iPhone and iPad-owning parents are well catered for when it comes to shape-recognition apps for children. Doodle Critter Math: Shapes is the latest.

Released this week by publisher NCSoft, it’s an app introducing shapes like triangles, rectangles, circles, squares, pentagons and hexagons to pre-schoolers in an inventive, accessible way.

They tout six ways to play: first by touching different creatures and drawing the various shapes; second by sorting shapes into matching pairs; third by matching those shapes to real objects; fourth by trying to remember them before they get hidden inside a box; fifth by making animal puzzles from the smaller shapes; and finally by finding a hidden shape in a story.

The app looks neatly designed, and joins the previous app in the series Doodle Critter Math: Numbers on the App Store.

Doodle Critter Math: Shapes costs £0.69 for iPhone and iPad on Apple’s App Store, although this is a limited launch offer, so the price will be going up soon.