City Letters is a free app from Frugoton designed to teach the alphabet to young children. Kids learn how to identify letter shapes and sounds through tracing, as the app introduces reading and writing concepts through words connected to city life. A $2 in-app purchase gets users the whole game after testing the demo.
Touch Press has released The Elements in Action ($4), a new app expanding the award-winning The Elements: A Visual Exploration.
The Elements in Action features 79 video explorations of properties of the elements, offering a demonstration for almost every element. Though the new Elements works as a standalone app, it can also be used as a companion to the original — when both apps are installed, the two link together.
Endless Reader (free) is the newest learning app from Originator. Originator’s Endless Alphabet was Kids’ App of the Year, and Endless Reader picks up where that app left off, teaching kids about words with a cute cast of animated characters. Using the same mechanics as Endless Alphabet, kids learn how to spell by dragging the letters into the correct spaces in a word, as the letters make their noises along the way.
It’s another winner, and $2 gives users a reader pack of additional words.
Mobiata has released a rebuilt version of FlightTrack, FlightTrack 5 ($3), as a paid update to the original. The new app features zoomable, live flight maps, flight alerts for delays, real-time updates, and more—including push notifications. However, it’s notable that FlightTrack 5 does not currently sync with TripIt, as FlightTrack did in the past.