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Happy Diwali! The festival of lights, in stories.
Happy Diwali! The festival of lights, in stories.
622 free educational apps, forged for curiosity
Thoughtfully crafted learning apps for kids and teens ages 3–18. 620 of them are ready to play right now, right in your browser, with no downloads and no accounts. Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro are in development.
- Free forever — a nonprofit, no ads or purchases
- Private by design — nothing leaves the device
- Calm by design — no streaks, no autoplay
- Made for playing together — not solo screen time
The AI inside is a novice your child teaches — Socratic, on-device, and it can never just hand over the answer.
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- Ages 15–18 Grades 9–12 130 to play
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Everyone gets the same puzzle today — a cipher, a scrambled word, a logic grid. No download, no account, no streak. Come back tomorrow for a new one.
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Gather first, then choose together — board games & subject duels, all in one room. · Safe by design: no chat, no sign-in, no real names — you each get a friendly nickname, and the room is just for the two of you.
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Play the full game →Fox plays White · Panda plays Black — tap a white piece to begin. Two players, this screen, no account.
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Cheer and the Learnable Sportsmanship
The backyard tag game had gone quiet in the worst way. Cheer, a small round pufflin-tween in a loose, comfy practice-vest, stood at the edge of the mat and read the mood…
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WriteRise — free illustrated storybook
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Diwali picks across every subject — play right in your browser. No download, no accounts.
Diwali picks across every subject — play right in your browser. No download, no accounts.
Teach the Cast · new You're the teacher — help a cast character master an idea, and teaching it well is the practice. Free, on-device, no accounts.- AI & Fairness ModelQuestJudge an AI fairly — compute what a model really does, then weigh the value trade-offs of deploying it. For teens. Gr 9–12 Play ModelQuest →
- Animation & Media FrameQuestMake still frames move. Put the frames of a bounce, a bloom, or a little social story in the right order to animate it — plus Concepts checks on animation, storytelling, and reading emotions. Built for ages 9–14: calm, predictable, and no timers. Gr 5–7 Play FrameQuest →
- Applied Math TradeForgeA day on the job with twelve trades, for ages 9–14. The electrician sizing a circuit, the plumber’s slope, the baker’s ratio, the nurse’s dose — each worker is one piece of real math. You see a real job, GUESS the answer, then watch the worker compute it and explain. Applied arithmetic + a look at real careers. On-device, no accounts. Gr 4–8 Play TradeForge →
- Astronomy & Astrophysics CosmosForgeWatch a star live and die in the Stellar Evolution lab, peer inside a black hole and feel gravity stretch time, climb the Cosmic Distance Ladder, and practice astronomy & astrophysics. Gr 6–8 Play CosmosForge →
- Career & Future Readiness NorthQuestExplore where you’re headed: clarify what matters, weigh real paths, and author your own direction. No “right” answer. For teens. Gr 9–12 Play NorthQuest →
- Civics & Online Safety CharterForgeWrite the rules for a shared world so it actually lasts — cover the eight things every strong community needs, set fair step-by-step consequences, and learn to spot an unsafe approach. Ages 9–14. Gr 4–8 Play CharterForge →
- Art & Creativity CraftForgeA miniature-painting studio in your browser: mix paints on the artist’s wheel and watch them mix like light on a screen, paint a knight one technique at a time (basecoat → wash → drybrush → glaze), predict a color mix before the reveal, and practice color theory + brush craft. On-device, no accounts. Gr 4–7 Play CraftForge →
- Coding CodeRealmProgram Bit the robot by tapping command blocks into a list — sequencing, loops, and conditionals — then watch your code run. Gr 5–8 Play CodeRealm →
- Astronomy & Space Exploration StarForgePilot the solar system: tap a planet on the orbit map for real NASA data, take a mission challenge, predict a moon phase before the reveal, and practice astronomy. Gr 4–7 Play StarForge →
📖 Stories & audio dramas
Light up a story — every character has an illustrated chapter book and an audio drama.
Light up a story — every character has an illustrated chapter book and an audio drama.
- ActiveForge Cheer Sportsmanship + bystander-presence-in-play — learnable-skill not personality-trait
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AIForge Cue Features — a model decides from the clues you give it; choose good clues -
MasteryForge Alcuin Knows the map of ideas and what to try next -
BeatForge Crest Dynamics — how loud or soft the music is, swelling louder and easing softer to give a song its waves -
BiasForge Barnacle Anchoring; a number you just saw drags your estimate toward it, even when it tells you nothing
📚 Books & printable workbooks
Browse all books →Every app is a whole little library — an illustrated storybook where the cast teaches the concept, plus activity workbooks, coloring books, puzzle books, and multi-volume series. Free to read, print, or order as an at-cost paperback.
229 apps · books free forever under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Learn more →A non-profit making learning apps that are free forever — no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking, and all data stays on the device. Here's how it works and how to get involved.
And the AI inside our apps is a novice your child teaches — it's Socratic, runs on the device, and can never just hand over the answer. How our AI works →