Every week, or randomly, I'll share an app my 19 month old loves. I've bought plenty and since my kid actually has his own iPad he appears to be a good test case and quite crafty at that.

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Toddler Counting is not the most exciting app but it is the most basic, and this simplicity is what makes it hot. At $.99 this app is worth it, you can't go wrong. There are only two-stages "easy" and "hard". It shows random images (pizza anyone?) and asks the child to count the items by tapping them, in any particular order. This continuous reinforcement of counting appears to be helping my own child, who went from not understanding numbers to counting. For whatever reason he loves this app and that is all it does, over and over with different imagery and a sometimes-laughable vocalization of joy from the narrator.

There are some basic flaws but what do expect for $.99? If the child gets too excited they can cut off the narrative, feedback of the words. Also if the child drags his hand across it by accident he knocks off about four numbers at once. But this is neither here nor there since it just goes and goes.

http://itotapps.com/Site/ToddlerCounting.html