Apps for Education

In 2019, finding educational apps of high quality seem like a daunting task particularly
when you take into account the fact that there are over 500,000 educational apps.
Finding good quality education apps that actually enhance teaching and learning can be
tricky. We spent several hours researching and testing educational and learning apps
recommended by educators, teachers, parents, and kids.
Based on our research, we think a good learning app should be provocative,
exploratory, and open-ended; it should also have been designed with primary input from
educators and curriculum developers, or shown in educational research to be an
effective learning tool. The apps we cover in this guide are great learning apps not
because they’re designed to make kids smarter, to drill facts, or to replace in-school
learning, but because they’re fun and interesting for kids and adults.
We have also compiled a list of the best apps for schools, as well as the best iPad
apps and best apps for kids for parents and teachers to enjoy.
Check out the best educational apps for teachers and educators that are currently
available for iOS and Android devices.
Reading Eggs - Learn to Read
Reading Eggs is the multi-award winning learning programme that helps children learn
to read. They will learn how to read using interactive reading games, guided reading
lessons, fun activities and over 2,000 digital story books.

Reading Eggs is a complete learn to read system for children aged 2-13 and covers the
five essential components of reading: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary,
fluency and comprehension. Parents can see instant results in their dashboard and
receive detailed progress reports, which shows exactly where their child is improving
and where extra attention is needed.
iOS Android
MentalUP Educational Games

MentalUP Educational Games App expose learners to new types of problems and the
different ways of thinking required to solve them.
Its games are easy to understand while challenging the skills which they are designed
to stretch. Each game begins with a short and to the point instruction and then the timed
exercise begins. Players (or their parents) can set up the app to be biased towards
helping certain skills and to take the user's age into account. A reports page provides a
record of accomplishments and progress. A player avatar can also be upgraded with
cosmetic items by spending the in-game currency that is earned through success.
Download now - iOS / Android
ABCmouse.com

ABCmouse.com Early Learning Academy’s preschool curriculum focuses on important

basics in the four main curriculum subjects of Reading, Math, World Around Us
(beginning science and social studies), as well as Art & Colors, establishing a
foundation of knowledge for young children that they can build upon with confidence
and success.
ABCmouse.com features hundreds of interactive and fun games, each designed to
teach a specific concept. Their preschool games help children ages 3+ to learn sounds,
numbers, shapes with the preschool alphabet games, preschool art games, preschool
number games and preschool shapes games.
All of the games include voiced instructions, so even very young children will find it easy
to learn and play. You can read the full ABC Mouse review here.
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Kids Academy Talented & Gifted

Kids Academy is one of the most innovative and engaging program for young learners.
Their unique learn-through-play program combines the most advanced in adaptive
technology, artificial intelligence, personalized learning, and gamification to help kids put
their best foot forward and get the education they deserve.
Kids Academy has now over 5000 learning activities that includes educational games
and videos, interactive and printable worksheets, songs, puzzles and flashcards. They
cover the key subject areas of Math, Reading, Language Arts, Science and Social
Studies.
Parents will be able to keep track of children's progess, identify and develop their child's
talents and work on the topics that need improvement.
Download KidsAcademy app
Edmodo

Edmodo is a social learning platform for students, teachers, districts, and schools.
Edmodo can be used for communication, polling, assignments/quizzes etc. Managing
classes is much easier, and students can easily send teachers individual messages or
materials.
Edmodo is designed to help reduce the workload for a teacher and make it easier to
stay connected with your their classroom and their students. Edmodo has millions of
resources, created and shared by other fellow teachers, ready to use in the classroom.
Millions of teachers have used Edmodo to reach their students, improve learning
outcomes, and get more out of their lesson plans.
Parent accounts are a great way for parents to observe and stay up to date with their
child’s Edmodo activities. They will be able to see their children's assignments, grades,
messages from the teacher, school calendar and so on.
Download Edmodo app
Kahoot!
Kahoot! is a tool used by teachers to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. It is a
game based classroom response system played by the whole class in real time.
Multiple-choice questions are projected on the screen. Students answer the questions
with their smartphone, tablet or computer.
Download Kahoot! app
BrainPOP UK Featured Movie

BrainPOP® creates cross curricular animated, educational content that captivates

students, supports teachers, and adds excitement to lessons. In primary and secondary
classrooms, on mobile devices, and at home, BrainPOP’s award winning resources
explain the world using animated videos, educational games, interactive quizzes, and
online activities.
Download BrainPOP UK Featured Movie app
Khan Academy

If you haven’t heard of Khan Academy already we encourage you to try this free tool for
both students and teachers. You need to know that the app is an extension of the Khan
Academy website which is a non-profit, open source educational website with the aim of
‘changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone
anywhere’. Using the app you can watch more than 4,300 video lessons on topics
including math, science, economics, and humanities either by streaming them from the
site or downloading them for later viewing or when you don’t have an Internet
connection.
Download Khan Academy app
Socrative Student
This app offers an interactive environment for students and teacher to share their
learning. Socrative is easy-to-use and fun to implement. Teachers can ask questions,
conduct polls, and conduct assessments with real-time data displaying during the
session. Gauging student understanding and ideas has never been so easy!
Download Socrative Student app
Nearpod

Nearpod offers teachers an easy-to-use tool for creating interactive lesson plans,
presentations, assessments, and digital content. Nearpod allows teachers to create
digital lesson plans, share it with students during class, and track individual progress.
Lessons are comprised of teacher-created slides that can include text, video, images,
websites, questions, quizzes, polls, and assignments. Students are able to follow the
lesson on their own devices at their own pace or teachers can lead a synchronized
session where students can follow the lesson in real-time.
Download Nearpod app
Remind: Safe Classroom Communication

Remind is a safe, classroom-friendly communication tool to help teachers send

messages, en masse or targeted, to students and parents. Teachers can schedule
reminders about meetings, assignment deadlines, send students messages such as
daily homeworkd assignments, reminders of upcoming tests, photos of class activities
or notes, links to outside resources like articles, videos and more. They can also
message individual students, an entire class of students, or multiple classes at the
same time.
From students and parents, it will help them to stay on top of what is going on at school
from class assignments to extracurricular activities.
Download Remind: Safe Classroom Communication app
Quizlet

Teachers can discover content for their classes amongst the millions of study sets on
Quizlet. Save time by finding study sets created by other teachers that cover exactly
what students need. Encourage the students to compete for the top score by playing
Quizlet’s study games Match and Gravity in school or at home.
With the Quizlet app, you can easily find resources for any subject at any level. Revise
for any subject with fun and interactive flashcards, games and diagrams. Quizlet makes
it easy to discover and create study materials for languages, history, science and more.
Download Quizlet app
News-O-Matic EDU

News-O-Matic is the first daily newspaper just for students. It provides an exciting and
engaging nonfiction experience for students, complete with valuable literacy tools for the
classroom. Thanks to its unique combination of editorial and technology, News-O-Matic
creates innovative solutions to help children become tomorrow’s responsible citizens. It
gives young readers a window into the world — and a reason to love reading news.
More than 1,000 schools use News-O-Matic for nonfiction reading, social studies,
geography, science, and more!
Download News-O-Matic EDU app
Edublogs

Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize
designs and include videos, photos & podcasts – it’s safe, easy and secure so try out an
Edublog today! A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that is great for
 home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to
recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.
Download Edublogs app
Evernote

Evernote is an impressive organizational app for teachers. Its limitless uses range from
planning a course to delivering a lesson plan to capturing feedback after class. It allows
you to take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders and makes
these notes completely searchable, whether you are at school, at home, or on the go.
Download Evernote app
Google Drive

Google Drive is a cloud storage service provided at no charge for Google Apps for
Education users. Students may store up to 30 Gb of data (documents, videos, graphics,
photos, music, etc.) in their account. Using Google Drive, students can simultaneously
edit a document needed for a class project and collaborate with each other online while
doing so. These tools allow teachers to make a variety of learning materials available to
students online. Included with Google Drive are applications that allow to students to
create word processing, spreadsheet and presentation documents. All of these are
automatically saved to the ‘cloud’ and are available to students anywhere there is
Internet access.
Google Apps for Education
Google offers a variety of applications - which ones will be available for students to use?

 Google Docs, Sheets, Slides: A suite of applications for word processing,

spreadsheets and presentations.
 Google Calendar: A calendar that can be used to enter events with the potential
to be shared with others.
 Google GMail: Allows students to send messages to other students and
teachers. This application can be managed so only internal communication is allowed
or be made open to communicate with others outside of our district.
 Google Hangout: Allows people to join a session through sharing video and
voice.
 Google Sites: A web page software that allows the user to build a site to display
and share information.

Download Google Drive app

WolframAlpha

WolframAlpha is a powerful answer engine which aims to ‘make all systematic

knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone capable’. The app
shouldn’t be mistaken for a search engine even though it looks like one. It is an
informational tool that delivers specific answers calculated from the data gathered from
all the information related to your questions. Kids can learn anything because it covers a
variety of subjects but they need to learn how to ask the right questions.
Download WolframAlpha app
Piazza

Piazza is the leading social learning platform in education, used by tens of thousands of
instructors to efficiently answer students' questions. Piazza engages students and
promotes answering classmates' questions in a private, secure, centralized location.
Students love Piazza because they get faster answers to their questions. Instructors
love Piazza because it saves them time, while giving deeper insights.
Download Piazza app
NASA

Students can learn just about anything they ever wanted to know about the solar system
and about NASA's missions by navigating through the videos, photos, live feeds, and
loads of text in NASA App. For kids with a big appetite for learning about the solar
system, NASA App provides a wealth of information. However, given the amount of text
and information, young users may need more focus than the app provides. With
guidance, kids can discover a wealth of information about the solar system with NASA
App.
Download NASA app
Star Chart

Star Chart lets you to see the stars and planets in the skies accurately by pointing their
Android device towards the sky. This astronomy app makes it easy for you to learn
more about the objects you are viewing by tapping the star or planet. One of the
amazing features is Time Shift that allows you to go back and forth in time to see past
and future celestial placement patterns.
Download Star Chart app
Google Earth

Google Earth offers the means to display geographic data from a wide variety of
sources together in a geospatial context. This data includes imagery for the entire globe
at varying resolutions that contains a great deal of interpretable visual information.
Students can use it to find their homes, schools, and other locations that are familiar to
them. They can make inferences by comparing familiar places to other locations.
Download Google Earth app
Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free

Duolingo is one of the best English language apps today and highly recommended for
English beginners. The gamified learning system of the app helps you learn English
quickly by spending twenty minutes a day. Duolingo structures your lessons that teach
you about seven new words based on a topic and skill points being awarded for
completing the lessons.
Download Duolingo - Learn Languages for Free app
Memrise: learn languages free
Memrise uses some creative and easy way to remember words for learning English.
The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English
words in an effective way. Memrise also offers an offline mode to continue learning
without internet connection.
Download Memrise: learn languages free app
ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

ShowMe Interactive whiteboard app is an application that allows teachers and students
of any age to create presentations called ‘ShowMe’s that can be shared via the device
on online privately or to a community audience. The user can record and create
engaging voice over presentations of their chosen topic by using some of the many
tools such as adding text, drawings, photos and images.
Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record
voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It’s an amazingly simple app that
anyone can use, no matter how young or old!
Download ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard app
Notability

Notability is one of the most versatile apps available for notes taking. You can type or
write notes on notebooks and organize them into folders inside the app. However, it
also lets you annotate PDFs, which can be great for grading student papers. Notability
also records audio and lets you take notes at the same time. So, you could be having a
reading conference with a student, or testing their reading fluency with the audio
recorder, while taking notes at the same time on your iPad.
Download Notability app
Explain Everything Whiteboard
Explain Everything is one of the easy-to-use and best interactive whiteboard and
screencasting app. It can be used to present information to students in a visually
engaging way. But an even more exciting part of this app is helping your students learn
to create and present with it – individually or on group projects.
Download Explain Everything Whiteboard app
ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a consistent and very structured classroom management tool designed to

help teachers improve student behavior and communicate more effectively with parents.
It can be used to a small or large extent depending on your time, purpose, and interest.
Download ClassDojo app
Popplet Lite

Popplet is an excellent way for students to create graphic organizers to organize and
share what they have learned! It is easy to use, allows the user to incorporate images
and text, and can be exported to photos to be shared via a website. Popplet is a simple
and innovative way to organize a student’s thinking by mapping their thoughts in a text,
drawing, or image features.
Download Popplet Lite app
Book Creator

It is a rare content creation app that is just as at home in a child’s hand as it is a

teacher’s. With this app both can create useful and compelling eBooks, magazines, and
guides without taking an age to learn how to use the software.
Download Book Creator app
Showbie

This is a great app, if you are looking for something to help you easily & quickly
distribute assignments, handouts, links, etc. to students. Students can also submit work
to you through Showbie. It has the ability for students and/or teachers to leave voice
notes with assignments. Multiple teachers can create classes within Showbie, so that
students can see each class that they belong to. Then, they click on the class to see the
assignments that the teacher has created for that class. Teachers are able to give due
dates/times for assignments, thus not allowing work to be turned in late. Work is
timestamped, so that the teacher can see exactly when it was turned in to Showbie. So
many good features! And, super easy to learn how to use it!
Download Showbie app
Educreations Interactive Whiteboard

Educreations Interactive Whiteboard is an app designed mainly for teachers to present

lessons that can easily be shared with other students, teachers, or parents.
Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that's simple,
powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as
you explain any concept.
Download Educreations Interactive Whiteboard app
Puppet Pals HD

Puppet Pals HD Directors Pass is an easy to use cartoon creator app that allows you to
create your own animations using a variety of themes and characters. Children's
imaginations can really run wild when using the app. From creating a pirate battle to
retelling a favourite fairytale or story the possibilities are endless.
For more games, check our list of the best educational games for iPad to help educate
and entertain young kids.
Download Puppet Pals HD app
Teach Your Monster to Read

The Teach your Monster to Read is an award winning app that teaches children to read
in a fun and simplistic manner. The app covers the first two years of reading, from
matching letters and sounds to enjoying books. The app has been designed in
collaboration with academics at Roehampton university and Complements Phases 2-5
of UK Government-approved Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic
phonics programmes.
Download Teach Your Monster to Read app
Android Educational Apps
Whether you're currently in school or just seeking a little self-improvement, a plethora of
Android apps are just waiting to enhance your knowledge base, expand your skill sets,
improve your memory and more.
Here’s a list of Android educational apps that should prove helpful to most students.
Khan Academy Kids

Khan Academy Kids, targeting two- to five-year-old children is adaptive to children’s

development and lets the child navigate through the platform at their own pace. Kids
improve skills through a customized series of interactive activities, books, videos, and
creative lessons. Khan Academy Kids’ holistic approach engages students in subjects
ranging from literacy to math while encouraging creativity and building social-emotional
skills.
Download Khan Academy Kids app
BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week
BrainPop is a paid subscription site (with some free content available to anyone, such
as games and some videos) that contains animated content, much of which is aligned to
state education standards. BrainPop is designed for kids of age four and up. Lessons
begin with a brief animated video and include a wide variety of school- and life-related
topics. Each video is accompanied by interactive activities and quizzes that reinforce
what kids have learned.
Download BrainPOP Jr. Movie of the Week app
iPad Educational Apps
It's the apps that really set iOS apart from other platforms - there are higher quality apps
available on the App Store for the iPad than any other tablet. The iPad in the classroom
brings education to life.
Here’s a list of iPad educational apps that should prove helpful to parents and teachers.
Hit the Button Maths

Hit the Button an interactive maths game from the TopMarks.co.uk website, are useful
in the early stages of learning on multiplication (e.g. times tables) and division facts. Hit
the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds,
times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The
games which are against the clock challenge and develop a child's mental maths skills.
Download Hit the Button Maths app
Let's Read

Kids love when their parents and grandparents read aloud to them! Let’s Read provides
an easy way to record yourself reading classic stories to share with your kids. Use the
app to record your video & audio narration of award-winning picture books from our
bookshelf. Then share your personalized stories on a private, secure family network.
Download Let's Read app