iOS 776: Apps for Little Learners - Apps That Spark Curiosity for Kids!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
What if your child's screen time could actually boost creativity, math skills, and problem-solving, all with the right app? Check out the latest apps turning iPads into playgrounds and classrooms for little learners, with hands-on demos you can watch!
- Khan Academy Kids - Offline educational features
- Funexpected Math - Interactive audio math games for kids
- Thinkrolls Kings and Queens - Puzzle logic and problem-solving for children
- MarcoPolo Ocean & Arctic apps - Free ocean and Arctic exploration
- Importance of local teacher and App Store recommendations for kids' learning apps
- Feedback: Managing energy, not just time, with Structured app
- App Caps: Troubleshooting CarPlay with new wireless adapter fix
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about some apps for the little learners in your life. |
| 0:09.5 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:12.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:14.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:16.9 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:27.6 | This is iOS Today, episode 776, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent. Recorded Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 for Thursday, October 30th, 2025. |
| 0:34.6 | Apps for Little Learners. Hello and welcome to iOS today on this very spooky day before Halloween. |
| 0:45.3 | Despite the fact that I'm being spooky in the moment, don't worry. |
| 0:50.3 | This is an app that is not meant to be a... an app. This is an episode that is not meant to be spoo. An app. This is an episode that is not meant to be |
| 0:56.6 | spooky at all. I am your scary host, Micah Sargent. And I am your not so scary host, |
| 1:08.7 | I hope, Rosemary Autars. And we'll see, we'll see. |
| 1:11.8 | Maybe this episode will haunt you, or maybe it'll just stick around in your memory for a time when you need a recommendation for a friend or it be useful for you right now. |
| 1:20.7 | Absolutely. |
| 1:21.5 | So in this episode, I was actually inspired by the App Store. |
| 1:29.6 | The wonderful App Store editorial team will occasionally, well, not occasionally, quite literally, every day, |
| 1:37.0 | put together different guides and different sort of collections of apps. |
| 1:45.0 | And one of the collections of apps really stuck out to me |
| 1:48.2 | as a category that I don't know that we have covered |
| 1:51.7 | in this way before. |
| 1:53.1 | So we often talk about around the time |
| 1:56.7 | that school starts up again, we talk about apps for education, and many of the times we're |
| 2:03.0 | talking about being able to help your child with homework or learning a new skill or something |
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