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36 resources · Apps & digital tools
ScratchJr
A playful first coding app where young children create interactive stories and games with picture-based programming blocks.
Duolingo ABC
A playful early-literacy app with phonics, handwriting, sight words, vocabulary, and interactive stories.
Phonicademy
A structured phonics learning site with 44 sounds, browser games, decodable printables, parent guides, and companion mobile apps.
Math Learning Center Apps
Free visual math tools for fractions, geometry, number sense, time, money, patterns, and mathematical thinking.
Kodu Game Lab
A visual game-making environment for children to build 3D worlds, stories, and games with simple programming tiles.
Knowledge Kids
Commercial-free children’s videos, games, live TV, and shows from Knowledge Network for children ages two to eight.
eduActiv8
Free open-source educational activities for ages 3–10, covering math, language, logic, memory, and more.
Highlights Kids
Stories, puzzles, crafts, jokes, games, and creative activities from Highlights for children.
Science Museum Adventure
A kid-focused science museum adventure with illustrated articles, mini-games, and facts about dinosaurs, space, and inventions.
Forest Kids Game
A free FAO educational video game that teaches children about forests, biodiversity, climate, and ecosystem restoration through mini-games and exploration of four forest biomes.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A phonics adventure game that takes children from first letter sounds through early sentences and little books.
Alice
A creative programming environment for building 3D stories, animations, and games while learning computational thinking and object-oriented programming.
Karim and Jana Words Journey
This official Qatar Reading Foundation app supports Arabic literacy for young children through a playful words journey with no ads or subscriptions.
QuillQuest
A free spelling, times-tables, division, and touch-typing practice adventure for grades 3–8, with browser play and separate mobile apps.
Measure! Everything!
A free MathTalk augmented-reality app from Ohio’s Statewide Family Engagement Center that turns everyday surroundings into family measurement and spatial-reasoning activities.
Greenfoot
A beginner-friendly programming environment where learners create games and simulations with visual worlds and real Java code.
CodePaw
A free coding app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with guided lessons, quizzes, labs, and projects in web development, Python, Swift, and data.
OctoStudio
A free mobile coding app from the creators of Scratch that lets children create animations and games with block-based code.
Go Math
Go Math is a guided math practice app with step-by-step explanations, hundreds of topics, and practice across arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and problem solving.
Todo Math
Todo Math is a conceptual math app for ages 4–9 with personalized lessons covering counting, arithmetic, place value, geometry, measurement, fractions, multiplication, and division.
CoddyKit Learn JavaScript for Kids
CoddyKit’s beginner coding app starts with tappable JavaScript, then builds through block puzzles, short courses, missions, and a code editor for young learners.
ChildSafe
ChildSafe is a small collection of calm, ad-free kids apps, currently featuring CritterWords for vocabulary and spelling with a playable web version and an official iOS listing.
Tivumo
Tivumo is a visual mathematics app where children move representations to understand fractions, algebra, geometry, data, probability, and calculus.
Forest Kids
An FAO educational game about forests, biodiversity, climate, and restoration, with mini-games that take children on an expedition through different forest biomes.
Matobur
Matobur is a math practice app for ages 5–10 where children solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, comparison, and division challenges while building a virtual town and collecting animal friends.
Switch Zoo
Animal games, habitat activities, animal profiles, music, and teacher resources for exploring animals and ecosystems.
codeSpark Academy
A game-based coding platform for children with coding challenges, creative projects, and activities designed for early learners.
Mia & Codie: Coding for Kids
Mia & Codie combines short story episodes with visible sequencing and coding challenges so young children can explore computational thinking, early logic, patterns, and creative problem-solving without needing to read independently.
Curious Reader
A free Android literacy app from Curious Learning Org with games and stories that help children recognise letters, spell, and begin reading.
Pickles
An iOS app for grades K–5 that locks selected apps until children earn screen minutes by solving adaptive maths problems covering number sense, arithmetic, word problems, time, and graphs.
Totle: Kids Reading & Math
Totle is a calm early-learning app with guided phonics, reading, counting, shapes, patterns, addition, and subtraction activities.
EdNoKa
EdNoKa is a family-built educational game with five mini-game worlds and 36 quizzes covering math, science, social studies, and language for ages 8–11.
algo.kids
An AI-assisted coding platform where children describe and build games, stories, and websites while learning how the code works.
Quick Math
Quick Math is an Android mental-arithmetic game with practice modes and timed challenges designed to make basic calculation practice feel playful.
Bloopi: Kids Learning Games
Bloopi is a calm early-learning Android app with numbers, letters, counting, tracing, memory, creative play, parent controls, and offline access.
PlayMMOMA
An educational online game from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art that introduces children to contemporary-art concepts, museum works, and making their own artworks.