Sami Apps is an educational application designed for children ages 0-6 years old to increase cognitive skills. There are four different sections of games and apps for players to master from educational games that teach the basics of writing to a story creator. Sami Apps is compatible with iOS devices running iOS 6.0 or later.
There are four categories of mini apps in Sami Apps: flashcards, apps, story time, and utilities. The apps category includes three educational games meant to teach children about quantities, drawing lines, and identifying where to place missing objects in a puzzle. The drawing lines game is fun but not perfect at telling if the player made a straight line or not. Most of the time players start the line using the guide and as long as they get at least some of the line in the guide area it counts as correct.
All three of the games in the apps section end after three levels with a pop up showing purchase options for getting the rest of the levels. It is annoying for players to see this constantly and makes Sami Apps a very limited game.
The flashcards section in Sami Apps teaches players colors, numbers, food, and animals through a quick succession of cards that display the information with bright colors and cute art styles. This is a pretty effective way of teaching these categories, however, there are a couple of problems with this section in Sami Apps. The first problem is a bug that happens when players reach the end of the animals flashcards, which displays a yellow screen that freezes on the screen and forces players to exit the application. The second problem is that the flashcards category of colors is misspelled in the english version of the app, which is confusing for young learners.
The story time category features an interactive story creator called shake your story where players tap to change the main character, partner, location, method of transportation, and the objective of the story.
After selecting any of these items, players are sent to a page that displays their selection and they are to make up a story outside of the app with those items. This leaves players wanting more from the game as it doesn't generate a complete story as expected. The utilities section contains a sound machine that plays sounds like water or your own voice recording for players to listen to. This is a nice feature for young children who enjoy the relaxing sounds.
An interesting feature of Sami Apps is the inclusion of seven different languages players can play the apps in. This is nice for players learning a new language to practice the basics in a fun environment. The only problem with Sami Apps is that the main screen for the app stays in english despite changing the language.
Sami Apps is free on the App Store with in-app purchases needed to unlock all of the content in the application and not recommended as it does not offer enough accurate educational content for players.
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