Releases by L'Escapadou:

Dec 20, 2011 - Children's app developer L'Escapadou today releases Montessori Crosswords 3.5, an update to their award-winning app for iPad and iPhone. Based on a proven educational method, Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their writing, reading and spelling skills by building words using a phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet and 320 word-image-audio combinations. This free update brings some new features and options requested by parents and teachers, as well as a list of Christmas-related words.

Dec 16, 2011 - L'Escapadou today announces Spanish Word Wizard for iOS, the Spanish version of their Word Wizard app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words, and provides spelling practice with a customizable list of more than 1,400 questions and answers. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check an unlimited number of Spanish words. Word Wizard has won many accolades and was called the "Speak & Spell for the iPad Generation" by the New York Times.

Oct 26, 2011 - L'Escapadou today announces Word Wizard 2.0.1 for iOS, an update to their New and Noteworthy Education app that lets kids hear the sounds of letters and words, and provides spelling practice with a customizable List of more than 1,300 questions and answers. Featuring advanced text to speech capabilities, the app can pronounce and spell-check more than 100,000 words. Word Wizard has won many accolades and was called the "Speak'N Spell for the iPad Generation" by the New York Times.

Aug 10, 2011 - Independent children's app developer L'Escapadou is honored to announce that Word Wizard was awarded "Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design" from Children Technology Review and rated 4.8 stars out of 5. Word Wizard is the first educational app that fully exploits natural sounding speech synthesis to help kids learn word building and spelling, and turns the iPad and the iPhone into a talking alphabet/language generator.

Jul 21, 2011 - Award-winning developer, L'Escapadou today introduces Word Wizard 1.0 for iOS, their new educational app that fully exploits a text-to-speech engine to help kids learn word building and spelling. Kids can now build any word or sentence using a Movable Alphabet and immediately hear the text they wrote, as well as verify spelling using the built-in spell checker. The app also features fun spelling quizzes including 173 word lists of 10 words each, and the possibility to create custom word lists.

Jun 23, 2011 - Children's app developer L'Escapadou today releases Montessori Crosswords 3.0, an update to their award-winning educational app for iOS devices. Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their writing, reading and spelling skills by building words from a set of pictures using a phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet and 300 words. Version 3.0 brings innovative ways to deal with phonics and has already been acclaimed by users on the App Store. It is now on the iPad Education Top 10 Best Sellers list.

Apr 14, 2011 - Independent children's app developer L'Escapadou today announced that Montessori Crosswords has been awarded "Editor's Choice Award for Excellence in Design" from Children Technology Review and rated 4.8 stars out of 5. Montessori Crosswords is an iPad and iPhone educational app that helps kids develop their writing, reading and spelling skills by building words from a set of pictures using a phonics-enabled Movable Alphabet.

Mar 11, 2011 - L'Escapadou has been recognized by Moms With Apps for their contributions in producing educational apps for kids and families on iPad and iPhone. To celebrate, Montessori Crosswords, L'Escapadou most popular app, is on sale this Friday, March 11th and two others apps are free. Montessori Crosswords helps kids develop their writing/reading skills by building words from a set of pictures using a Movable Alphabet. Moms With Apps promotes quality apps for kids and families.

Feb 11, 2011 - L'Escapadou today announces Hearts Extravaganza 1.0 for iPad and iPhone. The app is a fun graphic toy that allows anyone to literally draw carefully designed and animated hearts over a nice canvas or pictures to create stunning animated drawings, and share your creations via Twitter, Facebook, or email. A heart designer is provided to customize heart color, animation effect, beat and size. To celebrate Valentine's day, the app will be free of charge until February 14.