Best Educational App Finalists

The 2012 Readers' Choice Awards on About.com

The winners have been announced. Find out who won here.

	Animals for Tots Developer: AppAnnex LLC Price: $0.99 What's life for a toddler without learning about barnyard animals? Animals for Tots teaches kids about 20 different animals (including some that go beyond the farm and into the woods), their names, and their noises. The animals also seem to come to life thanks to animations. With a microphone, you can even record your own voice saying the name of the animals so your toddler can hear you speak the words. Purchase at iTunes
	BetterLetter Developer: edenpod Price: Free BetterLetter helps kids--and adults--build their vocabularies and see the relationships between different words. In the app, you start with letters and build a word from them. You're not done there, though. Once you've got one word, you try to build another until you build the longest word possible. BetterLetter also lets test your vocab skills by playing head-to-head over the web and comparing your scores with other players' via Game Center and OpenFeint. Download at iTunes
	LetterSchool Developer: Boreaal b.v. Price: $2.99 LetterSchool is designed for 4-6-year-olds who are just learning to write. It uses the iPhone's multitouch screen to help kids learn how to form letters as they play a series of educational games. First they tap dots on the screen to learn the basic shape of the letter, than they trace it, and finally they draw it from memory. The app includes all English letters, numbers 1-10, and recordings of the sounds made by different letters. Purchase at iTunes
	Presidents vs. Aliens Developer: Dan Russell-Pinson Price: $0.99 Learning about the American presidents has never been like this. Instead of just dry reading about presidents, you learn facts about each of the 44 presidents and can throw each Commander in Chief at the aliens to defeat them. Each president has fact-filled flash cards that impart details about their administrations, parties, nicknames, famous sayings, and other interesting knowledge. Success leads to unlocking additional bonus games. Purchase at iTunes
	There's No Place Like Space! Developer: Oceanhouse Media Inc. Price: $5.99 Dr. Seuss teaches kids about our solar system in this animated book. In it, kids can read through the book at their own pace or have it read to them, with recordings by voice actors. The core of the app, though, is an educational trip that the Cat in the Hat takes two eager kids on throughout the solar system. Throughout the trip, kids learn about planets from the Cat and from information hidden by Thing One and Thing Two. Purchase at iTunes

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Results

Winners will be announced March 30. There's no prize -- just the bragging rights that come with getting recognized by the readers of one of the biggest networks on the web.

Check back with iPhone/iPod at About.com on March 30 to see if your favorite iPhone/iPod accessory or app was nominated and to vote on the finalists. You can also visit our central awards page to learn about finalists in other categories.

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Sam Costello
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