Stack the Countries™ Education App Review (iOS, $1.99)

Description

★ Featured on the TODAY show!
★ Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review
★ "Stack the Countries is worth every penny and this is an educational purchase that you absolutely will not regret." - The iPhone Mom

Stack the Countries™ makes learning about the world fun! Watch the countries actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!

As you learn country capitals, landmarks, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated countries anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of countries that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

You earn a random country for every successfully completed level. All of your countries appear on your own personalized maps of the continents. Try to collect all 193! As you earn more countries, you begin to unlock the free bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up! Three games in one!

CONTROL YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE: You can choose to focus on just one specific continent or play the whole world. You can also select which types of questions are asked.

LEARN BEFORE YOU PLAY: Stack the Countries provides 193 country flash cards and colorful interactive maps of the continents. Use them to brush up on your world geography before you play or as a handy reference tool.


HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD:
▸ Capitals
▸ Landmarks
▸ Major Cities
▸ Continents
▸ Border Countries
▸ Languages
▸ Flags
▸ Country Shapes

FEATURES:
▸ More than 1000 unique questions
▸ 193 flash cards -- one for each country!
▸ Interactive maps of the continents
▸ Collect all 193 countries and track your progress on personalized maps
▸ Earn FREE bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up!
▸ Play in English, Spanish and French
▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app
▸ Create up to six player profiles
▸ Choose any of the friendly-looking countries as your avatar
▸ High resolution pictures of famous world landmarks
▸ All games are powered by a realistic physics engine
▸ Fun sound effects and music
▸ iPhone 4 Retina Display support

THREE GAMES IN ONE:

STACK THE COUNTRIES™: Build tall piles of countries and try to reach the checkered line.

MAP IT: Tap the location of the selected country on the map. Try to complete the whole continent!

PILE UP: The countries are piling up! Identify and tap them quickly to get rid of them before they reach the top.


Stack the Countries™ is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play. Try it now and enjoy three games for the price of one!


PRIVACY DISCLOSURE:
Stack the Countries™:
- Does not contain ads.
- Does not contain in-app purchases.
- Does not contain integration with social networks.
- Does not use analytics / data collection tools.
- Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via LinkShare).

For more information on our privacy policy please visit:
http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/

Customer Reviews

• Teaches children to be snotty winners

  by wbhilton

  I don't like how the states in the stack grin like goons as other states topple off the platform to their demise.

• Response to Missing Countries

  by ภถุึคตจขช

  No.. just No... *facepalm* those 'countries' are COLONIES OF COUNTRIES!!! French Guiana Is Part Of France And Western Sahara isn't Independent enough or not a country in some countries. I Just Can't... Do Your Research Next Time!!! oh And BTW This App Is Awesome.

• Perfect

  by Gatorgirl12345678910

  Except for a few things that might be wrong this game is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)!!!!

• We love it!

  by Imagine13

  My 3 kids and I learn so much from this game. A fun, educational game.

• Pretty cool!

  by HavenandMaisey

  This is cool but you should add all the other countries on there.

• Love it!

  by Prof. Torg

  I started with "Stack the States" and have a blast playing with my five and eight year old. It's addictive to try and unlock all the games while learning capitals, landmarks, and flags. Stack the countries is really challenging and I'm looking forward to trying to learn all the countries. Fun way to play on iPad and not have my brain turn to mush.

• Fun game

  by Kelly Dayanne

  Fun game, not 100% accurate or correct all the time

• Missing Country

  by FaceFighterUltimate Pro

  This game is nice, but French Guiana is missing in South America. Also, Democratic Republic of the Congo has to be changed to Zaire. Because that name is too long.

• Amazingly Educational

  by Sgfdcvfdhg

  I love this game. It is great for practicing for the Geography Bee.

• Asd

  by Sjsjssjzz

  Good game but they need to add Vatican City

• could be much better

  by desertmonkees

  My four year old daughter loves this app just like she likes Stack The States but this app is much harder for younger kids who want to learn. Because you are dealing with countries, a much bigger scale in comparison to Stack The States, an outline of the countries or some sort of x-ray feature would be great to give hints for location, shape etc. The game "Map It" is just plain useless when dealing with placement etc. Some countries are just to small to even begin to see never mind placing them. A double tap zoom feature would have been nice for this part of the game. Her exact words "what? I can't even see them, sigh!!!" For about 2 bucks it's a good deal but could be better. The program designer left out much to be desired. This app could be so much better. I feel it was not really thought out very well. As mentioned in another review, the landmarks etc. should have a picture to go with them. If the program designer had given x-ray features (borders), hints, pictures for everything, zoom in etc. this could have been easily a $9.99 app or more. I got this for my daughter because she loves Stack The States and because of that game she has learned so much for a 4 year old. Stack The Countries is lacking in the wanting to learn area with a little help for a younger audience. If you have a younger child don't waste your money because they will even have a hard time guessing. It's a shame that such features are left out because these really are the better apps of this category. Because of this I'm only going to rate 3 stars.

• Great Game also Answer Comment One

  by Łęrdêß

  First off i am going to comment about comment one. So, French Guyana is not a country it is a disputed territory owned by France and Western Sahara is owned by Morocco. Now to say what a great game it is! Stack the countries is a great game for people who want to learn about geography. Myself I am a great person for geography so yes it is a great game! This is my review. I ALSO RECOMMEND STACK THE STATES IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT US GEOGRAPHY.

• Great supplement for geography

  by Home school Moma

  Fun interactive game. My kids really enjoy it. They supplement it with there home school geography curriculum. They have the whole US down with this game.

• Stack the Countries

  by Spot the Differences fan

  Awesome! Fun & Educational

• Could be better

  by Riosgirl

  Why no Antarctica? It is still there!!!!

• Terrific

  by Paxxalor

  An extremely entertaining way to learn world geography!

• Missing countries

  by Geoff_12889

  Would be five stars but it's missing some countries…at least two that I've noticed so far. One in Africa (Western Sahara ), and the other in South America (French Guiana). Not sure why these were omitted from the game. Maybe the developer had some reason but I'm not sure what it could be. Otherwise this is a great app to learn geography, even for an adult like me.

• Not geographically correct with Russia

  by gormamic001

  This app is great, but there is 1 major error, COUNTRY SIZE. They got the questions right, its just that if a child was learning from this, they would think Brazil is larger than Russia. I get why this is (if Russia was its actual size, it would be impossible to lose), but if MY child was learning this and I quizzed them and asked "What country has a larger land size: Australia or Russia?" and they answered Australia, I would delete the app ASAP.

• Such a great app!

  by Stelsaacie

  My kids really love this app, as well as Stack the Countries! They have no idea they are learning so much, with the fun they are having. It never glitches for us, and I can use the settings to focus on any aspect of the questions.

• Amazing! Although, update is expensive.

  by Sosuperawesome

  This app is exceptional! It is a great educational app for ages 6-9 especially. I was very excited when I found this app for my 6 yr old son. He fell in love with it and even though it was expensive, we bought the update. The lite version only lets them earn a certain amount of countries. Stack the states is also unbelievable. I would recommend you get the full version, but don't upgrade from there. Thank you!

• No

  by Skippy..

  No

• Game is fun and great

  by State-catcher

  The game is very fun and great, and I recommend it to children learning about the world. The only thing I have to say to remove is probably North Korea, and they should make the mapping easier. Some of the countries I can't see when I am mapping.

• AMAZING APP

  by SaltLakeVix

  This game I could play all day! It is such a great educational game for kids in any grade!! It dose not have any freezes or makes you stop in the middle of the game which some games do but not this game!!! I love it so much and there is another one to called stack the countries!!!!!

• Awesome!

  by Cyuxugf

  Game is awesome and good for geography!

• Great game

  by Eat right 2

  This game is great for people of all ages to learn the countries of the world. My kids (ages 6-12) and I are challenging one another to learn them.

• Great

  by shhwill

  My son started on Stack the States then graduated to this. He loves it. Best, most professionally done learning app I have ever seen.

• Great game!

  by JonasBrothers247

  My favorite part is the map it mini game. I can now correctly place every country where it belongs :)

• Great o Game! by Antonio

  by Busy but stylish

  This is an awesome game and is great to learn geography!

• Educational fun

  by AK's Mama

  I have found this delightfully challenging in that I am learning where countries really are on the global map. I just wish there were more levels for increasing difficulty.

• Yeah for Stack the Countries

  by Yikes!123

  I love this game! It appeals to my inner map maker!

• Fun & skills!

  by sfichialos

  Learn & test your country knowledge while proving your skills in balance.

• Amazing

  by joehug1973

  My children have learned so much from this app and Stack the States. My 5 year old can place all the states on the "map it" part and my 8 year old can find about 95% of the countries of the world now. And it's all from playing this game. I recommend it to everyone who has kids. I've learned a great deal of geography too! Well worth the money!

• Quinn

  by 8327qee

  Very helpful and fun I'm am 8 and I can map the whole world now. Thanks for the great app!

• Stack the Countries

  by Iem321

  Very good

• Husband

  by Lynn2131

  Nice game, great learning tool. Makes geography interesting!

• Educational

  by GrammyPie

  I'm shocked at how little I know about world geography!

• Amazing game

  by Qųxŵœźįñģ

  It's the greatest game ever, but it should include mountains and rivers and other landforms. It should also include religions. Other than that, it's perfect!

• Fun way learn geography!

  by Mike{%>,€€}|

  The entire family is enjoying this app. We have learned many new country names and (many) locations. A fun way to learn!

• Stack the countries

  by Straymutt :)

  The best and most interesting app I have. Oh,, and it's a great learning tool for any age!!! *****

• Stack the Countries is the Best Game Ever!

  by Anton Manada

  I love this game! It is fun and educational at the same time. I already learned how to memorize where all the countries are in North America and South America because of the Map it! It helps me so much and I learn a lot from it! It is also so enjoyable to play it and there are even two extra bonus games and they are fun so much too! I totally love this game so much. I once played it for six or more hours straight! I play it all the time and it is a fun way for me to learn and play! It is so awesome. I love Stack the Countries! <3

• Great

  by Rockingbox

  Awesome! I wouldn't change a thing.

• Very good as a ...

  by Fttggf

  ...starting point for learning world geography.

• Fantastic game for the whole family

  by kiwi343

  This is an extremely fun, addictive game. Our daughters (10 & 8) started playing this a week ago and learnt so much that we started playing just to keep up with them! The questions are a great mix of challenging and easy that keep all of us learning without getting frustrated. The girls have both won enough countries in the quiz section to unlock two additional games. The first extra game requires them to place countries in their correct place on the respective continent while the second requires them to recognize the country by outline alone. We will definitely buy the USA version once they have finished this one.

• Amazing

  by Sherreye

  I have traveled extensively and thought I knew the countries pretty well. This is adding to my knowledge. I have learned where many countries are located that I did know existed.

• Awesome app

  by CeCe07849

  Awesome app so educational and so much fun! I also recommend Stack the States and Presidents vs. Aliens.

• Stack the countries

  by Traveling the globe

  I love this game.It is educational it is really fun.I have learned lots of new stuff.It is very interesting and cool.I have first discovered this game on the App Store and when I played it it was very fun and I learned new stuff.I also won the whole game! It was very fun it is very cool and interesting.

• My daughter plays this nonstop

  by Jacob Hantla

  My 5 year old knows geography! She loves the bonus game letting her learn where countries are within a continent . We learn together while earning countries to stack. Super fun and educational. Complaint: the north and south poles are screwed so large that we can't even make out smaller countries in North America and europe.

• Good

  by G-Star!!!

  Great game but the countries aren't to scale.

• Only one thing I don't like about it

  by EDWARD ACKERMAN

  Overall a terrific app. But it misrepresents the relative sizes of the countries.

• Incredible!

  by Matt12354

  My 7 year old 1st grader has learned all the countries in a few months.

• Lots of fun

  by xx000o

  Challenging yet lots of fun for the whole family.

• Love it!

  by HayleyPOP

  This game is so much fun, I love to learn and this game has helped me brush up on my geography. I would recommend this game to parents for their kids. Since I downloaded this game I haven't felt the need to download any other.:)

• Stack the countries

  by Duet girl

  This is an awesome game. Everyone is writing about their children, but as an adult I am thoroughly enjoying it, especially since the names of countries have changed in the last 30 years. I also personally enjoy stack the presidents , and have refreshed my memory. It came in quite handy after a visit to the George W. Bush Library, as I was able to locate countries on the interactive globe, and was familiar with the presidents. Don't let the kids have all the fun!!

• Awesome

  by casidia

  Best game that I have!

• Educational Fun!

  by PestQuestSupply

  Great App to learn Geography! Bought this for our 6 year old daughter to learn/play together. We/she loves it!! Also, got her a Social Studies Award in Kindergarten :) so proud. Stack the Stacks is awesome as well. Hoping for more educational apps similar.

• Bought this for my granddaughter, but I love it!

  by Jmeltonga

  This app is helping me as well as my granddaughter to be more aware of where events are happening in the world. Also, I am learning to appreciate how large or small the countries I hear about on the news each night really are.

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