Hopscotch, free, iOS Hopscotch was one of the first coding-for-children apps to become popular and is still used in thousands of schools.
Purchase approval can also be set up to stop children buying apps or in-app purchases.
Apple and Google, for example, opposed proposals that suggested they would be responsible for the data collected by children's apps sold in their app stores.
The FTC has also sued Amazon over unauthorised in-app purchases made by children using apps from its Android store.
Dr Panda is another well-respected children's apps brand, with a range of apps offering playful takes on grown-up professions.
Apps For Kids, free on Android, serves the same purpose as the bigger Appsfire app, but with a focus on children's apps for fun, creativity or education.
A timely reminder that not all children's apps are punting super-premium-priced in-app purchases.
In a Microsoft study on British children and apps, 28% of participants confessed to in-app purchases made by their wards without their knowledge.
Made by children's apps firm Duck Duck Moose, WonderBox is a social app designed to be used within families.
App Annie's games report has a few surprises on the children's apps front.
A Word's a Bird, her bilingual poetry app for iPad, was on SLJ's list of ten best children's apps, 2013.
