# Elmo Loves 123s — Learn about numbers with Elmo!

> Interactive educational app for children to learn numbers and counting through games and activities. (iPhone/iPad app by Sesame Workshop (Apps).)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elmo-loves-123s/id581585669 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sesame Workshop (Apps)](https://appshunter.io/developer/339077104)
- Category: Education, Games, Family
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 91 App Store ratings · 55 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 459 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2012-12-10
- Data updated: 2026-09-10
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elmo-loves-123s/id581585669/reviews.md

## What is Elmo Loves 123s?

This is an app full of games, activities, and videos, which will help teach your child about numbers and counting.

Elmo loves exploring numbers! This app has songs and videos about numbers. It has coloring pages and games about numbers. It has all the numbers from 1 to 20! Elmo’s friend Abby is here, too! Come on!  Explore numbers with Elmo and Abby! 

FEATURES
• Trace your favorite numbers to unlock surprises.
• Slide, swipe, touch and trace to discover sixty classic Sesame Street clips, sixty coloring pages, hide-and-seek, jigsaw puzzles, counting games and more!
• Touch the Abby button to play number games with Abby and her friends.
• 123s tracker for grown-ups to see what your child is learning.

LEARN ABOUT
• Number identification
• Number tracing
• Counting groups of objects
• Addition & Subtraction
• Problem Solving 
• Art and creativity

And if you enjoy learning your 123s, you’ll love learning your ABCs! Check out the Parents' Choice Silver Award winner “Elmo Loves ABCs” in the App Store.

ABOUT US
Sesame Workshop’s mission is to use the educational power of media to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder. Delivered through a variety of platforms, including television programs, digital experiences, books and community engagement, its research-based programs are tailored to the needs of the communities and countries they serve. Learn more at www.sesameworkshop.org.

PRIVACY POLICY
The Privacy Policy can be found here: https://sesameworkshop.org/about-us/legal/privacy-policy/

CONTACT US
Your input is very important to us. If you have any questions, comments, or need help, please contact us at: sesameworkshopapps@sesame.org.

## Key features

- Number tracing with surprises
- Interactive games and puzzles
- Songs and videos about numbers
- Coloring pages
- Learning tracker for parents
- Addition & Subtraction practice

## Chart rankings

- #139 in Top Paid · Education (US App Store)

## What do users think of Elmo Loves 123s?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Great for learning numbers
- 👍 Engaging and fun activities
- 👍 Loved by toddlers
- 👍 Interactive play
- 👍 Educational content
- 👍 Good formula
- 👍 Keeps kids engaged
- 👍 Many games in one
- 👍 Lots of bells and whistles
- 👍 Encouraging Elmo

**Cons**

- 😞 Elmo not prominent
- 😞 Videos with crying
- 😞 Tracing not accurate
- 😞 Inconsistent learning
- 😞 Paid app issues
- 😞 App crashes
- 😞 Screen orientation issues
- 😞 Ads in paid app
- 😞 Not worth the money

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Videos with crying in them
- Count video for number 14 missing
- Purchased features gone
- Elmo nowhere to be seen after intro
- Advert added to paid app
- App broken after iOS update
- App only shows half the screen
- App cuts off content in landscape mode
- Alignment messed up after iOS upgrade
- App won't rotate to horizontal position
- App displays offset, missing screen part
- Orientation stuck in portrait mode
- Sporadically won't recognize touch
- Screen cut off, app unusable
- Won't go full mode on iPad screen
- App no longer works with iPhone software
- Stuck in portrait, won't landscape
- Tracing not accurate
- Pop up ads in paid version
- Videos no longer available (resolved)
- App doesn't work properly
- App keeps crashing
- Crashes too much
- Doesn't enforce correct form when tracing
- Poor touch controls for tracing
- Keep on crashing within seconds
- App keeps crashing on iOS7
- Crashes and force closes on iOS7
- App won't load

**Most requested features**

- Remove videos with crying
- Restore Count video for number 14
- Add numbers above 20
- Add music videos
- Add number 0
- Add support for Portuguese language
- Add parental lock for settings
- Improve tracing accuracy
- Add more diversity

## Recent user reviews (10 of 55)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/elmo-loves-123s/id581585669/reviews.md

### 5/5 — I love this game

*2025-06-22*

I love Elmo loves ABCs and feel the same way about its math equivalent I thought it would be the same as the alphabet one and  I was right but I don’t care it’s such a good formula and fun

### 2/5 — Worst app ever 😡😡🇷🇺🇺🇦🪖🔫

*2024-11-23*

I downloaded this app for my little Dutch-born Sesame Street-loving daughter, Maartje, who loves fun and educational games. She had so much fun until she found…ONE OF THE VIDEOS FOR THE NUMBER 10 HAS CRYING 😢😭 IN IT!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Videos with crying in them have always bothered my daughter ever since she was only about 1 year old! They have always been her biggest dislike ever!!! They usually make her CRY FOR REAL, HYSTERICALLY!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 I am VERY ANGRY AND LIVID!!!!! 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 During Maartje’s Irish dancing class one day 🇮🇪☘️ at school 🏫👩🏻‍🏫(she wore a pretty pink dress), she didn't listen to anyone at all because of THIS APP HAVING CRYING IN IT!!!!!! (The number 10 video is what I’m talking about.) 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 HOW DARE YOU!!!!! YOU MADE MY DAUGHTER MAARTJE GET TOLD OFF AND SENT TO TIME OUT DURING HER IRISH DANCING CLASS (BECAUSE YOU MADE HER CRY AND NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE)!!! 
SHE CRIED REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD BECAUSE THIS APP HAS CRYING IN IT ON THE NUMBER 10!!!! 🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡😡🤬😡🤬😡😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡😡🤬😡🤬😡🤬
 TO TRY AND GET HER MIND OFF THAT VIDEO WITH CRYING IN IT, I HAVE TO SING LULLABIES TO MAARTJE ALL THE TIME!!!! (SUCH AS MOZART’S LULLABY (sleep little one go to sleep), BRAHM’S LULLABY, OY KHODYT SON KOLO VIKON (which is from Ukraine), TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR IN A BUNCH OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES (such as Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (both European and Brazilian), Ukrainian, Swedish, Finnish, and even Irish and Swahili), TOORA LOORA LOORA, NUKU NUKU NURMILINTU, AAA KOTKI DWA (WHICH IS FROM POLAND), AND SOOOOOOOOO MUCH MORE!!!!!! AND IF I’M NOT SINGING A LULLABY, MY DAUGHTER GETS SAD AND QUICKLY CRIES DUE TO THINKING ABOUT THE VIDEO WITH CRYING IN IT ON NUMBER 10 ON THIS APP!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬YOU PROBABLY THINK SHE IS A BABY, DON’T YOU?? NO!!! SHE IS NOT AT ALL A BABY!! SHE IS 6 YEARS OLD (ALMOST 7) AND HATES VIDEOS WITH CRYING IN THEM!!!!!!!!!😡😡 PLEASE REMOVE THE VIDEO WITH CRYING IN IT FROM NUMBER 10 AND THE APP!!!!!! RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬😡😡

### 5/5 — Toddler ADORES this app

*2024-06-19*

My 2 year old son can’t get enough of using this app and he absolutely lovesss Elmo! He’s such a smart advanced kid I enjoy him learning through the app and navigating his way through. He has the app figured out already I don’t even have to touch anything! I love this game only downside is I have to fight my phone off my son because he can’t get enough! Thankyou Sesame Street!

### 1/5 — (Activities are not required for a specific purpose or function in a particular environment)

*2024-01-24*

Your energy interviews with kids games does not work, ‘Valentina said’ NO, She did not want kids to collect skills from children, numbers are irrelevant expensively to her child’s education system, but she issued an executive summary that says: Is it possible that children, numbers are so bad in their education systems and children’s brains that their cells don’t produce any meaningful results from their studies, or is there something wrong in their learning processes that are not consistent enough, and therefore, I don’t play numbers are so poorly designed to learn together, that children who have a problem of unlock their purchases again! Very very disappointed!

### 5/5 — Jaylan

*2023-05-21*

Woodson

### 5/5 — Amazing app for number lovers

*2023-01-12*

My 2 year old loves this app and asks to play it often, it calms him and he loves doing the games too.

### 1/5 — Bought 2 weeks ago but I need to buy again??

*2021-09-10*

I just bought the app and all the features purchased are gone?!? What can I do?????

### 5/5 — Much loved by our four year old, though a Count oversight exists

*2021-02-08*

Thanks for creating a fun and intuitive app. This has kept our daughter engaged, happy and on-top of her numbers throughout lockdown.

Something she, our daughter, has requested - with some urgency - is that the Count video, for number 14, is restored. As currently, there’s a Count thumbnail but a different video linked up. We’ve tried to explain that glitches/oversights happen from time-to-time with apps but this has done nothing to quell the growing frustration/conspiracy theory that Count is becoming marginalised.

Please restore Count’s video to its rightful place of prominence, on number 14. For my sanity, if nothing else.

Cheers,
The father of a Count super fan.

### 3/5 — Where's Elmo? False Advertising.

*2020-11-05*

The app works fine on my iPad but the app has Elmo's face and the app is called Elmo Loves 123s so I was definitely expecting Elmo to be in the app. I am seeking a refund because Elmo is nowhere to be seen after the intro and you only hear his voice. False advertising.

### 3/5 — Why did you stick an advert into the paid app

*2020-08-12*

Be aware that the developers think nothing of adding an eye catching spinning advert into your paid app.

They have now taken it out - so as agreed I’ve removed my 1 star review, but if you buy understand that the app may become unusable for a while if the devs decide to release a new app and they stick an advert into your paid app.

## Frequently asked questions about Elmo Loves 123s

### What does Elmo Loves 123s teach children?

This app teaches children about numbers and counting. It covers number identification, number tracing, counting groups of objects, and basic addition and subtraction. It also includes elements of problem-solving, art, and creativity.

### What kind of activities are included in the app?

The app features a variety of engaging activities such as tracing numbers to unlock surprises, slide and swipe games, touch-based interactions, classic Sesame Street clips, coloring pages, hide-and-seek, jigsaw puzzles, and counting games. There are also specific number games with Abby and her friends.

### Is Elmo Loves 123s free to download?

Based on the provided information, this app is a paid application. It does not have in-app purchases or advertisements, indicating a one-time purchase model.

### What age group is this app suitable for?

This app is designed for preschool-aged children. It focuses on foundational number skills and uses familiar characters and interactive elements to make learning fun and accessible for young learners.

### Can parents track their child's progress?

Yes, the app includes a '123s tracker' specifically for grown-ups. This feature allows parents to monitor what their child is learning within the app, providing insights into their educational journey.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7.0 — 2026-07-29

Improved device support

### 1.6.6 — 2018-10-25

Minor bug fixes.

### 1.6.5 — 2018-10-10

Critical fix for devices running iOS 12

### 1.6.3 — 2018-05-22

Added iPhone X support.

### 1.4.0 — 2017-09-11

This update enables Elmo Loves 123s to be downloaded onto iPhones!

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