PBS KIDS Games

Fun & Safe Educational Play

Ratings

Age

4+

Games

Languages

English

Latest Version 6.12.1

Fri Sep 11 2026

Squashing bugs and performance updates.

Dive into a world of learning and fun with the PBS KIDS Games app, packed with over 200 free educational games with your favorite PBS KIDS characters. Play games with Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Alma, Rosie’s Rules, and more! Play Anytime, Anywhere: Download for free and play over 200 games. New games added regularly. Play offline—great for travel. Discover your child’s favorite shows, characters, and topics. Learning Games for Kids: Over 200 free games for kids 2-8, focusing on various school subjects. Explore science, engineering, math, and more with your favorite PBS KIDS characters. Play problem-solving games with Cat in the Hat. Learn about environmental science with the Wild Kratts team. Spark creativity and imagination with Daniel Tiger. Explore emotions and social skills with Rosie's Rules. Discover healthy habits with Alma. And more! Safe Games for Kids: Certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program. No in-app purchases. No ads. Play in Spanish: Access over 100 learning games in Spanish.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

90/100

PBS KIDS Games is arguably the best value you can find on the App Store for parents. The fact that it offers over 200 high-quality educational games for free, without a single ad or in-app purchase, is incredible. My kids love playing with characters they already recognize from TV, like Daniel Tiger and the Wild Kratts.

The games are genuinely educational, covering everything from basic math to social-emotional skills. The offline play feature is a lifesaver for long car rides or flights where Wi-Fi isn't available. It’s a safe, trusted, and expansive library of fun that every parent of a preschooler or early elementary student should have on their device.

Dinsun reviewed on: Sun Jan 21 2024

Features

Over 200 free educational games

Features popular PBS KIDS characters like Daniel Tiger, Wild Kratts, Alma, Rosie’s Rules, and more

New games added regularly

Play offline (great for travel, no Wi-Fi needed)

Discover your child’s favorite shows, characters, and topics

Games for kids aged 2-8, focusing on various school subjects (science, engineering, math, social-emotional learning)

Certified by the kidSAFE Seal Program for safety

No in-app purchases

No ads

Access over 100 learning games in Spanish

Featured In

Join a Playdate With Beloved Characters

PBS Kids vice president Sara DeWitt ensures every child feels welcome.

Upcoming Events

Lyla in the Loop Game Update

Premieres September 4 on the PBS KIDS Games app!

Fri Sep 04 2026 - Mon Oct 05 2026

All-New Rosie’s Rules

Premieres Sept.18 on the PBS KIDS Games App!

Fri Sep 18 2026 - Mon Oct 19 2026

Tips & Walkthrough

No Traditional Walkthrough

This app provides a collection of over 200 diverse educational mini-games. A traditional 'walkthrough' is not applicable as users can select and play games based on their interest and learning goals. Each game offers intuitive gameplay designed for young children.

Gameplays

Diverse Educational Mini-Games

The app features over 200 free educational games covering a wide range of subjects. Children can engage in problem-solving games with Cat in the Hat, learn environmental science with Wild Kratts, spark creativity with Daniel Tiger, explore emotions with Rosie's Rules, and discover healthy habits with Alma. Games focus on science, engineering, math, and social-emotional learning, suitable for kids aged 2-8.

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Q&A

No, PBS KIDS Games is completely free with no advertisements and no in-app purchases.

Ratings & Reviews

Wonderful, but last update...

Tue Jun 26 2018 Dalianguy

My son and I play these games together regularly. He loves them, they give us lots of new things to interact over, and they have seeded some new interests for him. Thanks to Cookie Creator, for example, my boy got very interested in all of the measurements and following instructions in recipes and even makes some predictions about the kinds of cookies we’re making based on how much of the ingredients we use. The good games are really good, engaging, and help to develop key skills, and most of the games are good. Everything was fine until the last update. We were playing one of the games yesterday, and he wanted to switch to another, but all but four of the games we had downloaded had disappeared, including the one we had just been playing. (We generally play offline, even when a network is available, to keep things limited to the age-appropriate games I have selected for download.) Later, when I got back online to download the games again, it clearly has reset the storage limit, and I can’t for the life of me find the “grown-ups” settings menu to set it back. After about ten minutes, it also changed my home PBS station, which I had previously set in settings—perhaps because I am on the road?

Play games

Tue Apr 26 2022 Hi i'm a game reviewer

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Complicated for little ones to navigate

Fri Aug 07 2020 Erica Welsh

My son and I adore this app. I love that it is free, and I love the variety it has and the fact that it’s an app that can grow with him. I love that it is safe, and there are no ads or links that can take him anywhere I don’t want him to be. It’s so wonderful that it’s free, and I’m so grateful for that!! I haven’t found /any/ other app like it. But I have one tiny suggestion that will make it significantly better for us. There are so many games on this app, and a lot of them are meant for older kids. My phone is always connected to WiFi, and so when he plays by himself, he tends to download games that he just can’t understand, and then he gets stuck in them and frustrated. And so I was wondering if you could add a toggle switch on the grownups page, to toggle between “Show all games” and “show only downloaded games” on the home page. That way it will be easier for him to choose his own games and only play the ones he knows how to play, but when he gets a little older and gains more skills, I can see them all and choose new ones for him. 5 stars, if someday there is that option. 4 stars for now, because it’s just too hard for him to use.

Disappointed with continually having to re-download games

Sat Mar 02 2019 adonutgirl

It seems that the frustrations I have with this app are the same ones that parents were reviewing about a year ago - losing downloaded games at random and having to re-download. I have set the space allowance high on purpose to supposedly not have this happen, and yet whenever I have updated the app we lose games, which is super frustrating for my five year old and me as well, especially as we live in a remote place and don’t have the best internet access all the time. On top of this issue, the interface is such that when scrolling through the games my child often accidentally clicks them which begins the downloading process, which can not be stopped! We currently have over thirty games attempting to load which have been going nowhere for weeks. If I was able to at least pause some of the open downloads we might have some success but I have not found any way of doing this. My daughter and I loved this app at the start but it has become so frustrating she barely chooses to play on it now. If these issues were fixed, this app would be very highly rate in my opinion, but with the current issues, it’s only mediocre. If I’m missing something that fixes these problems, please let me know.

Good but

Sun Sep 20 2026 D0GM4NF4N 🦮🧍‍♂️

There is a show that I absolutely despise called Molly of Denali (Molly: that’s not me I’m a tadpole!) I hate it cuz it abuses animals and also an XRATSM game that when I was very young (I’m a kid btw) made me rage but if the developers are reading this remove MOD (Molly of Denali) also bring back Martha speaks and dragon tales and curse weather hunters cuz in weather reporter it told me that something I said wasn’t realistic and in weather explorers it’s SOOOOOOOO HARD like imagine emojis are difficulty levels this is how hard it is 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 and I was raged to the point where I said bad things about weather hunters and my tom repeated after me (thank goodness for the existence of my talking tom 2) btw the outfit7 rumors are fake and bring back the thing where you could tap on the characters and they would change expressions bye edit: now I can’t even open the app it just says OOps SomEthiNG wEnt wROng 🤓👆and something about these age checks plz fix this edit: also in the phoebe and jay dance party game if you choose the blue tie and jacket for jay then pheobe will wear the purple dress with a bow which disrespects lgbt 🏳️‍🌈

It’s actually not too bad

Thu Jun 13 2024 Spin spidey, 16

I mean some of the games I actually do like but some of them I mean like some of the characters in some of the games like boss you around I don’t like that it’s like baby hazel, but it’s not there’s different games like there’s different apps in baby Hazel so like like it it’s not too bad I mean when I was littler I liked it more but I just give it 3 stars because now I’m seven years old and I don’t know why it just gives me that feeling like it’s going to go in my nightmares like usually I feel like I’m gonna have a nightmare, even though I don’t so yeah it doesn’t do bad like now I am terrified of him because he always smiles and he always feel sad and I feel good about that. Just like Sophie from cherry Pop productions gaming like hates baby Hazel and I hate Daniel Tiger now this is like it isn’t too bad like but I mean it could be a bit better like Daniel Tiger gets replaced from for like like a different version of Toca life world because it is educational and like you can like imagine stuff in Toca life world it’s it’s yeah that’s good and it’s for kids like it’s honestly pretty good not too bad like sometimes it gets a bit glitchy though but yeah it’s fine

Please read developers very important!

Thu Feb 29 2024 Ella_PlayzYT💕💫

Hi! I’m 9 and I just want to tell you I love this game! It’s very educational and I love how you made it educational! It’s so fun, and I love wild Kratts, Rosie’s slime store, and secretly 🤫 Daniel Tiger. I love all these games! But however their are some problems… … … … … … … … … an that is no problems! Lol tricked ya! And it’s very educational and they teach you animals, feelings, even math kind of but it’s fun! An anyways, I just love PBS kids. And I’m sorry about the last review I made. I said to make the game more fun. But now I play it all the time! It’s so cute and it’s so cute! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰!!!!!!!! So the ages basically should not be 4+… it should be 4-100! It’s a great game and I hope you keep working on this game and making it more better! Thanks, for reading! BYE and have a great day and just remember PBS kids is awesome! And parents, I totally recommend this game! It’s awesome and I’ve been wanting to play this game for the rest of my life! 😅😅😅😅😅😅😍😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🤫🤫🤫❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Well love, love love love love love love love love this game five star I’m seven also

Mon Dec 22 2025 Mary Catherine Louque

So I am seven also and I love love love this game so much just love it more than anything. I hope this is helpful. OK maybe not more than anything but I really love this game and I have a great idea for a mini game so first the game would spin the wheel and then it would give you a surprise nickname when you have your nickname PS it would have if you were if you were seven or older, you could be called something like cool gamer, black gamer if you weren’t then do you would have to be called something else and before you play the game, you have to tell the game how old you are and then you will get into the game based on what holiday is coming up you get a special theme and in the game ends if you were five or younger, you would have you would get first place but if you were seven or older, you would you would get the actual place you place you got on the podium and PSS sorry I made this so long