The Best Christmas Apps recommendations for Kids 2013
The Best Christmas Apps for Kids – our refreshed overview for Christmas 2013. This year you’ll not only find iOS (iPad, iPhone) Christmas apps in our article, but also Christmas apps for Android and Kindle fire. Our Christmas app-wish for the next year? That a lot more app developers publish apps for all systems, so that every child gets the chance to enjoy great kids apps.
We have collected various apps, thereunder:
- Storybook apps for kids
- Advent Calendar apps for kids
- Christmas songs & Christmas music apps for the whole family
- Coloring book apps with Christmas pictures
- Photography app especially for kids and Christmas
- Christmas games & levels
- Free Christmas apps for kids
We hope you have a lot of fun and enjoy going through our kids app collection. By the way, the order and ranking of the apps is not a rating, but we did however, mark our personal favorites with a ★ star.
★ Binny’s Advent Calendar 2013 for kids
One must have advent calendar app this year has to be Binny’s Advent Calendar 2013 for kids. This very funny and wonderful illustrated kids app offers many christmassy games, songs and activities for children of all ages. You can also have a look at our thorough review of Binny’s Advent Calendar 2013, where we also prepared a YouTibe trailer for you.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
★ Advent Castle – free creative Advent calendar app for kids and the whole family by Faber-Castell
Kids will discover many surprises with this awesome free Advent Calendar app by Faber-Castell. 24 creative activities are waiting for kids behind each door, for which you’re going to need paper, scissors and pens. Creativity and imagination is the key in this very special Advent Calendar app: “Advent Castle”.
At the time of review: Free | no in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad im Apple App Store
★ Snow Rabbit – Christmas Storybook app
Snow Rabbit is a wonderful Christmas picture book app by the childrens storybook author Silke Voigt. A heartwarming story about the snow rabbit Joey and his friend the raven is told on 20 delightsome illustrated pages. With ingenuity and confidence, the Raven fulfills the snow rabbit his big wish, with which he also surprises a lot of people.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad im Apple App Store
★ Christmas Story for kids: The Elf Adventure
Advent Calendar apps are an awesome idea – after all, you can always come back to the contents and enjoy it all over unlike chocolate, once you’ve eaten it, it’s gone. With The Elf Adventure app, you have 24 mini games, which all have a funny Elf story to tell. We especially like the funny illustrations, if you like you can read the full review of this app here.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
★ A Charlie Brown Christmas – Storybook app for kids
Charlie Brown is looking for the true Christmas spirit far away from commercialism and finds it in this children’s storybook app, which is based on the Peanuts classic of the year 1969.
The app provides a wonderful and thought-provoking Christmas Story, through which even adults like to scroll through. The in-app purchases refer to the Christmas decorations and are luckily silly and unnecessary.
At the time of review: In-app purchases! | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
★ Tiny Firefighters – Toddlers seek and find app
The gorgeous and beautiful “Tiny Firefighters” app invites children to a winter wonderland par excellence. Both the fire department and the police scene not only shine with wintry and christmassy features, there are also many other things folr kids to discover. This app is definitely an app recommendation for this cold season and also hides a very nice unexpected surprise!
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Pango Christmas – picture book app for toddlers
The picture book apps with the cute racoon Pango are all aimed at toddlers with their short texts and colorful illustrations, just like this Pango Christmas edition. The short stories are all told with a bit of humor – however without being read out via audio response, which we find somewhat disappointing. Mommy and daddy will have to take over that part – which will however, also have a lot of fun with the interactive pictures and stories.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
★ 123 Color – educational coloring book app with Christmas pictures
No season goes by, where we don’t introduce this coloring book app, because 123 Color does not only belong to one of the best coloring book apps, but also offers great coloring pictures for all seasons and all sorts of festivities, thereunder a Christmas coloring book and Winter coloring book. Besides, kids can also learn numbers and letters in all kinds of languages, if they pick “coloring by numbers” instead of the free coloring mode.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Kidomatic Christmas Camera
Kidomatic are the photography apps for kids, where kids can take pictures really easily and also decorate them. The Christmas edition is offered for free at the moment and therefore a must-download app. Besides wonderful Christmas stickers, kids can also pick some nice picture frames.
At the time of review: Free | no in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store *no longer available
Frozen – Disney’s Deluxe Storybook app for kids
Especially frosty and chilled is the interactive storybook app for kids “Frozen” by Disney, which is the app based on the upcoming movie. Like all deluxe storybook apps for kids by Disney, this one has also got some special features up it’s sleeve i.e. some games and puzzles. It may be worth to check out our review of Frozen, not only because of it’s special features, but also because of it’s high price. You will also find a video trailer in our review.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Christmas Carols, Karaoke + Quiz – sing-along Christmas songs for kids
This Christmas songs app is suitable for the whole family. This app contains classical Christmas Carols in English and in German. Besides, a Quiz is also included, where you can check out your Christmas Carol knowledge. The design is fairly simple but the app is fairly comprehensive. Let the Karaoke fun begin.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
★ Christmas Song Machine – Xmas songs for kindergarten kids
We simply fell in love with the Christmas Song Machine as soon as we started the app. This app may only have a few songs (5 songs), but those are so wonderfully presented, that we simply got swept away. If you want to have a listen to the Christmas songs in this app, you can check out our review which includes a YouTube trailer.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
Kara Singalong – singing and playing along to fun Christmas tunes
The fresh and new Christmas song app has a karaoke function, which recognizes if kids actively sing along or play along to the tunes. Only if kids sing along or play around on the landscape of this app, they’ll be able to listen and hear the songs. The app offers three Christmas songs in three different languages, which can be heard and seen in our review of Kara Singalong, check it out.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store *no longer available
Angry Birds Seasons – Christmas levels
Here they are again – the crazy Angry Birds. We especially like the Seasons edition this Christmas, because there are lots of levels to discover. The highlight: The levels are presented as an advent calendar, if you like, you could open one door each day. The app has been given new contents for the third year round, which is why you can find three different Christmas worlds with 25 levels each. Including all other seasonal and festive levels, the app easily mounts up to several hundreds of levels, which should keep you and your children occupied for the whole winter season.
At the time of review: In-app purchases | no adverts*
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store *
➔ App download for – iPhone on Apple App Store *
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store *
Doodle Jump Christmas Special
Guess what you can discover in the Doodle Jump Christmas edition? Answer: snow-covered, frosty levels, grumpy christmas elves and lots of candy canes. If you haven’t yet jumped around the platforms with the cute green alien, you could now test and see if you like it, with this awesome Christmas special.
At the time of review: In-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
My Big Activity Christmas Book – Seek and Find Christmas book for toddlers
In this Seek and Find Activity Book you can expect four special Christmas Scenes, but unfortunately without animations. Instead, various sounds were hidden in the scenes, which have been highlighted through lights. Alternatively you can also use the puzzle-mode, where several elements have been removed to serve as a peg puzzle.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store *no longer available
★ Frosty the Snowman – Storybook app with syllable mode
This wintry storybook app for kids can be helpful to pupils or students, as they learn to read with the syllable method, which is much easier and each syllable is read out to the kids separately. Children can also occupy themselves with the 2 included games (Quiz & Memory), which also educate kids in a playful way and also encourages them with their reading.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
★ Fancy Mess – Christmassy Dress Up Game
Fancy Mess is a wonderful dress-up app, which is way too beautiful, to only be played during the Christmas time. There aren’t only Christmas clothes available, but also other funny clothes and costumes for all other seasons, which kann be put on the two dress-up dolls however kids desire.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Christmas Toy Clock – Countdown to Christmas!
This Christmas Clock app offers kids five Christmas songs and a simple Toy clock, which is limited to the adjusting of the hour hand only. The five popular festive tunes are: “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bells”, “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, and “Silent Night”.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
Santa’s Apprentice – the app of the movie
Maybe you’ve already heard of the movie Santa’s Apprentice. The matching storybook app for kids also offers a similar Christmas adventure and offers various games and puzzles for kids. Truely entertaining and fun for kids.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Rush Hour Holiday – Logic Christmas Game
Rush Hour Holiday is the christmassy and digital version of the boardgame classic Rush Hour by Thinkfun. Of course the app only costs a fraction of the actual boardgame price and is therefore especially suited for getting to know the game better. Just in time for Christmas, the little penguin needs to be moved past all of the presents and to the exit with the sleigh. A really good logic game for the whole family.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
SnowJinks – Snowball fight app
Our discovery of the week is a snowballfight app, which is simply awesome and fun. Basically you take part in the snowballfight as either a boy or a girl, on a great 3D setting. Fences and other objects provide plenty of covering from the snowball volley of the neighbours kids. Kids can also collect gold coins and other cool extras such as, icecubes which will freeze all opponents for a while. Warning: Unfortunately, in-app purchases are offered, which can be bought from the gold coins too!
At the time of review: in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
Snowflake Station – cutting beautiful symmetric snowflakes app
Kids can now learn to understand the beauty of symmetry by cutting and unfolding digital snowflakes. The app is unfortunately only available for the iPad, which should definitely be changed within the next year.
At the time of review: fee-based | no in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
Nighty Night! Winters sleep in the beautiful kids app
Snow is slowly falling and resting on the farm of the Nighty Night kids app and transforms the whole setting into a beautiful wintry landscape. Inside however, kids need to put the animals to bed so they can fall asleep, the snowflakes are still visible if you look outside the window. Just a shame that the app is still offering in-app purchases, despite the high purchase price and not even offering at least one Christmas song.
At the time of review: In-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store *
➔ App download for – iPhone on Apple App Store *
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
Little Fox Music Box – childrens songs app
The app with the little Fox is also more of a winter app instead of a Christmas app. You will find wintry landscapes and Christmas decorations in all three scenes, however the songs are less chrismassy. Nevertheless, we really like the atmosphere, which comes from the beautiful illustrations and because of the fact that this app is a must have app, it’s simply a download recommendation all year around.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle fire & Android on Amazon App Store
Talking Santa Girl app: Anya Dress Up and Pet Puppies
The little girl Anya is very versatile. Once she’s a little fairy and the next minute she has changed into a Santa girl. We will introduce you to this app soon, as it is one of the most extensive talking apps out there and has also got some awesome special features, which we want to introduce to you. You can expect a wintry landscape, many puppies and funny animations.
At the time of review: No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store *no longer available
Toca Hair Salon Christmas Gift – free kids app
When it’s time for Santa to go to the hairdressers, he will go to the Toca Hair Salon to treat himself. There may be a few things missing in this free special edition such as, washing the hair, but you can still have lot’s of fun with the app and it’s two characters (Santa and Christmas tree).
At the time of review: Free | No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Chirp Chirp – Christmas level – free game
Chirp Chirp is one really special and awesome, fun game which we really like and just in time for Christmas it offers some wintry landscapes and a christmassy feeling. It’s all about making the birds grow whilst keeping your fingers on the display via long touch. The tiny green spots will try to prevent you from doing so. Try it out it’s really worth it!
At the time of review: Free | In-app purchases | No adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
Toca Tailor Fairy Tales – free christmassy kids app by Toca Boca
With Toca Tailor, kids can not only dress up little dolls, but also design and create various wonderful clothes for them. This tailor game technically tops all other dress up games – kids can even take pictures of christmas materials and fabrics with the camera function, which are then imported into the app.
At the time of review: Free | No in-app purchases | no adverts
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
This overview will be updated regularly, which is why you can always come back and check out new Christmas apps, that we may have added. Besides, there will also be a second Christmas article of permanently free Christmas apps for toddlers. (in progress)
