Best Halloween Apps for Kids – 2014
This year we want to introduce you to the best Halloween apps for kids. All in all we can recommend you to an incredible total of 34 spooky apps.
While other kids games already woo with monsters, ghosts and pumpkins on their app icons, you discover that other kids apps also have some Halloween game elements and levels, if you take a closer look.
By the way, we are already aware of the fact that some parents will not agree with some of our Halloween recommendations, as witches, ghosts and zombies are obviously terrible and scary. By looking at our overview, you’ll notice that the creepiness of the apps, are very different and vary from app to app, which let’s us hope, that all parents here, will at least like or find one interesting app for their children or even themselves.
You can use our fear factor as a reference point: low, medium, high
All apps are available for iOS and the first 7 apps on our list, are also available for Android.
To save Android users from sifting through the whole, fairly long list, we start with the Halloween apps that are also available on Google Play.
We’d like to point out, that the app ranking on our list is not a rating.
1. Mr Shingu’s Paper Halloween – Origami App
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android ✔ Kindle Fire | Fear factor: medium
If you haven’t already treated your kids with the funny origami app Mr. Shingu’s Paper Zoo, you now have the opportunity to get to know the game for free. Instead of Zoo animals there are Halloween characters, figures and objects in the Halloween edition, which are a little scary and spooky, i.e. ghosts, goblins and of course pumpkins. Awesome: Even though the app is brand new and pretty comprehensive, it is offered for free and without any in-app purchases or adverts.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ 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
2. Magic Coloring – a draw by numbers game with Halloween motives
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: low
The subject Halloween is a little hidden in this painting by numbers app “Magic Coloring”, even if the magician on the app icon would probably be able to get free entry on every kids party. Besides the Halloween motives, are also many various other subjects and pictures waiting to be discovered.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
*no longer available
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
3. Tizzy Seasons – four seasons games for toddlers
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: low
Tizzy Seasons is a fantastic seasons app for kids, which also has a pumpkin game for Halloween. We can honestly recommend Tizzy Seasons for all those parents, who aren’t very fond of Halloween, especially as the “fall” season is equally presented to the kids, like all the other seasons in this kids app. You can expect many various mini games to each season, from which the Halloween pumpkin-carving game is only one of them. The candle-light inside the pumpkin has been very well-made. You can read our review for more information.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ 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
4. Mystery Machine – Halloween Game
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: high
An interesting, if somewhat edgy Halloween app for kids called the Mystery Machine. It’s basically all about combining three different Halloween objects and the result is, that a machine will create a strange creature. However, you have to find out the correct combination first, whilst trying it out through numerous experiments, which can’t be done logically unfortunately. At least the helpers will hint out some new combinations after a while.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
5. Tap the Frog Doodle – Halloween Levels
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android ✔ Kindle Fire | Fear factor: low
Yes, even this app has been given a good range of Halloween games. If your wondering about the definition: The first part of Tap the Frog is now called “Tap the Frog Doodle” and the second part is simply called: “Tap the Frog HD”. The fun and captivating Halloween games can be found in the Doodle edition.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ 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
6. Neon Mania – illuminating Halloween pictures
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: medium
We will introduce you to the rather unusual neon game in more detail shortly. We can however, point this special kids app out to you, as Neon Mania is also a brilliant Halloween app, which has 50 (!) Halloween images, that you can light up. The scope of this app is truly amazing, even with the other images. The dark background and the bright colors really fit into the Halloween feeling and dark season.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android on Google Play App Store
7. Doodle Jump – Halloween costumes & levels
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: medium
There’s hardly any need in having to introduce Doodle Jump to anyone anymore, as many already know this game, as it is one of the best-selling apps on the App Store. You endlessly jump upwards from platform to platform with a small, green creature – always eager to crack the high score. Traps, enemies and brittle platforms make it harder for the the little creature. You can unlock all sorts of costumes and suitable levels with the collected gold coins, the selection of Halloween costumes is remarkable.
At the time of review: ! In-App purchases | ✔ No adverts in the full version*
➔ 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 on Amazon App Store *
8. Angry Birds Seasons – Ham’O’ween levels
✔ iPad + iPhone ✔ Android | Fear factor: medium
To have a Halloween App presentation without Angry Birds Seasons is almost unimaginable, especially as this part of Angry Birds is mainly known for it’s seasons. Each year, new level packs to each season get released and of course also for the Halloween festivities. This is also very interesting for children because of their free level updates for the Angry Birds app. The difficulty level should not be underestimated, we’re still looking for a child mode with infinite birds in this Angry Birds app. We therefore recommend this Halloween app for older kids.
At the time of review: ! In-App purchases| ! Advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – iPhone on Apple App Store
➔ App download for – Android im Google Play App Store
➔ App download for – Kindle Fire & Android im Amazon App Shop
9. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse – Paint & Play: Halloween scenes
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: medium
This app has been on the App Store charts for weeks, perhaps this is also because of the Halloween special, which you can currently select as an option in the app. We will introduce you to this app more thoroughly soon, but we can say this much: Basically it’s all about coloring in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The coloring pages are rendered as a 3D object and placed in the interactive landscapes.
How it all looks in action, you can best watch in our video preview.
A great feature in the Halloween section of the app is also the pumpkin carving, which we demonstrate in the video (at the very end).
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
10. TinyMons Halloween Season – Multiplayer kids app
✔ iPad | Fear factor: medium
This Halloween search game app is brand new and great fun. Up to four kids can play this game on the iPad at once. Lots of various little monsters swarm around on the screen, whilst a certain combination of monster needs to be found. Kids need to have very good reactions and need to be fast if they want to win. The sound effects and Halloween music really match the game well. It is also possible to play this game in a single player mode, where you basically play against your own high-score.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
11. Kidomatic – Monster Camera app for kids
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: medium
Kidomatic is a camera app specially designed for kids and in the special edition “Monster” it is also especially designed for Halloween. The taken pictures, can be directly decorated in connection with a variety of creepy monster stickers.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad + iPhone on Apple App Store
*no longer available
12. Stella & Sam – Halloween Band App
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: medium
Stella & Sam are already well known for their books. Just in time for Halloween, they both have been given a Halloween app to which we have also already written a review about.
Otherwise we can recommend you to check out our YouTube trailer, as the jingle jangle of Stella & Sam in this app does not really hit our taste.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad + iPhone on Apple App Store
13. Spooky Story Dice – Halloween Story Dice App
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: depends on you
An interesting Halloween app idea is Dice with images, which each stand for a spooky story, which has to be invented and told out of the cuff. The images on the dice obviously match the Halloween atmosphere however, this app is also available with normal images as a normal edition for captivating and funny stories. Nevertheless, the technical realization of the app is rather boring, as the dice don’t really turn. Only still images are shown.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
14. Halloween Coloring pictures in “123 Color” Coloring-book app
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: low
This outstanding coloring-book app is not only recommendable for it’s Halloween pictures, why we say so, you can check out and see for yourself in our thorough kids app review. If you decide to buy this app, we have a a secret Tip for you: You can unlock more coloring-books in the settings, thereunder many Halloween pictures! Besides the Halloween pictures are also many autumn pictures, which match the season.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App downloaden für – iPad & iPhone im Apple App Store
15. Wood Puzzle Maze: Motoric-board app with Halloween images
✔ iPad – Halloween kids app | Fear factor: medium
This app is and stays very interesting throughout the year with it’s big range of different subjects. The wooden maze game reminds us of the valuable educational motor skills board games for kids. There are various sliding-puzzles to choose from, each one is better than the next and thereunder a few Halloween images. Here is our more detailed kids app review.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
16. Wood Puzzle Halloween App for kids
✔ iPad – Halloween App | Fear factor: low
By the same app developers as the app above (Wood puzzle maze), we want to introduce you to this special Halloween app “Wood Puzzle”. The images are really beautiful and only a little bit creepy, apart from the skeleton perhaps. Even if our number 1 choice is rather the maze app above, it is still worth to check out this puzzle app, which is especially for Halloween.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
17. Math vs Zombies – Halloween Maths app
✔ iPad + iPhone – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: high
This Maths Zombie apps has been thoroughly updated and worked on several times. In the last year, the game reminded us of an Ego-shooter, which wasn’t favored by parents. Now however, the player no longer holds a gun in his hand, with which one would shoot zombies, but instead, through solving arithmetic problems, the Zombies are transformed back into normal happy kids. Four different worlds with numerous levels provide for enough variety. All basic operations may be practiced in different degrees of difficulty.
At the time of review: Free ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad + iPhone on Apple App Store
18. Buildo Museum – Halloween Sticker App
✔ iPad + iPhone – App for kids | Fear factor: high
There are three different sticker apps available by Buildo, thereunder one about the subject rescue (Fire service, police, sea rescue and emergency doctor), which we like the most. Just in time for Halloween however, kids like to visit Frankenstein and co. in the spooky Buildo Museum. Kids can decorate three panoramic landscapes with about 100 interactive stickers and can therefore create their own stories. Here’s the link to our review, (you’ll find the Museum version at the bottom of the Buildo review).
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
19. Singing Monster Nutcracker feat. Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman & Zombie
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: high
Also from the “Singing Nutcracker app”, there is a special Halloween edition, which scarily funny. Fearless children cannot only put nuts into Frankenstein’s, Dracula’s, werewolf’s and a zombie’s mouth, but also their own words and phrases, which are then played backwards and badly distorted, whilst the gentlemen wiggle their mouths. In addition, a small keyboard is displayed, with which the Nutcracker can brought to sing. A pretty original Halloween app, we reckon.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
20. iLuv Drawing Monsters HD – Art class kids app
✔ iPad | Fear factor: medium
At this point we’d like to hint out the following kids app: With iLuv drawing animals, kids can learn to draw up to 40 different animals. A little less comprehensive is the “Monster edition”, which is especially suitable for Halloween. After all, kids can pick 20 different monsters, which can be drawn, colored and placed onto various backgrounds. A great fun app and very interesting addition to the animal edition, which you should perhaps purchase.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
21. Mask Jumble Halloween – Masks app for kids
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: low
This photo app for kids conjures Halloween masks without the use of real make up and needing to do any crafting. The fitting is live, which means that not only stickers can be dragged onto the faces, the camera app recognizes the facial features of your children and positions the mask objects accurately in the right places. A really great app for Halloween, which can also be used independently by younger children.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
22. Defense and Attack – Connect Four 3D Halloween game
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: high
Behind the martial name “Defense & Attack”, hides a dark Connect Four game in 3D. By including the third dimension, the complexity of the classic game is increased and makes it particularly suitable and more interesting for older children and adults. Beside the neutral wooden design, you can choose a macabre Halloween look, where little skulls are speared on metal posts – yet alone for this reason, the game is only suitable for older kids.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
*not available anymore
23. Trick or Tappi – Tappi Bear Halloween Match 3 game
✔ iPad + iPhone app | Fear factor: low
Trick or Tappi is a Match 3 game, where three objects of the same kind always need to be brought into the same row. The group disappears from the screen and new objects, in this case there are candies, fill the playing field again.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
24. Pumpkin Face App – Carving Halloween faces into pumpkins
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: medium
We have been looking at many “Halloween pumpkin carving” apps for kids and Pumpkin Face is the most reasonable and best one of them all. Kids can either create their own faces for the pumpkin or choose between finished pumpkin eyes or mouths in this app. In addition, kids can also pick Halloween hats as decorations.
Tip: We use this Halloween app as a dry run for the real pumpkin carving session. This way it is easier to try out new facial expressions and kids can get inspired by this app too.
This Halloween app is free. If you like you can get more Halloween hats via in-app purchase.
At the time of review: Free| ! In-App purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for- iPad on Apple App Store
➔ App download for- iPhone on Apple App Store
25. Where’s Lika Halloween – Search game
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: low
Where’s Lika on Halloween’s evening? Kids can find it out with this rather tricky search game. The little monster is always hiding somewhere on some search and find pictures – sometimes it’s hidden way too good. Luckily enough that there are some help functions to help kids find Lika better.
At the time of review: Free ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
26. Hello Kitty Halloween Dress Up
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: medium
Unfortunately this Hello Kitty app finances itself with an ad-banner, at least it’s placed at the top of the screen where it’s less annoying. Since advertising has no place in childrens apps, we recommend you especially for this app, to activate the airplane mode for the iPad / iPhone – it’s one opportunity to get rid off and deactivate such ad-banners. After that, you should no longer have anything standing in the way of playing this little dress-up game and Hello Kitty can be dressed with various Halloween costumes.
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ! In-App purchases| ! advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
27. The chest full of monsters
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: high
OOOh – a chest full of monsters with four especially creepy stories for kids in one remarkable app. If you look closer, you’ll realize that the stories aren’t really that scary as the title assumes. The story of the Zombie can be read for free. You can get the other three stories via one single in-app purchase, where a witch, a vampire and an evil man will appear from out of the chest. As we have only just transacted the in-app purchase ourselves, we want to give this app a more thorough app review shortly.
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ! In-App purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
28. Teo & Bianca Halloween Coloring Book
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: medium
With the Teo & Bianca Coloring Book kids app, you can expect awesome coloring pictures for free. What’s interesting, is that the color palette matches the subject in the picture, so that younger children aren’t swamped with an over-sized range of colors. The app seems to be a permanent present on the App Store, at least it’s generally been offered for free. Awesome!
At the time of review: Free ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad im Apple App Store
29. Halloween Color & Draw: coloring book
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: medium
This app brings 20 Halloween coloring pictures along with it. You can also import photos, which can be colored in and decorated with Halloween stickers. Perhaps you should hurry up with your download, as this app used to be fee-based last year!
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
30. Instant Halloween
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: high
With this app you can instantly spread a Halloween atmosphere – at least Instant Halloween will make sure that you get a perfect background music. The app is separated into two parts. Above, you can choose a continuous sound such as typical wolfs howling, thunder and eerie organ music. At the bottom you can set new trends with other sounds such as a howling ghost or add an evil laugh. Scary, creepy, free!
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
31. Halloween Sound Shelf
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: high
Just like the app “Instant Halloween app” before, this free app also offers various Halloween sounds and music, with which you can play around or accentuate party games with. The presentation of the sounds with the small icons is especially well-made.
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
32. Coloroodle Halloween
✔ iPad – Halloween App for kids | Fear factor: low
Coloroodle is a simple Coloring book app with beautiful, harmless Halloween coloring pictures, which will not scare young children. Even the background music is consistent and isn’t very spooky. The price of this kids app at the time of review, is only $ 0.99, which is really good considering it’s also ad-free. As most of our introduced Halloween coloring books are free, Coloroodle will find it hard to get any attention really.
At the time of review: ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad on Apple App Store
33. Hotel Transylvania Monster Party App
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: medium
If you haven’t already seen this awesomely funny animated movie “Hotel Transylvania”, you should urgently make up for that soon. This very nice app advertising is pretty convenient for this first-class children’s film, with which children can create their own monster. On a scare-o-meter, kids can measure how scary and terrific their monster is. There’s also a memory game included in this app and also lots of video clips from the movie, all for free!
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
34. EyePaint Monsters – Special coloring app for kids
✔ iPad + iPhone | Fear factor: medium
Last but not least, one special coloring app for kids, which is also free. With EyePaint, the pictures are not colored with fingers and color, but instead they’re colored in segments via camera. Kids will have to go looking for some nice structures and colors with their iPad or iPhone in their environment and catch these with the camera. Perhaps you recognize the pumpkin in the magicians hat. All in all it’s a very interesting app, which is definitely something different compared to other coloring apps.
At the time of review: ✔ Free | ✔ No in-app purchases | ✔ No advertising
➔ App download for – iPad & iPhone on Apple App Store
