Requires an email account to use. Then you need to enter real or fake info about your kid (name, age) to use. Email registration failed to arrive even after 10 minutes. Only works with the 2017 sized iPads. Not the iPad Pro. If you want your phone, there's a different base that fits various phones.
Doesn't fit with a case, and they don't give you little corner bumpers, etc, so if your kid knocks it over, crash goes your iPad. It's pretty stable if you push back or sideways, but too easy to tip forward. This comes with a lot of packaging, so I think they could have provide little silicon corners to slip on the top corners.
This is intended to be used in a well-lit room, with white tables. Don't expect to use it on table clothes, patterned rugs.. and don't expect to use it on car trips or airplanes. It's only useful in settings where you probably don't need it if you have real physical toys around.
I tested two games.
The NEWTON game involves dropping virtual marbles from the top of the screen. You have to draw on paper or a whiteboard the stuff your marbles will bounce off of. If you use paper, you will endlessly run out of paper since one line will use up the paper. You could probably use small pieces of dark cut out paper instead. I found the process of trying to make virtual bumpers to be annoying and inaccurate. As a parent, I don't see any benefit vs. real toys here. Actually an all-screen app with physics and globs would be more intuitive and educational.
The TANGRAM app involves placing colored shapes (squares, triangles) on the table in front of your device to replicate various on-screen shapes. "Easy" means the on-screen shapes are color-coded. "Hard" means they are all-black. There's an unclear audio and visual feedback for correct and incorrect placement, and the detection is poor, so the shapes can actually be misplaced and register as correct, which makes completing a puzzle difficult. A system of gems is clues.
All together, I would not try to get my kid into this. And I don't think it's helpful in a classroom for anything other than sounding hip. There are other, much more educational apps which embrace being apps.
