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Coral Reef by Tinybop
Children explore a reef food web, hide an octopus and follow food through a jellyfish to see how ocean life connects.
Coral Reef is about how living things depend on each other. A food web runs from algae up to larger animals, an octopus can be tucked out of sight, a turtle gets cleaned, and a jellyfish shows food moving through its body.
- Ages
- Children; see age guidance
- Works on
- iPhone and iPad
- Format
- Self-paced
- Topics
- Science
- Listed
- 2026-10-10
Rated 4.4 from 47 ratings on the US Apple App Store (checked 2026-10-10).
What kids do
- Follow a food web from algae to larger animals
- Hide an octopus
- Help a turtle get cleaned
- Watch food travel through a jellyfish
Who it suits
The App Store labels it Made for Ages 0–5. Tinybop, for its part, says it tests the wider series with children aged four and above, so the two figures point in slightly different directions.
Notes for parents
The food-web activities could prompt questions about who eats what on a reef.
In these guides
- For kids who can’t stop talking about animals: places to look things up: Animal websites and apps for curious kids, from zoo and aquarium sites to apps about mammals and coral reefs, grouped by the kind of animal a child is into.
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