Apps & digital tools
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36 resources · Apps & digital tools
BBC Bitesize
Free curriculum-linked lessons, games, quizzes, and study support for children and teenagers.
Storyline Online
Award-winning actors read children’s books aloud with activity guides.
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.
Read Along by Google
A free reading companion that listens as children read aloud and provides pronunciation support, stories, badges, and practice in multiple languages.
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.
eRead Kids Digital Library
Georgia Public Library Service’s digital library gives children access to more than 45,000 English and Spanish ebooks and audiobooks, from picture books and basic readers to graphic novels and chapter books.
Dino Kids
Dino Kids is a free, offline-friendly learning app with drawing, handwriting, phonics, early math, music, stories, and language activities in five languages.
Highlights Kids
Stories, puzzles, crafts, jokes, games, and creative activities from Highlights for children.
NFB Education
Canadian film-based learning resources, playlists, study guides, and digital storytelling activities for classrooms and curious learners.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A phonics adventure game that takes children from first letter sounds through early sentences and little books.
Epic Kids
A digital library for kids with books, audiobooks, videos, and reading discovery for children through age 12.
Microsoft Reading Coach
A free reading practice tool with AI-powered stories, personalized word practice, educator guidance, and multilingual reading support.
StoryWeaver Audio Adventures
StoryWeaver offers a curated library of imaginative audio stories for young listeners, with age labels, free monthly listening, family profiles, and optional premium listening and story creation.
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.
Kkomi
Kkomi is a browser-based AI read-aloud companion from LEADKIDS: children read picture books aloud, receive reading support and questions, and guardians can follow reading and thinking reports.
Storyboat
A bedtime story app for ages 3–8 with original illustrated stories, read-aloud narration, and highlighted words.
QuillQuest
A free spelling, times-tables, division, and touch-typing practice adventure for grades 3–8, with browser play and separate mobile apps.
LOTE4Kids at State Library of Western Australia
The State Library of Western Australia’s LOTE4Kids access page connects children with thousands of picture books and audiobooks in world languages through a library-supported web service and mobile apps.
Mighty Little Monkey
Mighty Little Monkey is a bilingual read-along app retelling Journey to the West in fifty picture books with word-by-word narration, quizzes, vocabulary, two reading levels, and twelve language options.
Learning App for Kids
Free bilingual English-Urdu learning for playgroup through Grade 5 with maths, language, science, and world topics.
KidSpin
KidSpin is a free Android preschool learning app for ages 3–7 with English phonics and tracing, Urdu qaida, counting, maths, stories, and optional Islamic learning modules in English and Urdu.
Pagine
A free digital library with picture books, early readers, chapter books, audiobooks, and public-domain classics in more than 150 languages.
Samio Learning
Samio Learning is an adaptive app for ages 4–12 covering reading, math, coding, grammar, time-telling, and creative work through seven research-based stages.
ZigZu
A reading coach for children ages 4–8 that listens as they read levelled storybooks aloud and provides real-time pronunciation and phonics support.
StoryBeam Kids
A closed-catalog story app and website with short audio stories, transcripts, printable discussion guides, and age labels for family listening.
FUNetix
FUNetix is a free reading app and browser module for children ages 5–9, using a game-like 12-hour curriculum to move from alphabet knowledge toward an approximate second-grade reading level.
Timber
An iPhone and iPad reader that turns webpages, PDFs, books, and printed pages into spoken audio in many languages.
Curious Reader
A free Android literacy app from Curious Learning Org with games and stories that help children recognise letters, spell, and begin reading.
Toondemy Kids Learning App
Toondemy is an iPhone and iPad early-learning app with phonics, literacy, numeracy, discovery, motor skills, creative expression, and cognitive-development activities for ages 3–10.
Mzanzi Kids
Mzanzi Kids is a multilingual early-learning app for South African children, using visual, speech, and pre-literacy activities across everyday themes.
Totle: Kids Reading & Math
Totle is a calm early-learning app with guided phonics, reading, counting, shapes, patterns, addition, and subtraction activities.
Baboo Stories
A parent-led story app with short gentle stories for bedtime and quiet reading, including free stories and optional subscription content.
Anga Reading
A reading app where children tap words to hear them, practice with short stories, and create private family stories with a grown-up.
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.