Did your tweens and teens get new tablets\/devices during the winter holidays? If they haven’t already come into your library asking for advice about apps, they might be soon! Here are some already curated app reviews perfect for teens and tweens. This way you’ll be able to help your young patrons find exactly what they need for their new device!<\/p>\n
Photo App<\/strong>:<\/p>\n FotoRus<\/p>\n Reviewed by Karen Jensen, Teen Librarian Toolbox<\/a><\/p>\n Review Excerpt: “FotoRus is an app that does multiple things. You can create a collage, add a sticker or edit like a pro using the pro edit feature. My two favorite things about FotoRus are the Mag Library feature (InstaMag) and the PIP (photo in a photo) feature.”<\/p>\n Storytelling App<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Plotagon<\/p>\n Reviewed by Joyce Valenza, Neverending Search<\/a><\/p>\n Review Excerpt: ”\u00a0Plotagon encourages users to script a story\u2013selecting locations; building dialogue;\u00a0 adding emotions, attitudes and postures;\u00a0 responding to characters; choosing sound effects and music.”<\/p>\n Art and Architecture App:<\/strong><\/p>\n Apprentice Architect<\/p>\n Reviewed by\u00a0Daryl Grabarek, School Library Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n Excerpt from review: “Touch Press built a highly visual, interactive app with numerous opportunities for exploration, discovery, and creation in Apprentice Architect<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 (iOS, Free), an introduction to the new, Gehry-designed contemporary art museum in Paris, the Fondation Louis Vuitton.”<\/p>\n Poetry App<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Lark<\/p>\n Reviewed by Wendy Stevens, YALSA Blog<\/a><\/p>\n Excerpt from Review: “Lark, Storybird\u2019s Poetry app, is a digital incarnation of a refrigerator magnet poetry set, inspiring\u00a0creativity within a finite vocabulary set as you move and reorder the words it generates over an image.”<\/p>\n Puzzle Game App<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Last Voyage<\/p>\n Reviewed by Donna Block, YALSA Blog<\/a><\/p>\n Review Excerpt: “Last Voyage is an abstract puzzle game inspired by science fiction movies. It features hypnotic, minimalist graphics that often consist of simple geometric shapes; but also more cinematic scenes that pay homage to icons like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>.” \u00a0(Bonus: mentions of other excellent puzzle game apps!)<\/strong><\/p>\n STEM App:<\/strong><\/p>\n Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Universe<\/p>\n