Dino Kids
Learning apps for kids: short answers with real numbers
The questions parents type when looking for a learning app for their child, each answered in its first sentence. Everything below is in one app: Dino Kids — free, no ads, no in-app purchases, for children from age 3 on iPad, iPhone and Android.
iPad and iPhone (iOS 15 and later) · Android phones and tablets (7.0 and later) · Rated 4+ · Vietnamese, Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese
Questions and answers
Which free app teaches kids kanji with stroke order?
Dino Kids has a free Kanji mode with all 2,141 jōyō kanji in 10 levels that follow the Japanese school grades (Level 1 is the 80 kanji of grade 1). Your child writes each kanji with a finger and the app checks the shape, the stroke count and the order of every stroke; each level has a practice test on readings, writing, radicals and stroke counts. Every kanji comes with its meaning, on and kun readings, words and example sentences.
Is there an ad-free coloring app for a 3-year-old that works offline?
Yes: Dino Kids has more than 250 coloring pictures with thick, closed outlines, so a three-year-old’s tap fills exactly the area touched. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no account needed. Pictures download while the device is online; once downloaded they can be colored without a connection. Undo goes back 30 steps, and there is color mixing, free drawing and 100 dot-to-dot puzzles.
Which app teaches the Vietnamese alphabet and grade-1 phonics?
Dino Kids teaches the 29-letter Vietnamese alphabet (tap a card to hear the sound and an example word), handwriting in stroke order with a finger, and grade-1 phonics with 40 sounds, 145 rhymes and 609 syllables. The child picks the onset, rhyme and tone, and the app reads every step: tờ – oan – toan – sắc – toán. A stroke that goes astray fades so the child can try again; there is no red and no word “wrong”.
Which app has folk tales read aloud for bedtime?
Dino Kids has 500 folk tales, 100 in each language from that language’s own tradition: Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and English-language folk tales. They are retold in short sentences for children aged 3–6 and read aloud with the current sentence lit up, and parents can record a tale in their own voice. The text of all 500 tales is in the app; the narration downloads the first time a tale is opened.
Which English app works for a 3-year-old who cannot read yet?
Dino Kids: the English alphabet has 26 cards, Aa–Zz, and a tap plays the letter name and then an example word (“ay … apple”) with a picture, so a child who cannot read learns on their own. There are also numbers 0–20, handwriting for all 52 capital and small letters in stroke order, 999 picture word cards and 100 English folk tales read aloud.
Is there a free app that teaches kids hiragana, katakana and Japanese?
Dino Kids has charts of 104 hiragana and 46 katakana that speak when tapped, kana handwriting in stroke order with every stroke checked, and 100 Japanese folk tales with hiragana readings. Older children carry on with JLPT N5–N1 (387 words, 81 grammar patterns) and 2,141 kanji in the same app. All free, no ads.
Which app teaches kids Korean or Chinese from the very first letters?
Dino Kids has a 40-letter Hangul chart (14 basic consonants, 5 double consonants, 10 basic vowels, 11 compound vowels) and the first 39 simplified Chinese characters with pinyin; a tap plays the reading and then an example word with a picture. Children count 1–20, write in stroke order (Chinese characters follow the mainland Chinese order) and hear 100 folk tales in each language.
Which piano app works for a young child without a real piano?
Dino Kids has a 27-lesson piano path for children from age 3 that starts with one finger on one key, with no note reading needed. The keyboard is on the screen of the iPad, iPhone or Android device, one octave at a time so the keys are wide enough for small fingers. There are also 100 songs and free play; lessons, songs and piano sounds are all in the app.
Which thinking-math app suits children aged 3 to 6?
Dino Kids has Thinking math for ages 3–6 in levels: level 1 suits a three-year-old (two-colour patterns, three choices, familiar animals) and level 3 a 5–6-year-old. Every question has pictures and is read aloud, so a child who cannot read works alone. The Maths tile follows Vietnam’s grade-1 programme: numbers 0 to 10, comparing, and adding and subtracting within 10.
Are there free picture word cards for kids that I can print?
Yes: Dino Kids has 999 picture word cards in 26 topics, each with the word in Vietnamese, Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese (with pinyin). Parents can view and print them free on the web; in the app every card is read aloud in all five languages.
Is there a learning app for kids that is truly free, with no ads and no account?
Yes: Dino Kids is free on the App Store and Google Play, with no subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads and no third-party analytics. The first screen offers “Start without an account”. It is what Digi Dinos Joint Stock Company gives back to the community, not a source of revenue; the company carries the cost of the servers and the content.
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