Animal Train
© 2013 Yomio, s.r.o.
What to sell more children's apps? The designers of this app have combined a scheme with a theme. Designed to help your child "learn animal sounds" this app comes with a seven car train -- but just two of them are available -- the other five are blacked out and covered with a large lock. Touch the lock, and you're pulled into a social media sharing screen, where you can unlock the entire screen for an hour by solving a simple jigsaw-like puzzle, that automatically indicates that you "like" the app on Facebook. Or you can generate a tweet, providing your iPad is online. The other option is to pay the $1.99 to unlock all the cars. The animals are animated and make sounds, and the weather changes as the train moves. These techniques may be legal, but they're not right.
$1.99, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch
Teaches: causality, "animal sounds"
CTR Rating: 36%