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iOS applications to help parents keep their children's progress and find new applications for them

There is no shortage of companies offering new applications for children in 2011: Touch Boca Mindshapes, Nosy Crow, Callaway Digital ... Now fingerprints

The San Francisco-based company launched its first five applications of the IOS, and has a function called mother-Com to help it stand out from the pack. In short, it's like a playground for children and parents, scholarships and recommendations for the first application, and an update on progress in the second.

was founded by Nancy MacIntyre, who previously worked in e-learning company LeapFrog Enterprises, executive vice president of product innovation and marketing. His new company has raised $ 1.4 million (£ 0.9m) in September 2011 to feed his ambition to find an audience between 3.8 years and their parents.

"There are tens of thousands of applications out there for children and parents to discover what applications are good and know how to find the App Store is a problem," she said.

"After playing, you have no idea what their children with them. We wanted to create a network of high quality content for children where it is easy for parents to know what games are appropriate for their children, and have an idea of ??what the child plays. "

This paper goes a step beyond simply telling parents that their children were made. Parents can send voice messages or text to encourage their children within applications, while children can send pre-script to his parents to tell them about the achievements.

titles in the franchise, including three of their children Big Life, focusing on firefighters, veterinarians and the fairy princess, with a mixture of puzzle game and more standard teaching.

avatar-based application designed to teach math and spelling, while 1-2-3 is an introduction DoReMi music application of the tone of the melody and animals for pleasure. This application is the last book by a developer external mobile creativity.

"Our demands have been created to show how the platform and train people in how to use and engage with it," said MacIntyre. "We have created an SDK that Software developers can use to connect to our system and we will have more third-party applications for the next release. "

children to create their own character when you first use a set of fingerprints, then take the avatar of an application and a device to another. It will also be able to pick up and play with virtual pets, with an unlockable in each application -. Through play, we note, not a buy-app

MacIntyre says fingerprints, messaging features have received the highest response of parents and children. "We see this as the transformation of the solo work of the application of a boy playing on an application for what is a social experience between children and parents or caregivers," she said.

"I leave the way of being one of the tens of thousands of applications in the App Store, and being part of a group of high-quality organized applications for children" he said. "This is not to be an application developer to build an application at a time. It's the network."
sets of footprints release are based on their own characters, but during the interview MacIntyre refers was to have conversations with brands of children. License seems ready to play a role in the future of the company, even if not yet been announced.