While our apps are digital, they take to heart the ethos of the maker movement. All of us at Tinybop grew up as tinkerers, as the kids constantly asking questions. We value learning through experimentation and curiosity, two ideas core to the maker movement, and we aim to embed those values within our apps.

This is why we’re looking forward to participating in the World Maker Faire, right in our backyard at the New York Hall of Science in Corona, Queens, this coming weekend, September 26th and 27th, 2015.

The fifth app in our award-winning series, the Explorer’s Library, The Earth, is ready to play!

Since Tinybop’s inception, we’ve worked to make a difference in the lives of all kids. We believe in make-believe, curiosity, and tinkering as keys to developing lifelong learning and problem solving skills. And as a company that produces paid apps, we’ve thought deeply about how to spread our philosophy to all children to help close the digital divide.

We couldn’t be more thrilled with the response to The Everything Machine. It’s a Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice and an App Store Editors’ Choice! Best of all: y’all are building some pretty incredible machines.

We love WNYC’s Note to Self with Manoush Zomorodi. The episode “LEGO Kits and Your Creative Soul” is especially worth listening to if you’re curious about how play boosts your kid’s and your own creative abilities.

When I was a kid, I pined for those encyclopedias you could buy in the grocery store. I wanted the whole set but only managed to finagle a few of them here and there. Each volume was carefully selected based on the subject I was most excited about right then. Because each was full of information about subjects alphabetically adjacent, I ended up getting a lot more than I bargained for. But when, for example, my interest in seahorses inspired me to look up mangroves, I was out of luck.

We have good news for all of you with similarly insatiably curious kids: now you can get all six of our award-winning apps for $15.99 in The Tinybop Collection.

Our new app gives kids a visual programming language so they can make their own machines with the tools and sensors on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. They can build something as simple as a light switch, a kaleidoscope…or something to catch the monster that’s been eating all the ice cream.

We’re so excited: The Everything Machine is here!

For road trips or trips to the grocery store, here are some bright tunes to fill your family’s ears:

We’ve been huddled inside this summer, working on not one but two new apps! And next week The Everything Machine will be ready to play. It’s the second in our Digital Toys series of apps which are designed to empower kids to make anything they can imagine.