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The app also allows you to view the original pages of the book on the screen as if it were a PDF rather than adjusting the text to fit (which is the default with most reading apps).

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The company also recently partnered with credit bureau Equifax’s Equifax Foundation and its Builds Credit Initiative, which are providing financial literacy tools to kids in Atlanta and St. Louis.

Her financial literacy app, which was featured on Shark Tank, uses celebrities, pop culture, memes and quizzes to teach kids of all ages about financial literacy in a fun, educational way.

Apps Try Putting Financial Literacy at Kids’ Fingertips. They can be valuable resources to help parents teach children about money — but may encourage risky behaviors, some experts say.

“Many apps do not divulge any information about their developers, and among those that do, very few of them stated that their development team included a literacy expert,” she says.