Talking Ben, By Outfit7 >> iPhone app for babies, toddlers and childrens

Talking Ben, By Outfit7

Ben is a retired chemistry professor who likes his quiet comfortable life of eating, drinking and reading newspapers. To make him responsive, you will have to bother him long enough that he will fold his newspaper. Then you can talk to him, poke or tickle him or even have a telephone conversation with him.

I know this isn't meant to be a baby's app but my 16 months old absolutely love it. I tried him on Talking Tom (the cat) but he wasn't so keen. Talking Ben is just so cute and has such a funny voice. My little one keeps on talking to him (well more like making funny bababa noises!). it's also nice because it's not violent like Talking Tom (even though you can turn off violence for Talking Tom in the settings but then there isn't much left top do). Tlaking Ben has loads of different things you can do with him and makes y ou want to cuddle him too! My little one keeps on kissing the phone too!

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• Free
• Category: Entertainment
• Updated: May 10, 2011
• Current Version: 1.1
• 1.1
• Size: 71.1 MB
• Languages: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean
• Seller: Outfit7 Ltd.
• © Outfit7 Ltd.

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

View screenshots, full baby iPhone app description and reviews on the Apple website  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/talking-ben-the-dog/id416345319?mt=8#

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Peekaboo Barn, By Night & Day Studios, Inc. >> iPhone app for babies and toddlers

 Peekaboo Barn, By Night & Day Studios, Inc.

Inside a little bouncing barn, friendly farm animals are waiting to pop out and surprise your little one. Try and guess who they are; tap the doors to find out!

Peekaboo Barn has been downloaded more than 400,000 times. It has been a top 10 educational game on the iTunes store nearly every day since its launch, and has been featured by Apple often. The app won the Best Toddler App Ever award for 2009 (MacWorld Expo) and is recommended by the New York Times, MSNBC, USA Today, and Wired.

I must say I can see why this app is so loved by all! it's the simplest app I have downloaded for my 15 months old baby boy so far but also one of the best! All your little one needs to do is tap the screen anywhere and the little barn's doors open revealing a new animal. Extremely colourful and very entertaining. It;s alos great that they made a free version to try it out; so you can see if your little one shows interest. Then download the whole app with many more animals in the barns. I also love the way it goes to night time in the full version, teaching your baby about morning and night.    

Work with your child to learn the names of animals--in English or Spanish--and hear the sounds they make! Younger children will love opening the barn doors to find a new animal animation, as they learn about cause and effect and become familiar with animal names and sounds. Older children will enjoy guessing animals by sound, then seeing the animal names, which helps develop early literacy skills. And everyone will adore the illustrations by Divya Srinivasan, whose work is regularly featured in the New Yorker.

They also created  Peekaboo Forest and Peekaboo Wild but my little one got a bit bored with them. Also when he touches the screen it makes it change before the voice finishes to says the name of the animal; whereas with Peekaboo Barn, the name is heard then the screen changes if it is touched.

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• $1.99
• Category: Education
• Updated: Nov 02, 2010
• Current Version: 3.1
• 3.1
• Size: 6.8 MB
• Languages: English, Spanish
• Seller: Night & Day Studios, Inc.
• © 2010 Night & Day Studios, Inc.

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later

View screenshots, full baby iPhone app description and reviews on the Apple website http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/peekaboo-barn/id300590611?mt=8#

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Preschool adventure, By 3DAL, LLC >> iPhone app for babies

Preschool adventure, By 3DAL, LLC

This iPhone app contains 8 educational activities parents can do with their young toddlers and preschoolers. My boy is 15 months old and has been playing with this iPhone app since he's been able to hold my phone in his hands! He absolutely loves it!! Very colourful graphics, and each game has loads of places that can be touch on the screen so babies don't need to know exactly what they're doing. As long as they understand they need to touch the screen, they can touch pretty much anywhere and something will happen (noise, animals, colours ect...)

For young babies I would recommend 

- Colors: press a colour on the screen and it will tell you what it is as well as showing an animal in that colour

 and telling you its name.

- Shapes: click in the eyes to see shapes pop out of a little planet. Listen to the shape name and colour.

- Matching: Slide 3 parts of a body to make different animals then see it move and make noise.

- Sounds: Touch farm animals to hear their name and sound.

 - Typing: baby will need to be a little older for that (I'd say from 13 mths onward should be ok) because baby needs to understand that he needs to touch the letter on the mini keyboard, not the animal that pops out.
Each letter shows an animal who's name start with that letter and makes a noise. Very entertaining as so much going on. 

Artists (drawing) and Body (move body parts to make a monkey) are too complicated for my 15 months old baby boy as they need the user to think about making a result image while playing, as opposed to just touching the screen for something to happen. You'll find with these young babies can easily touch the screen for a few minutes with nothing happening if they don't touch the exact objects needed to make the final picture.

Numbers is definitely aiming at preschoolers as it requires toddler's ability to recognise the numbers and touch them in the correct order. 

Version 3.1 now includes 18 activites which I haven't tested yet. I'll be back wit a new blog post once I have tested these on my little boy!! Loads of fun ahead then!

• $0.99
• Category: Education
• Updated: Mar 23, 2011
• Current Version: 3.1
• 3.1
• Size: 64.7 MB
• Language: English
• Seller: 3DAL, LLC
• © 2008 3DAL, LLC

Rated 4+

Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later

View screenshots, full baby iPhone app description and reviews on the Apple website http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/preschool-adventure/id286526367?mt=8

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