Price: App Free to Download
Sold by:Amazon.com Services, Inc
Languages Supported: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Latest updates

What's new in version 2.0.6
  • User interface improvements with the standar Android Action Bar.
  • Memory optimization.
  • New version of PlayTales engine, compatible with our most recently books like Pocoyo stories.

Product Details

Release Date: 2012
Date first listed on Amazon: August 8, 2012
Developed By: PlayTales
ASIN: B008LSE1KS

Product features

  • THERE’S SO MUCH TO CHOOSE FROM – PlayTales Bookstore makes it easy for you or your kids to choose and download books.
  • *Demo what’s “new and noteworthy” BEFORE you buy.
  • *Choose from a catalog of 40+ stories for boys and girls ages 1-8+.
  • *See what’s popular and rate the stories yourself.
  • *Read and play with new stories every week!

Product description

*Listen * Read * Play * Learn * More than 1,000,000 families across the world are reading and playing with BOOKS and GAMES from the PlayTales Bookstore. We love reading, we love pictures, we love games and we love familiar faces! PlayTales offers interactive books: traditional and classic, popular and new, for toddlers and beginning readers that will engage them in books and stories once again. THERE’S SO MUCH TO CHOOSE FROM – PlayTales Bookstore makes it easy for you or your kids to choose and download books. * Demo what’s “new and noteworthy” BEFORE you buy. * Choose from a catalog of 40+ stories for boys and girls ages 1-8+. * See what’s popular and rate the stories yourself. * Read and play with new stories every week! GREAT STORIES FOR FAMILIES OF ANY LANGUAGE – PlayTales Bookstore crosses borders and thresholds reaching out to families around the world. * English * Spanish * French * German * Italian * Chinese * Japanese COMMUNITIES FOR FAMILIES – Log onto our Facebook page or Twitter to see what’s happening in the PlayTales community. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PlayTales Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/PlayTales

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Technical details

Size: 14.7MB
Version: 2.0.6
Developed By: PlayTales
Application Permissions: ( Help me understand what permissions mean )
  • Access information about networks
  • Access the list of accounts in the Accounts Service
  • Get information about the currently or recently running tasks: a thumbnail representation of the tasks, what activities are running in it, etc
  • Open network sockets
  • Read only access to device state
  • Access the vibration feature
  • PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
  • Write to external storage
  • Allows sending in-app billing requests and managing in-app billing transactions
  • Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging
Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1
Approximate Download Time: Less than 2 minutes

Customer reviews

3.2 out of 5 stars
62 global ratings

Customers say

Customers find the mobile application interactive, fun, and educational. They say the stories are great and educational. Readers also appreciate the bold colors and bright colors.

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7 customers mention "Interactiveness"7 positive0 negative

Customers find the product interactive. They say it's a wonderful app with fun books for kids.

"Grandson has fun as he learns. Easy to navigate. Keeps him busy without supervision. Nice app to recommend. Thank you" Read more

"...Highly recommend. Proved entertaining for my toddler aged niece and nephews and also kept the attn of my 4 month old...." Read more

"I gave this 5 stores because of the potential of interactive books that they offer...." Read more

"Playtales is a good app for my 7 year old son. The objects in the books move if he touches them. You only get 2 free books though...." Read more

4 customers mention "Story quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers find the stories in the mobile application great and educational.

"It's a really cute touch book! Really like the story! This was my very first book I downloaded for 22 month old, she loves it!" Read more

"...Bold colors and bright colors. They are very interactive and cool stories as well." Read more

"...to them or you can choose to read to your child either way the stories are greart and even some enducational stories as well." Read more

"...Most of the books are $.99 and several are interactive. Great variety of stories." Read more

3 customers mention "Color scheme"3 positive0 negative

Customers find the color scheme of the mobile application to be bold and bright. They also say it's cute.

"It's a really cute touch book! Really like the story! This was my very first book I downloaded for 22 month old, she loves it!" Read more

"...Bold colors and bright colors. They are very interactive and cool stories as well." Read more

"...Wanted to get here some free apps to try things out and this was very cute." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2013
It's a really cute touch book! Really like the story! This was my very first book I downloaded for 22 month old, she loves it!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013
Grandson has fun as he learns. Easy to navigate. Keeps him busy without supervision. Nice app to recommend. Thank you
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Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2021
Be careful with this app. Is a subscription based service that is quite discontinued. I don't know if if still works with the Android's Amazon App Store or Fire. But it stopped working elsewhere for my kids disappointment. He loved the tales (specially Dana's and her grandmother) but suddenly it stopped working. The company does not reply their e-mails or give any explanation about why they are kind of out of business and it only looks like they are ripping some petty cash from a residual user base. I would like to see this app ported to 64 bits and working again as it should and not paying two years for nothing.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2012
Most of the books we've purchased from Playtales are awesome. Highly recommend. Proved entertaining for my toddler aged niece and nephews and also kept the attn of my 4 month old. Bold colors and bright colors. They are very interactive and cool stories as well.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2013
I first purchased two of the “book” apps—Sleeping Beauty HD Play Tales and Cinderella. They worked fine the first time but then would not open. (Kindle Fire HD 8.9) So, in frustration, I downloaded the free just Play Tales app thinking that perhaps you needed it to open the books. Cinderella opens but Sleeping Beauty still does not. I was also not happy with the idea that they download “trial” books to my device. I want to be in control of what is downloaded to my device. I really do love their books and think it’s a good idea but I will probably delete it. It just isn’t managed well and just not worth the frustration!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013
I gave this 5 stores because of the potential of interactive books that they offer. It is really just a portal to buy the actual books, but most are $.99 or free so it's all right.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2013
Playtales is a good app for my 7 year old son. The objects in the books move if he touches them. You only get 2 free books though. So I bought another one for 99 cents. He really likes them.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2013
This app downloaded and then froze. Had to get Amazon technical assistance to uninstall it. When it was installed it froze all my existing playtale books. Kind of a shame because I love the concept of these books and when they work they are great.
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scottish girl
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 6, 2015
love this
Kindle-Kunde
5.0 out of 5 stars Play Tales
Reviewed in Germany on October 17, 2013
Sehr gut gemacht mit dem Bücherschrank, große Auswahl an Bücherapps, kinderleichte Bedienung der Bücher für jedes Alter und Geschlecht.Gefällt mir gut.
john
5.0 out of 5 stars Increible aplicacion de cuentos.
Reviewed in Spain on February 25, 2013
Gran aplicacion de cuentos infantiles. Mucha variedad de títulos a diferentes precios.
Ideal para los más pequeños de la casa.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Obsoleto
Reviewed in Spain on April 28, 2021
No es compatible con mi sistema android
Carlos Villanueva
4.0 out of 5 stars Estupenda idea, infinitas posibilidades
Reviewed in Spain on February 8, 2013
Fantástico lector de libros, ideal si no se tiene de mucho tiempo para leer. Yo, que no he comprado software casi en mi vida, empiezo a pagar por estos libritos y por software de Google para mi Android por su precio realmente económico y merece la pena por algunos títulos. Otros títulos no son tan buenos, pero se puede leer un previo del cuento que más o menos te enseña cómo va a ser. Hay algunos títulos que son muy muy buenos y me encanta la voz de niña para leer de algunos cuentos.