Is this hopeless? Sorry, mini rant...

My daughter's dad got her an iPad for her 3rd birthday as he's an iOS user and wanted to be able to FaceTime her, and I'm not (outside of my work provided laptop). I know the system just fine, but I find the Appstore to be.... well, frankly... I'll keep those opinions to myself.

Before this, my daughter had a Kindle Fire tablet (2022 32gb) with their Kids+ subscription that had come free for a year with it, and she LOVED this. Tons of apps that were safe, she could download any she wanted and I could always clean them up easily. I just hated how slow the tablet was, and she couldn't call her dad. Since he bought it, I didn't care. So after the first renewal, I chose not to continue it.

The caveat, and what I've been struggling with for MONTHS is finding games for 3-8 year olds (she's super smart and advanced), or kids learning apps that are actually free - no in-app purchases being required, no subscription, etc. No ads would be nice too... is this just not a thing for Apple's Appstore?

I understand that the Amazon tablet did require a subscription, but it was decently priced for a year that gave access to TONS of apps. Not a subscription needed per app. The apps don't even need to be *amazing*, but dang it's hard to help her find new things she can play and learn on without spending a ton of money. I'm beginning to think the iPad was a mistake and just upgrading her Fire tablet would have been wiser.

tl;dr - in desperate need of suggestions for decent iOS kid apps that don't require subscriptions that aren't just like "here's one game only"