Count the Animals
© 2011 Appracadabra
Twenty clever, but potentially disturbing animated routines, actively engage children in counting, from 1 to 20. The art is by Dutch illustrator Caroline Ellerbeck , who also published two Little Golden Books. The only drawback -- some of the illustrations are potentially disturbing. For example, in one scene you break fish tanks, and the fish lay in puddles on the ground. In another, rats jump onto a woman, and later, a boy hops around on turtle shells. At least you can't say this app is boring. Options let you switch between 16 languages (Arabic; Chinese; Dutch; French; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Lithuanian; Polish; Portuguese; Slovakian; Spanish; Swedish; Swiss German; and English). So, if you want to learn to count in Chinese, here's your app, as long as you don't mind the odd themes, and a little blood. There is also a free lite version that lets you count to five.
$3.99, iPad, iPhone
Teaches: numbers, counting in 16 well known languages, including Spanish, English and Chinese
CTR Rating: 80%