Welcome to Monday’s Apps For Kids, a new Cult of Android feature where we take a look at kid-centric apps. Many of us are parents with kids who seem to know their way around our mobile devices better than we do. With the Google Play Store having over 400,000 apps, it can be quite a daunting task trying to find apps appropriate for our young tech enthusiasts. With Monday’s Apps For Kids, we hope to make that task easier by suggesting an array of topics and apps that have been kid tested and parent approved. So grab whatever crayon is lying around and get ready to write down a few apps worth checking out.
It’s all coming to an end. Today is the last day of Google’s 7 Days To Play promotion. We’re definitely sad to see it go but we are fairly confident Google will continue to discount great content across their Google Play Store. The last set of $.25 deals has been revealed and they include:
Instagram is one of the most wildly successful apps to ever hit the iOS App Store. The app’s co-founder, Kevin Systrom, recently revealed that Instagram now boasts 27 million active users on the iPhone alone during the South by Southwest conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas.
We’ve all been clamoring for the popular social photography app to make its way to Android for many months, and it has been confirmed that Instagram for Android is coming “very soon.” The app is currently being tested in private beta.
The boldest claim Systrom made was that Instagram for Android is, in some ways, “better than our iPhone app.”
Many of you have been patiently waiting for the Readability app to come to Android and today it has — sort of. Amazon apparently inked a deal with Readability to launch the app exclusively on the Amazon App Store for the first week, so if you want to get it today, your only option is Amazon (for now). I know what you non-US residents are thinking and no, it does not exclude you. In fact, you guys actually get to download it from the Google Play Store (how do you like them apples).
March Madness starts tomorrow and there’s no better way to keep track of the games, as well as your bracket, than with the official NCAA March Madness app for Android. The app is free to download and comes with many features, including the ability to live stream the games on select devices for an additional $3.99 upgrade. Before I get into features, I’ll save most of you the trouble by pointing out there’s no tablet support of any kind, so if you were hoping to watch the games on your Transformer Prime or any other tablet, forget about it (at least for now).
