Playground TV app {Review}

Do your kids love to play with your favorite “i”-device? My boys do! They LOVE when they get a chance to play on Mommy’s iphone. So, I have a whole lit­tle app sec­tion on my phone reserved just for them. They love inter­ac­tive games, but some­times just want to relax and watch some­thing too. And, guess what?! There’s an app for that!

Play­ground TV is an app that brings commercial-free, edu­ca­tional & enter­tain­ing children’s TV right to your iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad. With the app, chil­dren can watch full episodes and clips of some of their favorite shows from PBS KIDS, Nick Jr. (iPhone & iPod Touch only), Dis­cov­ery for Fam­i­lies, Baby First TV, Sesame Street, Veg­gi­eTales, and more! In fact, right now as I’m writ­ing this post, the boys are watch­ing their absolute favorite show, Wild Kratts (remem­ber the Wild Kratts birth­day party?!)!! This app is great for a fam­ily like ours with young kids, espe­cially because we don’t have cable. We do get PBS Kids (through our awe­some bunny ears anten­nae), but we don’t get any of the cable shows (like Nick Jr. or Dis­cov­ery). So, Big Brother was ecsta­tic to find shows like Dora and Diego on the app! The app itself is FREE. When you down­load the app, there are a decent amount of clips & episodes avail­able right away (for free). This is a great fea­ture if you want to have a just a few edu­ca­tional & enter­tain­ing videos for the kids or if you want to actu­ally try out the app before spend­ing any money. Here’s what the app looked like on my phone after down­load­ing. There was a whole free sec­tion to scroll through start­ing with a full-episode of Sid The Sci­ence Kid! But, to get  access to the full vari­ety of shows included in Play­ground TV you will need a sub­scrip­tion. Sub­scrip­tions (which are an in-app pur­chase) are avail­able for 1, 3 or 6 months to start watch­ing every­thing, right from within Play­ground TV. A 1-month sub­scrip­tion is $4.99. A 3-month sub­scrip­tion is $12.99, and a 6-month sub­scrip­tion is $23.99, all billed to your iTunes account. Any of the sub­scrip­tion options let you watch on all iOS devices that you own – buy it once, and run it on both an iPad and mul­ti­ple iPhones!

What I like about Play­ground TV:

• It has many of the boys’ favorite shows (like Dinosaur Train, Wild Kratts, Sesame Street, Veg­gie Tales, and Go Diego Go)! And, they’re the shows that I like them to see because each has an edu­ca­tional com­po­nent to it!
• It’s com­mer­cial free & com­pletely safe for kids. No ads pop­ping up, no pro­gram­ming that I don’t want them exposed to.
• It’s super easy to nav­i­gate! Both boys (ages 5 & 2) had no prob­lem fig­ur­ing out what to do. There is a sim­ple, character-based nav­i­ga­tion. So, it makes it really easy for kids to rec­og­nize the char­ac­ters & select the show they want to watch.
• You don’t have to down­load indi­vid­ual shows and that there are mul­ti­ple sub­scrip­tion lev­els and options available!

If noth­ing else, this app would be FANTASTIC for trav­el­ing! On a long plane flight or car ride, this could keep the kids enter­tained for hours for just $4.99! In fact, we have a trip com­ing up in Novem­ber and I know the boys will love hav­ing this! Now, I just need to go get them some head­phones!

For more info about Play­ground TV (or to down­load the app), check them out at any or all of these spots: Play­ground TV Web­page,  iTunes, Face­book and Twit­ter

Dis­clo­sure: This post is part of a spon­sored cam­paign for Play­ground TV by Mobi TV. How­ever, all opin­ions & expe­ri­ences are entirely my own.