Ah, Friday. The promise of a weekend combined with the sense of completion from a long, hard week....and naturally, free apps. This week's list offers a little something for everyone, including a Disney app, something for early readers, a couple for preschool tots, and even an app about space!
My favorite part about all of these apps is that they're entirely free--no in-app purchases, nothing.
So celebrate the arrival of another Friday and get some great free apps at the same time.
Rat BoothCome and be Ratatouilled!
Discover the Rat Booth app that transforms you into a rat.
Record a video clip or simply take a photo.
Mix things up to create your own special look…
Share the results with your friends and family to give everyone a really good laugh!
ABC Mouse.com-Early Learning Academy
ABCmouse.com is a multi-award winning early learning academy that offers a full online curriculum for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten learners. With more than 5,000 fun and interactive learning activities that teach reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music, ABCmouse.com helps children become fully prepared for success in school.
Try it Free!
New members can sign up on our website and get their first month free (with future months billed at just $7.95/month). Visit our website at www.abcmouse.com to learn more.
- Access your ABCmouse.com account wherever you go on Wi-Fi or 3G
- Add up to three children per account and track each child’s progress individually
- Navigate through the site using our child-friendly mobile interface
Existing Members
Or, if you are already an ABCmouse.com member, simply download the app for free and log in using your email address and password.
Try it Free!
New members can sign up on our website and get their first month free (with future months billed at just $7.95/month). Visit our website at www.abcmouse.com to learn more.
- Access your ABCmouse.com account wherever you go on Wi-Fi or 3G
- Add up to three children per account and track each child’s progress individually
- Navigate through the site using our child-friendly mobile interface
Existing Members
Or, if you are already an ABCmouse.com member, simply download the app for free and log in using your email address and password.
Learn the Professions“Learn the Professions” is a colorful educational application created to playfully introduce kids to some important professions. On each page you will find a friendly character who can’t wait to tell you about their job. Your task is to pick them a hat and clothes that match his profession. Of course, you can also have fun by dressing the character however you like!
My Playhome Lite
Imagine a doll house where your child can use everything, even the closets, TV and shower. Where you can fry an egg and feed the family pizza. Where you can pour drinks, blow bubbles and turn out the lights.
Imagine a doll house where the pieces are impossible to lose and never break. A doll house which grows over time and where new accessories and rooms are given to you for free.
Imagine if it was designed so that even a 2 year old could use it, yet detailed enough to entertain an 8 year old.
Imagine a doll house that could excite and captivate your children for hours for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
My PlayHome is the original and best dolls house app. Massively interactive, your kids can explore and use everything in the house. The characters eat, sleep, shower, brush their teeth and more. Want the room to be darker? Close the drapes! Fancy a change in music? Pop a different CD into the stereo!
No other doll house app comes close in interactivity, detail, ease of use and just plain fun!
Air Football FreeFor all sports fans and sports games especially air hockey. If you have an air soccer fever we can offer a really cool air soccer game to chill you up! Air Football Free is a new soccer game for toddlers and adults. It’s a really addictive game for two! The way of playing is exactly the same as any air hockey game, but there is a soccer ball instead of a puck! Score as many balls as possible to win! Colorful and addictive game play won’t let you get bored! Don’t waste your time, play the most exciting game ever! Spend your time with fun and joy with Air Football Free! The best table game has been taken as basis to create this great Air Football Free challenge!
Leapfrog's Petathalon GamesDiscover fit made fun with Petathlon™ Games, the companion app for exclusive use with LeapFrog’s LeapBand™ activity tracker.
This app only works with LeapFrog’s LeapBand to extend the play to Android smartphones and tablets and unlock mini-games, rewards and learn about staying active and healthy.
After installing this app on your device, launch the app and sign in using the same email address and password used on your LeapFrog parent account for the LeapBand.
POWER YOUR PET WITH ACTIVE PLAY
BEST OF ALL: Kids can learn about staying active and being healthy while they play. Together, the Petathlon Games and the LeapBand activity tracker provide the perfect motivation to get kids moving!
Recommended for ages 4-7
Learn more at leapfrog.com/leapband
NASA AppCome explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA App for Android.
Features:
- Over 13,000 images (and growing everyday)
- Latest news and features stories
- Latest on demand NASA videos from around the agency
- Current NASA mission Information
- Live streaming of NASA TV
- Launch information & countdown clocks
- Current visible passes for the International Space Station (ISS) and notifications
- ISS and Earth orbiting satellite trackers
- NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
- Facebook® Connect and integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
- NASA TV and what's on your TV schedules
- Map, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers
- Featured content and program sections
- Third Rock Radio (alternative rock radio station)
- Favorites & image bookmarks
- Over 13,000 images (and growing everyday)
- Latest news and features stories
- Latest on demand NASA videos from around the agency
- Current NASA mission Information
- Live streaming of NASA TV
- Launch information & countdown clocks
- Current visible passes for the International Space Station (ISS) and notifications
- ISS and Earth orbiting satellite trackers
- NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
- Facebook® Connect and integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
- NASA TV and what's on your TV schedules
- Map, information and links to all of the NASA visitor centers
- Featured content and program sections
- Third Rock Radio (alternative rock radio station)
- Favorites & image bookmarks
Chore MonsterChoreMonster makes chores fun by engaging and rewarding your kids!
Kids earn points by completing chores to use towards rewards like an hour of video games or a camping trip. Parents get an easy-to-use tool that takes the tension out of household chores. Kids also earn tickets to the Monster Carnival for each chore completed, where they can win and collect our monsters. With ChoreMonster, your kids will beg to do their chores!
Plus, we’ve been featured in trusted media outlets like Mashable, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, TechCrunch, and more.
ChoreMonster is best for ages 4 through 12, but works with ages 3 through 15.
Kids earn points by completing chores to use towards rewards like an hour of video games or a camping trip. Parents get an easy-to-use tool that takes the tension out of household chores. Kids also earn tickets to the Monster Carnival for each chore completed, where they can win and collect our monsters. With ChoreMonster, your kids will beg to do their chores!
Plus, we’ve been featured in trusted media outlets like Mashable, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, TechCrunch, and more.
ChoreMonster is best for ages 4 through 12, but works with ages 3 through 15.
Mini BouncyDo you like bursting bubbles? Do you like jumping in a bouncy house? How about funny animals and balloons? Mini Bouncy has all that, and more! Play by yourself, or with your friends on the same device at the same time. Learn interesting facts about well-loved songs.
Mini Bouncy is designed to explore the new tactile experiences that today's touch-based devices can provide kids. By providing many different elements to touch and interact with, this app aims to inspire self-guided discovery and a sense of curiosity. In addition, by minimizing explicit rules and constraints, the game works to provide an arena for free play and self-direction.
Peekaboo Goes Camping Game
If you like to play peekaboo with your kids, you'll love the Peekaboo Goes Camping Game featuring Peekaboo, the lovable blue fellow from the hit TV series on BabyFirstTV. You'll have loads of fun guessing where Peekaboo is hiding – behind his tent, behind a rock, or one of the other places on his camping journey. You might also like the Peekaboo Goes Camping Book.
If you like to play peekaboo with your kids, you'll love the Peekaboo Goes Camping Game featuring Peekaboo, the lovable blue fellow from the hit TV series on BabyFirstTV. You'll have loads of fun guessing where Peekaboo is hiding – behind his tent, behind a rock, or one of the other places on his camping journey. You might also like the Peekaboo Goes Camping Book.
-Rachel J. is pretty terrible at thinking up Halloween costume ideas.