Toddler Tutor out!

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I have a 5 yr old, so I'll see how she does with it tomorrow (already past bed time tonight).

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ok that looks quite polished actually

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Looking forward to showing this to my three and five year old girls.

 

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Thank you very much, I would like to see how much my 4 yo. likes this app.

 

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My daughter gave it a try (she just turned 5). She was happy to identify the letters and hear the sounds. She was disappointed that on the screen with the alphabet, the pictures didn't make sound other than the letter sound.

On the screen that looked like a puzzle that makes farm animal sounds, she -really- wanted to take apart and put together the puzzle. If this is possible, I didn't see what I needed to do to make that happen.

The screen for 'hand eye coordination' is nearly impossible. The center point is -very- small and hard to target, even for me.

I think the app would be better if there was some kind of a quiz mode -- something more interactive where there is a sound and they identify the letter it goes with or something similar. At least for her age.

For younger kids, it's probably fine as is.

 

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Will have the 2 year old try it out tonight.

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My impressions:

My daughter enjoyed the letters, colors, and numbers. To me, the images could use a bit of a redo. The numbers with the objects looks clunky and skewed. I would pick a cleaner more child friendly font, and the images should look normal and not scrunched. The animals are on a puzzle as mentioned, which seems to do nothing other then get kids hopes up that it is a working puzzle. I would remove the puzzle look or make the puzzle playable. The photo of the duck is terrible, that should be redone. The mechanism/code is in place for sounds to occur based on touching areas, so a shapes (circle, rectangle, square, etc.) and colored shapes (blue triangle, red square, yellow circle, etc.) pages should be added. Learning shapes at that age is just as valuable as numbers and letters. The compass has only the four cardinal directions, it would be nice to get the NE, NW, SE, and SW in there as well. For the colors, that seems fine but it could be upgraded by doing two rows where each color is on a bigger square making it easier for smaller fingers. Ex:
from
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to
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Finally, the counting should also say the numbers instead of just showing them. Really, you'd only have to record someone saying the numbers up to 20, then just mix them to get 21 (twenty, one), 22 (twenty, two) and so on. They'd also have to say 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100. Make sense?

There is my two cents. IMO those suggestions would move this from a two star app up to a four star app.

 

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There were a couple that looked open - nope. All have been taken. FYI.

 

As promised, I have let my 2 year old daughter try it out and here are my thoughts:

1) This application definitely needs to focus on doing one or two things well rather than attempting to offer too many choices. Some of the options under "more" are very pointless and not worth including.

2) Animation, Sounds & Voices are very important (especially for younger kids). I have bought over 25+ toddler focused applications and all the ones that she enjoys have some sort of animation/sound positive feedback system that encourages her to figure things out. She was very disappointed that touching the animals just played a sound rather than animating them and was similarly disappointed that the alphabet flash cards did not talk.

3) I felt some of the vocabulary choices were very odd if this is targeting toddlers. It may be more effective to use foods, animals, etc. than more obscure words.

In summary, Toddler Tutor has potential if you can increase the interactivity of either the vocabulary or animal sections. Unless you have a lot of resources/time for development, I would recommend dropping some of the more superfluous options.

I apologize if this comes across as critical but as mentioned previously I have tried numerous similar programs and I know it is very difficult to genuinely entertain while educating a toddler. I just want to offer my honest critique that will hopefully help you improve from this base starting point.

Best Regards.