Like its award-winning computer app, Zoodles’ mobile app intelligently adapts content to each child based on age, skills, the device they are using, and custom parental controls so they can play without needing help from an adult. Samantha, a real mom and early tester of Zoodles Kid Mode wrote in her review, “My three and a half year old LOVES this app! He’s always asking for my phone since I downloaded this! It’s awesome! It’s so easy for a child to navigate!” Zoodles has been conducting private beta testing of the app and has received positive reviews from early users. Because kids have hundreds of activities to choose from, they never get bored. At the same time, Zoodles protects a parent’s phone by safely locking the child into the app, so they cannot accidentally make calls, erase emails, or get into other apps. Within the Zoodles Kid Mode app for Android, kids get hundreds of educational games, videos and puzzles to choose from, all for free.
Zoodles, the company that puts devices into “Kid Mode” so kids eight and under can play and learn independently, today launched its free app for Android smartphones. Kids Have Logged 1MM Hours of Play Time with Zoodles Hit Computer App Young Kids Enter a World of Fun, Educational Games and Videos while their Parent’s Device is Protected Now there’s an Android version of Zoodles. CEO and co-founder Mark Williamson suggests that part of the goal of Zoodles is to get kids able to play by themselves on a computer without constantly needing help or supervision. That means that if there’s an ad placed next to a game, your child won’t be able to click on it and move over to another site.Ī premium membership to Zoodles ($5.95/month or less) also adds in a parental dashboard feature. Safety-wise, Zoodles only allows kids to click through on approved URLs. There’s also the advantage that the browser mixes non-branded games with commercial characters that kids already know.
The biggest benefit to Zoodles is that it aggregates a tremendous number of age-appropriate games in one place. More content is added on a regular basis. The games listed come from all over the Web, with sites represented ranging from Scholastic to Playhouse Disney. (Yes, you can set up profiles for multiple children.) Launch the application and you open up your child’s “toybox.” The toybox has big friendly picture buttons linking to different games, and big arrows on the right and left so you can scroll through multiple screens. Zoodles will ask you a few questions about your child to establish content parameters, and will then load the program on your computer with a Zoodles desktop icon.
Zoodles, is a free educational software that you can download for Mac or PC.