NoMoreMouse today announces a huge update for BAM! Jr. 1.1 for iOS, their very successful matching Game for 2 - 8 preschoolers, where the pace of gameplay gets faster and faster until all players but the winner are eliminated. At the start of the game, each player chooses one of eight different colored shapes. During gameplay, the eight shapes are displayed randomly, and each player in turn must quickly tap on the screen when their chosen shape appears, with the last remaining player the winner.

German based KatzApps today announced the release of an updated version of Preschool Kitty for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Preschool Kitty helps youngsters develop fundamental cognitive skills via hundreds of uniquely entertaining games. Newly updated, the app boasts newly enhanced graphics and content, straightforward gameplay, as well as a vast amount of content that guarantees your children can look forward to new rewarding experiences time and time again.

Random Widgets today introduces iBehave 1.0 for iOS, their Utility app that helps kids improve their behavior by rewarding them with marbles in a jar, and when they collect enough marbles, they win a predetermined prize. While Rewards Charts work, young kids need more immediate feedback. At the moment their child behaves in a way they want to encourage or discourage, parents can provide immediate feedback by opening their iDevice and showing the child that marbles have been added or subtracted.

Knbmedia today introduces Find Them All: Dinosaurs World 1.4.3 for iOS, the second in their series of "Find Them All" Educational apps for kids 2 - 8. A guided introduction to 24 different species of dinosaurs, the app's narrator can speak English, French, German, or Spanish. The 100% interactive app features 6 different activities, including: Match the Dinosaur, Win an Animated Card, Take a Photo, Find the Dinosaurs in the Dark, Make a Jigsaw Puzzle from a Photo, and Play the Photo Quiz.

Fairlady Media today announces the release of Grandma's Garden on the App Store, a universal app at a low price. In this game for young children ages 1 to 6, a charming dancing Granny and her whacky veggies teach preschool and kindergarten skills in 5 mini-games. Kids will experience the kind of love, positive words, and funny gifts that only a loving Grandma can provide! Kids hear "You're so SMART!", "You're good at this!", "You make me wanna dance!", and many other positive words.

Fun To Learn Apps today released Create My Own Flash Cards 1.0.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. This app offers users an ingenious way to coax those first words out of their baby, or start their school agers on the path to learning a new language. Parents can create custom flash cards, for any object that can be photographed, in three easy steps. By using these personalized flash cards, parents can spark their child's interest with objects they're already familiar with.

Mercury Learning Systems and Wood App Developers introduces Super Flash Accelerated Learning Games for Children 1.0 - Musical Instruments, their Education app that uses a rapid flashing technique to help children 0.5 - 12 years old rapidly learn and develop their full learning potential. The app is the second release of five devoted to whole-brain, speed learning for kids. In a series of flashes, a photo is followed by the tool's name written and heard with audible fact, which kids later recall.

Learning Touch today introduces Kids Crosswords 1.0 for iOS, their latest educational app for toddlers and preschoolers. Kids Crosswords includes thousands of puzzles arranged in 10 levels of difficulty to provide a fun educational experience for a wide range of young children. Toddlers can match letters while older preschoolers can spell out words up to seven letters long. The app provides both phonics & letter-name options to provide a complete pre-reading and early reading skills experience.

Mercury Learning Systems today introduces Super Flash Accelerated Learning Games for Children 1.0 - Animal Kingdom, their Education app that uses a rapid flashing technique to help children 0.5 - 12 years old learn and develop their full learning potential. The app is one of five devoted to whole-brain, speed learning for kids, with this app focusing on animals from around the world. In a series of flashes, a photo is followed by the animal's name written and heard, which kids later recall.

YFactory today introduces Hello Pettle 1.0 for iOS, their Education toy for children from newborns to 3 1/2 years old. The app features 18 cute, wool knit animals that move and make sounds when touched or pressed, and play with small balls when shaken. With a total of 68 sounds and 73 motions, the interactive app is certain to keep young children in a happy mood. Since 80% of human brain development occurs by age three, it is important to provide as much positive, sensory stimuli as possible.

YFactory today introduces Action Sticker HD - YooHoo&Friends Lite 1.0 for iPad, their free Education app that allows young children to follow the adventures of the world-famous, stuffed toy characters based on animals, many endangered species. The animated, interactive app features 12 different adventures starring YooHoo, Sparkee, Roodee, Lemmee, and Ringring. Employing Gardner's theory of "Multiple Intelligences," the app's stories, games, and puzzles engage kids on every level.

AU Software Technologies Pvt Ltd is happy to introduce the updated version of their educational app for kids, Zack's Preschool Games - Beach Fun. The app is a collection of 10 mini games for preschoolers that seamlessly blend one into another as the kids advance in solving various tasks. Each game focuses on its own aspect of preschool education. There are tasks that teach children to easily identify Fruits, Eatables, Animals, Vehicles and Musical Instruments.

Minimax Games has announced that their new pairs game, Animal Zoo Match for iPhone and iPad, is now available on the App Store. The game is located in a world-class safari park. Kids have to reveal colorful animal cards and find animal pairs and their sounds. The game can be played by kids without any assistance by adults. Each animal makes a funny or realistic vocal sound, there are lots of animals to explore, and Game Center support.

KidsAndBeyond's first offshoot of the much acclaimed SimpleSort, SimpleSort:Counting 1.0 brings back our recognizable cloud helper & familiar objects and sorting buckets from the original, but goes one step further. Children aged 2-5 learn important early math skills in a fun, colorful, creative and engaging way. Each screen has a different game. The options to hear the number as you count and see the number reinforces the skill of counting out loud and getting familiar with the written number.

Independent developer Steve Glinberg today announces 123 Color: Talking Coloring Book 2.0, the International Edition of his popular education app for iOS devices. 123 Color: Talking Coloring Book helps teach numbers, letters, and colors, voiced in 17 languages and dialects. A top 10 education app in 40 countries worldwide, 123 Color includes more than 350 cartoons, drawings, photos, and handwriting guides in all, to be painted by freestyle finger painting or touch-to-fill.

Preschool University today introduces ABC MAGIC 4 free for iOS, their 17th Education app that provides practice in matching the first sound of words with letters. When the child touches a picture, they hear the corresponding word aloud. Kids must correctly drag the picture to the letter, matching the first letter of the word to the letter displayed, e.g., if the letter "D" is displayed, they must drag three pictures of objects starting with the letter "D" into the three boxes beside the "D."

Hot on the heels of their successful Alien Buddies Educational app launch, Artgig Studio of Pleasantville has popped up in another corner of the internet - on CafePress. Now you can purchase clothing featuring your favorite cute and quirky Alien Buddies characters. Original designs include "New and Noteworthy" infant clothing as well as a variety of cartoon-inspired styles for kids and adults.

North Carolina based indie applications developer, Staytoooned today introduces iTouchiLearn Feelings for Preschool Kids 1.0, their new children's educational app for iOS devices. iTouchiLearn Feelings gives preschool, kindergarten and special needs kids the social cues needed to identify, interpret and communicate their emotions. iTouchiLearn Feelings sequentially builds early learning social cues and enables children to apply what they learn to real world situations.

Boutique interactive agency, Artgig Studio is offering their new educational app, Alien Buddies, for free today, Friday December 2nd, as part of a special App Friday promotion with Moms With Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers. Alien Buddies offers an incredibly fun way for kids to practice number names, number sequencing, letter names, shapes, and colors. This is an exceptional offer to celebrate the Alien Buddies release as the app.

Boutique interactive agency, Artgig Studio today introduces Alien Buddies 1.0, their new educational app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Alien Buddies offers an incredibly fun way for kids to practice number names, number sequencing, letter names, shapes, and colors. It was specifically designed with a variety of games and play modes to suit a range of ages from Preschool to Kindergarten, including Matching, Dot to Dot, Stickers.

treebetty design today introduces its first iOS app Peek-a-Zoo, which combines the perennial young child's favorite game of Peekaboo with another favorite activity, visiting the zoo. With a unique graphic style, Peek-a-Zoo engages children and parents alike with charming zoo inhabitants in lively settings. Roar with the majestic lion, blow bubbles with a swimming polar bear, crow with a proud peacock - these and other animals will teach children animal names and sounds in an unforgettable way.

L'Escapadou today announces Word Wizard 2.0.1 for iOS, an update to their New and Noteworthy Education app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words, and provides spelling practice with a customizable List of more than 1,300 questions and answers. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check more than 100,000 words. Word Wizard has won many accolades and was called the "Speak'N Spell for the iPad Generation" by the New York Times.

1Tapps today introduces Martina 2 - Why Has My Brother Got Two Daddies? 1.0 for iOS, the second in their series of ebooks featuring Martina, a three-year old girl who asks questions that adults may find difficult to answer. Written and illustrated for young children, the ebook clearly describes how mothers can begin new relationships, and that they can bring a child with them from their previous relationship. The app answers the question in its title with honesty, sensitivity, and simplicity.

Preschool University today introduces 123 NUMBER MAGIC 1.0 for iOS, their 16th free Education app, which provides the missing link between numbers as symbols and numbers as concepts. The app has two modes: matching quantities to quantities, e.g., a quantity of beads to the corresponding domino; and matching numerals to quantities, e.g., the numeral "9" and the quantity "nine" as displayed on a pair of dice. The app features audible pronunciation of all the illustrated quantities and numerals.

A&R Entertainment today introduces Animated Puzzle 1.0 free for iOS, their new wooden jigsaw puzzle Game for young children, where the pieces fit in holes in the board that are moving or stationery. As each piece is dragged into the correct hole, a sound plays and the piece drops in. After the last piece is placed, the entire puzzle comes to life in full color, and all the moving holes are now moving objects or characters in a complete, animated scene depicting one of nine regions on Earth.

A&R Entertainment today introduces 25-in-1 Free Educational Games HD 1.0 for iPad, a sampler of 25 of their most popular games for children ages 2-6. Included in 25-in-1 are the following kinds of games: puzzle, memory, Tangram, drawing, spelling, arcade, sound, difference, math, slider puzzle, visual, and wood block puzzle. Each game is taken from a game in A&R's "Learning is Fun" collection of educational games. The full version of each game is available from the App Store.

Cubic Frog Apps today introduces Preschool EduKitty 1.0 for iOS, their new Educational Game for kids ages 2 - 5. Featuring colorful 3D graphics in HD and a lovable 3D Kitty as their guide, kids play a mix of 14 different learning games: Directions, Matching Patterns, Matching Sounds, Shapes, Colors, Numbers, The Alphabet, Differences, Sizes, Matching Pictures, and Matching Silhouettes. The game has been in the US App Store Top 1% of all Educational Games since 9/12 for both iPad and iPhone.

Independent developer Mathieu Brassard today released Discover Musical Instruments 1.4 for iOS, especially designed for babies and preschoolers. Easy to use and intuitive, this App captivates kids by presenting them with 60 high-quality pictures of musical instruments, their sounds and also the correct pronunciations of their names. Touching the picture will reveal the sound the musical instrument makes, and touching the name will pronounce it.

Schogini Systems has released iLearn Alphabets and Numbers, an interactive learning app for preschoolers and toddlers with Augmented Reality that's built to develop imagination and stimulate learning. Kids learn with an adorable companion puppy, Toby. The app automatically saves learning information for parents to track and review their child's progress. Fun and stimulating activities include matching shapes, sequencing and popping balloons of corresponding alphabet and numbers.

Paris based Knbmedia is pleased to have announced Find Them All: looking for animals, their educational iOS game for children 2 to 8 years old that offers varied activities on the subject of the animals of the world. The very youngest will learn quickly to identify the animals during a discovery phase which requires dexterity. Older users are able to look for night animals and use the camera to make their own album or create jigsaws. It's now possible to hear the animal names in 3 languages.

To celebrate, on September 19th, the International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Bambino Avenue is cutting for one day the price for its iPhone and iPad App "Dano Pirate & The Numbers". Dano Pirate & The Numbers is an educational app that turns math and learning to count into a pirate-themed adventure for preschoolers and kindergartners. The app features a cast of cartoon characters who guide young players through 20 numbers-based mini-games.

Zephyr Games today introduces Kiwi and Pear's Balloon Adventure 1.0 for iOS, their new interactive game based on the best-selling hardcover book for kids. Kiwi and Pear are two adventurous monkeys who travel and explore the world while spreading love, friendship and smiles to everyone and everything they meet. The game is a vertically scrolling joy ride through the clouds that allows players to control Kiwi and Pear's balloon as it rises through the air by tilting their device from side to side.

California based Digital Media Interactive announces the arrival of baby's next animal app, Hello Farm for Kids. The sequel to world renowned Hello Zoo is available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Hello Farm is a fun and educational app for infants and toddlers. Touch anywhere in the landscape background to trigger snorting pigs, flying owls, bouncing bunnies, and more. Designed to engage young eyes and help memory and recognition development, this app is sure to entertain for hours.

Preschool University today introduces SENTENCE READING MAGIC 1.0 for iOS, their 14th free Education app, which provides the missing link between reading words and reading books - reading sentences. The app has two modes: sentence building, where children can move the words into their correct sentence position, and reading, where children can read the words of the sentence and then check their work by touching the hidden picture. The app features audible pronunciation of whole words and letters.

Just in time for summer vacation, independent developer Kora Erdelyi today introduces KinderApp 1.0, her new children's learning app for iOS devices. With KinderApp, children from one year onwards get to know important objects from their home environment, in an interactive way. KinderApp has two different levels, so you can always find the suitable level for your child. Pictures and animations are nicely drawn with brilliant colors and contours in order to ensure easy recognition.

Kendal Investments today introduces Smarty: Tic-Tac 1.0 for iOS, their new touch- interactive game for kids age two and older that introduces the concept of time and the skill of reading a clock in a lively, entertaining fashion. A cartoon cat sits with a white board on his lap that displays a time, for example, 8:32. Behind him is a large display of six different clocks, each one having a different design, and each one displaying a different time. Kids must touch the one clock that reads 8:32.

KenigArt today announces ABC Alphabet 2011 Learning Game for Kids HD for iPad. Featuring funny graphics and sounds for your little kids, ABC Alphabet 2011 Learning Game allows your children to learn the alphabet in easy and fun way. Find differences between 26 awesome animals pictures in 26 levels and learn all alphabet from A to Z with spelling. In addition for each solved level you will get quality iPad HD wallpaper with level animal and letter.

Newly launched My Pal Apps today announces a name change to Happi Papi and the new release of Happi Reads HD 1.1. With only six months in the app development business the US-Swedish joint venture feels the need to change its name. The re-brand to Happi Papi uses the unique name "Happi" in all of their app titles combined with a descriptive word explaining what the app is about.

Shortstack, creator of critically acclaimed Splish Splash Inn, just released its second app, Photo Safari! 1.1. The game features 50 animals, ranging from the favorites like an elephant and a tiger to what might be new animals for kids, like a hedgehog, a sloth and a peacock. It's a search game, where kids look for a particular animal in a sea of other animals. After kids find the target animal, they zoom in for a close up, see a quick animation, then click their camera to take a picture.

Micro-surveys on both sides of the Atlantic seem to agree that it is time for more kid friendly apps. Kids say; No more ads, links that make us leave the game and cleverly disguised in-app purchases. Newly launched My Pal Apps is trying to take advantage of this by saying no to these extra revenue streams in favor of what kids really want in an app. With "I Read", the new app in its range of Educational games, My Pal Apps promises to keep the kids "in the game" in more ways than one.

After the tremendous success of iPad version, Demansol Software Solutions announces PreSchool 1.0, their latest product offering for iPhone. Preschool is a powerful educational tool for toddlers, approved by teachers, parents & toddlers; it's a great tool for learning that help kids to explore different words, letters, animals, sounds, colors, etc in a funny and exciting way. Toddlers can play and learn without the need for any extra help.