Barefoot World Atlas App Reviews

I found the app perfect to enjoy with children, the navigation is easy and playful. I expected a bit more information about the different places and objects.

A wonderfull and Amazing APP!! We enjoy this APP everyday and anywhere!! In Fact, a worldwide success!!!

few to none information on many places. Randomly chosen POIs. Disappointed

It is Fyrom or Skopje and not makedonien... !!!!!!!!!!

no drill down details on the country. kids are not interested in how many cars per capital or emissions per capita. could be way better. no worth the price….

Loving this new app! My son couldnt put it down for an hour and considering this app is a fountain of useful information, I really didnt mind. User friendly, and easy for children to learn some educational,fun,and interesting facts without overwhelming them.Love the fun colourful graphics and the music! I would highly recommend this app! Way to go Barefoot Books!

I had high hopes for this with the price. What a disappointment! Graphics are sad and information scant. Kids using iPads expect more.

I was expecting much more from this app. At least capital cities should be displayed, more mountains named, more children friendly info about each country, individual states in US, provinces in Canada named, Florida peninsula named. Why would you put a paddle steam boat from Switzerland in New Orleans, I dont understand, they probably do not have one in the States???!!!, option of temperature in Celsius and distance in kilometers, national anthems just to name few. Hard to navigate, it jumps from one "information" to completely different one elsewhere, etc. Please get an inspiration from other children atlases ie. DK First Atlas, or the childrens Oregon Smart Globe. Why does it take 1.7 gigabytes of space of the iPad, with such a little info? Not worth the money at all.......I am really disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And deleting it from my iPad....Make a major improvements immediately. It is a one star only!!!!!!!!!!!!

Takes up 1.5 gigs. All the content you get for a country like Romania, is a deer and Bran castle. Each has one or two brief sentences about it. Cant change the units from imperial to metrics. Couple of things about each country, thats all. A have a childrens map of the world with more content. Oh well, now theres a review. Why 0 stars is not a valid rating?

I downloaded this app... Which is 1.5 gigs ! For this price and size was really hoping for something better! Very disappointing! Deleted it right away. Waste of $5!!

I really wanted something more redeeming than slinging birds when travelling this summer, so this app seemed to fit the criteria being a combination of travelling, exploration, and education. My 5 year old son understood how to use this right away - pinch to zoom, swipe to move, tap to view. He really liked the animations. While the descriptions are short, this encouraged my son ended up asking a lot of questions like "Why are there so many locusts?". I think the short descriptions are great since attentionspans arent always the greatest. However, I do wish for an option to have more detailed descriptions. My 3 year old daughter just wanted to see things move and wasnt too insterested in the information. Which was fine since she was still getting a sense of how big the world is and the different things in it. The 1.5GB download was actually great since I was travelling with the kids. I didnt want to have to pay roaming fees. For the price for a 1.5GB app, thats pretty good value I think. Overall, a great app for kids if you can get over the hefty download and the slightly higher price. I personally think its great and worth the money and entertainment / education it has provided. Some bugs: - Animations dont always expand when an item is tapped. - Narrations dont always play when item is expanded forcing you to press the "+" key to hear it (okay if your child has the dexterity, frustrating when they dont) Some suggestions for improvement: 1. Ability to hide capital cities - there are no animations or narrations for these items and my kids arent interested in them. When they click on one by accident they go "uh-oh!" like they did a mistake. 2. Descriptions of items should also have links to Wikipedia or some other service so you can get additional information. 3. Some of the photos can be improved, or multiple photos be shown. Perhaps link to Flickr images or some other service would help a lot. Ability to zoom in a photo / higher resolution images are desperately needed since kids want to see details. 4. Offline / Download-on-demand option - give the user the option to download all 1.5GB from inside the app, or deliver content over the Internet as needed (bandwidth isnt free, so a proper funding model needs to be in place).

My kids love this app and go to it often.

I use this app in my kindergarten classroom, and we just love it! Its not meant to be exhaustive, but it is a wonderful overview with a lot of interesting highlights. Excellent for understanding our world in general. I can hardly wait to see the references to the beautiful country of Canada become more developed in this app!

Its app is quite nice and I like the popup facts, but the atlas itself is very comical, lacks detail and is quite inaccurate.

Should have a soundtrack too.

Visually well done, but inaccurate as old heck... Not worth your time...

To be fair, I only checked out my own country (Canada). But, it was very stereotypical and had some errors. So, I wouldnt trust the info for a country I do not know. For example, half the entry on hockey talks about picks being dangerous to spectators; Ive never seen that happen. Im sure it does, but its minor. Also, the RCMP do still use horses for patrol, as do many police forces in cities around the world. Take a pass on this app.

Download this app for a good laugh. If your Canadian click the hockey player and laugh out loud. Then promptly delete it.

Says ice hockey is Canadas national sport when in fact it is lacrosse.

This app is an extremely useful tool.