Count the Animals! app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Appracadabra.com
First release : 20 Sep 2011
App size: 74.05 Mb
★★★ Winner of the Design Award for Best Educational App 2012 according to UK Junior Magazine: "There’s plenty of opportunity to hone those number and counting skills with this app but it’s the playful illustrations and animation that make it truly memorable".
★★★ “I believe apps like these are still hard to find but make the app-shop so much more interesting, creative and worth visiting with your kids.” - Irene Hoofs, BloesemBlogs.com
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Count the Animals! is a witty interactive picturebook for toddlers and pre-schoolers learning to count.
Learn to count from one to 20, while playfully poking at one stubborn pony, magically pop three rabbits out of a black hat or rescuing a delicious pie from 20 very hungry ants.
SKILLS / COMPETENCIES
✔ learn to count from 1 to 20
✔ develop the pre-math skill of connecting numbers to quantities
✔ learn cause and effect by tapping on an animal and see what it does
✔ learn to count in 21 languages
✔ and much more...
FEATURES
✔ quirky artwork with a vintage feel by Dutch illustrator Caroline Ellerbeck
✔ beautiful animation and unexpected effects
✔ tap on the animals with your fingers to make them jump/wriggle/fly and walk
✔ settings to turn on/off spoken numbers, turn on/off sound, to count backwards, count in random order, count with numbers shown/not shown etc.
✔ contains 21 languages, from Arabic to Portuguese to Swiss German and many more
HOW TO PLAY
For younger children:
- just tap the animals and experience ‘more’, ’less’ and ‘a lot’ or ‘a few’
For older children:
- hear the numbers spoken aloud, learn to count from 1 to 20 - and even backwards
For parents:
- learn to count in another language
- switch off the voice-over and guide your child yourself
- switch on the voice-over and let your child play by itself
- start basic mathematics: ‘poke one more turtle - how many do you have left?’
LANGUAGES
Count the Animals! contains these 21 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German.
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★★★ “The app has a great sense of humour, makes funny noises, and gives chance to learn you child (yourself as well) to count till 20, in 16 languages! We downloaded it yesterday and my soon really likes it.” - Agata
★★★ “With beautifully-crafted interactive animations and easy to use controls, it looks like a lovely little app for kidlets learning to count to twenty.” - Maddy, lilmagoolie.com
Latest reviews of Count the Animals! app for iPhone and iPad
Not worth the $. Only the first five animals are drawn and animated well. Numbers are read with a heavy French accent. The quality of sound varies. Merci, non.
I have to say that this is the all-time favorite app for our 20 month old baby girl. She loves it! The app is really well done - animated, but not over the top. The sound effects and voices are really nice. The best part about it is that it is pretty much locked down - our baby cant stumble across the settings to change something accidentally. Ive seen too many other apps where the kids figure out how to go off road, then screw up the settings. The app has a bunch of languages, so we switch it between English and Spanish frequently. My only wish is that they someday add Korean to the lineup. That would make our babys grandparents very happy :-) I highly recommend it - the few dollars will be money well spent.
My daughter loves this game. Quite naturally, I like it too. She plays it over and over again, which is great because she is learning as she goes. Im fairly certain this game is the reason my daughter can count past 13, where she was stuck for so long.