FarFaria – Indie app of the day

What is FarFaria?

FarFaria is a children’s eBook platform that’s designed specifically for getting children engaged with reading. You can use it to read books to your kids or you can download books and let your kids read them. Since education is extremely important, that makes FarFaria instantly interesting.

Here’s how the app works. You download it and then you’ll enter into the free trial. In the free trial you’ll get a book to download and then your kids (or you) can read them. From there you must start paying a subscription fee of $3.99 per month to continue using the platform. However, if you do choose to pay, you’ll get instant and unlimited access to over 600 eBooks aimed at kids and the developers state that they add more every week day.

That’s pretty much it. It’s a simplistic eBook reader with an eBook platform attached not unlike Kobo, Amazon, or Nook. Each ebook comes with a reader badge to let you know how advanced the book’s reading level is so you don’t accidentally download a book that’s too advanced for your child. There is also a Read To Me feature that will read the books to your kids that is available with the entire library. Overall, the interface is also very simple and since this is geared toward children, that’s a good thing.

What is wrong with FarFaria?

The app itself appears to work very well in terms of compatibility and performance. There haven’t been any outstanding issues reported in terms of crashes or performance issues. It appears as though the app has a limited language support as some have asked if FarFaria will support new languages. About the only other problem people have had is with the length of the free trial. Some believe you should get more than a single book to try the app before paying for it but of course that is up for individual interpretation.

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Final Thoughts

Overall, this is a great platform for kids. 600 books may not sound like a lot yet, but they are adding new ones every week day and it won’t be long before the library is double or triple the size that it is now. Maybe even larger. You don’t get a lot of room to try things out before you have to buy it but you can cancel your membership at any time if you’re not satisfied. If you have kids, you should at least give the free trial a chance. Letting kids read is always a more preferable option than sitting them in front of the idiot box.

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Tons of children’s ebooks land on Android, thanks to FarFaria

Children from 2 to 9 years old and their parents are in for a big reading treat as the FarFaria app for Android arrives, bringing FarFaria’s subscription-based children’s ebook service to Android users.

The FarFaria app can be installed for free from the Google Play Store, but you’ll be able to read only one story per day. To gain access to more than 700 children’s ebook titles, you’ll need to get a monthly subscription (US$4.99) or an annual subscription (US$44.99).

For young ones and the once young

Stories in FarFaria are laid down on a map, which makes it fun for kids and even for the kids-at-heart. Stories with the same theme are grouped on the same island. For instance, if you and your child feel like singing a song, go to SingAlong City and select a song that you can sing along with your child.

Stories are also categorized according to reading level, so you can select a suitable story for your child. There is also a Read-To-Me feature for reading a story out loud to your kids.

FarFaria said that over 12 million stories from its collection have been read and over 1 million stories are read per month. Children using the app read an average of 10 stories per week.

Growing library

FarFaria keeps a growing collection of storybooks for children — currently around 700 — about a fifth of which are licensed from traditional publishers. The rest comes from independent authors. Chief Executive Officer Ajay Godhwani said that the company adds 5 new books every week. Godhwani also said that authors of books that are most read by users are also “the most heavily rewarded.”

There are also other competitor apps that offer children ebook services such us iStoryTime, MeeGenius, Rainbow, Scholastic’s Storia, Epic, Read Me Stories, and many more. But, most of them offer in-app purchases for additional stories to read in the app. In contrast, FarFaria’s subscription model won’t need users to constantly pay or buy stories for their kids. Just a one-time monthly or yearly payment is needed, and you and your child can access all the books in FarFaria.

Do you read stories to your kids? Do you read with your kids? Do you teach them to love reading? Do you use your Android device to teach reading to your kids? What apps do you use? Have you tried FarFaria? What makes FarFaria better than the other children’s ebook apps that you’ve tried? Let us know your experiences.

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News Games, FarFaria Raises $3.25M To Bring Children’s Books To The iPad

FarFaria, which has constructed a children’s subscription book service for the iPad, is saying that it has raised $3.25 million in Collection A funding.