# Felt Board — user reviews > 52 indexed App Store user reviews of Felt Board by Software Smoothie, rated 5.00/5 from 8 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/felt-board/id492342753/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/felt-board/id492342753.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (14 of 52) ### 5/5 — Love! *2013-10-01, version 2.0* I think I love this app as much as my kids do! The possibilities are endless and we have so much fun creating pictures together! ### 5/5 — Awesome app! *2013-09-30* Update made a great app perfect. This app is open ended, creative and fun. The new update opened up more choices in backgrounds & felt pieces. Love the way the people parts & accessories fit together naturally now. Tip: to discard unwanted pieces- touch the trash- touch the unwanted item- then touch trash again when you are done. Took me a bit to figure out that one. Really can spend lots of time creating! ### 5/5 — Felt Board *2013-05-25* Felt Board is a wonderful app that allows a child to easily create scenes or stories from the ground up. Beginning with choosing a background from the 30 provided, to choosing the characters including skin tone and facial features, to clothing worn, animals, nature and so much more. Items added to the background are easily sized smaller or larger. This app is reminiscent of the felt boards used in schools, but much easier to navigate and build. Students/ Children will love the ease of building their story and option to save it . One of the best features I found within the app was the glue bottle which allows one to fuse the parts created together. This cut down on frustration level . Icons identifying the part needed to create from are unobtrusive and easily accessed from the left side. This is a lovely app that will bring hours of fun to those using it. From an education standpoint, it could be used during speech therapy to work on many different concepts and to learn new vocabulary, by OT to practice and use fine motor skills and in the classroom used as a tool to create a story to tell and/or write about. Beautiful colors and graphics. ### 5/5 — Imagination and fun in this lovely app! *2013-05-10* My 3 year old son really enjoys this app! It's simple and intuitive for him to use while offering tons of different props and accessories. We like to sit together while he is building his scenes and then make up stories and rhymes. This app offers endless fun that boosts childrens' imagintation and creativity. Well done! ### 5/5 — Love it *2013-05-07, version 1.2.1* Both of my kids ages 5 & 3 are loving this. I love the creativity it inspires without any gimmicks. Just their imaginations. Quickly seems to be becoming a favorite of theirs. Educational and fun! ### 5/5 — So much fun!!! *2013-05-04, version 1.2.1* My daughter and I had loads of fun playing this app on Saturday. She especially loved the feature of recycling everything from the board. Quality time spent over weekend with this quality app. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2013-02-20, version 1.2.1* My 3yr old loves to make his own story with this app. We make up story's together too. Sometimes I wander who likes this app more, him or myself. This is a great app!! Four thumbs up!! ### 5/5 — Love It *2013-02-08, version 1.2.1* I Love, Love, Love this app...Would it be possible to update so that boards can be saved? It would be great to be able to go between boards to support circle time songs, etc. Thank you!!! ### 5/5 — Good *2012-10-23, version 1.2.1* Really fun to pass time on my I pad!!!!! ### 5/5 — A Beautiful Felt Board *2012-09-20, version 1.1.0* Almost like a real felt board with lovely colourful felt images. I think teachers will love this. I have recommended it to a speech pathologist who works with Autistic kids because I think it might be a useful tool. I enjoyed the alphabet letters and the great variety of images including animals, costumes, backgrounds, castles, and letters of the alphabet. My kindergarten age grandson spent a lot of time putting faces on characters and creating knights with armour and swords and castles. One can easily save favourite creations automatically to photos files by clicking the camera icon. One can erase a creation by shaking the ipad and they disappear. This is a visual delight. Well designed. Well thought out. I am so glad I saw it listed on Mom's With Apps blog. I LOVE IT! ### 5/5 — Adorable scene making app! *2012-09-13* This is an adorable felt board like app with tons of options. You can build a variety of different scenes and make people wearing all sorts of outfits and having a variety of emotions. There are animals, plants, numbers, and letters that you can add to your picture. This would be great for younger children and older special education children. ### 5/5 — Fun app for kids that like to tell stories. *2012-09-12* I played this app with my 5 and 7 year old, we really liked the app. My kids and I played for quite awhile making different pictures and had fun making up stories to go along with the pictures about the people, animals, buildings, weather and plants. We had fun using our imaginations! ### 5/5 — A Therapy Must! *2012-09-11* An app that can be used in an educational setting, but that provides fun and entertainment cannot be beat! This app can be used for spatial concepts, following directions, math, letter recognition, describing attributes, etc. It is very affordable and provides a lot of bang for the buck! I wish more objects could be glued together and that there was a way to save pictures that needed to be completed; however I would recommend this app for use in therapy! ### 5/5 — Great alternative to traditional felt board! *2012-09-09* I loved the variety of scenes/backgrounds that children can work with to create their stories. I also liked the diversity in the characters that can be dressed, played with, etc. Also there are many more categories in this app compare to other scene making apps. This is a great app and unlike any other of its kind. I love the app as both a parent and a teacher. My son (2) was able to easily make scenes to tell stories. I was also able to re-create scenes from stories to retell to my students. This is a great app and makes a great alternative to a traditional felt board. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Needs better design *2012-03-12, version 1.0.26* I would give this a higher rating if the design was better, especially for the people. There is only one shape of body, and the face options are out of proportion with the heads and too goofy looking. ### 4/5 — Good *2014-09-12, version 2.0.1* But glitchy. Keeps crashing when adding clothes. ### 4/5 — Great App! *2013-11-30* This app is used by my class and is a preferred program. There are endless possibilities for the pictures that can be made with this program. There are a variety of categories as well as choices within them. You are also able to resize the pieces to fit your pictures. I recommend this program to other teachers. ### 4/5 — Nice app *2013-05-18, version 1.2.1* Nice app! I would like to see more vehicles included - cars, trucks, etc. Also it would be helpful to have a button to push that would erase the whole scene instead of having to take things one at a time. Did I miss these things? ### 4/5 — Great speech therapy app *2012-09-10* I often use felt boards, magnet boards and velcro boards in therapy. They can be used any number of ways including for receptive/expressive language, choice making, introduce new vocabulry, sequencing, story telling or narrative skills and articulation. The app is easily used cooperatively with students and is basic enough to cover many themes. Overall, my students enjoyed the app. The scenes and pieces were illustrated well - everything looked as it should - not too cartoonish. The "glue" feature was a hit! As a speech therapist who often travels between schools, this app. could potentially replace mulitple bulky items for me! ### 4/5 — Nice for narrative language *2012-09-10* Good app for developing narrative language skills: kids can construct a picture and then tell a story about it. Also see uses in the classroom, with the teacher using the app to help illustrate a story or demonstrate a concept. Would like to see some technical fixes, such reducing accidental placements (it seems very touchy and I would often 'place' something while trying to scroll through options), to make this a more seamless application. ### 4/5 — Nice straight-forward app *2012-09-06* I like that once a piece is set on top of the other (e.g. boots on the girl) they all move together, yet you can still move them when directly selected unless you "glue" them. Clever design! The general look and feel is nice, very much like a real felt board. I wish you could put pieces you decided not to use back in the side tray, versus the recycle bin in the corner. This may be confusing for some children. Also, it's a little difficult to scroll in the side tray - when I intended to scroll I kept accidentally selecting items and getting frustrated when multiples piled on the board. This is a very fun app for kids of a variety of ages; I would definitely use this in my speech therapy sessions. It may be a little hard for kids with less developed motor systems to navigate and control, but overall is pretty easy to use. I would love to see more "themes" e.g. common stories (Jack and the Beanstalk etc) ### 4/5 — Nice app for therapy *2012-09-01* I am excited to have a new scene-making app in my repertoire. It looks like it will be an engaging way to work on expressive and receptive language. My four year old also enjoyed it. Keep in mind that some kids may need help scrolling through the felt pieces, as it is very easy to accidentally select pieces (but it's also easy enough to throw away the pieces that you don't want). ### 4/5 — Open ended fun! *2012-09-01, version 1.1.0* This brings back memories of my kindergarten when felt boards were used. This is open ended enough that children can play/create a lot of scenes. I love that a person can glue the body pieces where he/she wants them. I would like to see a few more props like a firefighter's hat. This is a nice application. ### 4/5 — Fun app *2012-08-31, version 1.1.0* This is a really fun app. It's fairly intuitive and works like a felt board. It is handy that you can glue things together, though it felt weird putting the glue on top of what was being glued down! I found the drawers with bits and pieces works well and didn't take up too much of the screen. I did find though that when trying to scroll within a drawer, the app kept selecting items rather than scrolling so I had lots of unwanted items on the board that then needed to be put in the recycle bin. Having a recycle bin was a nice touch, too. Perhaps a slender scroll bar along the drawers, when opened, would help? Thanks. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Update for new versions of iOS *2025-10-22* There seems to be a glitch where as if you close the app, then the number of boards in the gallery will be how many you created. Please fix the bug. And have everything in the app the same exact features. ### 5/5 — good childhood game *2024-01-15* i remember in elementary i used to play this all the time on the ipad and when i got home from school truly a great time and memories i dobut that the creator will see this comnent since this game is over 11 years old but i just wanna say thank u for a great childhood game yayyy **Developer response:** We are so pleased that you enjoy our app! ### 5/5 — Wonderful app! I just have a request *2020-04-30* I’m a preschool teacher. I’ve recently started doing Zoom meetings due to the pandemic. I teach 3 year olds and I’m very happy that I get to do felt board stories, rhymes and games with this app. My class loves them! It is easy to use and intuitive. It functions like a real flannel board and I like that you can reduce the size of the objects. One request I have is for the developers to provide different colours of the same object. For example, I have this game where the kids guess which house the mouse is hiding. Originally, the houses have different colours. But because the house in the app has only one colour, I had to add a number to the house. Another reason for having different colours for an object is so that they’re easy to see even though they overlap. There’s a rhyme that involves 5 elephants playing in the bathtub that I’m bummed to not be able to do because putting them together in the tub makes them look like they’re 1 entity with multiple eyes and trunk. So yeah, different colours would be great. I’d even be willing to spend extra for those additional things **Developer response:** Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a thoughtful review. We really appreciate your suggestions and are so glad to hear about how you are using our app with your preschool students. ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2014-08-30, version 2.0.1* This is a really awesome game. It can be fun for older kids too. I am 9 and I love it. There is a lot of different stuff to work with, and you can be totally creative! ### 5/5 — A Must Have *2014-06-12, version 2.0.1* This is the creativity app that everyone needs on their iPad. It will be the dream app for early childhood and special needs teachers, children of all ages love it, and I can’t think of too many adults who won’t enjoy making felt scenes either. There are so many backgrounds, characters and items, and you can save your scenes too, which is a big bonus for my kids as they like to go back and work on scenes they have created earlier. What I love is that you can have unlimited pieces, and they never go missing! This is one of my favourite apps EVER. ### 5/5 — The Gold Standard *2013-11-30, version 2.0.1* I don't really know any way to describe this other than it is pretty much the Gold Standard for what a felt board app should be. Very well thought out, User Interface feels incredible. After a minute or two, you forget that you are using an app on an iPad and the experience transforms into what feels like, looks like and essentially is a traditional felt board------ but with all the awesomeness that software brings to the table. I would pay $20.00 for this app because it accomplishes and surpasses it's intended goal. Thank you Software Smoothie. ### 5/5 — Great! Lots of choices. Parents get this for your kids. *2013-10-20* I really enjoy this app. My kids do too. The felt objects are great and there are several options. As a future update it would be cool if you could start out with felt squares and "cut" to create your own shapes! I am surprised there aren't more reviews. ### 5/5 — FANTASTIC!! *2013-10-05, version 2.0.1* If you're only given 1 choice to download a creativity app, GET THIS ONE! It is creativity at its best! Great user interface, very easy to navigate, amazing graphics! LOVE it! ### 5/5 — Fabulous app! *2013-10-02, version 2.0* So great for creative, open-ended imaginative play. It's really fun to create your own scenes. Highly recommended for pre-schoolers! Very good app. ### 5/5 — Glue feature *2013-10-02, version 2.0* Great app! The glue feature in a previous version offers increased flexibility within the app. For example, it would be nice to be able to attach tree top to tree trunks and to be able to decide if items on the tree such as apples should be affixed or easily moved off the tree. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-09.*