App Review: Catch and Count
Catch and Count is an app I downloaded months ago because, truth be told, I saw it in the top free apps for education. Oftentimes I am lured in by cutesy icons but in this case I grabbed one that was popular…
This app is a bit quirky and odd. The idea is to catch eggs, dropped from a stork-like bird, in a pickup truck that you drag left and right. As you catch the eggs the number of eggs caught is spoken in your preferred language.
The best part about Catch and Count is the ability to choose multiple languages or even record your own audio for the numbers. It’s a pretty clever tactic to engage a kid by leveraging the parent’s (or child’s) voice.
Aside from this technical feat, this app didn’t really grab me or my 15 month-old. While it was easy for my little guy to drive the truck, his attention was gone pretty quickly. Perhaps I will try out another Sai Services app, to be fair.
Related posts:
- Halloween Fun With Count Racula There are lots of matching games available for kids on the iPhone, and it’s not at all clear why kids would really need more than one. That said, if your kids don’t already have a favorite matching game, Count Racula is worth grabbing — especially this time of year. The app features a standard card-flipping [...]...
- App Review: Whizzit 123 Whizzit 123 is a pretty solid app. It is designed to give children ages 2-5 a fun learning environment to tackle numbers and objects. Using audio cues kids are given a task, such as counting spirals. As each item is clicked a starry animation appears, along with a narrator voice counting each item. After being [...]...
- App Review: Feed Me! One of the newest kids iPhone apps, “Feed Me! Numbers, Colors & Shapes!” is an endless buffet of educational fun. It features fantastic animations of a hungry purple monster who is constantly day dreaming about something — a color, a shape, a number, a pattern – you name it, and this magic little guy can [...]...
- App Review: Kid Book Kid Book is a simple, well illustrated app with audio to match. It has some promise and some room for enhancements. When you dive into the app you are shown an animal inside a colored shape. Each time you tap the phone you get a new audio piece (first the animal sound, then the animal [...]...
- App Review: ABC Animals ABC Animals has a familiar tale: turn learning the ABC’s into a flash card experience that is ripe with illustrations and audio to match. And yet the makers of the app, Critical Matter Inc, have thrown their own twist on the story. Behind each card they have placed instructions for kids to draw letters. As kids [...]...
Share