TinyTap Wins $1M in Verizon Prize for Education

This blog post is dedicated to the TinyTap community for their unconditional support and teaching us more than we could ever hope to learn, and to Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, for believing that great ideas can change the world and that we could become one of them.     The only thing better than coming up with an innovative idea, is being given the opportunity to make it a reality.   On January 8th, 2014, TinyTap was announced the first … Read More

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4 Award-Winning Authors Your Kids Will Love

Children’s books have an unparalleled ability to engage and enlighten their readers with interesting plots, important lessons, and imaginative imagery. Whether one wants to be transported back in time to an Inca civilization or follow a friendly family of dolphins living in the Pacific, children’s books can transport a reader’s imagination anywhere. TinyTap collaborates with exceptional authors from all over the world and helps digitize their classic stories  and bring them to life through interactive games and activities. Meet some … Read More

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4 Ways to Get 1K Downloads on the App Store

Meet Kat Brooks (a.k.a. K.S. Brooks), an award-winning author and photographer that lives in the wilderness of northeastern Washington State. One of her most famous, and most beautiful creations has been the series of Mr. Pish adventure books for children. Mr. Pish is an adorable Jack Rusell Terrier that has traveled the world and shared his adventures through beautiful children’s books.   A few months ago, with the help of TinyTap, she created an accompanying game app for her book … Read More

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´Tis the Season to Create…with TinyTap´s Christmas Sticker Packs!

Tis the Season to be jolly…and to create games! Check out TinyTap´s fun and whacky holiday sticker packs and use them to create a beautiful game for our #GoCreateHoliday Contest! 1. Christmas Fun! Create and play with everyone´s favorite Holiday characters – Santa Claus, the gingerbread man, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, and many more!      `Make Me Santa´ TinyTap´s funnest sticker pack ever! Take a pic of yourself or your loved ones and have a blast dressing up in … Read More

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Small Stature, BIG Imagination: 3 Kids to Follow on TinyTap

For us, it is truly exciting to see such a melange of cultures, ages, nationalities, and educational backgrounds converge and create on our app. So, we decided to highlight some of the youngest and most creative individuals of our inventive game designing community, the kids themselves.   Today, we take a look at three special creators, Emilie Melnyk, Makenzie Mathews, and Nada Alalawi. Stay tuned for our next post to meet more brilliant tiny minds!     Emilie Melynk Whether … Read More

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Congratulations, Your App is on the App Store! Now Go Promote It!

It’s an amazing feeling to have your content published as an app, and more so a kids app that will be seen by millions on the App Store.   But then comes the tricky part – getting people to notice it among the more than one million apps available on the App Store today.   We already love your game, but we want others to love it too! So here are some simple marketing tips to help you get started. … Read More

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