Go Fish ClubFor ages 4 to 8
Card games your child can play before they can read
Tap a frog card and the app asks, "Do you have any frogs?" A friend at the table answers in their own voice. Every card, every turn and every result is said out loud, so a four-year-old can play on their own, or with you on the same phone.
iPhone and iPad. $3.99, paid once. Nothing to buy inside the app and no ads.
How a game goes
Tap a picture
The games are pictures, the friends are faces, the buttons are icons. Tapping any of them says its name.
Listen
The app says whose turn it is and what to do next. If your child waits, it says it again and points.
Play together
Play against gentle animal friends, or tap a friend's face on the set-up screen and a grown-up takes that seat.
At the table
The games
The same deck in every game, so learning one helps with the next.
- Go FishAsk a friend for an animal. Pairs by default, sets of four if you like.
- PairsTurn over two. The same picture stays up.
- SplashMatch the color or the animal. The Rainbow Fish fits anything.
- Who's Bigger?Both flip; the bigger animal takes the cards.
- Old BootOur Old Maid. Don't get stuck with the old boot.
- SnapTwo the same on the pile? Tap your button first.
What's in it
- Read aloud in English and Spanish, with a voice for each animal friend
- Four animal decks that open as your child plays, and a real playing-card deck for older kids
- Gentle or clever friends, and a slow pace for the youngest players
- Plays offline, on a plane or in the car
- Progress follows your child to your other iPhone or iPad through your own iCloud
What isn't
- No ads, and nothing to buy inside the app
- No accounts, no chat, no names to type
- No links out of the app where a child can reach them
- Settings sit behind a sum written in words, for grown-ups
One price
Go Fish Club
Paid once on the App Store. Every game and every deck is included, and Family Sharing lets the whole family download it.