Please update!
Please update your apps. My kiddos love them and are sad they can’t play them anymore!
Undeveloped
The developer of this app has not updated it to be compatible with iOS 11 rendering it useless, especially annoying since I did pay for this app!
Love this app
BUT It hasn’t been upgrades to the new IOS by the developers 😕
Waste of money
Slow to respond to touch and boring
Big let down
My son loves the interactive alphabet, so I was really excited to this app for him but to our disappointment it wasn't even close. My son found this app very boring and kept looking for more games to play. A waste of .99.
Great fun!
This is great for small groups of kids. They can work on numbers and motor skills at the same time. The song and bees are really cute. I wish I could choose a larger number to start the game for older kids.
Great game
My son is autistic and he loves this game and it has really helped with his numbers
Nice Approach
What We Liked:
This is a solid, cute counting app with unique gameplay, it’s simple and repetitive, but my children think its pretty neat. They really like guiding the bees to the flower, and there isn’t anyway to lose, there are no time limitations, it’s a pressure-free environment. The app has been installed for around a year in our home, and I still find my girls flying bees around from time to time. It’s proved to have lasting interest here, even in a home with many, many counting apps. It can be difficult to find counting apps that go up to twenty, but this one does have that entire number range covered!
The entire experience is really fun and playful, almost pastoral. My older girls have fun getting bees to bump into each other and encouraging them to do aerial acrobatics. This app is also one that my girls have played collaboratively, taking turns tracing paths from the bees to the flowers. Only one player can trace at a time, but if they work quickly, multiple bees can be on their paths at one time, one needn’t wait until the bee reaches the flower to select another bee to fly.
Production value is high throughout with excellent artwork, original music, straightforward navigation, and great animation. Pi’ikea Street is definitely on my trusted developer list, their apps are all well designed. The app is simple enough for toddlers to use, but engaging enough that my older children enjoy it as well.
What We Didn’t Like:
There isn’t a way to jump to higher levels, children need to go through each and every level to get up to the 1-20 range of numbers in the fourth level. The amount of repetition on the lower numbers can be a bit annoying to children who are ready for higher number practice but who have mastered the lower ranges.
Overall:
Counting Bees is a uniquely interactive and fun approach to counting and early number recognition from 1-20. This high quality app encourages a relaxed way of playing in a number-enhanced environment and is also multi-lingual, allowing your child to explore counting in eight languages.
This is a solid, cute counting app with unique gameplay, it’s simple and repetitive, but my children think its pretty neat. They really like guiding the bees to the flower, and there isn’t anyway to lose, there are no time limitations, it’s a pressure-free environment. The app has been installed for around a year in our home, and I still find my girls flying bees around from time to time. It’s proved to have lasting interest here, even in a home with many, many counting apps. It can be difficult to find counting apps that go up to twenty, but this one does have that entire number range covered!
The entire experience is really fun and playful, almost pastoral. My older girls have fun getting bees to bump into each other and encouraging them to do aerial acrobatics. This app is also one that my girls have played collaboratively, taking turns tracing paths from the bees to the flowers. Only one player can trace at a time, but if they work quickly, multiple bees can be on their paths at one time, one needn’t wait until the bee reaches the flower to select another bee to fly.
Production value is high throughout with excellent artwork, original music, straightforward navigation, and great animation. Pi’ikea Street is definitely on my trusted developer list, their apps are all well designed. The app is simple enough for toddlers to use, but engaging enough that my older children enjoy it as well.
What We Didn’t Like:
There isn’t a way to jump to higher levels, children need to go through each and every level to get up to the 1-20 range of numbers in the fourth level. The amount of repetition on the lower numbers can be a bit annoying to children who are ready for higher number practice but who have mastered the lower ranges.
Overall:
Counting Bees is a uniquely interactive and fun approach to counting and early number recognition from 1-20. This high quality app encourages a relaxed way of playing in a number-enhanced environment and is also multi-lingual, allowing your child to explore counting in eight languages.
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Four year old loves it...
She plays this one all the time. The music is memorable, sort of bees buzzing a song, beware - you'll be humming it all day. Gameplay is smooth on iPad 3 and professionally done like all of Pi'ikeas apps. The artwork is gorgeous. My 4 year old has no trouble navigating this app on their own. I would like to see counting By 2's 3's etc. this app is well worth a purchase.
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Developmental Discrepancy
The premise of this game is a good one, and the art is really cute. The issue with this game is that the fine motor control it requires is to far ahead of the children who this game is developmentally appropriate for. Cognitively, this game is great for a child between 2-4 years old, however because the bees just keep flying, the bees bump into each other, and you have to draw the line right to the centre of the flower for them to land, it's really more suited to the fine motor control of a 4-6 year old- who isn't going to be interested in the premise of the game- they know how to count at that point.
Ways this could be improved to suit children who will actually be interested in it:
- Make the target the whole flower, not the centre of the flower. Or make the target size adjustable by the parents.
- Release the beed more slowly, and make it so they ignore each other, not bump off course.
- Make it so that the bees are tracked somehow on the screen. The honey jar filling up is again cognitively to advanced a tracking method (there's no direct link- it's very abstract) for the kids you're targeting with this game. I suggest instead just having little bee markers appear at the top of the page to encourage one to one correspondence.
- Allow for parents to lock the game to a certain counting range. Some kids might only be ready to work on 1-5 for a long time before advancing.
I really appreciate the art of this game, and the fact that it's available to be used in many languages. However the developers clearly need a small lesson in child development. Once it's improved it could be a really valuable app.
Ways this could be improved to suit children who will actually be interested in it:
- Make the target the whole flower, not the centre of the flower. Or make the target size adjustable by the parents.
- Release the beed more slowly, and make it so they ignore each other, not bump off course.
- Make it so that the bees are tracked somehow on the screen. The honey jar filling up is again cognitively to advanced a tracking method (there's no direct link- it's very abstract) for the kids you're targeting with this game. I suggest instead just having little bee markers appear at the top of the page to encourage one to one correspondence.
- Allow for parents to lock the game to a certain counting range. Some kids might only be ready to work on 1-5 for a long time before advancing.
I really appreciate the art of this game, and the fact that it's available to be used in many languages. However the developers clearly need a small lesson in child development. Once it's improved it could be a really valuable app.
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Half star
There must be something wrong with my download because the audio is horrible... It sounds like its skipping!!!
Boring
I bought this for my son who's 3 and still a big fan of both the Interactive Alphabet and Memory Train. He played it for about 5 minutes before I deleted it. It's slow, boring and the buzzing is annoying. He became frustrated thinking there must be something more. There's not.
Great App but...
It goes really slow. When you drag the bees to the flowers it takes a long time. My preschooler gets impatient waiting. Speed it up a little and it would be perfect.
This is a good one
Cute, easy to use for my 3 yr old. Cute and addictive song plays in the background.
Frustrating
Very cute concept and my toddler is eager to try it but he -- and I -- are constantly frustrated. When the bees get close to the flower they bump into each other and are diverted; if there are two or more bees near the flower it can be impossible to get any of them to "land." So disappointing, because Interactive Alphabet is an amazing game and this one has potential ... we really want to like it but it's simply too frustrating.
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Great for counting with the bonus of fine motor!
Nice app for counting. The music is relaxing and my daughter can play it by herself. The bonus of including fine motor skills keeps the counting interesting. Would be cool to have a setting to count by 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, etc.
No
Looks like developers got lazy with this one. Boring, nothing interesting. You really think that kids can do this same thing over and over and over. No! They just don't play it ever again! Shame and waste of cute bee design
It's a start!
I like it, but: needs a baby/toddler mode similar to the interactive alphabet. Also a free play mode where they can land as many bees as they want. The numbers on the honey jar could be black or dark brown so you can see it better against the background. It's cute how the bees laugh when you touch them. Seems like a good start but just needs something more.
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Interesting and challenging
The usual excellent and charming Piikea design! What's unusual about this game is that to count the bees the child has to drag them to the flowers - making the game a small challenge, good for developing fine motor skills. Another review faulted this aspect - for my 2.5 yr old it's a little trying too but also rewarding for him when he succeeds.
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Good, but not great for toddlers
Great for preschoolers, but not as fun as other Pikea games for toddlers.
My 1.5 year old likes this game, but he doesn't understand he needs to drag the bees to the flowers. Please add the following for a five star rating:
* a mode that counts bees just by touching them
* some interaction with the bees that peak out from edge
* some interaction with the bear honey jar
My 1.5 year old likes this game, but he doesn't understand he needs to drag the bees to the flowers. Please add the following for a five star rating:
* a mode that counts bees just by touching them
* some interaction with the bees that peak out from edge
* some interaction with the bear honey jar
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