Absolute best ipad apps, especially for kids but for me too

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And no I daren't get Angry Birds as I fear addiction so not that please!!

Any for kids and also for me would be great.

Ds loves, peppa pigs party, turn the volume down though or your ipad will get smashed
Paint sparkles
Toy story pairs

For me i have a few i use a lot, ebay is my top one, but i do feel im missing something that will change my life so i will watch this thread!

Ps angry birds is cack!

Bejewelled and art of glow are good. Get a copy of Stuff mag as they usually have the top 50 apps each month.

I'm loving farkle! Dice game
Bejewelled
Misspells class
Make me a princess
Cupcakes by maverick
Words with friends - how old are kids?
I write words
Baby aquarium

Oh. These are iPhone sorry...
Oooh chicktionary def iPad

My DC love all the Toca Boca apps. Play them over and over. Where's Wally is great too.

I love Monopoly, Scrabble, Lego Harry Potter, and Geared.

Doodle Find, Horrid Henry, Sonic Racing, Shrek Karting. I'm going through all my folders to remind myself what my DC play most.

Another vote for Toca Boca - my DS has loved the tea party one for iPad since he was about 18mo.

We also like SoundTech - lots of animals/vehicles/musical instruments etc with sound effects. Good for vocab for young toddlers.

I like Tiny Wings, Cut the Rope and good ole' Solitaire

Little Things is good - you have to find pictures of little things inside a bigger picture

Also Pictureka is a good 'finding' game

machinarium! totally outstanding! not really for kids though, they don't have the patience (well my kids anyway).

Pictureka is fab

I was going to say Little Things too. Great, but a bit of a time waster, which is fine if you've got time!

The ap for TED talks is great - and the talks are fantastic. DH downloaded some talks for a train journey a little while ago and kept himself happily occupied.

Jigsaw Box is good for children and adults for basic jigsaws.

Shanghai Lite is a good Mah Jong game.

UNO (one player or family)
Smurfs
Star walk (great for star gazing, tells you which star is which and satellites too)
Fruit ninja
Plant v zomies (totally addictive)
Marble mixer

We had Machinarium for the PC. It drove me nuts!

I'd love more aps for DS but we've got a HP touchpad not an iPad so can only run a handful that have been converted

Criteroos, Osmos HD (DH addicted), boggle, big & small, in the night garden, eBay, next, h&m.

Scrabble, kindle for iPad, cut the rope, shape shifter, yahoo, newspapers, tunein radio (a must for xpats!!), FIFA, weather+, google, dropbox - if I can get it sorted, Skype.............

....should also have added Paprika, for storing recipes.

In our house we're big fans of:
Cinderella by Nosy Crow - fun, clever and English voices which is nice for a change
Singing Fingers - finger painting with music
ABC Go - good for learning letters
Toca Boca Robot Lab

I got hooked on Cover orange.

itot - brilliant! lifecycles, talking tom, unosudoku, blipme, puddles, skygo,
skyscanner. weight track skype, viber which is really clear, (better than skype for apple to apple) solitaire, ebay, kindle, met office, facebook, amazon, convert units, currency converter, google earth, sleep cycle, sudoku, top table, taste card, trainline, tubemap, itranslate, telegraph, times countddown, scrabble, mahjong, shazam, BBC news, telegraph crosswords, bbciplayer, trip advisor, btfon, groupon, mailonline, readers digest, linkedin, arabic, airplane, iwalk, occasions,

There are so, so many, but as an expat (ireland) I have to say that the BBC Iplayer app is well worth the sub. I've been watching Jane Eyre in the bath - bliss!

I love We City, Channel 4, Tiny Zoo, Machinarium, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Plants v Zombies, I could go on and on!

And Angry Birds is ok, but my kid prefers Trucks v Skulls.

My 6 year old and 11 year old love dragonvale at the mo