The following educational iOS apps are free today. Items in italics are newly free today. Apps of exceptional value or use are bolded. Download the apps as soon as possible as they can go to paid status at any time.
Once you download a free app, you'll enjoy its free price forever. For example, a paid app that you download today for free will remain free when you re-download it in the future, even if its price has gone back to paid. So, if you think you might ever want a particular free app, even if you don't need it right away, go ahead and download it while it's free, wait 24 hours, and then delete it from your device. You'll always own the app as free after that. Or download it on your computer in iTunes and don't install it on your device.
Art/Creativity
- Adobe Ideas (normally $9.99)
- Canvastic (normally $2.99)
- Cubify Draw (draw and then 3D print what you've drawn)
- Louvre HD (normally $0.99)
- Musical Paint (normally $2.99)
- ZoLo (normally $1.99)
Cross-Curricular
- Make a Movie with Storyline - Director's Chair Free (normally $1.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
ELA
- Crabby Writer: Phonics Read & Write (normally $1.99)
- Elinda's Grammar - Irregular Verbs (normally $0.99)
- Hooked on Phonics (normally $2.99)
- Let's Name Things Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
- Phrasal Verbs HD (normally $0.99)
- SAT Quiz (normally $0.99)
- Sentence-opoly (fun writing and vocabulary game; normally $0.99)
- Spelling Burst (normally $0.99)
- Spelling Star (normally $0.99)
- SpellTastic (normally $0.99)
- Turtle Dash (spell against other kids around the world; normally $0.99)
- Using I and Me Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
- Vocab Junkie (normally $1.99)
- Vocabulary Builder 7
ESL
- Vocab Diary for English,... ESL Learner (normally $0.99)
Foreign Language
- Bitacora A1 - Spanish Vocabulary (normally $1.99)
- Learn French Verbs (normally $6.99)
- Learn French Vocabulary (normally $7.99)
- Learn Spanish Verbs (normally $5.99)
- Learn Spanish Vocabulary (normally $7.99)
- Learn Spanish with JamTok!
Games
- Angry Birds Space HD (normally $2.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Kids Trains Boats & Cars (normally $0.99)
- The Oregon Trail: American Settler (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Word Stack - a Word Association Game (really good and puzzling; normally $1.99)
- Teddy Floppy Ear: The Race (wonderful game; normally $4.99)
Health/PE/Sports
- Ballet Class (normally $10.99)
- Cardio Buddy - Touchless Camera Heart Rate Monitor (normally $1.49)
- Healthy Heroes - Nutrition for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Kids Food Adventure ($0.99)
- Pocket Dietician (normally $2.99)
- Smart Alarm Clock for iPad: Sleep Cycles and Noise Recording (normally $0.99)
- Soccer Logger (normally $4.99)
Interactive Books
- Another Monster at the End of This Book...Starring Grover & Elmo! (normally $3.99; includes one ad at the beginning, but still a wonderful book!)
- The Artist Mortimer (normally $1.99)
- Astrid & Siri (normally $1.99)
- Bean Bag Kids Present Little Red Riding Hood (normally $4.99)
- Beauty and the Beast - FarFaria (normally $0.99)
- Butterfly Valley HD (normally $1.99)
- The Chicken and the Egg (cute story; normally $2.99)
- Chugga Plays
- Circus Find (normally $0.99)
- Closet Monster
- Cookie Next Door - Rainy Days (normally $2.99)
- The Dog and the Bone (normally $0.99)
- The Earth Dog Story (normally $2.99)
- Extraordinary Jenny Jones (wonderful book; normally $3.99)
- The Eyebrow Story (normally $1.99)
- Flora's Forest (normally $1.99)
- The Frog King Bookidu (normally $1.99)
- The Gingerbread Man - Children's Book (normally $2.99)
- Harry Holstein Hits the Road (very cute; normally $0.99)
- Hello to the Moon! (normally $1.99)
- The Human Face of Big Data Tablet App (great for adults; normally $2.99)
- I Love Mountains (normally $2.99)
- It's Mine (normally $0.99)
- Jack and Joe (normally $2.99)
- Just Me and My Mom - Little Critter (normally $1.99)
- Lazy Larry Lizard (normally $3.99)
- Lilo Helps the Easter Bunnies (normally $2.99)
- Little Red Riding Hood by Fairytale Studios (normally $2.99)
- Little Rooster
- Luca Lashes The Brown-Eyed Boy with Magic Eyelashes (normally $3.99)
- Magic Clothes RD (normally $0.99)
- The Man Who Stared at the Sky (normally $1.99)
- Mimi Mouse (normally $1.99)
- A Monster Named Bopinku (normally $0.99)
- My Sister's Not Like Other Sisters (normally $2.99)
- My Zoo Adventure
- The Pea Blossom: HelloStory (normally $1.99)
- Piccadilly's Circus (normally $1.99)
- Poems for Little Children (normally $2.99)
- Snow White HD Animated Storybook (normally $0.99)
- Sock n Boots (normally $0.99)
- This Book Is About to Explode (normally $1.99)
- The Ugly Duckling Interactive Danish Fairy Tale (normally $3.99)
- Urki, Beyond the Forest (normally $2.99)
- Veggie Bottoms (normally $0.99)
- Where Has My Dog Gone? (designed by a speech therapist; normally $1.99)
Math
- CA-VI-R & P (normally $2.99)
- Chaos Land (math game; normally $0.99)
- Interactive Geometry (very good app; normally $3.99)
- Make 10 Plus (normally $0.99)
- Progressive Math (normally $0.99)
- Sine of the Time (good advanced math app; normally $0.99)
- Slate Math for Kids - Kindergarten and 1st Grade Games (very good app; normally $1.99)
- Space Cakes: Kids Bakery Game with Math and Numbers (normally $1.99)
- Time Teacher (normally $0.99)
- US-VI-R & P (sixth grade math app; normally $2.99)
- US VII - RP (seventh grade math app; normally $2.99)
- The Math Cheat Sheet (normally $0.99)
- Math Evolve: A Fun Math Game (normally $1.99)
- Math Star Basics Pro (normally $0.99)
- Measure Length - Tiny Chicken (normally $1.99)
- Multi Mania (multiplication app; normally $1.99)
- Pocket Algebra (normally $0.99)
Music
- All Tune - Chromatic Instrument Tuner (normally $0.99)
- GoodEar Intervals - Ear Training (normally $0.99)
- Musical Kids (normally $0.99)
- Music Theory, with Audio (normally $2.99)
- Treble Cat HD - Learn to Read Music (normally $3.99)
Photography/Video
- Happy Faces (normally $0.99)
- ThingLink (app is always free, but is newly released for iOS; great for quickly adding videos, notes, captions, and more to photos)
Primary/Preschool/Toddlers
- ABC Adventure HD: Front Yard Defense - Let Kids Love Learning Letters with Super Jay (normally $1.99)
- ABC Interactive Flash Cards (normally $0.99)
- Animal High Five (normally $0.99)
- The Bingo Song (normally $0.99)
- Buildo Museum Sticker Book (normally $2.99)
- The Bugs Go Marching
- Construct a Car (normally $2.99)
- Dog Detective (normally $0.99)
- Finger Painter for iPad (normally $2.99)
- Funny Alphabet - Interactive ABC Game (normally $0.99)
- Guess How Much I Love You - Interactive Episodes (normally $2.99)
- Little Learners Play and Learn (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Live Puzzle! Forest Animals (normally $1.99)
- Make A Scene : Farmyard (normally $0.99)
- Mr Gin(gerbread) Preschool (normally $0.99)
- My A-Z (normally $0.99)
- My Shape Box (normally $0.99)
- Patterns by EdNinja (normally $3.99)
- Penguin Pre-K: Preschool Numbers, Letters, Colors, Matching, and Math (normally $1.99)
- Puzzle Farm Imagination Adventure (normally $2.99)
- Shape Sorter - Early Learning Blocks (normally $1.99)
- Smart Run (simple educational game; normally $0.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Sort and Stack - Play Smart and Learn (normally $1.99)
- SoundMatch by EdNinja (normally $1.99)
- Spot the Farm Animal (normally $0.99)
- Toca Tailor Fairy Tales (normally $0.99)
- Zachy the Robot: The Leaning Tower of Robocity (great STEM app; normally $1.99)
- Zeli's World (normally $2.99)
- Family Puzzles (normally $2.99)
- Kids' First Cube Puzzle (normally $1.99)
- Leo's Pad: Preschool Kids Learning Series (one story included; additional ones available with in-app purchase; normally $4.99)
- Super Mosaic for Kids (normally $0.99)
- Toca Kitchen Monsters (normally $0.99; great for primary students)
Productivity
- Boardroom (online voting app like Poll Everywhere; good to use with students; must be on the same Wi-Fi network; normally $8.99)
- Brainstorming Canvas - Generating Creative Ideas (normally $2.99)
- MindMapper (normally $2.99)
- My Documents Free (normally $10.99)
- Note Record (normally $2.99)
- Posts (post to your WordPress or Blogger account; normally $9.99)
Science
- Astronomy A-Z HD (normally $0.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Audubon Owls - A Field Guide to North American Owls (normally $0.99)
- Franklin and Friends: Franklin's Weather Fun (normally $1.99)
- Keywords English: Photosynthesis
- Name It (normally $1.99)
- Star Chart (normally $2.99)
- Starry 2 (normally $4.99)
- Sugar Shake (fun game about cells; additional features available with in-app purchase)
Social Studies
- Earth HD (normally $4.99)
- iLearn Geography (normally $0.99)
- Gettysburg 1863 (normally $1.99)
- Map Adventure (normally $0.99)
- Timeline - U.S. History (additional features available with in-app purchase; normally $0.99)
- Ultimate World History for AP Exam (normally $0.99)
- U.S. Geography (normally $1.99)
- US-History (normally $0.99)
Special Needs
- Expressions for Autism (normally $3.99)
- Happy Geese (board game; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- I Went Potty (normally $0.99)
- Klaudia the Kangaroo - Look, See, Learn (normally $2.99)
- MAN (Morning, Afternoon, and Night routines; normally $1.99)
- My Chores
- Phonics Studio
- ProxTalker App (normally $33.99)
- Schedule My IEP
- Sono Flex Lite (excellent AAC app that works as well as many expensive ones)
- Talkulator (talking calculator; normally $0.99)
- Text Speaker - Text to Speech Voice Reader for Dropbox
- Where Has My Dog Gone? (interactive book designed by a speech therapist; normally $1.99)
- iTunes U is offering a free seminar to view at your leisure: Autism and Related Disorders by Yale University
Teacher
- 123 Token Me (great reward chart app; normally $10.99; additional feature available with in-app purchase)
- Apps for Common Core
- BookLeveler (normally $1.99)
- Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori (ebook; normally $4.99)
- Move and Match (create simple games for students; normally $1.99)
- PickMeBuzzer
- Spontaneous Activity in Education (by Maria Montessori) (normally $2.99)
Technology
- ColonColon1 (network tool; normally $2.99)
Miscellaneous
- EyeReader Pro (normally $0.99)
- Hopscotch HD (help young students learn programming by creating their own games and animations; normally $2.99)
- Secrets of Success (Dale Carnegie)
- Simply Sayin' (make medical talk easy for children to understand; normally $2.99)
- SquareHub: Your Private Family Network (really great app to use with your busy family)
