Common Sense Media Review
By Christy Matte
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Innovative, fun animal app interacts with TV show.
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Why Age 3+?
Any Positive Content?
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ZooMoo
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What's It About?
ZOOMOO is an educational TV show based in New Zealand that focuses on teaching kids more about the animal world around us, including conservation efforts. The app is an extension of that, allowing kids to collect and learn more about animals from eight habitats, including oceans, forests, mountains, deserts, rainforests, grasslands, rivers, and polar regions. Within each habitat, kids earn animated animal stickers they can place. Each animal also has a trading card with information about its eating habits and conservation status. Kids can also hatch or gain baby animals and watch a video of the animal. As kids interact with their stickers and collector cards, they gain points. As the points add up, kids earn packs of trading cards. Cards might contain food or other items for use with animals in the habitat screen. They might even earn a new animal. If kids use the app while watching the ZooMoo TV show, they can earn additional content specific to the topic of the show they have on. Once on the habitat screen, kids can move animals around, feed them, and bathe them. They can also take pictures of their favorite scenes.
Is It Any Good?
The play experience isn't as innovative as the TV show interaction, but kids likely will enjoy creating their own scenes. ZooMoo has a certain cool factor that many kids will find downright magical. They will find it amazing when a creature flies off their device screen onto the TV and then returns with a special gift. Collecting trading packs -- especially when they have new animals -- is also fun. It has a great open-ended vibe, but it's lacking in activities once you've fed your animals and arranged them on the screen. Some kids might run with the creative component, enacting various scenarios, but others will be lost in the lack of structure. Overall, though, for a free app with an innovative component, kids will have plenty of entertainment and learn something in the process.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about animal habitats found in ZooMoo. What kinds of habitats exist near your home? What types of animals live in those habitats?
How do you like this app as compared with other apps you could use? If you had to choose the best use of your time on a screen, would you pick this app over other apps on your device for communication? Why, or why not?
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad , Android
- Subjects : Science : animals , ecosystems and the environment
- Skills : Creativity : making new creations
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : April 16, 2017
- Genre : Educational Games
- Topics : Animals ( Bugs , Ocean Creatures , Wild Animals )
- Publisher : ZooMoo Ltd
- Version : 1.4.11
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 6.0 or later; Android 4.0 and up
- Last updated : October 1, 2025
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