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 January 12, 2018.
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.
New apps added include Play and Learn Science by PBS Kids, Superbook Kids Bible, The Noise-O-Meter, and iHeartRadio Family.
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. Play and Learn Science
Play with shadows, control the weather, roll and slide objects down a ramp, choose the best materials for an umbrella – all while building science inquiry skills and learning core science concepts. The games in the app encourage kids to see the science in their world. They are intentionally designed to serve as catalysts for real-world exploration by modeling real-world locations and experiences.
3. 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!
4. LEGO® Juniors
The LEGO® Juniors app is an engaging, creative building game for children ages 4-7, with lots of opportunities to practice creative problem-solving. With every new LEGO vehicle your child builds, they can cruise around LEGO landscapes as minifigure avatars like mechanics, princesses, pilots – and even LEGO Batman™. The goal is to turn the open landscapes into busy neighborhoods by unlocking and building virtual houses and decorations.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Shapes! Toddler Kids Games,Baby Boys Learning Free
Smart Baby Shapes – is an outstanding bright game, which will acquaint your kid with the main colors, shapes and sizes easily and clearly while playing. The app teaches to distinguish shapes, sizes and colors, as well as to pronounce studied terms correctly. The game includes both static and moving objects, which promotes better development of kid’s coordination and fine motor skills. Smart Baby Shapes is suitable for children from 2 years and above.
8. 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!
9. Laugh & Learn™ Where's Puppy's Nose? for Baby for iPad
Babies are immersed in an animated learning environment where their little finger taps & screen tilts teach all about body parts with two fun characters & music! Puppy and Kitty will teach baby about nose, ear, eyes, mouth, foot, tummy, hand & head! There are two levels of play to grow with baby. Designed for babies 6 mos. & up.
10. 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!
11. THE LEGO® NINJAGO® MOVIE™ app
UN, ACTION-PACKED NINJA RPG GAME. THE LEGO® NINJAGO® MOVIE™ app is a fun, creative role-playing game for 9-12-year-young ninja-in-training (and other adventurous heroes). Players are assigned important missions by Master Wu, and must rescue and team up with the rest of the brave WU-CRU – ninjas Jay, Zane, Nya, Cole and Kai – to uncover ancient secrets and hidden treasures, and battle against a lurking evil that threatens to destroy the peaceful NINJAGO Island.
12. LEGO® City game
BE A CREATIVE LEGO® CITY HERO!
The LEGO® City app is a creative mission-based game for brave, 6-8-year-old everyday heroes. Build cool vehicles to put out fires, reconstruct buildings, save minifigures in distress at sea, chase crooks across the City, explore the mysteries of the jungle or the dangerous volcanic excavation site!
13. 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...
14. 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.
Tilt the device to hear Monkey giggle! Teaches letters A-Z, numbers & counting 1-10, shapes, colors, and action/re-action.
15. Messenger Kids
Parents Have More Control
• Parents fully control the contact list making it a safer, more controlled environment of just close friends and family.
• Messages don't disappear and can't be hidden in case parents would like to check in.
• There are no ads or in-app purchases, and the app is free to download.
16. 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!
17. 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!
18. Superbook Kids Bible
This FREE Kid's Bible app brings the Bible to life for the entire family with a full Bible, videos, images and engaging interactive games. Featuring fourteen (14) full-length, FREE EPISODES from the Emmy nominated Superbook series including David and Goliath, The Ten Commandments, Daniel and the Lions’ Den, and The First Christmas!
19. LEGO® DC Super Heroes Chase
The LEGO® DC Super Heroes Chase game is for the all the world’s greatest, secret 5-12-year-old Super Heroes and Super Villains. Players will enter a fun, action-packed story as one of their favorite DC Comics characters – and play as Superman™, Batman™, Wonder Woman™, drive the coolest Super Hero vehicles to chase down Super Villains, and save the day! Or they can be a Super Villain like Bizarro™, Killer Moth™ and Doomsday™, and wreak havoc, and rule the world (or at least the city) as only an evil genius can.
20. Baby games for 2 -4 year olds
***** Developed by an award-winning education studios, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling apps for kids, in cooperation with educational specialists to best prepare your children for success in preschool and kindergarten curriculum.
Numbers, Patterns, Puzzles, Letters, Counting, Sizes, Shadows, Matching, Colors, Shapes, Differences and more -- you are on the right address!
21. OctoPie - a Game Shakers App
How fast can you slingshot pizza-pies to a diva, a bear, and a sumo wrestler? Can you avoid a jetpack wiener dog, a lobster on a high wire, and a crazy cat lady throwing water balloons at you? Great, you're hired!
Just pull your finger back on the octopus slingshot and let’s get started!
22. LEGO® Life
A safe community built specially for boys and girls, LEGO® Life is 100% free to download and 100% fun to use. Conquer LEGO challenges, watch LEGO videos, get LEGO news, find new LEGO sets and see creations from other LEGO fans. It’s all in a day of LEGO Life!
23. GoNoodle Kids
GoNoodle Kids is the only app that gets kids MOVING along with crazy cool songs like Kitty High Five, Pop See Ko, Don’t Read Like a Robot, and so many more GoNoodle favs! Plus, GoNoodle Kids has simple mindfulness and yoga activities to help kids chill out, dude.Teachers in over 75% of US elementary schools love and trust GoNoodle to bring more movement and mindfulness to their school days.
24. Baby Bubbles Free - Ad free bubble popping game for infants and toddlers
My daughter loves bubble popping games. Unfortunately, most of them are insanely expensive, have annoying ads that she accidentally activates, or have complicated setting screens that she gets trapped in. So, as a first birthday present for her, I developed Baby Bubbles Free. The first 100% free bubble popping game for babies and toddlers that also has NO ADS and NO INTERFACE.
25. Kids ABC Games: Toddler Boys & Girls Learning Free
Smart Baby ABC – is a powerful educational app for toddlers and preschoolers, which will acquaint your kid with english alphabet, numbers and first words.The game teaches to distinguish letters, numbers and words as well as to pronounce studied terms correctly. The game includes both static and moving objects, which promotes better development of kid’s coordination and fine motor skills.
26. Shapes & Colors Learning: Free Toddler Kids Games
Smart Baby Sorter is an easy to understand and exciting app for early development of children from 2-3 years. Compare and sort objects with one touch. Each child will be able to play regardless of his or her age. The app includes 3 mini-games with different colorful combinations of the objects under study. The games are built on the principle "from the simple to the complex" and will keep your child occupied from the very first minutes.
27. ARrrrrgh
ARrrrrgh is a classic hide and seek game that transforms players into modern day pirates! Paired with a parrot that assists players along their journey and a treasure map that leads them to glory. Players can break open their living room floor and hide treasure, then watch their pirate companions adventure through the house seeking the gold that awaits! An exciting adventure for kids to play with their parents or friends!
28. Laugh & Learn™ Animal Sounds
Babies are encouraged to learn animal names and the sounds animals make through interacting with engaging animations and sound effects! Baby can tap or tilt the screen to set a learning world in motion! There are two levels of play to grow with baby. Designed for babies 6 mos. & up.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. Nasty Goats – a Game Shakers App
A bunch of Nasty Goats are on the loose! They've escaped their farm to go on a garbage-eating adventure. It’s your job to help them eat as much junk as possible before the farmer captures them and makes them go back to their boring home.
32. 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.
33. Llama Spit Spit - a GAME SHAKERS App
The spit is on! Defeat hipster enemies as you collect coins, power-ups and crazy llama costumes. Lllama-tastic scores can land you on the leaderboard, so what are you waiting for? Get spitting!
• Play a REAL game from Season 2 of Nickelodeon's hit show: GAME SHAKERS!
• Swipe and spit to defeat enemies in this endless arcade shooter
• Zip through crazy Game Shakers worlds!
34. L.O.L. Surprise Ball Pop
Aim, pop, unbox — collect! Shake things up as the L.O.L. Surprise dolls make their debut in this matching ball pop game. Don’t stop now! Keep popping to unbox and complete your doll collection. You’re almost there! Excited yet?
* Pop matching L.O.L. Surprise balls
* Pop special L.O.L. Surprise balls to unbox items
35. LEGO® NEXO KNIGHTS™ : MERLOK 2.0
The evil Monstrox and his Stone Army is attacking Knighton in search for the Forbidden Powers that will awaken an unspeakable force of darkness. Our NEXO NIGHTS heroes must build and use their arsenal of NEXO Powers to rule the battlefield and save Knighton. Recommended for kids aged 5-11.
36. ABC Alphabet Phonics - Preschool Game for Kids
Grasshopper Apps = Top Educational Apps for Kids :-)
Warning: Your child will keep begging for your iPhone or iPad after they try this app. Photo Touch is an exciting educational game that helps your child rapidly learn the ABC by sight, sound, and touch. The interface is so easy to use that even a 9 month old baby will delight in using this app. Ideal for ages 0 to 6.
37. Sesame Street
Come spend time on Sesame Street with video clips and games featuring Elmo, Cookie Monster, Abby Cadabby, and more of your favorite, furry friends. Sing along with Sesame Street music videos, learn your ABCs and 123s, and just have fun! These educational videos and games were designed to teach your child school readiness skills while delivering on Sesame Workshop’s mission to help kids grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
38. Ballarina - a GAME SHAKERS App
Run, dodge, and smash your way through a variety of crazy race tracks, complete with exploding daisies, running butts, and BALLARINAS! Rival racers are trying to take you down, so gear up, power up, and roll your way to Ballarina victory! If you like playing Sky Whale, Nasty Goats, and OctoPie, you’ll love Ballarina. Download the Ballarina app from the Game Shakers TV show and start racing today!
39. Disney Magic Timer by Oral-B
Bring more fun to your daily brushing routine with Disney Magic Timer by Oral-B! Now featuring twenty-three of your favorite Disney, Marvel and Star Wars characters, use this app to seamlessly encourage your kids to brush longer. Collect a new digital sticker after each successful two minutes of brushing; track progress with stars and milestone badges on the Brushing Calendar.
40. The Noise-O-Meter
Complete simple but noisy challenges like opening a can of soda or stacking plates without filling the NOISE meter and before a timer runs out. Challenges are based on common household items making the NOISE a perfect family and friends party game. Fun, simple, quick and always available.
41. LEGO® DUPLO® Town
Let your young child build creative, virtual play houses with fun, brightly-colored LEGO® DUPLO® bricks, and play out everyday life with characters, pets and simple routines and scenarios they know from their own life. Designed specifically for the skills your child is developing at this age, LEGO DUPLO Town can help your toddler or preschooler develop fine motor skills, understand the world around them, increase vocabulary, and express their views and ideas.
42. Laugh & Learn™ Shapes & Colors Music Show for Baby
Babies are encouraged to learn about shapes and colors through interactions with engaging animations, sounds and sing along songs! Baby can tap or tilt the screen to set a learning world in motion! Designed for babies 6 months & up.
• Baby can tap or tilt the screen to interact with the on-screen shapes & colors.
43. 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.
44. Henry Danger Crime Warp
The Game Shakers & Henry Danger have joined forces to bring you the Henry Danger: Crime Warp game!
The Time Jerker and his evil allies have escaped through time. Collect mad coinage as you slide, jump, dive and punch giant popcorn monsters, in this non-stop dash to stop them!
So what are you waiting for? Download the Crime Warp app on your iPhone or iPad today!
45. Toca Doctor Lite
Toca Doctor is a fun and puzzling digital toy for kids. Examine the patients and play puzzles and mini-games that take place in the human body. There are no timers or stress elements so that kids can play in their own time. If they can't finish any certain game it still continues so that they never get stuck. It always works and it's always fun!
46. Hatchimals CollEGGtibles
In the official Hatchimals CollEGGtibles - Hatch a Whole World! app, you can hatch new friends from all over Hatchtopia! Once they’ve hatched, care for them to keep them happy, play mini-games with them, and build your collection! Explore different areas of Hatchtopia with your Hatchimal like flying up to Cloud Cove, planting beautiful flowers in Glittering Garden, or swimming in Breezy Beach.
47. LEGO® Dimensions™
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.
48. 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.
49. iHeartRadio Family – Music and Radio perfect for Kids
iHeartRadio has a brand new app that provides the most popular kids content in one FREE app! Whether you are enjoying a family road trip or celebrating the holidays, iHeartRadio has THE BEST APP to listen to fun radio stations featuring music from today’s most popular acts like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, Sam Hunt, Kelsea Ballerini and Dan + Shay on great stations like Radio Disney Jr., iHeartCountry Kids, and North Pole Radio.
50. Toca Dance Free
Create your own dance routines with the free version of Toca Dance!
Become the choreographer and create moves with three fun characters: Sahar, Märta and K-Boy. Jump, shake and strike a pose — this is Toca Dance Free!
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Lisa M lives in Australia with her four kids
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