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We know screen time can be powerful family time, for learning and for fun. So, one of our goals is to encourage and enable parents and kids to play apps together.

On Thursday, February 22, Coral Reef by Tinybop, No. 10 in the Explorer’s Library, will be ready to play. The app immerses kids in a fascinating underwater world.

Head’s up! Me: A Kid’s Diary by Tinybop (the app formerly known as Me by Tinybop) has a new name, new icon, and new features. 

As our favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson says, all kids are natural born scientists; they learn by digging holes in the ground and picking up rocks to see what’s under them.

Skyscrapers is now on Google Play — free for 7 days — with 4 more Tinybop apps. 

We have a big favor to ask all of you who have played our apps on Android. It should only take a minute of your time but it will mean the world to us.

Wenjia is an undergraduate illustration student at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) but she found time to work with us to create the artwork for Mammals.

The future is here! We don’t have self-driving cars...yet, but we do have robot stickers. Here's what they're all about.

In the Simple Machines app, kids play with a wheel and axle, lever, pulleys, screws, wedges, and an inclined plane. Here are six, free printable activities to bring learning into the real world.

Our planet and the challenge of protecting it are huge. To fit it all in one app, we reveal one invisible mystery at a time. 

Celebrate Earth Day with us! Get The Earth and download the Love the Earth in-app purchase to support WWF.

Now you can email machines you make in The Everything Machine to a friend.

If you want to give your kids apps they’ll love and play all year round (or just need a last-minute gift!), we have a couple tips for you. Here are some ideas for great apps to give and how to do so on the App Store from your mobile device, or in iTunes on your desktop computer.

In a few short years, Tinybop has grown from a team of three to 20+. We’ve released seven apps and have more in the works. As we’ve grown, we’ve adopted new tools so everyone can keep up with projects.

In Simple Machines, kids experiment with wheels and axles by sending a cyclist through an obstacle course. In this activity, you can see how wheels and axles work by getting outside and going for a ride together!

We’ve doubled the number of parts (100 in total!) to build with and test in The Robot Factory.

Here in Brooklyn, summertime means picnics in Prospect Park, hopscotch all over sidewalks, and for the 4th of July: sparklers! In celebration of our Independence Day, we updated Homes.

As we develop our apps, we look to data-rich resources to strengthen them. One of the best resources is the Joan Ganz Cooney Center (JGCC). The JGCC’s mission is to help kids who struggle in traditional education settings. Their research is focused on answering the question: how can we use digital technology to help these kids?

When we learned that Michael Levine, Founding Director of the Cooney Center would be discussing his new book, Tap, Click, Read, and answering questions about advancing children’s learning in the digital age at NYU Poly, a few of us eagerly joined for the lunchtime conversation.

In Simple Machines, kids twist a set of screws to lift and hold up a trio of sloshing fish tanks. In this activity, you can test the self-locking abilities of screws by seeing if water splashes out of a container when dropped.

In Simple Machines, kids split an iceberg egg in half with different wedges. With this printable activity, you and your kids can see how a wedge works together.

In Simple Machines, kids use pulleys to send satellites into orbit and birds into flight. In this printable activity, you can build a simple pulley together.

In Simple Machines kids can use a lever to launch objects and destroy a castle. In this printable activity, you can build a lever together.

Simple machines are everywhere and we use them everyday. They’re so much a part of our lives that we don’t always recognize them. But once you start thinking about them, it’s hard not to see them — everywhere, everyday!

Above, Youngna used a screwdriver — a wheel and axle — to take apart bookshelves before moving. Here are a few more examples we’ve noticed lately.

In Simple Machines, kids can use inclined planes to make music in an arcade. In this printable activity, you can build one together.

Like many kids, our Senior iOS Engineer, Rob, was a little obsessed with Lego when he was younger. He remembers specifically, “the Technic Lego line which let you put gears and motors and pneumatics together to make some crazy moveable things.” From those parts, he built a four-legged walking creature.

Lots of us at Tinybop have strong memories of diving into buckets of Lego bricks and other toys that let us design, create (and, often, destroy!) whatever we could imagine. Here are a few that helped inform the thinking behind our series of apps, Digital Toys.

Our apps are optimized for the iPad so we’ve been keeping a close eye on the iPad Air 2. We were thrilled when we caught a glimpse of the new Apple film, “Change.”

Kieth Kin Yan built the 3D model we used to create the animated version of our logo.