1. DragonBox Numbers
Platform: Android
Price: Free
DragonBoxNumbers is an educational application that teaches children aged 4-8 addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Players progress through a series of levels, which introduce new math concepts and challenges as they progress. The game uses colorful blocks and tiles to reinforce essential elements such as rote memorization and repetition in a more engaging and visual aspect so they can build a successful math foundation early.
2. Endless Alphabet
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 8.99
Endless Alphabet is an educational app developed by Originator Inc. to help children expand their vocabulary and learn the alphabet through colorful and engaging animatics. The game presents simple words in a playful puzzle format, requiring children to define and describe the word’s meaning. Endless Alphabet also features multiple spelling challenges designed to encourage repetition and word learning in children.
3. Handwriting Success
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 12.99
Handwriting Success is an educational app designed to help children improve their handwriting skills. It offers structured lessons, practice exercises, and visual examples to help your child visualize and see every letter. The app also includes feedback and correction features to help the user identify and quickly correct any errors in their writing.Â
4. Spelling Stage Best Spelling Challenges for Kids
Platform: IOS
Price: 1.99-7.99 monthly subscription with free trial
Spelling Stage: Best Spelling Challenges for Kids is an educational app that assists children with spelling skills through challenges and interactive gameplay. Colorful graphics, animations, and sound effects reinforce a strong feedback loop so the user knows if they are pronouncing words correctly and also provide subtle hints to assist them as they try to spell.Â
5. Khan Academy
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
The Khan Academy app provides high-quality education to all ages and backgrounds. The academy teaches topics ranging from math, science, history, economics, computer programming, and more. The app loads video lessons with interactive exercises and plenty of practice problems to reinforce the lessons. Khan Academy is self-paced, making it ideal for all users and skill levels, and it offers resources and tools for teachers to better integrate the content into their own classrooms.Â
6. ClassDojo
Platform: Android
Price: Free
ClassDojo is an application that allows teachers to communicate with students and parents, making it much easier for teachers to create a supportive environment. Students can upload photos, videos, and documents to their profiles, and teachers and parents can provide feedback and comments. The primary aim is to involve parents and make their child’s academic and behavioral progress, ensuring clear communication through all parties. Â
7. Barefoot World Atlas
Platform: IOS
Price: 4.99
Barefoot World Atlas is an app designed to provide users with an interactive atlas of the world with cultural elements and landmarks. It uses a 3D interactive globe and provides extensive information and facts about countries, capitals, populations, and languages spoken. It also has an extensive multimedia library to show what each country is like.Â
8. Peekaboo Barn
Platform: IOS
Price: 1.99
Peekaboo Barn is an interactive app that shows young children different farm animals and their sounds. Children can tap on the barn doors to reveal different farm animals, revealing the animal, its name, and the sound it makes. The app features cute animations and sound effects and helps children develop early language skills and sound recognition.Â
9. Busy Shapes
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 2.99
Busy Shapes is designed to explore shapes, colors, and spatial relationships for young children. Children are presented with various shapes and objects, and they must match these shapes with their outlines or arrange them in a specific order. Busy Shapes teaches early problem-solving skills, motor skills, and color recognition.Â
10. Seek
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
Seek is a nature companion app that allows users to take photos of animals, fungi, and any organism with their camera. The app then relays the specimen and provides detailed information such as common and scientific names, habitat information, and range maps. The application encourages users to explore nature and earn badges and achievements for completing challenges such as finding a specific species or flora. Seek helps users learn about biodiversity, ecology, and conservation.Â
11. Play and Learn Engineering
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
Play and Learn Engineering is an app that integrates play-based learning activities with fundamental engineering principles to provide an interactive experience that encourages children to explore mechanics and simple machines. Children face engineering challenges or puzzles and must use critical thinking and creativity to find solutions.Â
12. Fish School
Platform: Android
Price: Free
Fish School uses colorful art and dynamic animation to teach kids about letters, numbers, shapes, and colors. It also uses cheerful music and sound effects to reinforce its lessons and ensure that the child is engaged.Â
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13. Mazaam: The Musical Genius
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
Mazaam: The Musical Genius is an educational app that aims to introduce children to music theory and composition fundamentals. The app features interactive lessons that encompass rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo, and dynamics. These lessons are distilled through rhythm games, melody puzzles, instrument simulations, and composition exercises.Â
14. Quizlet
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free, premium membership $8/month
Quizlet is an online learning platform that provides tools and resources to both students and teachers. Quizlet is designed to help you prepare for tests by providing customizable flashcards with text, images, and audio. Users can also turn their study sets into more dynamic activities such as matching games and quizzes.Â
15. ABCmouse
Platform: Android/IOS
Cost:$9.95/month or 59.95/year
ABCmouse provides a wide range of activities and videos that cover reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music through interactive games and puzzles to prepare them for kindergarten and beyond. These lessons and videos are also adapted to each child’s ability to ensure that the material always remains attractive for the student.
16. Winky Think Logic Puzzles
Platform: IOS
Price: 2.99
Winky Think Logic Puzzles is an educational app with a large collection of logical puzzles covering different themes with varying difficulties. It also features a colorful cast of characters meant to entertain your children and encourage self-improvement. Winky Think Logic Puzzles promotes active participation, allowing players to explore the puzzles hands-on and approach issues at their own pace.Â
17. Write About This
Platform: IOS
Price: 3.99
Write about This is an educational app meant to help children develop creative writing skills. The app features many writing prompts on varying genres, themes, and difficulty tiers. They are designed as launching points for a child’s imagination and stimulate the writing process. The app also allows kids to record themselves to articulate their thoughts more easily.Â
18. Writing Wizard
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
Writing Wizard is an app designed to help children practice their penmanship through customizable templates for tracing. In addition to letter practice, there are also style guides, such as cursive, to practice. The app even includes rewards and incentives to motivate children to engage with it further. With Writing Wizard, children can hone their handwriting skills in a supportive environment on their own time.Â
19. Duolingo
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 6.99/month
Duolingo is a language-learning platform that uses game elements such as experience points and achievements to motivate users to stay consistent in their lessons. It provides courses in over 30 languages and covers all aspects of language, including vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Duolingo also features strong community features so users can practice together and receive feedback and support.Â
20. Quick Maths
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 1.99
Quick Maths is an educational app designed to improve math skills through a series of challenges. These challenges cover basic arithmetic operations and allow users to time themselves and see how fast they can complete problems within a set time limit. Quick Maths also features multiple difficult levels, allowing users to unlock more challenging levels and the chance to earn higher scores over time.Â
21. Teach Your Monster to Read
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 8.99
Players rescue friendly monsters throughout the world using their reading skills. The game uses synthetic phonics to teach children the relationship between letters and sounds to form words, making it ideal for those who have difficulty learning to read the traditional way. The app also features progress tracking alongside achievements so children feel motivated to stay consistent.Â
22. Read Along by Google
Platform: Android
Price: Free
Read Along by Google features an intensive collection of stories and books for children to explore. The app uses speech recognition technology to recognize and analyze words, phrases, and sentences and provide feedback on pronunciation, intonation, and expression. For further motivation, Read Along features badges, achievements, and virtual rewards for reaching challenging milestones.Â
23. Reading Eggs
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 5.83
Reading Eggs is a subscription-based app with interactive activities and games to encourage them to read more. Reading Eggs covers all foundations of reading abilities, allowing children to build a foundation before continuing. It also uses phonic games, word recognition, spelling challenges, and quizzes to reinforce its concepts. Like other applications, Reading Eggs features gamification elements such as virtual pets and achievements.Â
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24. Epic
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: 11.99
Epic is a subscription-based app with a vast library of over 40,000 fiction and nonfiction titles. The app also features a variety of games and interactive activities to improve reading comprehension, spelling, and vocabulary in a fun format.Â
25. Moose Math
Platform: Android/IOS
Price: Free
Moose Math is an educational app designed to help young children with fundamental math concepts. Moose Math features fun animations and intuitive touch-based controls to make math more enjoyable for your child. The app also adjusts the difficulty of problems to keep the material challenging and interesting.Â
