"Best App for Preschool Word Games" -- Best iPhone Apps book, O'Reilly Media
"An application that uses early childhood development theory — great!" -- Daniel Donahoo, GeekDad (Wired)
I See Ewe is an educational game for that helps your preschooler learn to recognize over 50 different shapes, objects, colors and animals, and exposes them to their first sight words. I See Ewe accomplishes this through two simple yet fun and engaging games.
The first game, "Learn Shapes", presents a child with a number of cards, each containing a different item. The game then verbally asks the child to find a specific item amongst the displayed cards while displaying the written form of the specific item's name. The child is successful when they tap on the card with the correct item.
The second game, "Match Shapes", is a memory match game that challenges the child to turn over cards two at a time to find a pair of matching cards.
You are able to adjust the level of difficulty for each game and activate verbal prompts that help your preschool child learn.
I See Ewe has English, German, Spanish and Chinese (Mandarin) languages localizations built in. You can select which language version you want to use in the game options view.
Be sure to visit the I See Ewe website for a detailed description of how to use the app with your preschool child.
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Low Quality Audio
I bought this app based on the App Store genius and based on the reviews in the description. When I fired it up with my toddler, I was shocked at the quality of the audio. Firstly, the voices sound like they were recorded in a bucket. Secondly, the words of encouragement like "good job" are spoken with a complete lack of enthusiasm. It comes off sounding patronizing and insincere. From what I can tell, the logic behind the app is good, but audio is a big part of it and the execution just fails.
My recommendation to the app author would be to find a studio in your home town and pay some local voice actors to do this professionally. It's not expensive, but it adds huge value to the finished product. I'd rather pay more for an app that showed attention to detail than for an app that feels like a lot of corners were cut.
I only paid 99 cents for this, so perhaps the review is a bit harsh, but I really do believe it would improve the app a great deal. In its current state, I can't recommend it, but it's certainly not beyond redemption.
