The inventive children’s app Pok Pok is loaded with switches to flip, gears to grind, and blobs to plop together. Its new Code Factory activity gives kids the building blocks of basic coding.

What we love: Seeing kids build their problem-solving and logic skills as they play. Create circuits by placing buttons in characters’ paths to observe how each action ripples through the factory floor.

More to explore: Parents are encouraged to join in too. In the app’s Grown-Up Area, you’ll find suggestions for open-ended questions about the app’s activities to ask your child.

Where to find it: Tap the arrow on the app’s main screen.