Keep up-to-date with what's movin' and shakin' on the App Store with this list of the Top 50 most downloaded completely FREE apps (with no in-app purchases) available on iTunes as of September 2, 2016. These apps are all tagged as apps just for kids! There are new apps on this list, so be sure to check out our new update.
1. YouTube Kids
The official YouTube Kids app is designed for curious little minds to dive into a world of discovery, learning and entertainment. This is a delightfully simple (and free!) app, where kids can discover videos, channels and playlists they love. We work hard to offer a safer YouTube experience, but no automated system is perfect. If you ever find a video you’re concerned about, please flag it. This helps make YouTube Kids better for everyone.
2. McPlay™
Bring the fun of Happy Meal® with you, anytime and anywhere, with the McPlay™ App!
Use McPlay Power™ to scan your Happy Meal toy and unlock an exciting game or activity.
You can also earn access McPlay Power games by playing Happy Ball.
Happy Ball is the high-bouncing, quick-thinking puzzle game that makes playing with food – fun!
3. PBS KIDS Video
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.
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. The app also includes features that parents can access by sliding the “i-bar” to the right.
4. Nick Jr.
The Nick Jr. App brings your kids' favorite Nick Jr. characters to life in new interactive ways. Watch full Nick Jr. episodes for free and play fun educational games and activities with their favorite characters.
The app is easy for preschoolers to navigate, so kids are just a fingertip away from all their Nick Jr. friends: PAW Patrol, Dora, Shimmer and Shine, Bubble Guppies, Team Umizoomi, Blaze, and more!
5. LEGO® City My City 2
Experience the fun of LEGO® City and save the day! Take to the streets, skies or seas and let your imagination run wild as you build cool vehicles to complete daring missions.Extinguish fires, catch crooks and explore dangerous environments like the volcano using your amazing creations.
Complete heroic challenges to win new vehicle components and LEGO bricks, and watch your city grow as you level up.
6. Camp Pokémon
Discover the amazing world of Pokémon with the free Camp Pokémon app from The Pokémon Company International! Explore an immersive island filled with fun Pokémon-themed activities that will help you learn what it takes to become a Pokémon Trainer! The camp counselors will be your guides during your time at Camp Pokémon, with plenty of helpful information.
7. My Town : School
Grab your books and get dressed, It is time for School in My Town !
With 9 cool locations, 11 kids, 7 adults, 10 science experiments, 8 musical instruments, 5 type of ball games and serving the tastiest cafeteria food in the world, this is by far the biggest and best school game on mobile.
8. LEGO® Ninjago Tournament
You’ve been invited to enter Master Chen’s Tournament of Elements. Utilise your Ninja Training to unlock your True Potential, and defeat the other Elemental Masters! Face-off against the all new Elemental Masters, each with their own unique abilities.
Battle in Chen’s Arena against well known enemies from the Ninjago: Masters of Spinjtsu TV Series.
Level up your characters; the more you use them, the stronger they become!
9. PBS KIDS Games
Play free learning games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters anytime, anywhere. PBS KIDS Games features top shows, including Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, Wild Kratts, Super Why, The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, Dinosaur Train and more. FREE games for kids 2-8 will be added all the time, encouraging your child to engage in skills related to science, math, creativity and more in gameplay alongside their favorite characters!
10. LEGO® DC Super Heroes Mighty Micros (rated 9+ years)
The chase is on as you race through city streets as your favourite DC Comics character. Feeling heroic? Play as a DC Super Hero to catch the villain and save the city. Feeling mischievous? Play as the villain and escape the city before the hero can catch you. Avoid obstacles, pull off awesome stunts and collect studs to unlock new characters, environments and stories. Whether super hero or super villain, fun and excitement awaits around every turn of the wheel in LEGO DC Mighty Micros.
11. Fish School HD - by Duck Duck Moose
A playful underwater experience with 8 educational activities, this award-winning app teaches letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more. Watch colorful fish create letters; Recognize numbers and learn to count from 1 to 20; Follow the fish as they form shapes; Touch, tap and drag to make fish and other colorful sea life do funny things; Listen to classical variations of the ABC Song.
12. LEGO® NEXO KNIGHTS™ : MERLOK 2.0 (rated 9+ years)
Battle your way to glory in LEGO NEXO KNIGHTS!
Knighton is under attack from the evil Jestro and his army of Lava Monsters in this action battle game.
With help from the digital wizard Merlok 2.0 you must gather your team of NEXO KNIGHTS and build a powerful collection of unique NEXO Powers.
13. Laugh & Learn™ Learning Letters Monkey App
A fun-filled learning app that features baby’s favorite Laugh & Learn™ characters! Babies are encouraged to interact with engaging animations, sing-along songs & sound effects. While this app is absolutely free and fun on its own, the app comes to life with the purchase of the Apptivity Monkey. Place your Apple device in the Monkey and press his paws to interact with the content on screen.
14. Moose Math - by Duck Duck Moose
Moose Math engages kids in a mathematical adventure and teaches counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, geometry and more. While playing 5 multi-level activities in the Moose Juice Store, Puck’s Pet Shop and Lost & Found, kids can earn rewards to help build their own city and decorate buildings.
15. Toca Kitchen Monsters
Ever wanted to play with your food?
Now you can! In this Monster edition of the super-hit Toca Kitchen you can cook and play with food for two hungry monsters. Pick any ingredient and prepare it in your own way! Slice, boil, fry, cook, microwave or mix? And wait for the response from the hungry monster...
16. Sushi Monster
Meet Sushi Monster! A game to practice, reinforce, and extend math fact fluency is completely engaging and appropriately challenging. Strengthen reasoning strategies for whole number addition and multiplication by helping monsters make a target sum or product. Earn points with each correct answer… but watch out for distractions! To be successful, plan ahead and strategically select numbers from the sushi counter.
17. Bible App for Kids
The Bible App for Kids is the newest member of the YouVersion family of apps. Available now for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, the Bible App for Kids is always completely free! Through interactive adventures and beautiful animations, kids explore the big stories of the Bible. The Bible App for Kids is a delight-filled experience designed to encourage kids to return again and again. It’s the beginning of a lifelong love of God’s Word.
18. Peppa Pig: Paintbox
Peppa's Paintbox is a drawing application designed specially for Peppa fans! It brings together traditional drawing tools and some magical surprises that little ones will love.You can draw straight onto canvas or choose a background or character to colour in. Peppa and George will pop in from time to time to see how you are getting on and once you are done drawing, you can have your very own exhibition at Peppa's school!
19. Trucks HD - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning educational, creative play app, Trucks has 5 engaging activities: carwash, tow truck, garbage and recycling, bulldozer and dump truck and a car and truck parade. Trucks teaches sequencing, sorting and problem solving. AWARDS: Parents’ Choice Silver Award, Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award. AGES: 2-6
20. Duck Duck Moose Reading HD
An award-winning app based on Common Core State Standards, Duck Duck Moose Reading teaches phonics and reading skills in a fun zoo-themed adventure. With word and letter activities, kids learn by playing with flamingos, monkeys, lions and more. Keep track of progress through a new parent reporting tool.
21. Itsy Bitsy Spider HD - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning tribute to a childhood classic, Itsy Bitsy Spider offers children a fun, interactive and educational experience. Follow the spider on a surprise-filled adventure while learning about the environment, nature and animals. 100% interactive illustrations; Hidden surprises throughout; Easy navigation; Use the record feature to sing along.
22. PJ Masks: Moonlight Heroes
Catboy, Gekko and Owlette are back in this brand new PJ Masks game app. Choose your favourite hero character to play with and journey across the moonlit rooftops, and through the night, collecting as many orbs as you can. But beware of those pesky villains, they’re up to mischief again! The hero characters will be able to collect orbs to add to their final score. Each character is able to pick up gold amulets along the way to boost their final score. Make sure to keep your eyes out for them as they’re harder to find!
23. ChatterPix Kids - by Duck Duck Moose
Grab your camera! Let’s ChatterPix! Chatterpix Kids can make anything talk -- pets, friends, doodles, and more.
Simply take any photo, draw a line to make a mouth, and record your voice. Then share your Pix with friends and family as silly greetings, playful messages, creative cards, or even fancy book reports. And best of all, it’s FREE! AGES: 5-12.
24. Toca Band
Toca Band is getting ready for their big concert and needs your help to mix beats and sounds together for their hit song! Toca Band is a fun and easy toy that encourages children to explore music in a new creative way! Choose from 16 different cool characters – each with their own unique quirky sound and musical rhythms. Put your band members on stage to get the music started – then move them around and see what happens!
25. Sky Whale - a Game Shakers App
Bounce through the sky collecting donuts to keep your narwhal up in the air! Use clouds and crazy objects to bounce higher and farther. Insane combos will take your narwhal into outer space. And scuba gear will send him on an underwater adventure. Earn coins to unlock awesome items, blasting your narwhal farther than he’s ever gone before!
26. Old MacDonald HD - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning tribute to a childhood classic, Old MacDonald is a fun, interactive experience encouraging cognitive, language and motor development through fresh illustrations, creative interaction and music. Touch, explore and discover surprises on each page; Engage with friendly characters and animals; Play music in 5 languages.
27. Word Wagon HD - by Duck Duck Moose
Word Wagon is a fun, award-winning app teaching letters, phonics and spelling. Based on Common Core State Standards, Word Wagon teaches more than 100 words including, 44 Dolch sight words. There are 4 levels of learning were kids will learn letter names, sounds and spelling of 4 and 6 letter words.
28. Toca Hair Salon - Christmas Gift
Cut, color and style Santa Claus beard and hair! In this Christmas edition of the smash hit Toca Hair Salon, you can choose between styling Santa Claus or a funny Christmas tree! And best of all? It's completely FREE!
BONUS - Introducing: accessories! When you've finished cutting and color, add eight different accessories to your look. Loads of extra fun!
29. Peek-a-Zoo HD - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning interactive experience that asks children to identify different animals who dance, eat, wag their tails, wear sunglasses, sleep and more. Children will learn about animals, emotions, actions and sounds while listening to exclusive jazz versions of popular children’s songs played on the guitar, drums and cello.
30. LEGO® DUPLO® Train
All aboard! Driving the colorful LEGO® DUPLO® Train from station to station is any toddler’s dream. Your child will play the role of the train driver, load cargo, build bridges, stop at crossings, help passengers, refuel, and lay new tracks to steer the train safely around obstacles. Copying grown-ups and their activities is important to your 2-year-old toddler’s development - and few things are as ‘grown-up’ as driving a huge steam train through the scenic countryside, full speed ahead, horns tooting.
31. Park Math HD - by Duck Duck Moose
Award-winning Park Math teaches early math concepts based on Common Core State Standards. Learn numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, sorting, patterns and more through 7 fun, educational activities. 3 levels for Preschool, Kindergarten and First Grade: count up to 20, 50 and 100; addition/subtraction with numbers up to 5, 10 and 20.
32. Teach Your Monster to Read
Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning game that’s helped over a million children learn to read.
● Covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying little books.
● Designed in collaboration with leading academics.
● Complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.
● Suitable for school and home use
33. Build A Truck - by Duck Duck Moose
BUILD and RACE your very own monster trucks! Build A Truck allows you to customize and build monster trucks. But choose carefully, as each decision and building block will have real impact on your trucks when the races begin! Experiment with the physics of speed, torque, drag, mass, inertia, friction, acceleration, gravity and more. Build A Truck is the third new app in Duck Duck Moose’s award-winning Trucks series. AGES: 4-8.
34. BEYBLADE BURST app
BEYBLADE BURST is taking the world by storm! Create, customize and battle your BEYBLADE BURST tops in the BEYBLADE BURST App. Compete to win matches and unlock virtual pieces! BEYBLADE BURST brings the excitement and energy of BEYBLADE to your own personal device!
BEYBLADE BURST:
- Battle your BEYBLADE BURST tops in the app with exciting powers
- Customize your BEYBLADE BURST tops in the app with different parts and colors
35. Sorting Colors & Shapes game for toddlers HD Lite Free - Children's educational Jigsaw puzzles games for little kids boys and girls age 3 +
Educational game for early child development 2 to 7 years. The child will develop many skills that are necessary for the normal development of the child..The child will learn to discern shapes, colors, textures, get acquainted with numbers and concepts such as beauty. The game also helps develop fine motor skills, attention, ingenuity, perseverance and will give a lot of fun from the first small victories.Nice, bright and simple sorter shapes for young children to understand the world (for children from 2 year).
36. My Little Pony Friendship Celebration Cutie Mark Magic
It’s a different party everyday in Ponyville in the Hasbro My Little Pony Friendship Celebration app! Check your mailbox for invitations and then join Princess Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and other Ponies for virtual tea parties, games, and pictures! Attend a virtual tea party with a variety of tasty Ponyville foods like cake, éclairs, apples, and other treats you can serve to your Pony friends! Unlock more as you play!
37. Sago Mini Babies Dress Up
IT’S DRESS UP TIME! Get ready for hours of super cute dress up fun! Play with babies Jack, Jinja, Harvey and Robin in the most adorable dress up app for toddlers. Use your imagination to assemble outfits for each character. Try on dozens of funny costumes and accessories to create hundreds of combinations. Mix and match glasses, hats, moustaches and more to spark funny reactions!
38. LEGO® Creator Islands
Your mission is to build and create a main island for the LEGO Creator Minifigures to live on. When you are ready to build even greater things, continue on to the islands around you, but remember to keep an eye on the main island – sometimes there is a need for a rebuild! Each time you build a new model, you will earn yellow bricks that will unlock more fun and cool LEGO Creator models – models that you can use throughout the entire game.
39. More Trucks HD - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning creative play app, More Trucks has 4 new activities that stimulate young imaginations and teaches sequencing, sorting and problem solving. FIRE TRUCK: Hose down the fire and save San Francisco. MONSTER TRUCKS: Drive 10 monster trucks over bumpy terrain and obstacles. CONSTRUCTION SITE: Build structures then, knock them down with a wrecking ball. TOW TRUCK: Tow cars to the junkyard and pile them up! AGES: 3-7.
40. Princess Fairy Tale Maker - by Duck Duck Moose
An award-winning creative app that will spark the imagination. MAKE A FAIRY TALE: create personalized fairy tales with princesses, fairies, ballerinas, animals and more. COLOR: decorate with animated sparkles and glitter; SHARE: narrate stories with the self-record feature and share with family and friends. AWARDS: Parents’ Choice Silver Award; Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award. AGES: 3-9.
41. LEGO® DUPLO® Food
Get the LEGO® DUPLO® Food stand ready and open for business! In this toddler-friendly game, your child can build and serve ice creams, cakes and burgers to happy, hungry customers like Rabbit and Giraffe. Food must be stored correctly, and at the end of the day, it’s clean up time.
With focus on matching the customer’s order by trial and error, bright colors and iconic shapes, this game puts a fun spin on the early development of your child’s reasoning skills.
42. LEGO® Dimensions Collection Vortex
Take LEGO® Dimensions™ on the go with the official companion app. You can explore expansion packs, game videos and share your collection and wish list with family & friends!
The LEGO Dimensions companion app contains a wealth of information including videos, screenshots and expansion pack build/rebuild instructions.
43. Transformers: Robots in Disguise
DOWNLOAD NOW!! THE TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS NEED YOUR HELP! The Insecticons are everywhere and we need your help to defeat them! Take control of your favourite characters, collect energon, and unlock power modules to gear up and defeat the Insecticons. Bumblebee can’t take them all on by himself. Select a teammate to take into battle with you. When Bee gets tired his parner can take over and finish what he started.
44. PJ Masks: Web App
Meet our heroes Catboy, Owlette and Gekko in this free web app, created especially for your little one to experience the PJ Masks website on the go. By day, 6 year olds Connor, Amaya and Greg are ordinary children, but when night falls they transform into superheroes ready to embark on action packed adventures, solving mysteries caused by night-time baddies Romeo, Luna Girl and Night Ninja. The PJ Masks are on their way, into the night to save the day!
45. LEGO® DUPLO® Circus
Circus is in town - and your child gets to run the show! From selling the tickets to deciding what tricks the audience gets to see, this day at the circus will fuel your child’s creative play for hours after the show is over. Should the tiger jump through fire or give the ringmaster a ride? And what about the seals - should they juggle or play ball? This simple and colorful app lets toddlers take charge - and rewards all their choices with roaring applause from the captivated circus audience.
46. Wheels on the Bus HD
An award-winning tribute to a childhood classic, Wheels on the Bus is a fun, interactive experience encouraging motor, language and cognitive skills through fresh illustrations, creative interaction and music. AWARDS: Parents’ Choice Gold Award; "Best Children's App” KAPi; Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award. AGES: 2-5.
47. Musical Me! HD - by Duck Duck Moose
This award-winning musical experience teaches notes, rhythm and pitch. Listen to notes, copy patterns and learn to recognize pitches; Learn about rhythm, short and long notes; Play with a drum, cymbals, triangle, maracas or egg shaker; Learn to read music and create songs by moving notes on a staff; Listen to children’s songs featuring the violin and cello.
48. Draw and Tell HD - by Duck Duck Moose
Draw and Tell is an award-winning creative tool for children of all ages that encourages imagination, story telling and open-ended play. Use the tool to draw, color, decorate with stickers, create animations and record stories. AWARDS: Parents’ Choice Gold Award; Selected by Apple as New and Noteworthy; Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice Award. AGES: 3-9.
49. Peppa Pig: Activity Maker
Peppa's Activity Maker is an activity-generating application designed specially for Peppa fans who like to make and do! It features 32 activities for you to do at home with your little one whether it be a rainy day or a sunny day! As a parent you can choose to See All for a comprehensive list of activities - just select one then follow the step by step instructions. If your child wants to get involved you can search for a random activity by using the Generator, where they can press a variety of buttons to get some silly surprises.
50. Toca Tailor Fairy Tales
Design and style your own clothes!
Time to get busy with those design skills! With Toca Tailor Fairy Tales, you can create, combine and style fun outfits for two characters in a beautiful Fairy Tale setting! Choose between lots of clothing designs, then tailor them by adjusting hems and lengthening sleeves.
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