Jill Burdo
List of apps to get you started on your new iPad adventures!
iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBooks Store, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your library on a beautiful bookshelf, tap a book to open it, flip through pages with a swipe or a tap, and bookmark or add notes to your favorite passages.
Download books
• Download best-sellers and classic books from the iBooks Store
• Find fully illustrated books, including children's picture books, designed art books, photo books, cook books, and more in the iBooks Store
• Experience gorgeous fullscreen Multi-Touch books filled with interactive features, diagrams, photos, videos, and more
• Read a free sample of any book on the iBooks Store before making it a part of your permanent collection
Great ways to read
• Choose from seven beautiful fonts and three easy-to-read page colors
• Highlight your favorite passages and add notes with the built-in bookmarking features
• Share quotes or thoughts about your favorite book with friends on Facebook, Twitter, Messages, or Mail
• Find a word, character, or phrase anywhere in your book with the built-in search feature
• Easily adjust your screen brightness to find the perfect lighting for any environment
• Scroll through your books with the flick of a finger using the scroll view
• Use iBooks with the amazing accessibility features in iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch—such as speaking the words on a given page
• Print PDF documents and notes you've written in iBooks using AirPrint
iCloud features
• Organize your books and PDFs into personal Collections that appear on all your devices
• Keep bookmarks, highlights, notes, and your current page up-to-date everywhere using iCloud
• See all your iBooks Store purchases in iCloud right on your bookshelf
Supports open standards
• iBooks also opens content published in the ePub and PDF formats
• Add ePub and PDF documents to iTunes and sync them to iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch
• You can also add PDF documents from Mail to your iBooks PDF Collection
Requirements
• The iBooks Store is available in many countries. The selection of books in the iBooks Store may vary by country
• Downloading from the iBooks Store or using iCloud features requires an Apple ID and Internet access
• Multi-Touch books created with iBooks Author can only be read using iBooks on iPad or Mac
• Adding books and PDFs from outside the iBooks Store to iBooks requires they be DRM-free
• Some PDF documents may not be compatible with iBooks
Flipboard is your personal magazine. It is the most popular way to catch up on the news you care about, discover amazing things from around the world, or stay connected to the people closest to you. Now with Flipboard 2.0, you can save and collect the things you love into your own magazines like “Trips I want to take” or “Dream Homes.”
When you first launch Flipboard simply pick a few topics to start reading everything from world news to sports, travel and more. You can also add popular publications, such as The New York Times or Vanity Fair, or add Etsy to shop right from Flipboard. You can find thousands of websites, RSS feeds and interesting sources like Politico and Brain Pickings, or explore magazines being created on Flipboard in “By Our Readers” -- just tap the red ribbon and use the Content Guide to get started.
Flipboard also lets you enjoy all your social networks. Add Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr and more to see updates from your social world, all in a beautiful magazine style experience. Now the news your friends share is a breeze to flip through -- with headlines and excerpts that give you an immediate glimpse into the world around you. Anything you like, comment on or favorite goes right back into your social networks, so you can easily interact and add to the conversation.
Just tap any of your tiles to start flipping through the pages of your Flipboard. And use the + button on any item to start saving things into your own magazines.
KEEP UP ON FLIPBOARD:
Visit our website http://www.flipboard.com and follow us via @flipboard on Twitter and on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/flipboard for tips and tricks and other helpful information.
To learn more about how to use Flipboard, visit our Support Page: http://flipboard.com/support
If you are having technical issues or have any questions, we're here to help. Please send us an email to: support@flipboard.com
Google Drive is one safe place for all your stuff. Upload photos, videos, documents, and other files that are important to you, then access what you need wherever you go, on any device. Get going with up to 15GB of storage. Free.
-Edit and create documents and spreadsheets with Docs and Sheets
-Share photos and files with friends and family
-Always have the latest version of your documents, whether at home or in the office
-Pin files to make them available offline
-Keep photos and videos from your device in Drive so you have everything if it breaks or is lost
-Access your stuff from a new device without having to transfer or download anything
Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure. Isn’t it the sweetest game ever?
Candy Crush Saga features:
● Tasty graphics that will leave you hungry for more
● Easy and fun to play, but a challenge to fully master
● Hundreds of sweet levels
● Leaderboards for you and your friends
● Items to unlock by completing levels
● Boosters and charms to help with those challenging levels
Last, but not least, a big THANK YOU goes out to everyone who has played Candy Crush Saga! Already a fan of Candy Crush Saga?
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Minimum iOS version recommended: 4.3.5
Doodle Buddy for iPad – Paint, Draw, Scribble, Sketch – It’s Addictive!
Doodle Buddy for iPad is the most fun you can have with your finger--heck, it’s the most fun you can have with all your fingers! Finger paint with thousands of colors and drop in playful stamps.
• Paint with multiple fingers, yea like in pre-school!
• Funny sounds paired with stamps are a blast!
• Doodle and stamp all over your own pictures.
• Lots of cool drawing tools: paintbrush, glitter, chalk, text, stencils, smudge and more!
• 44,000-color picker doesn’t get your fingers dirty.
• Share your doodles with your friends via email.
WHAT IF I SUCK AT DRAWING?
Anyone can draw with Doodle Buddy for iPad--from a hip Grandma to a snotty two year-old kid. If you mess up, just undo your last stroke. To start over, simply shake your iPad.
Connect with us at:
• facebook.com/doodlebuddy
• twitter.com/pinger
Create your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time!
Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.
This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!
Your creations are only limited by your imagination (and voice acting skills in my case).
FEATURES
- Create an actor from a photo
- Use a photo as a backdrop for your storytelling
- zoom and rotate your characters using two fingers
- flip them around with a double tap
- a wide variety of creative characters to download (including famous talk show hosts and politicians)
- limitless possibilities of story creations
- buy the director's pass and receive ALL current and FUTURE content!
Voice Record Pro is a professional voice recorder. It allows you to record voice memos and on-site sounds at unlimited length with configurable quality.
Recorded voices are in standard AAC/MP4/M4A format. They can be converted to MP3 and can be saved in various places like:
Additionally you can:
and much more. Enjoy.
*This app update is only compatible with iOS 5.0 or higher.
Watch videos from your favorite PBS KIDS television series anytime, anywhere (in the USA). “PBS KIDS Video” features more than 1,000 videos from over a dozen top PBS KIDS television series, including Curious George, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, Dinosaur Train, SUPER WHY!, Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Peg + Cat, Sesame Street and Wild Kratts.
CHILD-SAFE
The app provides a safe, child-friendly viewing experience for all ages. Kids can easily browse and watch videos at home, on the road, or anywhere with a 3G or WiFi connection.
NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK
Every week, the app will introduce your child to a new “Weekly Pick,” a set of fun educational videos that will engage him or her in reading, science, math and more.
PARENT RESOURCES
The app also includes features that parents can access by sliding the “i-bar” to the right:
GEOGRAPHIC RESTRICTIONS
The PBS KIDS videos may only be viewed from within the United States. This is due to restrictions on PBS's license to offer this service.
ABOUT THIS APP
PBS KIDS Video is a key part of PBS KIDS’ commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment—wherever kids are. More PBS KIDS videos may also be found online at pbskids.org/video. You can support PBS KIDS through the selection of other apps and TV shows available in the iTunes Store.
This app was designed by PBS KIDS and developed by Three Pillar Global, Inc.
Users experiencing a problem in which the app is stuck on the loading screen can fix the issue by following these steps:
- Go to the home screen on your device
- Double tap the Home Button to open the list of background apps
- Press and hold on the PBS KIDS Video app
- Press the red X to quit the app
★ Perfect hi-res graphics! Retina Display support!
Children love Jigsaw puzzles! Shape Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle especially designed for little children. After you complete a picture, a cute turtle will pops out and tell you the name of the object you just assembled. What's more, each object belongs to a certain scene and after you finish all the items, a vivid scene appears!
Shape Puzzle attracts children by colorful pictures and children can learn many words while playing. They remember the words better because of the vivid images of objects and scenes.
2 to 6 is the best age to develop children's visual memory. Shape Puzzle provides a number of interesting objects and scenes to children so that they can easily learn new words and through repetitive assembly of pictures remember them easily.
It's so much fun and your children will love it!
Learn with WordFriends is the exciting new educational game from WordWorld, the Emmy-winning show seen on PBS that was funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education. Build and discover words with all of your favorite characters: Dog, Duck, Sheep, Ant, Bear, Pig and Frog.
There are three puzzles to play:
• WordRain – grab letters as they fall from the sky and put them in the appropriate place to build the word object!
• WordScramble – rearrange scrambled letters in the proper order to spell the word object!
• WordMatch – a tile memory game fun for all ages!
In addition to the puzzles, you can play with all your WordFriends on the Farm!
Important note: Dog is included and other WordFriends can be purchased in-app. Choose the difficulty you want for your child.
If you want all the WordFriends, download our FULL version for a discounted price!
EDUCATORS: If you are a qualified educator and would like to purchase Learn With WordFriends using Apple’s educational discount, purchase the FULL version from the App Store.
Sam Phibian makes counting fun.
Sam Phibian can only make it through the day by counting the bugs he eats. Eating too many bugs--or eating the silly things in his swamp that aren't bugs at all--will cause Sam to grow too big for his lily pad!
Sam Phibian combines attractive graphics, fun game play, and just the right amount of absurdity to create an interactive experience that makes counting practice engaging for young (and old!) learners.
We have put some best app lists based on kids age and subject, if you are interested in those lists, please visit Best Educational Apps for Kids - Grouped by Age and Subject. In the past several months, iGameMom reviewed many science apps for preschool kids.
