From Duck Duck Moose, creators of ‘Wheels on the Bus‘, one of the all-time best apps for toddlers, here comes Fish School. A complete interactive learning game with 8 educational activities covering letter, numbers, shapes, colors, differences and matching.

With two versions, one for the iPhone/iPod Touch and one design specially for the iPad this is very thoughtful production with beautiful professional graphics, great animation and sound.

Duck Duck Moose currently carries 4 interactive apps for the Apple platform and for me is already established as a quality stamp for great products.

Fish School HD for the iPad, from Duck Duck Moose. $1.99
Fish School for the iPhone/iPod Touch, from Duck Duck Moose. 99¢

But wait! We’ve got promocodes! First TWO commenters on this post get to download the iPad version for FREE!

Watch the demo video:

In the well established universe of memory game, Matching Cards by Lunabee stands out as an excellent choice. Choose from 4 different themes, 4 different colors and 3 levels of difficulty to set up your ideal matching cards game. Lovely illustration, voice and sound effects, with time score keeping.

Matching Cards, by Lunabee. 99¢

Lola’s Flag Adventure is a memory game with flags for images. The largest countries of Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific are covered here and the game comes with different levels of difficulty which makes the app accessible to the little kids. Great design and nice voice guidance in English and Chinese (simplified). It is certainly a great chance to learn the flags while playing!

Lola’s Flag Adventure, by BeiZ. $1.99

Description from the developer’s site:

Lola’s Flag Adventure – First high quality flag game especially for kids is now available!

Now you can have fun and learn the world flags together with little Lola panda in two challenging flag games: Memory (4-9 years) and Trivia (+6 years). The game introduces the flags of the world biggest countries with high quality voice guidance and colorful graphics that make the gaming experience exiting and rewarding for all the children around the world. Lola show you that learning can be fun!

Main features:
- Two game modes to learn the flags: Memory and Trivia
- High quality voice guidance throughout the game
- Easy-to-use game design for children
- Flags of the biggest countries from Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Language options: English and Simplified Chinese
- Supports iPhones OS SDK 2.2.1 or later

Surprisingly (or not), memory games are fit for children really young in age. It is amazing how their memory is way better than ours. There are some great options of memory game apps out there, but this one comes with a special treat: you get to customize the cards using your own photos! Even more than that, [my]PhotoMatch for Tots version comes with large buttons so small children have a better chance coordinating to play the game. Using your own dear photos with big buttons on a memory game, is certainly a good combination that makes this app worth the try!

[my]PhotoMatch for Tots, from Weily Apps. ¢99

But wait! First 4 readers to comment on this post will get a free promo code to download the app for free!

8 Planets Pro
By BrightSlide Kids

Rated: 4+

Developers’ description:
“Learn and have fun in this exciting collection of 4 educational lessons based on the eight planets in our solar system!”

Why we like it:
Here is one of a kind. 8 Planets is a great app to learn the names and the position of the planets in our solar system while improving spelling and learning letters. My 3 yo boy (who is, of course, crazy about the Space) has memorized right away all the planets names and was even guessing right the missing letters.

Here is a memory game based on letters. While memorizing the positions kids get trained reinforcing letter names. My kid likes this one a lot, although it could get some work on the graphics. Also, not sure if the timing score matters for the little ones. My 3 yo at least does not relate to it this far.

AlphaMatcher. 99¢

Here is a good mix of well known and effective preschool iPhone games – memory, numbers, colors, letters and fruits. This all-in-one game set has nice drawings, animations, sound and the always effective sticker prize at the end.

Certainly an excellent value for the price and quality of the game.

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox, from THUP Games. $ 0.99

Hello everyone. I have been a little backed-up the past month but I have received a handful of interesting new apps! I’ll make sure to find some time to write reviews on those in the short term but, for now, here are the links for a few very worthy of your time and money:

MonsterABC
www.monsterabc.com

abcPocketPhonics
appsinmypocket.com/pocketphonics/

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
www.thup.com/preschool/

LetterLand alphabet memory game
www.ensenasoft.com/ProductLetterLand.aspx

In case you might consider memory matching games can be to hard for your little ones, think again. It took my 3 yo less then 3 rounds to beat me round after round. Boy their memory is so much fresh!

There are quite a few memory match games out there. I like the graphics and the sound on this one better than the other I have tried.

AniMatch, by LimaSky. $ 0.99.