Anyone have the Barefoot World Atlas for iPad?

[Halcyon]

It's 7.99 and it looks good, but does anyone have it? Like it? Hate it? Thanks!

[paminoz]

It's good but I ended up buying an atlas as well, not the Barefoot Atlas strangely enough- because I forgot about it as an option!

 

It's entertaining and they can learn quite a bit but I have had to insist that they click on the country before they click on the fun icons so that they can know which countries they are from. There is a bit of information that you can get more easily with an atlas and it frustrated me that you can't click on an ocean and get it's name.

 

I think there was an intro video available on YouTube that was helpful.

 

it's a veery big download too, that's another consideration.

 

I do like it. I should probably have waited til they were older but I tend to do that.

[SnMomof7]

It's nice. My 9-yo says it's her favorite geography app. It is a HUGE download. I didn't find some of the demographics too useful - like the temperature for the country is shown as an average I think - Canada (where I'm from) has a temperature of 2-10 erm. We go from -40C to +40C and I don't think 2-10 is really a great representation of what it's like to live here!

 

Apart from that it is a beautiful app, highly interactive, good for free-form exploration rather than research.

[maizeydaizey]

YES!!! And, it is my daughter's favorite app on the Ipad! It is beautifully done! Probably one of my absolute favorites as well!!

 

It is more for exploring and learning, not for research purposes.