CreAPPcuentos App Review
App Info
Price: Free
Overview
CreAPPcuentos is a fun story creating app that allows children to use various stickers, images, themes, and background music to create imaginative and exciting stories of all kinds. With options to record your voice, add text, and lots of images and stickers to choose from, this story creator app is one children of all ages can enjoy.
Features include:
- Puzzles
- Stickers
- Audio record
- Story creator
Quality
CreAPPcuentos is an app that offers children an opportunity to create their own stories with loads of stickers, images, text, and music. The images used throughout the app are very well done and give little creators lots of freedom in creating awesome stories that they can share with friends and family. The user interface is also quite easy to use with simple drag and drop functions to add stickers and pictures to the story, however some of the more advanced features (voice recording and creating a visual recording of the story) might be a challenge for younger users. With that said, overall the quality of the app is very good.
Education
While this isn’t your typical educational app, it does offer children a chance to get creative and with a bit of support they can learn how to structure a story with fun characters, an engaging plot, and outcome. Adding text and voice narration is also a great feature that allows children to practice typing and reading as they play along. The developers have also included a puzzle feature that allows players to use their problem solving skills to complete and design their own puzzles which is great.
Entertainment
For naturally creative children this app is a ton of fun. With essentially a blank canvas to create fun stories, add music, and narration children are going to love writing, narrating and sharing their stories with friends and family. The ‘design your own puzzle’ function allows children to create a scene and turn it into a puzzle to complete adding another activity for players to enjoy.
Value
The basic version of this app is absolutely free and it includes one pirate-themed sticker pack that allows children to create their own pirate story. Additional sticker packs are available through in-app purchases that offer more options including princesses, robots, superheroes, animals etc. and an option to unlock all of the packs for just under ten dollars (individual packs are $1.99). This allows parents and children to try the app for free and if they like what they see, they can choose to purchase additional packs which is a great idea.
Child Friendliness
While there are some in-app purchases that can be seen within the app, the developers have done a nice job of keeping them protected links. The user interface is also pretty easy to use and the developers have included a bit of a ‘how to’ guide, but it’s a bit buried and not easy for young children to follow. Some of the more advanced features (recording, adding text etc.) might require the assistance of a parent or teacher, however adding a ‘how to’ video might be easier for children to understand.
- Protected parent area (can contain external links & social media)
- NO external links
- NO social media
- NO 3rd party ads
- YES “in-app purchases” (protected, but visible)
- YES “rate app” (protected, but visible)
