In a report issued in February, the FTC examined more than 400 randomly selected children’s apps at Apple’s iTunes App Store and Android’s Market.
KinderTown is an educational app store and teaching guide that helps busy parents find the best apps for their young kids.
Google claims that more than 500,000 apps and games are available on its Play Store.
Occasionally, Apple will feature a temporary Kids section, like they do for special events and holidays, but it never sticks around for long, and has never been made a permanent category.
Although functionality may occasionally overlap, our focus on educational apps for kids 3 8 years old allows us to build an app store that serves the unique needs of parents and early childhood educators.
Additionally, the app been a top 100 educational iPad app for 10 consecutive weeks, making it the most popular app store focused solely on early childhood education apps.
Aimed primarily at kids in the preschool and kindergarten set (and, in some instances, the early years of grade school), Toca Boca’s apps encourage kids to use their imagination with every flick, tap, and swipe.
It can be hard for parents to decipher whether or not mobile apps are collecting and selling sensitive information about their kids, such as location and purchasing habits.
And it makes it even more difficult for high school and college students to find what they need in a sections flooded with apps for young children.
We were able to launch one app, pull up our child’s progress records from all the apps and then jump to another app to begin lessons.
Apple bought Chomp and is making changes to the way search results are returned, but unless this fall’s iPhone 5 event brings with it an entirely new, entirely improved App Store interface and discovery experience, more and better categories are one of the few short term improvements we can get.
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In a perfect world, subcategories by age and by type would also be nice — apps for very young children and as different from apps for pre teens as games are from educational apps.
From here, you can start a lesson, select a child’s profile, view your child’s progress or browse other iLearnWith apps that are installed on your device.
But some are working to make the muddy world of app privacy policies a little more clear and help parents worry about kid apps less.
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