Pokémon Playhouse
© 2017 Pokemon USA
How young is too young to collect Pokémon? This app says preschool. Designed to introduce the Pokémon franchise to young screen tappers, this playful, free app let's children classify, count, collect, bathe, feed and read about 54 animated Pokémon creatures. The experience is not especially creative and there's too much narration, and but your child will like the puzzles, and the chance to feed, groom and hatch more creatures. The stories are well designed and they include highlighted text (touch each word to hear it read out loud) along with a simple interaction on each page. The more you play, the more eggs you hatch. There's a lot of content and we couldn't find any IAP or commercial content in this free app, making us think that motive is to broaden the reach of the Pokémon franchise. If that's the objective, this app succeeds. Need to know: You can't control the sound, and the narrator is excessively chatty.
iPad, iPhone, Android, Kindle
CTR Rating: 86%