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Toca Hair Salon 4
Create, Style, Repeat! A fun styling game for kids.
ABOUT
Toca Hair Salon 4 builds on the existing Toca Boca Hair Salon series that have been hugely popular among families. This wholesome app is a fun salon experience where kids can choose from a variety of starter looks and completely customize them. From new hair cuts to facepaint and clothes, this is at its core a dress-up game that really allows kids to go wild with their imagination.
The app is free to install, however, there are ample in-app purchases. The shop icon appears prominently just under the play button on the opening screen and there are about a dozen items to purchase, ranging from thematic bundles ($5.97 and up) to packs that include outfits, stickers, accessories, and backgrounds ($0.99 and up). There is also a “Toca News” area that promotes new Toca apps. Age verification is required to “learn more” as this links out to the app store.
Kids can also save photos of their creations to the camera roll to share with family and friends. Unlike some other Toca Boca apps, this has no parental settings, however, outside of in-app purchases, there is nothing a parent would need to be concerned about regarding app content.
While the app store has this listed in the education category we found zero educational value within the app.
SCREENSHOTS
GAME PLAY
Toca Boca Salon 4 is a great all-ages app for kids interested in simple, creative play. The app starts with 16 characters to choose from, with a great mix of ethnicities and genders.
Game-play is intuitive with a variety of screens kids can swipe through to style their character. There are numerous backgrounds and outfits to choose from plus styling tools to create out of this world hair creations. The makeup and face paint is only available via in-app purchase, so kids will see very early in the experience that they must make a purchase to experience the full extent of the app. The basic makeup bundle costs $3.99.
There are fun seasonal and thematic updates to keep the game feeling fresh, however, most require purchases to get the full experience.
Kids can save their characters within the app and also take photos against different backdrops to save to the devices’ camera roll.
REVIEWS
Toca Boca Hair Salon 4
- Value
- Privacy
- Educational Value
- Ads
- In-app Purchases
- Editor Rating
3.4
Summary
Toca Hair Salon 4 is an imaginative play experience for young children. This dress-up game allows kids to express themselves creatively in a safe environment over and over again. We don’t find the game to hold any educational value and the high number of in-app purchases may be problematic for some parents.
Pros
Creative
Safe
Cons
A lot of in-app purchases
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