Memory King – The Memory Cards Matching Game

For some reason, I had a hard time finding a basic memory game app. Then I found this one, and it is perfect! I use it with my aunt, who has developmental disabilities, and it is her favorite app. It times your performance, gives a percentage of correct matches, and has customizable cards. There are two drawbacks-the score takes up a lot of the room so the cards are not as big as they could be (which makes it harder for someone with poor coordination to tap), and some of the cards it comes with are similar colors (some animals like the cat and gorilla look very similar to my poor weary brain!) But it is an incredible app, and I'm going to buy some of the extra cards to support the devs cuz this app rocks!

My daughter loves memory, and I like it well enough, too. This version has some nice twists in the two special cards, one of which turns over every card in the game suddenly, the other of which turns over every card that has been previously exposed during the game. You can disable those if you like, as, with all Alligator Apps, everything in the game is fully customizable. I haven't played around much at all with customizing it but the options are extensive, including adding your own pictures. I recall that there is even a rather intriguing option to use audio and video together or even turn off the pictures so that you have to remember which word was spoken when each card was turned over. I've downloaded other Memory apps since and deleted them quite quickly because this one makes them all quite blah in comparison.

This is the best memory game out there. There are sounds to go with each card and you can make your own memory decks. The sounds are very helpful for memory, and the personal decks make things exciting for my kids. My only problem is for the higher card count games, the cards get too small. This is because of the giant scorecard on the right side of the game which takes up nearly half the screen. It's really unnecessarily large.