Memory Match for Kids - Apps on Google Play
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Spark little minds with a colorful card-matching adventure!

Hopefully it’s not against the rules, if so, please let me know and I’ll remove the post. Anyway:

I made an educational open source game for small kids (2-6 yo) where they can match cute animals (currently sea and dinosaur theme packs).

Features:

  • cute pictures
  • works on both a phone and a tablet
  • multiple theme packs
  • fully free, no tracking or anything
  • there are multiple flavours, one of which bundles all of the assets and doesn’t even have the permission to access the internet <- great if you’re extra cautious
  • big buttons, no reading necessary, small kids friendly

It can be downloaded both from GitHub and the Play Store.

Some screenshots

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Let me know what you think!

  • Pro@programming.dev
    7·
    10 months ago

    I really hope you keep believing in the value of your app and never stop developing it. It might sound like a small step towards overall more privacy, but every kid who use your opensource and private app instead of the ads and trackers filled closed source apps is a person who is not benefiting the Capitalism which is killing people privacy.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Thanks for the kind words! This app (like pretty much everything open source I ever did) stemmed from needing an app like that but not finding any and every little “Contains ads” in the Play Store listing made me a little sadder that vultures are trying to attack even the most vulnerable.

      The only other good one I found had a different problem, a good old greediness (every theme was a separate app, each unlocked with an in-app purchase, meaning you cannot buy once and use on all family member’s devices, the unlock was $2, but multiply it with 4 apps and 4 devices and it gets quite expensive for such a simple game). I’m fine with that in general, but given I’m a developer, I decided to offer people a better alternative.

      So yeah, I believe in it and I’m glad someone sees it that way.

      Seriously, thanks, I think it’s been quite a while since some online stranger said something so nice to me!

  • 0101100101@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    This will have fantastic use for primary level as well - maybe another separate (but closely related) app. Do consider special educational needs, e.g.

    • emotion recognition, so pairs of happy faces, sad faces, angry faces etc to help the children detect emotions in the real world
    • simple animals and objects to help with basic recognition
    • images of nouns that are called “CVC” words - that’s consonant-vowel-consonant words, like cat, dog, boy, bat (as in cricket), etc
    • colours, so basic shapes in bright different colours
    • letters, yep, just letters of the alphabet (and why stop at the english alphabet) - so a grid of vowels, and another of simple letters (not q,z,x etc)

    Also, could you show the name of the object to the side of the grid? And also… add an optional timer to complete the level by, or just to time how long it takes them - the latter allowing the users to set their own targets. This kind of app would be used with the support of adults alongside SEN children

    Good job!