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All About Apps

How Apps Work: How does an app work?

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Let us look at apps. We will see what apps can do.

Apps can help us play. Apps can help us read the news.

Apps can help us find our way.

On a phone, pinch to make a picture small.

Makers make apps. Some work alone. Some work in a team.

An app can send a note. It shows up on the screen.

Some apps cost real money.

Apps and games can have an age rating.

A mom or dad can block an app.

A kid must ask a grown-up for an app.

Words to know

  • note: short message
  • rating: age label

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For grown-ups: Peabody has no ads, not one, and nothing to sell your child. The Kids Pick, an independent kids' directory, rates its games 90/100. See what other free kids' sites load Β· Grown-ups, sign in Β· Already have a profile?