TAG · 48 REVIEWS
Kids
Every App Comrade review tagged Kids, across every platform.
Vegetable Farm teaches a toddler what a courgette looks like, and not much else.
A free single-purpose vocabulary app from APPOND that pairs vegetable photos with names and a tap-to-hear pronunciation — enough to fill a fifteen-minute car ride and not a minute more.
MAY 11, 2026
Pocket Dinos is a small, honest dinosaur reference for small humans.
A $2.99 illustrated species deck from Distant Train that does one thing — name and describe dinosaurs at a kid's pace — and stops before it learns any bad habits.
MAY 11, 2026
Dick Whittington and His Cat is a tidy bedtime telling of a 600-year-old story.
Tidels turns the medieval London folk tale into a short Fire-tablet storybook — clean illustrations, narration, and a tap-to-read structure aimed squarely at five-to-eight-year-olds.
MAY 11, 2026
Letter Name Flashcards is a $1.99 alphabet drill, and that's the whole pitch.
Dezol Inc.'s toddler flashcard app does one thing — show a letter, say its name, swipe to the next — and asks for two dollars instead of a subscription. On a Fire Kids tablet, that math still works.
MAY 11, 2026
Fart Prank is a 99-cent gag that does the one thing it promises.
A single-purpose Amazon Fire novelty: pick a sound, hit the button, embarrass a sibling. There is no second act, and the app does not pretend there is one.
MAY 11, 2026
Bumblebees turns a children's curiosity into a pocket field guide.
A single-topic encyclopedia for Fire tablets that does one thing — explain bumblebees to a kid — and gets the depth roughly right without trying to be anything else.
MAY 11, 2026
Cutie Wallpapers is a pastel pack with a single trick.
A free Fire tablet wallpaper bundle aimed squarely at kids and the parents who hand them tablets — heavy on pink, light on everything else.
MAY 11, 2026
Learn Math Addition Quiz Games is a drill book in app form.
A free Fire tablet app that teaches addition the way flashcards do — one sum at a time, with a tap-the-answer loop that asks nothing of the parent and not much of the child.
MAY 11, 2026
Connect the Dots is exactly the quiet kids app a Fire tablet needs.
A free, ad-light connect-the-dots puzzle from Semibase that does one thing — trace numbers in order, watch a picture appear — and does it without nagging the kid or the parent.
MAY 11, 2026
AR Drawing turns a Fire tablet into a tracing window, and not much else.
A camera-overlay tracing app aimed at kids who want to draw cute subjects from a pre-loaded gallery — useful for the half-hour it takes to learn what it does, light on everything past that.
MAY 11, 2026
Khan Academy Kids is the rare free app you can hand a four-year-old without flinching.
A nonprofit-backed early-learning app with no ads, no upsells, and a curriculum that actually maps to what schools teach. The catch is that there isn't one.
MAY 11, 2026 · EDITOR'S PICK
Gacha Life is the dress-up game that ate a generation's iPad time.
Lunime's 2018 character-maker still runs on iOS in 2026, and the kids who grew up making mini-movies on it have not moved on.
MAY 11, 2026
PBS Kids Video is still the gold standard for kids streaming.
Free, no ads, no upsell, no algorithmic rabbit hole — just decades of public-broadcasting children's programming in one well-built iOS app.
MAY 11, 2026 · EDITOR'S PICK
ROBLOX: Master Skins Wallpaper is a fan companion, not the game itself.
A third-party wallpaper and skins catalogue trading on the Roblox name. It's harmless if you know what you're buying — and a small trap if you don't.
MAY 11, 2026
My Talking Tom on iPhone is a thirteen-year-old pet that still refuses to retire.
Outfit7's virtual cat has outlived three iPhone redesigns and a generation of its own players. The iOS version is the cleanest place to meet him.
MAY 11, 2026
My Talking Angela still earns its keep on the lock screen of every eight-year-old.
Outfit7's virtual cat is a decade-old free-to-play machine that survives on dress-up, mini-games, and a patience for waiting children rarely have.
MAY 11, 2026
YouTube Kids is a walled garden with a hole in the fence.
The parental controls finally feel like a real product. The content moderation still doesn't.
MAY 11, 2026
Gacha Life is the dress-up app that quietly built a generation of young storytellers.
Lunime's 2018 character-creator-plus-studio became the seedbed for the Gacha YouTube and TikTok wave. Eight years on, it still gets opened daily even though its successor exists.
MAY 11, 2026
Toca Boca World is the open-ended dollhouse a generation of kids actually built itself.
Sweden's Toca Boca rolled twenty years of standalone Toca apps into one persistent sandbox. There are no scores, no quests, and no fail states — and kids cannot put it down.
MAY 11, 2026
xNestorio on LG webOS turns a Minecraft channel into a living-room loop.
PlayWorks Digital packages Nestor's Minecraft YouTube catalogue as a free LG webOS channel — a TV-mode binge feed for kids who already know every voice line.
MAY 11, 2026
Fire Word Challenge is a serviceable kids word quiz built for the living-room TV.
HexaBrain's free webOS word game pairs picture prompts with letter tiles for primary-school spellers, leaning on the Magic Remote to do the typing kids would otherwise fumble on the directional pad.
MAY 11, 2026
MrBeast FanZone treats the Roku as a fan-merch bulletin board.
A free Roku channel from a third-party publisher that pulls together MrBeast's YouTube clips, Beast Games promos, and fan-shop links into a single TV-screen experience. It is exactly what it looks like, and that is most of the review.
MAY 11, 2026
The Chuck E. Cheese Channel turns the mascot pivot into a TV brand.
A free, ad-supported kids channel built around the post-bankruptcy Chuck E. — the slimmer, guitar-playing mouse the chain rolled out after 2020. The shows are watchable. The premise is stranger.
MAY 11, 2026
Barbie Cartoons for Kids is a third-party channel wearing a famous name.
A free Roku channel from a developer called NexCypher, not Mattel, that aggregates Barbie-branded clips for kids. Parents should know exactly what they are installing before they hand the remote over.
MAY 11, 2026
BedTimeStoryApp turns the TV into a passable bedtime narrator.
A small, free Roku channel that reads short stories aloud at bedtime. It does one thing, does it without fuss, and stops short of being something parents will reach for every night.
MAY 11, 2026
Brainrot Merge is exactly the Skibidi-coded Tizen game its title promises.
A 2048-style merge game wallpapered in Italian Brainrot memes — Tralalero Tralala, Tung Tung Tung Sahur, Bombardiro Crocodilo. It runs fine on a Samsung TV. The question is whether your household needs it there.
MAY 11, 2026
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins is a small indie storybook with a big heart.
A free, hand-drawn picture-book app from a tiny studio that knows its audience is four years old and forgives a lot in exchange for a friendly rabbit.
MAY 10, 2026
Face Changer is a sticker drawer with a serious-sounding name.
AT Software's free Fire tablet novelty puts swap masks, warps, and silly overlays on selfies. Calling it AI would be generous; calling it fun for ten minutes is fair.
MAY 10, 2026
My Talking Angela survived a hoax and a decade of monetisation creep.
Outfit7's virtual cat is still here on the Fire tablet, still free to download, and still the cleanest cautionary tale about what a kids app becomes after twelve years of in-app purchases and ad networks.
MAY 10, 2026
My Talking Tom is a charming pet wrapped in too many ads.
Outfit7's virtual cat is still warm, expressive, and easy to love. The Amazon build delivers the same Tom — and the same relentless ad load that has followed the franchise for years.
MAY 10, 2026
Toca Boca World gives Fire tablets the rare kids' app that respects them.
The hub that absorbed every Toca Life town is still the most generous open-ended sandbox a child can hand a parent without flinching — provided you understand what's free and what isn't.
MAY 10, 2026
My Talking Tom is a thirteen-year-old virtual pet that learned to monetise.
Outfit7's signature cat is still here, still repeating what you say in a chipmunk pitch, and now wrapped in a denser layer of ads and currency than the 2013 original ever was.
MAY 10, 2026
Color Pop Challenge is a thin remote-control balloon-popper for the LG home screen.
HexaBrain's free webOS kids game asks the Magic Remote to do what touchscreens do better — and the result is a five-minute novelty rather than a TV-game keeper.
MAY 10, 2026
Ben Azelart on webOS is a single-creator channel hunting for a TV reason.
A dedicated LG app for the prank-and-stunt YouTuber's catalogue. The content travels well to a 65-inch screen; the app around it does not add much beyond a remote-friendly grid.
MAY 10, 2026
The Royalty Family on Roku is the YouTube channel without the algorithm guardrails.
PlayWorks Digital has bundled one of the largest family-vlog channels on the internet into a free, ad-supported Roku app. The TV gets the content; the parental controls don't come with it.
MAY 10, 2026
Baba Blast is a free Roku kids channel that earns its place on the second row.
Future Today's latest free-with-ads channel for kids slots in next to HappyKids and Kabillion. The catalogue is shallow but the on-ramp is genuinely zero-friction — no signup, no profile, no PIN.
MAY 10, 2026
Nick Jr. on Roku is a strong library hiding behind a cable login.
PAW Patrol, Bubble Guppies, Blaze, Blue's Clues — the catalogue is exactly the one a four-year-old will sit through. The TV-provider gate is the catch.
MAY 10, 2026
Vlad and Niki on Roku is the YouTube channel your kid already won't stop asking for.
A free Roku port of one of the largest preschool brands on Earth — 530 million subscribers, billions of views, and a CARU finding that says the parent should be in the room.
MAY 10, 2026
Sawyer's Animal Wallpapers is a hobby project on a TV-app shelf.
A free, single-developer kids-and-family channel that puts animal images on the screen. There is not much more to say about it, and that is fine.
MAY 10, 2026
ABC Kid TV Animal Stories is a small channel doing one thing well.
A narrow Roku tile lifted from the YouTube nursery-rhyme economy. It plays cleanly, covers a single niche, and asks nothing of the parent beyond pressing OK.
MAY 10, 2026
Nick Jr. Kids TV Cartoons is an unofficial wrapper, and it shows.
A third-party Roku channel that aggregates publicly available Nick Jr. clips behind a kid-style interface. The disclaimer says it owns nothing — and the experience reflects that.
MAY 10, 2026
Baby Piano Animal Sounds is a tap-and-squeak toy that does exactly what a two-year-old wants.
A toddler-grade musical toy from The Learning Apps. Animal noises, coloured keys, no menus to get lost in — and the usual Galaxy Store ad cadence parents have to plan around.
MAY 10, 2026
Animal Coloring Pages is a tidy finger-paint primer that runs out of pages too fast.
A free coloring app from The Learning Apps that pairs a small zoo of outline drawings with picture-book animal facts. Pleasant enough for a toddler's first ten minutes — thinner once the novelty fades.
MAY 10, 2026
ABC Vegetables Alphabet teaches the produce aisle one crayon at a time.
A pre-school colouring-and-vocabulary app that pairs each letter with a vegetable. The premise is narrow, the execution is fine, and a toddler will not care that the art is generic.
MAY 10, 2026
PlayKids Learning brings the Brazilian preschool app to the Samsung TV living room.
Sandbox Group's PlayKids+ catalogue — 5,000-plus cartoons, songs, and games for ages two to twelve — lands on Tizen as a TV-shaped front door to a subscription product designed for phones and tablets.
MAY 10, 2026
Scholastic TV brings the school book fair to webOS.
A free, ad-supported kids' channel built around the Scholastic back catalogue. The library is sturdy and familiar, the LG remote integration is mostly fine, and the experience is exactly as ambitious as it needs to be.
MAY 9, 2026
Teen Titans Go Kids Cartoons is a fan rebroadcast wearing a familiar logo.
A volunteer-style Roku channel that pipes Teen Titans Go clips to your TV without owning a frame of what it plays. Useful for a quiet afternoon, awkward to recommend with a straight face.
MAY 9, 2026
Candy Kart is a small kids' kart-racer with small ambitions.
Desoline's Tizen-only kart game is a short, brightly coloured racing app aimed at younger players on the family TV. It does the job for ten minutes.
MAY 9, 2026