Crying baby? Fidgety toddler? Bored kid? There really is an app for that. We combed through the virtual stacks of smartphone applications to find the best of the bunch. All apps listed are available through iTunes store and/or the Android phone’s store. Here are our picks:
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Animal Sounds for Baby
Babies love animals and the sounds that they make. This interactive app lets your baby tap, tilt, or shake the screen so that they can play with the animals. We love that the face a baby will get when they see the animal glide across the screen!
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Where's Puppy's Noise
Get your baby learning their body parts early with this fun app! Whether your baby likes to tilt, shake, or tap the screen, the puppy and kitty will teach your baby about eyes, ears, nose, mouth, foot, tummy, hand, and head! Your baby will have fun learning the body parts while listening to fun music too!
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Cost Free |
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Let's Count Animals
Let your baby learn about numbers with animal animations and sound effects. The fun music and interactive animals will have them counting from one to five in no time!
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Cost $Free |
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A World of Lullabies
Can't remember the words to a lullaby? a World of Lullabies plays childhood favorites and even gives the lyrics so parents can sing along.
Cost $2.99  >Download here |
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iPlayPhone
iPlayphone is toy iPhone for your curious tot. Your little one can have all the fun and feel of a real iPhone without calling Japan. It's simple, just start the application and let your kid go crazy pressing the brightly colored buttons and hear fun sounds.
Cost $0.99  >Download here |
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White Noise
White Noise provides ambient sounds of the environment to help baby relax or sleep. Includes high quality looping noises such as ocean waves, crickets chirping at night, and the soothing sound of rain fall.
Cost $1.99   >Download here |
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Baby Monitor
Forgot to pack your baby monitor? No problem! Simply place the iPhone near your sleeping baby, if it detects noise, it places a phone call to the number of your choice, you can then listen in for activity from your baby.It also will detect if your baby picks up the phone. Great for curious toddlers that wake up from their nap without making noise.
Cost $4.99  >Download here |
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Peek-A-Bouncer
Perfect for smaller kids who want to play like the bigger kids, Peek-A-Bouncer is a simple peek-a-boo game. All your little one has to do is press on the screen and a friendly character will peek out and giggle. The longer they tap the screen, the longer the fun! Download here
Cost $1.99
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AlphaBaby Free
Touch the screen to show and hear letters and shapes. Flick them to send them flying across the screen. Press them and the letters shrink and grow. Record your own voice for the letters and shapes. Add your own images from the camera or photo library, and record captions to match. Have your child record their own voice!
Cost Free  >Download here
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Cupcakes!
The original and best selling food game on the iPhone & iPod Touch. Bake, decorate, and eat virtual cupcakes with all kinds of flavors & toppings! It's the most creative fun you can have on your iPhone, and all with zero calories :)
Cost .99  >Download here |
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Drawing Pad
Have a budding artist in the family? The Drawing Pad lets you create your own art using photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and more! We love that it allows you to save your artwork so that you can come back and work on it later.
Cost $1.99 >Download here
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Wheels On The Bus by Duck Duck Moose
Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive musical book, based on the popular children's song. Come aboard the bus to spin the wheels, open and close the doors, swish the wipers, pop some bubbles, make a dog bark, and much more. 2010 Parents Choice Gold Award Winner.
Cost $0.99   >Download here
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Handy Manny Workshop
Handy Manny Workshop bundles five fun activities into a single app for parents and kids who are fans of the popular show on Disney Channel. Handy Manny’s Workshop lets kids “find it,” “color it,” “match it,” “puzzle it” and “sing it.” Your preschooler will want to “keep it!”
Cost $2.99  >Download here
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Monkey Preschool "When I Grow Up"
It's magic toybox playtime at Monkey Preschool! THUP Games Presents Monkey Preschool "When I Grow Up", an imagination and inspiration game for preschoolers age 2 and up. Children love to imagine what they want to be when they grow up-and it can change from day to day! Now they don't have to settle on just one thing. Your little monkey wants to be a pirate/astronaut/doctor? No problem. Open up the magic toy box and see what you can find! It’s like a modern version of paper dolls but with less cleanup.
Cost $0.99  >Download here
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FirstWords Animals
More than just a game, First Words Animals is a powerful educational tool for the toddlers and tots in your life. It provides hours of fun, laughter and learning with 39 of their favorite animal friends, beautifully illustrated and matched with entertaining animal sounds. The game It removes the frustration factor by saying the name of the letter when you touch it and not allowing you to misspell a word.
Cost $1.99  >Download here
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Elmo Loves ABC's
Every toddler loves the furry red monster, Elmo. Let him teach your child the ABCs with this fun and interactive app. It has songs and videos about letters. It has coloring pages and games about letters. It even teaches your child how to draw the letter with a tracing game. Elmo even made a new alphabet song for it.
Cost $4.99  >Download here
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Talking Gina The Giraffe
Does your child want a pet? Let them have their own giraffe with this adorable app featuring a talking giraffe named Gina. Say anything to Gina and she will speak your words back to you. She also loves playing her favorite game of patty cake. It’s important to take good care of her and she will be your child’s best friend!
Cost $Free   >Download here
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Scoops
Over a million people are screaming for ice cream! Stack your ice cream cone high into the sky by tilting the phone left and right, catching as many scoops as you can while avoiding the vegetables (veggies ARE great apart from ice cream!). The higher you go, the faster they fall, and the more wobbly your tower! Stack similar colors together for extra points.
Cost Free  >Download here
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Tozzle - Toddler's Favorite Puzzle
With 35 different puzzles, Tozzle will be your savior when traveling. It keeps your toddler entertained and he/she learns to improve shape recognition and motor activity. Easy to manipulate drag-and-drop puzzles will keep them busy for the long haul. If they can't find the right place for a piece, a helping arrow appears after the third try so every child can solve every puzzle.
Cost $1.99  >Download here
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Elias Zoo
What sound does a monkey make? Who says “roar”? Like Old MacDonald without the E-I-E-I-O, Elias Zoo lets your kids hear a bumblebee buzz, a lion roar and so much more. This simple flashcard app shows you an animal, its name and makes the right sound when you press the screen.
Cost $1.99  >Download here |
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Toddler Teasers Shapes
Approved by teachers, parents and toddlers alike Toddler Teasers Shapes teaches while it entertains. With a focus on simplicity and full voice-overs, toddlers play and learn without the need for extra help. The app displays colorful quizzes and offers positive reinforcement and fun rewards. The child-safe menu allows parents to customize game play and difficulty.
Cost Free  >Download here |
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Fisher Price Little People Farm
If your little one loves playing with Fisher Price little people then they will love this app. There are so many activities such as see and do, matching, hide and seek and more!
Cost $1.99 >Download here
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Baloonimals
What child doesn’t love a good balloon animal. Balloonimals lets your child blow up their own balloon animal by blowing into the microphone. Shake the iPhone and it constructs into a fun animal! Once it’s created it loves to do tricks and play!
Cost $1.99 >Download here
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LeapFrog Songs: Toddler Rhythms
Introduce your child to music they’ll love. This app features 15 songs that your toddler will love to sing along to. Songs like “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “The ABC Song” and “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star." Not only can they sing along, but it’s a fun and interactive app too. It lets you be a part of the band by tapping each of the animals to make its special instrument play!
Cost $0.99 >Download here
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Toy Story Read-Along
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! Bring one of your child’s favorite Disney Pixar movies on the go with this fully interactive app. It features games, movie clips, coloring pages, and sing-along tunes. Hear the story read aloud, record your own narration, or explore at your own pace.
Cost Free >Download here
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Toddler Flashcards
Just like traditional flash-cards for kids, Toddler Flashcards has cards to teach children the names of animals, foods, things, as well as advanced stuff like the alphabet or numbers. Unlike traditional flash-cards, these ones speak, and they also play animal sounds. It is a great tool to help children (and even babies) learn basic words.
Cost $1.99  >Download here
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The Cat in The Hat by Dr. Seuss
On a cold and wet day, two children are visited by a mischievous cat, wearing a tall, red and white-striped hat. To entertain the children, the Cat performs wacky tricks, creating a mess of the house. Will mother find out about the Cat and see the mess? The Dr. Seuss classic "The Cat in the Hat," one of the top selling children's books of all time, is now available for your phone. Kids can choose from three options- “Read It To Me,” “Read It To Myself” and “Autoplay” which reads the story like a movie.
Cost $3.99   >Download here
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Moody Monster Manor
Calling all kids who love monsters! Come with us to Moody Monster Manor. You can create your own monsters, play fun and exciting games, win monster merit badges, or meet the 20 monsters through the Moody Monster audio tour.
Cost Free  >Download here
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Angry Birds
The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. Angry Birds features hours of gameplay, challenging physics-based castle demolition, and lots of replay value. Each of the 240 levels requires
Cost .99 >Download here
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Memory Block
How good is your memory? Find out with MemoryBlock. Watch the computer carefully as it creates sequences for you to mimic. With 5 buttons to keep track of it's harder than it seems!
Cost Free >Download here
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Word Scramble by Zynga
Scramble is the fast fun game of finding words in a jumbled grid. Compete with friends and play live with fellow word game fans.
Cost Free  >Download here
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Fruit Ninja
Make cutting fruit fun with this interactive ninja warrior game.
Swipe your finger across the screen to deliciously slash and splatter fruit for a juicy adventure! When you succeed in slashing the fruit, a wise ninja will give you fun fruit facts.
Cost $.99 >Download here 
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Bejeweled
If your kids love puzzle games, they will love this one that’s full of sparkle and glitz. Match sparkling gems three at a time to make them burst in showers of color and points. Match four or more to create power gems that boost your score and your mood with brilliant cascades and combos
Cost $0.99 >Download here
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Cake Doodle
This app is perfect for the budding baker in your family. Cake doodle lets your kids bake their very own cake adding all of their very own ingredients and even putting it into the oven. Once their cake is complete they can decorate any way they please. This app lets your child do the baking without the mess!
Cost $0.99 >Download here
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Think Big
For kids old enough to grasp simple math concepts, Think BIG shows a group of numbers and kids have to pick the largest (or smallest) number. The game uses positive reinforcement and has surprises and rewards.
Cost $0.99  >Download here
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Math Ninja
Make learning math fun with Math Ninja. Let your child use their math skills to defend the treehouse against a hungry tomato and his robotic army in this fun action packed game!
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Cost $1.99  >Download here
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Stack the Countries
Make learning about the world around us fun! We love watching the countries actually come to life in this colorful game, Stack the Countries. This game assists your child in learning country capitals, landmarks, geographic locations and more!
Cost $1.99  >Download here
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Move Like Me
Move Like Me is similar to the memory game, “Simon,” but with a twist. We love the two player mode which allows you to create a “dance” for the character and continue to build on it. Each player must remember the entire dance as they go. This is a great game for both parent and child.
Cost $1.99 >Download here
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iWrite Words (Handwriting Game)
Learn handwriting the fun way! iWriteWords teaches your children how to write letters of the alphabet while playing along to a fun game. This game teaches both numbers and letters for hours of learning and entertainment.
Cost $2.99 >Download here
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