Baby's Musical Hands is an award-winning musical toy for babies and toddlers for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. As a game designer and developer, I love my iOS devices. But as a new father, I realized how much my son loves them too. I decided I could put my experience developing for iOS to use, and build an app for my son to play with. Baby's Musical Hands was born! --= Awards for Baby's Musical Hands =-- Best Infant App (iOS) - 2011 Best App Ever Awards Editor's Choice Award - Children's Technology Review --= Reviews for Baby's Musical Hands =-- "Baby's Musical Hands Is a Magical App" - GeekDad - Wired.com "Baby's Musical Hands is a great choice to increase the understanding of cause and effect in the youngest app users" - GiggleApps "...any kid would find the fun in this one" - TUAW Baby's Musical Hands features 15 brightly colored squares that your baby can touch. Red squares make drum sounds, yellow squares play piano notes, and blue squares play guitar notes. Every time your baby touches the screen, colorful stars will burst from their fingers. Watch them delight in the audio and visual feedback! Baby's Musical Hands supports full multi-touch, meaning your baby gets the kind of feedback they expect when touching the screen. I'd love to hear from you if your son or daughter loves Baby's Musical Hands as much as mine! Please like the Baby's Musical Hands facebook page to stay up to date on what's new with the app: http://www.facebook.com/BabysMusicalHands Owen Goss Father Founder, Streaming Colour Studios ========== TIP: In iOS 6 or later, you can use your device's Accessibility options to disable the home button, so your child won't accidentally quit Baby's Musical Hands: - Open your iPhone or iPad's Settings app - Tap on: General > Accessibility > Guided Access - Turn Guided Access on - Set a Passcode (remember what this is) - Press the Home button to quit the settings app - Open Baby's Musical Hands - Triple-click the Home button - Tap "Start" in the top-right corner of the screen - The Home button is now disabled When you are ready to quit Baby's Musical Hands: - Triple-click the Home button - Enter your Passcode - Tap "End" in the top-left corner of the screen - Press the Home button to quit the app
No accidental exits or menus—yay!
No silly animation, so it’s more active play and not just watching TV. I LOVE that toddler can’t accidentally exit or hit a menu that stops the keys from working. Also love that there are no in-app purchases so I don’t have to worry about accidental purchases.
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Doesn’t work with my new phone. Loved this. My kid loves this. Please fix
Accessibility!
This app is self-voicing and fully accessible for children who are visually impaired or blind. Thank you for creating an app that is exciting for ALL babies and toddlers! FYI: the app does work with VoiceOver (Apple’s screen reader); however, only the piano sounds are heard, even when touching the read and blue squares.
Musical app that doesn’t play music
No sound. But baby does get graphic star explosions when she touches the squares.
baby k
It's perfect for my cousin kaysin
Perfect
My parenting does not involve screen time for my child. But I came across this app and it is PERFECT. It's simple, clean, and minimal. My daughter (currently 15mo) loves playing music and pushing buttons so this is great. We can even work on colors with it. So, so, so, so great!
Love love love this app
My 6 week old son will kick it with his feet during tummy time and smiles at the sounds. It's a lot of fun to watch him react to the different sounds.
Apr 2, 2024
Update with fixes in preparation for iOS 11. Thank you so much for your continued support of Baby's Musical Hands!
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