices in landscape viewing mode. Let’s Go See is suitable for ages 4 and above and is supported by a developer’s website and a website dedicated to the Junior Jets provided insights into the application with downloadable resources as well as supporting storybooks.  

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Farm Heroes Saga is a game that requires you to complete various tasks as you progress through the levels to save the farm, rather than just getting a high score.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Koala Phonics is a game-based app that has been developed to help strengthen children’s use and understanding of phonics and sounds that make up the basis of the English language. Through, listening and playing, children work their through a number of levels, matching the sounds that they have heard to pictures related to that sound. Once they have successfully matched the sound to the correct picture then they are able to move onto the next level.  

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

CodyCross is a crossword puzzle app with a twist in playstyle and graphical presentation. It is a great-looking app that provides a fun challenge that kids and adults can enjoy. CodyCross is available on iOS and Android as a free download. The app contains advertisements and offers in-app purchases.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Stop Categories Word Game is a fun, challenging word game to help you learn vocab while you have fun. Stop Categories Word Game develops a popular classroom game often played by teachers. They use it with their students for vocabulary learning. In app form, this game becomes one kids can play at any time. Stop Categories Word Game is available to download on iOS and Android for free. The play experience is improved by making in-app purchases. Stop - Categories Word Game's age suitability is determined more by its social media integration and real-world competition than the actual gameplay and app content.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Word Lanes: Relaxing Puzzles is a word search puzzle app with experience enhancing graphics and sound. Players find words in grids by analysing the letters and reading the given definitions. This app is available on Android and iOS. The game itself will appeal to children, but its use of in-app currency and advertisements means that parents and teachers should be careful how they set the app up on children's devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Preschool Math - Math Galaxy is a maths-based application that guides the user through various mathematical topics at their own pace. The application is suitable for various abilities and is suitable for Kindergarten or primary school children. The app connects the abstract concepts of math to concrete experiences, with graphical illustrations at each step to help you remember. Like Singapore Maths the app uses block modelling to model word problems, and like everyday Math, it uses a variety of algorithms to help students understand our numbering system.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

OgStar Reading guides children through a series of pedagogically sound lessons, developing skills such as phonological awareness, decoding and ultimately working towards oral reading fluency, basic handwriting and improved spelling proficiency. Children are taught through a systematic, yet engaging and interactive, game based lessons using a multisensory approach and receive rewards and certificates along the way. Overall a very thorough app, perfect for supporting early reading or for children who struggle with aspects of reading.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Makers Empire 3D is a versatile and powerful 3D creation platform. The application is rich with features and includes a simple platform that requires no advanced technical knowledge of 3D software. Create whatever you can imagine in 3D. Design solutions to real-world problems and unlock features and tools as you level up. Share your 3D designs with 1.9 million other makers. Makers Empire 3D is free to download on a trial basis with various packages available for a subscription based service. This application and is available for iOS, Android and Windows mobile devices, tablets and computers. The application is suitable for ages 7 and above and is free from in-app adverts and in-app purchases.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Focus Factor is a brain training app that contains specially developed exercises to train the brain and promote meditation. Focus Factor is available for free to download on iOS and Android devices. Focus Factor has a seven-day free trial on iOS, which can be extended with a subscription.  Many of the app's features could be used by all children but the app's overall design and usage suits older children and adults best.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Minecraft Pocket Edition is a mobile version of the popular Minecraft PC version. Minecraft Pocket Edition is widely played and much loved multi platform virtual construction game is surprisingly unutilized as an educational tool. Minecraft Pocket Edition download is available for iOS (iPad and iPhone), Android, Windows Phone, and Amazon Fire tablets.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Paper.io 2 is a snake style mobile game where users compete with other players worldwide. In the game you control blocks on a large map and the main objective is to conquer the most territory by enclosing it within the trail you leave behind. You can capture other players’ territory in the same fashion, but be aware that if they cut off your trail, you’ll have to start off right from the beginning. Paper.io 2 is available to download for free on iOS and Android devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Math Solver app is a mental-maths practice app that concentrates on addition, subtraction, and multiplication.  Players can choose which of these to practise, and the difficulty increases with progress, making the app suitable for a broad age range. Math Solver is available exclusively on Android devices as a free, advertisement-supported download.

Devices: Android

Edudadoo teaches a variety of early skills to preschool-aged children.  Activities that focus on speech, vocabulary, and creativity provide a varied play experience that includes customising the user's photos and recording voices and sounds. Available as a cut-down free download with just a single in-app purchase to fully unlock it, Edudadoo is excellent value and available on both Android and iOS devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Toca Hair Salon is a popular open-ended app which allows children to play virtual hairdressers with characters. It helps kids use their imaginations to create hairstyles that maybe you would not necessarily see in real life. Toca Hair Salon is available for free to download on iOS, Android, and Amazon devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Comomola Planets Puzzle is an educational game for parents and kids. Comomola Planets is a nice puzzle in which each planet is a new challenge. Comomola Planets Puzzle is available for free to download on iOS devices.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

Block Craft 3D is a creative Minecraft-style building game where you can create your own city with buildings. Block Craft is a free game for the whole family: from kids, boys and girls, to adults. Rated for users ages 4 and up in the Apple App Store, you can download this game for both iPad and iPhone. It is also available for download in the Google Play Store.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Word Search Pro is a simple yet engaging word puzzle app. You will continue to work your brain while searching for the word given application. Word Search Pro is available to download on iOS and Android devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Life Code is an augmented reality app for education. It is an adventure story of the Life Code Project allowing users to actively engage in the Darwin Museum of Evolution based in Moscow. The app explores in detail every aspect of the Darwin Museum whilst engaging users in a unique comix background story.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Lotti’s World - First Words is a comprehensive memory game and vocabulary building app that is designed to help your child build their word recognition skills, work on their concentration skills, and learn their first 100 words. This app is suitable for both boys and girls from 2 to 6 years old. Lotti’s World - First Words is free to play without limits and offers further in-app purchases to themed content. Lotti’s World - First Words is free from in-app adverts and is 100% safe for children.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

EduKid: Children Learning Games is a pre-school and toddlers’ app built around cute and friendly animal characters with the purpose to provoke positive emotions in children and provide great learning supplements at the same time. EduKid: Children Learning Games is free initially on a trial basis and offers monthly or an annual subscription with additional features and games as an optional in-app purchase. EduKid: Children Learning Games is free from in-app adverts and is safe for children.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Space Academy AR contains hundreds of lessons across maths and English for children aged 6 to 9. It adds to this a fast-paced space game that uses augmented reality (AR) to provide a meaningful reward for children working hard. The learning content and game of Space Academy AR are available in an app for iOS that is free to download with a seven-day trial period. Subscriptions extend access to the app and also to the web-based Class Ace learning platform.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

The application Antelope Up is matching pairs brain game teaching children about the five sub-regions of Africa and the Antelope species that live within. The application is suitable for ages 6 and above. There are various levels of difficulty to choose along with information about each antelope species including conservation status, habitat and name pronunciations. Antelope Up is available in a full and light demonstration version. The application does not display any in-app adverts or in-app purchases. It is noted that the application plays in a landscape mode and is available over a number of platforms including the App Store, Google Play, Amazon and Windows.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad

Cut the Rope is a downright adorable action puzzle-physics game. It's also fresh, challenging, gorgeous, and highly entertaining. Cut the Rope is available for free to download on iOS and Android devices.

Devices: Android, iPhone, iPad