Best Free Apps for Kids - iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android

Amazon Kindle Fire vs iPad

After much anticipation Amazon announced Kindle Fire, a 7’’ tablet that runs Amazon’s version of Android and costs only $199. This incredible price point, combined with its seamless integration with Amazon movie streaming and the Android app store makes it probably the most credible competitor to iPad so far. What will Kindle Fire mean for families, kids and education? Could Kindle Fire eventually be the ultimate kids educational and gaming platform?

New iPad Ad Focuses on Learning

Apple is working to underscore the learning power of the iPad2 with their latest ad. While many, especially parents, wonder if the iPad is just another pricey tech toy, Apple's latest ad highlights the capabilities of iPad as a learning device.

iPhone Telephoto Lens Mount

Having an iPhone camera is handy. It’s great to snap shots of the kids while they’re playing in the sprinklers, or capture a cute moment between siblings. But who hasn’t been on a vacation when their iPhone camera just wasn’t…enough. You know what I mean, you’re standing in a National Park, taking in the scenery with the family and all of a sudden there’s an elk, but it’s just too far away for your iPhone camera to catch.

Best Flashcard Apps

Learning and flashcards go together like peanut butter and jelly. Cheese and crackers. Bert and Ernie. These basic aids for memorization can help older children practice for tricky exams, or help lay the foundation for toddlers to master the ABC’s.

However, since the advent of the iPhone kids and parents don’t have to settle for just the paper versions anymore. Virtual flashcards provided via apps provide an opportunity for integrating technology into flashcard use and, not to mention, bring a whole new level of portability to memorization learning techniques.

How to Download Free Movies & TV Shows For Your iPhone

When Angry Birds is played out and your kids don’t want to practice their ABC’s anymore, movies and TV shows turn the iPhone into a miniature, portable television. Downloaded shows can provide hours of entertainment on long car rides, plane trips or during ridiculous long wait times at the doctor’s office. However, the cost of downloading shows and movies can be high via iTunes. Fortunately, with a little pre-planning there are ways to download your favorite shows to your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad for free!

Best Photo Apps With Amazing Effects

Photo apps turn your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a magical camera equipped with awesome Photoshop-like effects. However, these apps transform photos into artistic creations without requiring time or skill to edit photos with photography software. And they do it for cheap! Whether you want to make your snapshots reminiscent of famous works of art, or simply apply aging effects, you’ll be amazed at how these apps will fab up your photos in no time.

Best New Kids Apps

After browsing the developer-submitted blog entries here on ikidapps.com for the best new kids apps, we're excited to once again present our readers with a preview of some of our favorites.

The top new kids apps cover everything from geography to saving yetis from giant snowballs. Each feature family-friendly content and are, we feel, a great addition to the iPhone app market. Take a second to check them out, and then head over to the new app section to browse even more new "app-ortunities" for fun and learning with the iPhone.

How To Do Screen Capture on an iPhone

Have you ever had something roll across the screen of your iPhone that you just had to save, but didn’t know how? Perhaps a text from your teenager was too sweet not to capture, or you wanted to store a quick description of a birthday gift idea for your little rascal.

Just like taking a screenshot on a computer, the iPhone is capable of taking screen capture shots that are stored in the device like a photo for easy sharing and storage.

350+ Best Kids Apps Reviewed

We cannot believe it has been 3 years since we launched iKidApps.com! In many of our articles we try to review the best iPhone, iPod, iPad, and Android apps for you in their respective categories. Also we have the largest collection of kids app videos, do check them out. Below you can find all of our (350 in total!) best app reviews as well as a list of how to tips for parents.