Useful Apps
This page contains a collection of applications and games that we have found useful. Please browse through them and find one that will help you!
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Accessibility

Speechify Text Reader News PDF
By: Speechify Inc.
- Speechify is an intelligent text-to-speech audio-reader that turns your reading material into interactive audiobooks so that you can save time, retain more information, and stay focused. Like your own personal reading assistant, Speechify can read books, documents and articles while you cook, work out, commute, or any other activity you can think of.
Math And Science

Bedtime Math
By: Bedtime Math Foundation
- Parents know to read to their kids at night, but what about math? Our mission is simple: to make math a fun part of kids’ everyday lives, as beloved as the bedtime story. Choose the Math Problem of the Day, or explore over 1,000 additional math problems in English or Spanish with various zany topics, ranging from electric eels and chocolate chips to roller coasters and flamingos.

Mathway
By: Mathway, LLC
- With millions of users and billions of problems solved, Mathway is the world’s smartest math calculator. From basic algebra to complex calculus, Mathway instantly solves your most difficult math problems – simply type your problem in (or point your camera and snap a pic!) to receive instant free answers.

Prodigy: Kids Math Game
By: ProdigyGame.com
- Prodigy delivers a unique learning experience through an interactive math game where success depends on correctly answering skill-building math questions. Amazing pets, epic battles and ⦠math practice? Thatās Prodigy, the no-cost math game where kids can earn prizes, go on quests and play with friends ā all while learning math.

Todo Math
By: Enuma Inc.
- This app is designed with learning differences in mind. It can be helpful for kids who have auditory and visual processing issues or language of math issues. It also is beneficial for kids who have fine motor issues. Todo Math is not just for kids with special needs, though — it’s for all learners.

Space Science Investigations: Plant Growth
By: NASA
- Welcome to the International Space Station! As the newest member of the ISS crew, itās your task to familiarize yourself with the station, and help out with the plant growth experiment. Trying to move in zero-g will be different than what you are used to on Earth! Spend some time flying and flipping around the station without gravity to assist you.

Pet Bingo – by Duck Duck Moose
By: Duck Duck Moose LLC
- Come watch your childās understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division grow with their very own pets! Pet Bingo is a playful game for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade, that is aligned with Common Core State Standards for Math.

Endless Numbers
By: Originator Inc.
- As a follow-up to Endless Alphabet, set the stage for early numeracy learning with Endless Numbers! Kids will have a blast learning number recognition, sequences, quantity, numerical patterns, and simple addition with the adorable Endless monsters. Each number features interactive sequences and equation puzzles with numbers that come alive, and a short animation that provides context and meaning to each number.

Coolmath Games
By: Coolmath.com LLC
- Coolmath Games is the free brain-training app for everyone, where logic and thinking meet fun & games! If you love CoolmathGames.com, youāll love this app ā hundreds of our favorite math, logic, thinking and strategy games made especially for mobile phones and tablets!

Periodic Table
By: Nikita Chernykh
- In the Periodic Table application you will find a huge amount of data about chemical elements for free. You will learn a lot of new and useful for yourself, no matter you are a schoolboy, student, engineer, housewife or a person of any other provisions that does not have a refresher to Chemistry.

The Cat in the Hat Invents
By: PBS Kids
- Build a robot and immerse your kids in STEM learning! The Cat in the Hat Invents engages your preschooler in engineering and problem solving. Join Nick, Sally and the Cat in the Hat as they explore the world of science, working through obstacles as they overcome various engineering challenges.

Photo Stuff with Ruff
By: PBS Kids
- Based on PBS KIDSā new digital series, The Ruff Ruffman Show, Photo Stuff with Ruff will inspire your child to discover what the āstuffā in his or her world is made of. In this camera-based experience, your child will learn about science by exploring his or her surroundings and taking pictures of different materials to complete silly scenes. Play it together and record and share your observations in fun, creative ways!

Ready Jet Go! Space Scouts
By: PBS Kids
- Kids will become the Ultimate Space Scout by designing, building and engineering with 5 STEM focused games and badges. Design and engineer rovers on the Moon, build a mission controller and guide a spaceship through the solar system, problem solve ways to grow vegetables on Mars- play these games and more to earn all your Space Scout badges along with characters from the PBS KIDS series, Ready Jet Go!
Question And Answer
Reading And Language

ReadingIQ
By: Age of Learning, Inc.
- ReadingIQ is the comprehensive digital learning library app for kids ages 2 to 12, designed by national education experts to perfectly align with your childās reading ability and grade level. ReadingIQ features over 7,000 award-winning books and childhood classics your kids wonāt want to put down from popular publishers such as National Geographic, Whitman, Charlesbridge, and Highlights, and includes the entire ABCmouse library as well as exclusive titles that arenāt available anywhere else.

Bookful: Books for Kids
By: Inception VR
- Turn screen time into interactive reading time. With the power of Augmented Reality (AR) and 3D elements, Bookful creates an engaging experience and brings the story and characters to life. Parents and educators love how Bookful transforms reading into an active learning experience.

Libby, by OverDrive
By: OverDrive, Inc.
Meet Libby. Did you know your local library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks? You can borrow them, instantly, for free, using just the device in your hand.
1. Fish out your library card
2. Open the Libby app
3. Find your local library
4. Search, sample, borrow, enjoy

Hoopla Digital
By: Midwest Tape, LLC
- Instantly borrow free digital eBooks, audiobooks, movies, music, comics, and TV shows courtesy of your public library. hoopla is the leading all-in-one digital library app, with over 800,000 titlesāfrom best-selling novels and blockbuster movies to niche, hard-to find content, hoopla has something for everyone.

News-O-Matic: Reading for Kids
By: Press4Kids
- 100+ new articles each month cover a range of high-interest topics for curious kids. Subjects include science, sports, world news, technology, arts, and entertainment. Reading current events empowers children to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and global citizens.

DoodleSpell: Primary Spelling
By: EZ Education LTD
- DoodleSpell builds the spelling confidence and ability of your 5-11 year old with a work program tailored to their individual level, strengths and weaknesses. Using Proximaā¢, the same award-winning technology that powers DoodleMaths and DoodleEnglish, DoodleSpell analyses and intelligently designs a unique learning program for each child.

Bini Super ABC! Alphabet Games for Toddlers & Kids
By: Bini Bambini Academy
- Learning to read with Super Alphabet is extremely interesting and very exciting! Super Alphabet is a super-fun game for learning the alphabet. Playing with amusing Super Letters, your children will get familiar with the alphabet.
Geography And Nature

The Explorers
By: The Explorers Network
- The Explorers is an app to explore and share our Earth wondersā to the Earth inventory of photos and videos. Photographers or videographers, amateurs or professionals, scientists, associations, artists and citizens of the world: join The Explorers community! Share your best photos and videos for free and free of advertising, and join a human adventure at the service of Nature!

Seek by iNaturalist
By: iNaturalist, LLC
- Here’s a fun way to keep the learning going while taking a break for some fresh air. You can use the power of image recognition technology to identify the plants and animals all around you. Kids can earn badges for seeing different types of plants, birds, fungi and more!

WWF Free Rivers
By: World Wildlife Fund
- WWF Free Rivers puts an entire landscape in your hands. Through this immersive, augmented reality experience, youāll discover a river that flows through the lives of people and wildlife, and how their homes depend on those flows. Dam the river to see what happens, and then try different options for sustainable development that keeps the river healthy and flowing.

HudsonAlpha iCell
By: HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
- iCell gives students, teachers, and anyone interested in biology a 3D view inside a cell. Included are examples of three types of cells: animal, plant, and bacteria. Learn about the various parts of the cell, which biologists, biochemists, and DNA researchers at the HudsonAlpha Institute study and use to advance the limits of biotechnology.

3D Brain
By: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.

Star Walk – Explore The Sky
By: Vito Technology Inc.
- Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app youāve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your interactive guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200, 000 celestial bodies with extensive information.

Nature Cat’s Great Outdoors
By: PBS Kids
- Based on the hit PBS KIDS show, Nature Catās Great Outdoors is the on-the-go toolset that will inspire your child to explore nature ā in the backyard, at a local park or even looking out the window. Every day, Nature Cat has a set of new daily adventures that lets kids use tools to record and share their observations in fun, creative ways!
Multiple Subject

ABCya Games
By: ABCya.com
- ABCya Games App iconABCya Games is a free educational games app that’s organized by grade level and subject area. With a bit of help from adults, it’s easy for kids to access tons of games. The ABCya iOS app features six free games each week. For even more access to ABCyaās award-winning content, choose an optional in-app subscription and unlock over 250 games!

SplashLearn
By: Kids Math Games-StudyPad, Inc.
- If your kids love games, theyāll love SplashLearn! Itās the perfect balance of fun and learning packed into an immersive learning experience. Discover fun and learning in equal measure with SplashLearn – an immersive PreK-5 learning experience loved by over 30 million children.

Fish School
By: Duck Duck Moose
- A playful underwater experience with 8 educational activities, this award-winning app teaches letters, numbers, shapes, colors and more. Watch colorful fish create letters; Recognize numbers and learn to count from 1 to 20; Follow the fish as they form shapes; Touch, tap and drag to make fish and other colorful sea life do funny things; Listen to classical variations of the ABC Song

ScratchJr
By: Scratch Foundation
- By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy.

Vroom
By: Bezos Family Foundation
- Boost learning from birth ā age 5 with 1000+ fast and fun tips! āParents and caregivers can use Daily Vroom to help kids learn in everyday situationsā Vroom tips add learning to mealtime, bathtime, bedtime, or anytime. By helping your child learn now, you get them ready for school, friends, and life.

Toddler Kids Game – Preschool Learning Games Free
By: CFC s.r.o.
- Its simple child-friendly interface offers children an engaging way to master essential preschool skills in the total of 14 (!) DIFFERENT EXCITING EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES (twelve educational activities + two creative activities). We sincerely hope your children will enjoy them all!

Kids Academy: Pre-K-3 learning
By: Kids Academy Co Apps
- The app provides step-by-step learning pathway that lets toddlers develop early skills by moving from elementary concepts to more complex attributes. Kids will start with learning to trace letters and numbers and will gradually move to tasks that require deeper visual, fine motor and problem-solving skills.

Coco – Educational Games
By: Dynseo
- Are you finding ways to enhance your kids concentration without getting into his way of entertainment? Coco Coco ā Educational Games For Kids 2019 is here to help you out. Coco is an educational games program, featuring multiple brain trainer activities such as kids puzzle, kids math games featuring mental math and brain training games for kids.

Sixth Grade Learning Games
By: RosiMosi LLC
- Learn important 6th Grade lessons with these 18 fun and interactive games! Teach them advanced 6th grade topics such as statistics, algebra, biology, science, geometry, rounding, language, vocabulary, reading, and more. Whether they are just starting Sixth Grade, or need to review and master the subjects, this is a perfect learning tool for kids aged 10-13. Math, language, science, STEM, reading, and critical thinking skills are all tested and practiced in these games.
Health And Wellness

MoodTools – Depression Aid
By: Depression Help, Eddie Liu
- MoodTools aims to support people with clinical depression by aiding the path to recovery. Discover helpful videos that can improve your mood and behavior, log and analyze your thoughts using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles, develop a suicide safety plan and more with this free app.

MindShift CBT
By: Anxiety Canada Association
- MindShift⢠CBT uses scientifically proven strategies based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help you learn to relax. Transform your worries into balanced and helpful thoughts by identifying and challenging thinking that keeps you trapped in anxiety.

What’s Up? – A Mental Health
By: Jackson Tempra
- What’s Up? is a fantastic free app utilizing some of the best CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) methods to help you cope with Depression, Anxiety, Anger, Stress and more! With a beautiful, modern design, simple heading and easy-to-follow methods, you can get to what helps you the most in seconds!

Happify
By: Happify, Inc.
- How you feel matters! Whether you’re feeling sad, anxious, or stressed, Happify brings you effective tools and programs to help you take control of your feelings and thoughts. Our proven techniques are developed by leading scientists and experts who’ve been studying evidence-based interventions in the fields of positive psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy for decades.

CDC Milestone Tracker
By: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pleased to announce that its free app, the Milestone Tracker, is now available in Spanish! With this app, you can track their development with CDCās easy-to-use illustrated checklists; get tips from CDC for encouraging your childās development; and find out what to do if you are ever concerned about how your child is developing.

Go Explore from CBeebies
By: BBC Media Applications Ltd
- From phonics with the Alphablocks to shapes with Hey Duggee there is so much to help kids learn in this fun CBeebies app. There are also activities to help children create a mindful routine and to support wellbeing. Each activity in this fun kids app is designed to help children as they grow, building up their skills and understanding.

Moshi: Sleep and Mindfulness
By: Mind Candy Ltd
- Kids canāt sleep? Enjoy stress-free bedtimes by helping your little ones drift off quickly and easily. Use Moshi to quickly settle their kids into a peaceful, restful sleep with over 45 hours of original audio Stories, Meditations, Music and Sounds that you wonāt find in any other app. Includes special guest Moshi Stories.

Rootd – Panic Attack Relief
By: Simply Rooted Media Inc.
- Finally, an app for conquering panic attacks and anxiety that blends a guided process for both immediate and long term relief, with clean and engaging design. Overcome panic attacks and anxiety the moment they strike with Rootdās proven panic button, lessons, breathing tool, and exercises.

CBT-i Coach
By: US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- CBT-i Coach is for people who are engaged in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia with a health provider, or who have experienced symptoms of insomnia and would like to improve their sleep habits. The app will guide you through the process of learning about sleep, developing positive sleep routines, and improving your sleep environment. It provides a structured program that teaches strategies proven to improve sleep and help alleviate symptoms of insomnia.

Moodpath: Depression & Anxiety
By: MindDoc Health GmbH
- Do you struggle with some of your thoughts and feelings? Are you looking for ways to improve your emotional well-being? Moodpath is your personalized mental health companion. Try it out and find a place to reflect and get information, encouragement, and guidance.

Plant Nanny² – Your Adorable Water Reminder
By: Fourdesire
- Water is essential for life, but drinking enough of it is also one of the easiest things to neglect. Plant Nanny² keeps track of how much water you drink — each glass also waters the appās plants so you both can thrive! Every day you can collect and take care of little plants to get hydrated and grow together!

eMoods Bipolar Mood Tracker
By: Yottaram LLC
- Managing your mood just became easier and more effective! eMoods is a private and easy to use mood tracker and diary for journaling, logging, graphing, reporting, and managing symptoms related to Bipolar/Manic Depression, Depression, Anxiety, and other mood disorders. Start tracking, notice your triggers, and take control of your mood and other symptoms!

Forest – Stay focused
By: SEEKRTECH CO., LTD.
- If you want to temporarily put down your phone and focus on whatās more important in real life, you can plant a seed in Forest. As time goes by, this seed will gradually grow into a tree. However, if you cannot resist the temptation of using your phone and leave the app, your tree will wither.

Coach.me – Goals & Habits
By: Lift Worldwide
- Start with our world-class goal and habit tracking. Our free tracking tools will change your life. If you get stuck in your goals, get motivated by our community or hire one of our world-class coaches. Every aspect of our app and community is focused on helping you achieve mastery. From day one, we show you your progress, celebrate your milestones, and answer your questions.

Calm Harm – Manages Self Harm
By:Stem4
- Calm Harm provides tasks to help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm. If you want to you can set a password so that it’s completely private. You can also personalize it if you wish, by choosing the background color theme and deciding on whether you would like some company using a variety of friendly characters.

iChill
By: Trauma Resource Institute, Inc.
- Are you stressed out, not feeling like yourself or worried about a family member? iChill can help by guiding you in the use of the Community Resiliency Model, a set of wellness skills. You will learn simple information about how stress affects the mind and body.

Fabulous – Daily Self Care
By: Fabulous
- Join millions of Fabulous users and create a healthier, happier life. Fabulous will help increase your energy levels, be more focused, lose weight and sleep better by building healthy habits and routines in your life. Fabulous takes a holistic approach to motivate you to be more productive and have higher energy. Weāre more than just a habit tracker, or a way to create new rituals; weāre your own personal coach and happiness trainer.

SuperBetter
By: SuperBetter LLC
- Join nearly a million people who have played SuperBetter so far to build resilience, achieve goals, and tackle challenges including anxiety, depression, stress, chronic pain, concussion recovery and more. We make the Original SuperBetter available for free to anyone around the world.

Stay Alive
By: Grassroots Suicide Prevention
- This app is a pocket suicide prevention resource, packed full of useful information to help you stay safe. You can use it if you are having thoughts of suicide or if you are concerned about someone else who may be considering suicide. In addition to the resources, the app includes a safety plan, customizable reasons for living, and a life box where you can store photos that are important to you.

Catch It ā Make sense of moods
By: University of Liverpool
- Catch It is a joint project between the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester, to help users better understand their moods through use of an ongoing diary. The app was designed to illustrate some of the key principles of psychological approaches to mental health and well-being, and specifically Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

MyPossibleSelf: Mental Health
By: My Possible Self
- My Possible Self: The Mental Health App that uses clinically proven content to reduce stress, anxiety and low mood in 8 weeks. Track your mood every day with our FREE Mood Tracker. Understand what signs and symptoms to look out for. Discover practical steps to look after your own mental health

Virtual Hope Box
By: National Center for Telehealth & Technology
- The Virtual Hope Box (VHB) is a smartphone application designed for use by patients and their behavioral health providers as an accessory to treatment. The VHB contains simple tools to help patients with coping, relaxation, distraction, and positive thinking.

TalkLife: Depression & Anxiety
By: TalkLife Limited
- Are you battling with your mental health, anxiety and depression? If you’re finding life really hard TalkLife can help. You’re not alone in this. Start talking and feeling better right now. A community of likeminded supportive people across the globe who understand what it’s like to battle the ups and downs.

Relax Melodies: Sleep Sounds
By: Ipnos Software Inc.
- Having trouble unwinding & falling asleep? We get you, and weāve got you. Sleep to your own beat with Relax Melodies. Tune-out stress, anxiety & fall asleep easily. Mix endless sounds & music, countless meditations, and shelves of stories with our smart technology.

ACT Coach
By: US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) aims to help you live with unpleasant thoughts, feelings, and impulses without avoiding them or being controlled by them. In ACT, you are encouraged to commit to actions so that you can live your life by your values, even in the face of these unpleasant experiences

GG OCD – Thoughts Exercise
By: Ggtude LTD
- Suffering from obsessive thinking? Feel like you’re stuck? Looking to relieve your OCD symptoms? Wish to feel better, have more confidence and enjoy improved well being? Throw away negative thoughts. Approach positive ones. Learn to identify your inner self talk and respond quickly. Train daily and improve your wellness.

PTSD Coach
By: US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Created by the VAās National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), PTSD Coach app is for anyone who has experienced trauma and offers everything from a self-assessment for PTSD, to opportunities to find support, positive self-talk, and anger management. Whatās great about this app is that you can customize tools based on your own individual needs and preferences, and you can integrate your own contacts, photos, and music.
Shapes And Colors

Kids Balloon Pop Learning Game
By: Xiangyi Liu
- The Kids Balloon Pop Games have 25 fun & educational activities that are perfect for children who want to learn by playing. Games are educational and also help develop basic skills like hand eye coordination, fine motor, logical thinking and visual perception.
Problem Solving Games

Coding Games For Kids To Play
By: IDZ Digital Private Ltd.
- Kidlo Coding is a fun coding game to teach kids the very basics of programming, an essential skill in today’s world. It teaches coding with 50+ fun games like firefighting, popping balloons or playing a dentist. Kidlo Coding helps kids improve their problem-solving skills, boosts memory and increases logical thinking skills and prepare them for school.

Inventioneers
By: Filimundus AB
- In this game you can create your own crazy, fun inventions! With the help of the Inventioneers, our tiny helpers with unique characteristics, you can invent fun, creative and often quite weird inventions. A lot of inventions are included in the game, the more you solve the more parts you receive for your own inventions!

Pictoworld: Fun Word Quiz Games
By: Kooapps
- Looking for a game that will test your brain? Then try Pictoword, the fun word game thatās great for teens, adults and everyone in between! Pictoword is a simple yet addicting word game where you āreadā a series of pictures that combine to create a word! Two pics, one word – can you figure it out?
Audio And Video

Wheels on the Bus
By: Duck Duck Moose, LLC
- Are you at home with a little one who’s missing the school bus? Put your kid in the driver’s seat. Kids can listen to the song while reading the lyrics and touch different objects on the screen to open bus doors, make windshield wipers go “swish, swish, swish,” and make bubbles pop. There’s even a feature that records your little angel’s voice.

YouTube Kids App
By: Google LLC
- YouTube Kids was created to give kids a more contained environment filled with family-friendly videos on all different topics, igniting your kidsā inner creativity and playfulness. Parents and caregivers can guide the journey as your kids discover new and exciting interests along the way.

Kanopy
By: Kanopy
- Stream thousands of films for free without ads through your library. Sign up with your library card and start watching festival award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, The Criterion Collection, and more with new titles added weekly. Browse Kanopy Kids for unlimited age-appropriate shows and movies with access to parental controls.

Daniel Tiger for Parents
By: PBS KIDS
- Help your child learn lifeās little lessons with their friend and neighbor, Daniel Tiger. Daniel Tiger for Parents is a parenting app that provides parents and caregivers with popular and catchy songs and videos from the hit PBS KIDS series, Daniel Tigerās Neighborhood.

Toontastic 3D
By: Google LLC
- 3⦠2⦠1⦠ACTION! With Toontastic 3D you can draw, animate, and narrate your own cartoons. Itās as easy as play. Just move your characters around on screen, tell your story, and Toontastic records your voice and animations and stores it on your device as a 3D video. Toontastic is a powerful and playful way to create interstellar adventures, breaking news reports, video game designs, family photo albums, and anything else you might imagine!
Learning Arts
Planning And Organization

DayCape
By: Diamoinic Creations AB
- DayCape is an app to help children with visual structure. It very simply displays with images and visual time what tasks need to be done during the day. Also, it enables an app and web tool for supporters to the child, such as parents, teachers, and mentors, to plan and send tasks directly to the child’s app. This can be used to plan the day for whole families or school classes.

Time Timer: iPad Edition
By: Time Timer LLC
- Enjoy stress-free time management with the new & improved Time TIMER. Take advantage of the ability to customize, save and reuse timers (with names, color, alert options, timer scale, etc.). The Time TIMERĀ® for iPad app. is designed to keep activities stress-free and easy. It has a refreshed look, new functionality and improved performance features.

RoosterMoney Allowance Manager
By: World Learning Ltd.
- RoosterMoney is a pocket money allowance manager, chore chart, savings tracker and piggy bank all within a single app. Available in any currency and designed to help parents teach their kids about money, the app also acts as a chore tracker & reward chart. Simple for parents and fun for kids, parents remain the Bank of Mum & Dad and no deposits are required.

My Study Life – School Planner
By: My Study Life Ltd.
- My Study Life is a cross-platform planner for students, teachers and lecturers designed to make your study life easier to manage. My Study Life allows you to store your classes, homework and exams in the cloud making it available on any device, wherever you are.
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