ABC Spy for the iPhone/iPad is currently FREE. It challenges kids to create their own ABC book with photos of items that start with each letter. Children can take their own pictures, use pictures from the app’s library, or use photos from their own library. After the child has the photo, he/she chooses a frame for it then types in the text to go with the framed picture. When the book is finished, it can be turned into a movie and saved or shared via email, text message, or You Tube.

Kids can create ABC books of almost anything – animals, a vacation, their town, etc. Since the app allows you to pull things from your photo library, kids can create their own artwork in another app and pull it into this one. VERY cool with loads of potential!

Highly Recommended!

ABC Spy Phonics for the iPhone/iPad is also currently FREE. It challenges kids to create their own ABC book with photos of items that start 15 different sounds. It works the same way as ABC Spy. This app is fine but has the potential to be much better.  I am not sure why only 12 out of 26 alphabet letters were used. Only one vowel sound (short a) is used and it is not correctly pronounced. No blends are included and only 3 digraphs (ch, sh, th) were used. It would also be great to be able to add sound to the photos instead of text since this is a phonics app. This app seems incomplete – hoping for an update because it could be fabulous 🙂