Best Educational Apps — page 3
Our highest-rated educational apps, ranked by score with a verdict for every entry.
- Reviewed
- 154
- Average score
- 8.1
- Top score
- 8.3
- Free
- 12
Scores for this page’s rows
- 49LingoDeerLingoDeer abandons the dopamine-chasing gamification of its rivals to deliver a rigorous, grammar-first curriculum that treats you like an adult. It i...8.3Great
- 50Pythonista 3For writing and running real Python on an iPhone or iPad, Pythonista 3 remains the most complete option available. It works fully offline, includes a ...8.2Great
- 51HooktheoryHooktheory I is the rare theory course that treats pop songwriting as the destination rather than a lesser cousin of Bach chorales — five hours of col...8.2Great
- 52PythagoreaA ruthlessly elegant geometry puzzler that trades flashy production for genuine intellectual reward. For anyone who wants to feel the logic behind a...8.2Great
- 53Tux PaintTux Paint stands out as a genuinely safe, child-focused digital creativity app, pairing a deep toolset with strict structural guardrails. Its skeletal...8.2Great
- 54GoodnotesGoodnotes remains a leader in digital handwriting, now bolstered by genuinely useful smart features, even if its new subscription model leaves a bitte...8.2Great
- 55Swift PlaygroundsApple's attempt to gamify the syntax of the future is as beautiful as it is curated, though the leap from solving logic puzzles to building production...8.2Great
- 56LightbotLightbot teaches real computer-science thinking (decomposition, reuse, recursion and conditional logic) without showing a single line of syntax. It is...8.1Great
- 57GComprisFew children's apps treat a kid as a learner rather than an ad-viewing metric — GCompris, a sprawling, ad-free, open-source education suite, trades po...8.1Great
- 58DataCampDataCamp translates the friction-heavy world of data science into a sleek, habit-forming mobile experience that prioritizes active syntax practice ove...8.1Great
- 59EnkiEnki trades the bloat of traditional MOOCs for surgical, bite-sized strikes of technical knowledge, making it a strong tool for the modern professiona...8.1Great
- 60LingopieLingopie turns the passive act of binging television into an active, high-context linguistic workout, bridging the gap between textbook theory and rea...8.1Great
- 61RemNoteRemNote is a powerhouse of academic rigor that demands a steep intellectual down payment before it starts paying dividends in long-term retention. It ...8.1Great
- 62LingvistLingvist is a high-precision instrument for the serious learner, stripping away the colorful distractions of "edutainment" to focus on the cold, hard ...8.1Great
- 63TenutoTenuto won't teach music theory, and it doesn't claim to. As a drill tool for reinforcing theory already learned, it's precise and deeply customizable...8.0Great
- 64ChessableChessable is a highly effective structured chess study tool, and we recommend it with real reservations. Its spaced-repetition engine and grandmaster-...8.0Great
- 65NeboNebo turns handwriting into clean, searchable, editable text as well as any app on a touchscreen — and with a stylus in hand, that alone justifies the...8.0Great
- 66Mango LanguagesMango Languages skips the gamified gimmicks of its competitors for a robust, linguistically grounded approach that prioritizes actual communication ov...8.0Great
- 67KolibriFor schools that must teach without a connection, Kolibri is a serious and unusually complete answer — solid but unremarkable as a consumer Android ap...7.9Good
- 68NASANASA's official app is a rare thing in mobile software—an authoritative, ad-free, genuinely free educational resource with more content than most user...7.9Good
- 69ReadwiseReadwise tackles a real problem: we read more than ever but remember less. It's a well-designed system for capturing and retaining knowledge that will...7.9Good
- 70Khan AcademyKhan Academy remains a strong free resource for self-paced learning, with a vast and effective content library that makes education accessible, even i...7.9Good
- 71Night SkyFor pointing a phone at the sky and finding out what's up there, Night Sky remains one of the simplest options around. The AR is polished and the free...7.8Good
- 72Teach Your Monster to ReadA serious synthetic phonics curriculum wrapped in a charming adventure game, with no ads and no in-app purchases. It respects both the child and the p...7.8Good
