Side by Play: Learning Games
Preschool Kids, Play Together
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Counting Board is free. One purchase opens the rest, for good. You read the line at the top and your kid does the tapping. No ads, no subscription.
Side by Play is preschool and kindergarten learning games for a parent and a kid to play together: preschool math, letter tracing and ABCs, a states and capitals game, and feelings. It's not something you hand over so you can get dinner done. You sit next to them and read the line at the top. They do the tapping.
It's built for about 15 minutes before bed, for kids 3 to 6.
Almost every game in here is one my oldest and I made up on an iPad when he was little. We spent 15 to 30 minutes on them every night, and he lit up. Now your family can play them too.
WHAT YOU'LL PLAY TOGETHER
Counting Board
• Adding and taking away, with the number sentence that goes with it
• Times as boxes, and sharing a bunch out onto plates until it's fair
• Area and perimeter, patterns, and naming shapes
Letters and Rhymes
• Trace a letter together. It checks every stroke, so half an A doesn't count
• A rhyming words race and a word ladder
• A silly picture made from your words, saved to the fridge
Map Pieces
• A states and capitals game for kids who can't read yet
• Drag a piece back into the map, then find its capital
• The 50 states, the countries of the world, or the seven continents
• Where we're from: zoom in on a place you know and talk about its towns, rivers, lakes and mountains
Feelings
• An emotions game: name the face, then make the face
• Two questions every time: when did you feel it, and when did someone else?
HOW A NIGHT WORKS
Pick 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes. When time's up, the app winds down on its own and shows the stars your kid earned tonight in a night sky. Stars buy silly dares the grown-up has to do: a silly dance, a song in a funny voice, one extra book.
More than one kid? Each one gets their own stars and sky. Just exploring? Just learning earns nothing and saves nothing.
FREE TO START, PAID FOR ONCE
Counting Board is free, all of it, for as long as you want. One purchase opens Letters and Rhymes, Map Pieces and Feelings for every kid on the device. No ads. No accounts. No subscription. It works offline, and nothing your kid does ever leaves the device.
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Side by Play is now free to download. Counting Board is open to everyone, and one purchase opens Letters and Rhymes, Map Pieces and Feelings. If you already bought the app, everything stays unlocked.
The developer, PettigrewLab LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- PettigrewLab LLC
- Size
- 12.7 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Every game $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pettigrew Lab LLC