Balloonimals app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
432 ratings )
Entertainment
Education
Developer:
IDEO
1.99 USD
Current version:
6.0, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 26 Mar 2009
App size: 116.47 Mb
Beautifully rendered Balloonimals spring to life when you blow into the microphone on your iPhone or swipe with your iPad/iPod Touch. Watch the balloon inflate and then give your phone a shake to start constructing your Balloonimal. With each shake, your animal takes greater shape until... Voila! Your Balloonimal appears and is ready to play. Pet your Balloonimal to see what tricks it can do. An entire collection of balloon animals, including a fish, T-Rex, and snails - 11 Balloonimals in all. See them jump, dance, swim, roar and pop!
Kids will love Balloonimals for:
- simple controls: blow or swipe to inflate, shake to transform, pet to see your Balloonimal spring to life on screen!
- a variety of Balloonimals that randomly cycle through each time you play
- amazing graphics that bring quality 3D renderings and animations to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch
- fun sound effects that playfully squeak, quack and roar
- Kid-approved by our rambunctious team of tiny beta testers
- Ranks high on the Giggle Scale
- Built to be imagination-boosting and exploration-encouraging
- No wrong way to play
- Intuitive enough for kids under 5
- Captivating enough for ages 0 to 100
About the IDEO Play Lab:
Balloonimals was created by an award-winning team of educators, designers and toy experts who create apps that promote creativity. Our apps encourage kids’ natural tendencies towards curiosity, play and imagination, making us a favorite of both kids and parents.
Questions, comments or just wanting to say hi? Drop us a note at [email protected].
Pros and cons of Balloonimals app for iPhone and iPad
Balloonimals app good for
I ended up buying this after being underwhelmed by the lite version, and I have to say that this app is TOTALLY worth the .99c - buy it!
My toddler loves it and can pretty much use this app all by himself, which is pretty amazing. The controls are easy to use and intuitive. The blowing into the mic idea is innovate - I havent seen that before. There are a lot of animals an balloon colours, and the graphics are really impressive for a phone game. Great work guys, keep it up! My only suggestion is an easier way to move on to the next animal rather than popping it, and of course some more animals through updates would be nice :)
A good, easy to use, entertaining app that is worth the money.
I have a five and eight year old who both enjoy this game a lot. Sure, it might be nice to have more animals, but theyre not complaining! Works great on my iPhone 3GS.
My niece and nephew absolutely love this app. But they too wish there were more animals. Keep up the good work and bring more animals. With that I could see this being one of the biggest apps on the iPhone. :)
This is my two-year-olds favorite game (well, shes not quite two yet). She can play it all by herself and she LOVES IT. I have to deal with her meltdowns when she cant play "Dino one". I can hardly wait for you to come up with some new animals. Even if you added a new animal every month or two, lots of your customers would be thrilled. I think my favorite is the unicorn (blowing confetti) but the lion catching the mouse is pretty cute too. My daughter likes the dino best ... and my 5-yr-old son loves popping them. Thanks - looking forward to new animals.
Im 11 and I looooovvvveeee this app its really fun. Lots of animals but there is to much twisting they need more times in one animal to keep blowing the balloons cuz its really fun. Worth the 2$
My daughter 1year old likes this app. We re looking for playing with more kinds of animals or new version!!
Some bad moments
One of the screen shots made available says "lots of animals to choose from". I would not count 6 in total as lots! Very sad, little value. Would like refund or update
Six animals ... not a lot ... but enough for a toddler ... IF I can get it to work properly! Always freezes and crashes the ipod. Havent been able to play it fully. There should be a refund for this game.
My little girl just opened the app and said "they could make a horse or zebra" if she can think of new animals you can too. (lion?crocodile?anything!) please update or atleast post that youre working on one. You have such a great idea, it could really be big with a little effort.
Very falsley advertised!
I think this app is definatley not worth 2$!!!!!!!
This needs an update
I tried out the Lite version and LOVED it, so I purchased it and found it doesnt even open up - totally crashes. I wanted to love this game as it kept my children interested on the Lite version - extremely disappointed. I strongly recommend not buying this app as it clearly doesnt work.
Paid for these apps three days ago and they still wont install. If they arent working, take them out of the App Store.
