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)
- Painting 101: Anyone's a Painter (normally $2.99)
- Sand Drawing (normally $1.99)
- Tayasui Sketches (normally $1.99)
- Creative Doodle (nice drawing app; normally $1.99)
- Draw Along with Stella and Sam (normally $2.99)
- Let's Learn How to Draw (normally $1.99)
Cross-Curricular
- Digital Passport for Kids (wonderful games about digital literacy; normally $1.99)
- QuizBreak (normally $0.99)
Drama
- Drama Games (great app for theater teachers; normally $0.99)
ELA
- 3 Words by Dotted Duck (great spelling game; normally $0.99)
- Bust a Sound (normally $1.99)
- Learn to Read, Write, and Spell (normally $0.99)
- Let's Name Things Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
- Preparing for Standardized Tests, Language (normally $1.99)
- Sentence-opoly (fun writing and vocabulary game; normally $0.99)
- Simple Grammar (normally $0.99)
- "Sound Sorts" (normally $1.99)
- SpellTastic (normally $0.99)
- Using I and Me Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
- Vocab Junkie (normally $1.99)
- Read and Look (normally $1.99)
- Spelling Star (normally $1.99)
ESL
- Idiom Power (good app; normally $0.99)
- Text Synced Audiobooks (normally $0.99; each additional book is $0.99)
- Unscramble!
- Vocab Diary for English,... ESL Learner (normally $0.99)
Foreign Language
- Free Learn Spanish Flashcards for iPad (normally $0.99)
- Learn French Verbs (normally $6.99)
- Learn French Vocabulary (normally $7.99)
- Learn Spanish Verbs (normally $5.99)
- Learn Spanish Vocabulary (normally $7.99)
- Readalong Spanish (get feedback on your pronunciation as you read a story; normally $0.99)
Games
- Color Chameleon (normally $0.99)
- Epic (geared to the new movie; great app; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Hidden Object: Where's the Mystery Object? Full Game (normally $1.99)
- Kids Trains Boats & Cars (normally $0.99)
- Monsters University: Catch Archie
Health/PE/Sports
- Ballet Class (normally $10.99)
- Healthy Heroes - Nutrition for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Kids Food Adventure ($0.99)
- Pocket Dietician (normally $2.99)
- Soccer Logger (normally $4.99)
- SportMe Runner (create a personalized training program to prepare for a race; normally $4.99)
Interactive Books
- Adventures of Ana and Dad (normally $1.99)
- 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!)
- Beauty and the Beast - FarFaria (normally $0.99)
- CIA: Operation Ajax (an amazing book for high school students and adults; normally $4.99)
- Cookie Next Door - Rainy Days (normally $1.99)
- Disney Storytime (three stories included free; others available with in-app purchase; normally $0.99)
- The Earth Dog Story (normally $2.99)
- Frankenstein by Touch of Classic (normally $1.99)
- How Animals See Me (normally $0.99)
- The Human Face of Big Data Tablet App (great for adults; normally $2.99)
- I Can I Can (normally $1.99)
- iStorytime Library (app includes four great full-length Read Aloud storybooks - The Giant Smurf, Madagascar, Ice Age and Robin Hood; normally $2.99)
- Just Me and My Mom - Little Critter (normally $1.99)
- Kona Ice (normally $0.99)
- Lazy Larry Lizard (great interactive book; normally $3.99)
- Little Fox Gets His Wish (normally $1.99)
- Look Out Larry! Animated Storybook (wonderful app; normally $2.99)
- Lost Larry Interactive Storybook (another wonderful app; normally $2.99)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream by Touch of Classic (normally $1.99)
- Mimi Mouse (normally $1.99)
- My Counting Book (normally $1.99)
- My Friend the Bear (normally $1.99)
- PH Summer Reading (normally $1.99)
- Poems for Little Children (normally $2.99)
- Sam the Knight - Interactive Kids Book
- The Secret of the Red Shoes (normally $6.99)
- Sheldon's Adventure (normally $1.99)
- Sheldon's Adventure: Cornered! (normally $1.99)
- Sock n Boots (normally $0.99)
- Three Little Pigs - A Play HD (normally $4.99)
- Time to Go to Bed (normally $0.99)
- Two Elephant Stampedes Helped Us Plant Seeds (normally $2.99)
- What's Up Creatures? (normally $0.99)
- Where Has My Dog Gone? (designed by a speech therapist; normally $1.99)
- Will & Kate (I love this interactive royal fairy tale about the prince of England; normally $3.99)
- Kung Fu Robot (cute interactive comic book)
- Listen to My Body Read-Along (normally $1.99)
- MangoReader - Moon and the Cap (normally $0.99)
Math
- Bugsy's Math Quest (wonderful app; normally $2.99)
- College Math Tutor - MassMatics (normally $1.99)
- Dare to Share Fairly (cute division game; normally $2.99)
- Desmos Graphing Calculator (new app; fabulous resources; a must-have)
- Doppio (cute multiplication card game; normally $1.99)
- Flashcard Ninja 1-20 (normally $1.99)
- Mr. Gin Math (normally $0.99)
- Paper Puzzlers: Skip Counting (good app; normally $1.99)
- Pick-a-Path (wonderful app that is always free but is new today; a must-have)
- 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)
- Teachley: Addimal Adventure (normally $1.99)
- Times Tables - Learning with Encouragement and Incentives (normally $0.99)
- Time Teacher (normally $0.99)
- Tiny Chicken Learns Rounding Numbers (normally $1.99)
- Grand Prix Multiplication (play others around the world; normally $0.99)
- Ladybug's Box: Mathematics for Early Childhood (normally $4.99)
- Make 10 Puzzle (good for simple addition and subtraction; like Sudoku; normally $3.99)
- Math Brainiac (normally $7.99)
- Math Is Easy - Prime Factorization and Equation Solver (normally $1.99)
- Math Star Division Pro (normally $2.99)
- Math Star Subtraction Pro (normally $2.99)
- Math Table for iPad (normally $1.99)
- Math Yes or No (normally $0.99)
- Measure Length - Tiny Chicken (normally $1.99)
Music
- ABC Music (normally $2.99)
- All Tune - Chromatic Instrument Tuner (normally $0.99)
- GoodEar Intervals - Ear Training (normally $0.99)
- Little Piano Master (normally $1.99)
- Musical Kids (normally $0.99)
- Music Theory, with Audio (normally $2.99)
Photography
- Growth Cam (normally $0.99)
Primary/Preschool/Toddlers
- ABC Adventure HD: Front Yard Defense - Let Kids Love Learning Letters with Super Jay (normally $1.99)
- ABC Music (normally $2.99)
- ABC Puzzle Blocks (normally $0.99)
- ABCSounds-Lite (normally $0.99)
- ABC Write Listen Learn (normally $1.99)
- Animal High Five (normally $0.99)
- Animal World Jungle Safari - The Best Activity Preschool Shape Puzzles for Kids and Toddlers (normally $1.99)
- Fairytale Sort and Stack (normally $1.99)
- Fun with Animals (normally $0.99)
- Guess How Much I Love You - Interactive Episodes (normally $2.99)
- Happy Farm (normally $0.99)
- Home KG
- Kids Nature - Garden Helpers (great book app; normally $2.99)
- Kids Shape Match (normally $1.99)
- Ladybug's Ready, Set, Spot!
- Learn and Play ABC (normally $0.99)
- Let's Bake Challah
- Live Puzzle! Forest Animals (normally $1.99)
- Make A Scene : Farmyard (normally $0.99)
- My Alphabets (normally $0.99)
- My A-Z (normally $0.99)
- My Shape Box (normally $0.99)
- Oliver's ABC (normally $1.99)
- Paper Puzzlers: ABC Order (normally $1.99)
- The Party Thief (normally $1.99)
- Pascale's Puzzler (normally $0.99)
- Patterns by EdNinja (normally $3.99)
- Penguin PreK (normally $1.99)
- Pixopop Coloring Book (normally $2.99)
- Preschool Lunchbox Pack (normally $1.99)
- Puzzle Farm Imagination Adventure (normally $1.99)
- 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)
- Step by Step Getting Dressed with the Wonkidos (normally $3.99)
- Tiny Animals (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)
- BeBop Blox (cute game!)
- Build and Play 3D: Plane, Train, Robot, and More (normally $1.99)
- Buildo Museum Sticker Book (normally $2.99)
- Colory Caterpillar (normally $1.99)
- Draw Along with Stella and Sam (normally $2.99)
- Franklin & Friends: Talk and Playset (normally $1.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- iDollhouse (normally $0.99)
- Kidori Mazes - Easy Level (normally $2.99). All of the Kidori apps are free today (six of them).
- Kids' First Cube Puzzle (normally $1.99)
- Kids Sticker World (normally $0.99)
- Ladybug's Box: Mathematics for Early Childhood (normally $4.99)
- Learn Colors with Tamarind Tots (normally $0.99)
- Petite Frite Games for Kids (preschool; normally $2.99)
- TJ and Spark (normally $0.99)
- Toca Kitchen Monsters (normally $0.99; great for primary students)
Productivity
- Brainstorming Canvas - Generating Creative Ideas (normally $2.99)
- Home Screen Designer Pro ("pimp" your screen with these wallpapers and skins; normally $4.99)
- InFocus Pro (several different organizational apps; normally $9.99)
- iSurvey This (normally $4.99)
- MagicalPad - Notes with Paper Inside (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- MindMapper (normally $2.99)
- Note Record (normally $2.99)
- PDF Camera (normally $2.99)
- Permanent - The New Spreadsheet (normally $9.99)
Religious Studies
- Bible Quiz for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Superbook Kid's Bible, Video and Games
Science
- Audubon Owls - A Field Guide to North American Owls (normally $0.99)
- Bill Nye the Science Guy
- Cell Defense: The Plasma Membrane
- Cell Explorer: The Animal Cell (Free)
- Chem3D (a great app for molecular visualization)
- DIY Nano (great science experiments)
- Earthlapse (normally $1.99)
- Franklin and Friends: Franklin's Weather Fun (normally $1.99)
- Keywords English: Photosynthesis
- Kids Nature - Garden Helpers (great book app; normally $2.99)
- Med Sketch (good app for labeling human anatomy; normally $2.99)
- Name It (normally $1.99)
- Snurfle Meiosis
- Sol for iPad - The World's First Interplanetary Weather App (weather on earth and Mars)
- 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
- American History Time Line (good app from McGraw-Hill; normally $1.99)
- Atlas by Collins (9 themed globes; normally $6.99; additional globes available with in-app purchase)
- Gettysburg 1863 (normally $1.99)
- Map Adventure (normally $0.99)
- Ramadan Mubarak Happy Ramadan! (normally $1.99)
- The Roman Forum - Walkthrough (normally $0.99)
- State Puzzles (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)
- De Gaulle - History (good interactive app; normally $1.99)
- Discover Indian Monuments with Tamarind Tots (see great works in India; normally $0.99)
- Diwali with Tamarind Tots (all about this Indian holiday; normally $0.99)
- GED Social Studies Flashcards Exambusters (normally $1.99)
- History: Maps of the World (good for older students; normally $1.99)
- Planet GEO - Geography Games for Kids and Teens (normally $1.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
Special Needs
- EASe Lite Listening Therapy (normally $0.99)
- Expressions for Autism (normally $3.99)
- Grid Player (excellent and loaded AAC app)
- 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)
- Model Me Going Places 2
- My Chores
- News-2-You (special education weekly newspaper for students with many accessibility features; includes 1 free edition; others available with in-app purchase)
- Schedule My IEP
- Sono Flex Lite (excellent AAC app that works as well as many expensive ones)
- Speech4Good (great app; normally $7.99)
- Step by Step Getting Dressed with the Wonkidos (normally $3.99)
- 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
Special Needs - Switch Apps (If you work with kids who use a switch interface to access the iPad, there are several free apps available for free below.)
Teacher
- 123TokenMe (good app; normally $10.99; additional features 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)
- MathBreak (great activities to break up learning; normally $0.99)
- Spontaneous Activity in Education (by Maria Montessori) (normally $2.99)
- Teacher's Pet - Classroom Display Resources (HD)
- Teaching Made Easy - Child Observations (additional features available with in-app purchase)
Technology
- ColonColon1 (network tool; normally $2.99)
Miscellaneous
- Free Kids Movies Online - Animation (normally $2.99)
- Good Maners Quiz (normally $0.99)
- Halloween Decorating Tips (normally $4.99)
- Hopscotch HD (help young students learn programming by creating their own games and animations; normally $2.99)
- Lullabytes (normally $0.99)
- SimplyRain (normally $0.99)