RatCat Software got the approval email from iTunes tonight. All 5 versions of WordFlash have now been released with the latest enhancements! The updated app indicator should soon start appearing for all of you who have downloaded a previous version. With the new feature now active, when the “annouce words” is set to off, the baloon button allows for the child to hear the word aloud when pressed.

Here’s more about Meghan’s WordFlash – Audio Flashcards are designed to build your child’s vocabulary utilizing sight, sound and repetition. Each version of the game contains age appropriate words along with grade level specific sight words. As an added feature, the app uses the same word lists as Meghan’s Matching Games giving you another option for developing your child’s vocabulary.

Instructions:  Listen and read the word displayed on the blackboard then say it aloud.

Features:

-Develops reading and word recognition

-Contains all grade level sight words

-Real Voice Spoken words – with replay button

-Automatically advances through the word list

-Tracks number of words viewed in session and overall

Could use one feature
by mudixon – Version 1.3.1 – May 15, 2010
This app is okay for what it does, but it would be better if you could turn off the word announce BUT allow the child to press a button to say the word if they are unsure of it. As of this review, the word announce is either on or off.

I thought that was fantastic! A review that is useful and intelligent with a valid suggestion that is meaningful and worth taking action on.

Recently I have found myself in many conversations regarding comments and ratings of iTunes apps. I always try to explain to people why they are basically useless. So many of the comments that are seen in iTunes are negative rants that add up to basically nothing informative. Cost’s too much, not enough features, to easy, yata yata yata… Well folks what do you really expect for a product that cost less then an average cup of coffee? 2 dollars for an application that may have taken me several weeks to develop seems to me to be a fair deal to me, given that most apps do not hit the charts and do not score the 100,000’s of downloads that make the headlines. Who says you have to buy our apps anyway? It’s your choice, just like that cup of joe, or a couple of cans of pop. Yet, after spending that buck or too, people feel totally and completely compelled to tear down the developer, the app or anything else they can wrap words around.  Not fair given the fact that we have no way to directly respond to the reviewer.

Anyway, enough with my little editorial. Hope you like the new feature.

It’s really hard to believe that it has been over 1 year since we founded RatCat Software. Starting with a shoe string budget, a bunch of crazy ideas on how to code and grew into a small iPhone App Developer with 18 apps approved and listed in the App Store. Some of which have been listed in the top 100 on several occasions (My FireFighter came close to the top 25!) and most of which are still to this day listed among the top 200 app for the educational and/or games/educational categories.

As a way to say Thank You to our many customers and to continue celebrating our 1 year anniversary we decided to give away a some copies of Meghan’s Spelling Quiz to the first 20 people who email us. Let us know what version you would like (pre-school to 3rd grade) and how you heard about our give away and we will email you a promotional code to use in iTunes to download your free copy.

Thanks Again! – The Development Team at RatCat Software!

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Meghan’s WordFlash – Audio Flashcards are designed to build your child’s vocabulary utilizing sight, sound and repetition. Each version of the game contains age appropriate words along with grade level specific sight words. As an added feature, the app uses the same word lists as Meghan’s Matching Games giving you another option for developing your child’s vocabulary.

Follow this link to learn more about the app!

Construction Counting is an action packed construction yard playground for your preschool aged kids that gives them multiple opportunities to learn numbers 1 to 10.

There is the excavator that announces the number and displays a new pile each time it takes a swipe of dirt.

Then there is bulldozer pile up, where you child pushes the desired number of piles of rocks then chooses when to check his answer to see if he is correct.

The dump truck fill up is where your child is instructed to load the dump truck to a desired amount, then the answer is checked when the dump truck pulls away.

There is the tap and count game where your child taps a number then watches the screen as that amount of items appears with real voice counting to follow along with.

For the more advanced counting fun, there is the count and tap game, where your child is instructed to count the number of dirt movers on the screen and tap the correct answer.