A growing number of children own their own Android tablets, while a lot of parents have Android smartphones. That means there’s a growing number of great apps for kids being released for those devices.

Here’s our roundup of the 10 best Android apps for children that we wrote about in October: a mixture of stories, activities, maths, games and even computer programming.

Light-bot (£1.99)
“A ‘programming puzzle game’, aiming to make learning the basics of coding fun rather than a dry experience. ‘Light-bot lets players gain a practical understanding of basic control-flow concepts like procedures, loops, and conditionals, just by guiding a robot with commands to light up tiles and solve levels’.”
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Where’s My Water? 2 (Freemium)
“More than 100 levels for you and your kids to work through, as you guide water and steam through underground environments. Swampy the alligator is back, along with friends Allie, Cranky and Mystery Duck… the game is free to play, but includes in-app purchases used to buy “boosts” that can help you through the tricky bits.”
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Medieval Math Battle (Freemium)
“Learning math facts has never been so dangerous! Use your brain and brawn to defeat dragons, goblins, trolls, and many other treacherous beasts. The faster you answer, the stronger your attack. Knowledge is power!… The game increases in difficulty as your children play, with the suggestion being that kids spent 15 minutes or more a day practising their skills.”
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Goodnight Mo (£0.99)
“Aimed at children aged between 15 months and 3+ years, it’s the work of StoryToys, whose pop-up apps for fairytales and Chuggington alike we’ve enjoyed a lot. This one’s different: “a magically sleepy and comforting bedtime book” starring a monster named Mo… they will delight in gently sending various animals to the land of nod, popping bubbles in a bath, brushing Mo’s teeth, and rocking the little monster to sleep.”
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Stack Rabbit (Freemium)
“You might not have heard of Tim FitzRandolph, but your kids may have heard about his last game: addictive puzzler Where’s My Water? Now he’s got something new on the app stores: Stack Rabbit. It’s a free-to-play puzzle game starring a rabbit named Ben. And yes, there’s some stacking involved.”
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Wombi Tower (£1.89)
“Developed by Wombi Apps, it blends Tower Bloxx’s block-dropping action with Jenga’s turn-based structure for several players. “Piece by piece, players take turns adding building sections to create a larger and larger tower,” explains its app store listing. ‘Don’t let the badger construction manager distract you with his nervousness as you place each shape on top of the last’.”
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Moose & Zebra: Sweden (£0.69)
“We’re guessing a moose would feel pretty comfortable in Sweden, but a zebra would be more flummoxed. Yet that’s the setup for a lovely-looking new kids’ app called Moose & Zebra: Sweden… It’s billed as an interactive magazine, with a mixture of interactive fun aimed at developing logic, maths, memory and fine-motor skills for children.”
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Haunted House (£0.99)
“It’s pitched as an activity book, so it’s more about mini-games than a lengthy story. There are eight pop-up scenes – as with other StoryToys apps, it looks like a pop-up book – with pumpkins, ghosts, vampires and monsters all over the shop. ‘Meet the monsters, play the games, then complete the challenges to win spooktastic badges and stars’.”
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Moomin Activity Books (Freemium)
“We love the Moomins. You love the Moomins. Don’t deny it – even if you have no idea who the Moomins are, you’ll love the famous Finnish characters. Moomin Activity Books may be a good introduction. Published by developer Weego Software, it’s a collection of 15 digital ‘booklets’ starring the Moomins, with an emphasis on activities that help kids develop their maths, logic and memory skills.”
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B.O.B.’s Super Freaky Job (Freemium)
“It sees kids invited to join Team Monster, guiding the B.O.B. character on a “gravity-defying quest”. That involves rotating the world around him to solve challenges, including getting the better of wormholes, lasers and ejectors. Why? You’re finding spare parts for Dr Cockroach, who’s building a range of gadgets with them. Rooms are rotated by sliding a finger on the screen, with B.O.B. sliding according to gravity, collecting rubbish and gelatin gloops as he goes.”
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