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)
- Creative Doodle (nice drawing app; normally $1.99)
- iLuv Drawing Vehicles HD (normally $1.99)
- Rembrandt (normally $0.99)
- iOrnament - Draw Creative Geometry Art (normally $0.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Let's Learn How to Draw (normally $1.99)
- Sand Drawing (normally $1.99)
- Scribble for Kids (normally $0.99)
- Tayasui Sketches (normally $1.99)
Cross-Curricular
- Core Learning Basics (normally $1.99)
- Digital Passport for Kids (wonderful games about digital literacy; normally $1.99)
ELA
- 3 Words by Dotted Duck (great spelling game; normally $0.99)
- Bust a Sound (normally $1.99)
- Consonant Blends and Digraphs (normally $1.99)
- Crossworld (normally $3.99)
- Final Sounds (normally $1.99)
- Phonics Munch - Letterstone Park (normally $1.99)
- K12 Phoneme Videos (normally $1.99)
- Learn to Read, Write, and Spell (normally $0.99)
- Let's Name Things Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
- Phonics Studio (more than 2,500 high-quality flashcards and full customizable)
- Read and Look (normally $1.99)
- Roots and Inflections (normally $1.99)
- Simple Grammar (normally $0.99)
- "Sound Sorts" (normally $1.99)
- Spelling Burst (normally $0.99)
- Spell Pop (normally $1.99)
- SpellTastic (normally $0.99)
- Vocab Junkie (normally $1.99)
- Using I and Me Fun Deck (normally $5.99)
ESL
- English Words 4 Beginners (normally $1.99)
- Idiom Power (good app; normally $0.99)
- Text Synced Audiobooks (normally $0.99; each additional book is $0.99)
- Vocab Diary for English,... ESL Learner (normally $0.99)
Foreign Language
- Fingerspell (normally $0.99)
- Free Learn Spanish Flashcards for iPad (normally $0.99)
- French Verb Trainer (normally $0.99)
- Learn French for Kids - Ottercall (normally $0.99)
- Learn French Verbs (normally $6.99)
- Learn French Vocabulary (normally $7.99)
- Learn Languages with the Fairytale "Little Red Riding Hood"(interactive book; normally $0.99)
- PowerSpeak French (normally $0.99)
- PowerSpeak Spanish (normally $0.99)
- Readalong Spanish (get feedback on your pronunciation as you read a story; normally $0.99)
Games
- Angry Birds Star Wars HD (normally $2.99)
- Chekked (fun mix of checkers and chess; normally $0.99)
- Sim Aquarium - Anemone Clownfish (normally $2.99)
- Color Chameleon (normally $0.99)
- Epic (geared to the new movie; great app; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Farm Domino for Kids (normally $2.99)
- Hidden Object: Where's the Mystery Object? Full Game (normally $1.99)
- Jigsaw App (normally $0.99)
- Kookie - Tangram (normally $0.99)
- Monsters University: Catch Archie
- What's the Question?(normally $1.99)
Health/PE/Sports
- Ballet Class (normally $10.99)
- Beyond the Box: Real-Time Sports News, Analysis, and Rumors from Media and Players (normally $7.99)
- 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)
- The Artist Mortimer (normally $1.99)
- Beauty and the Beast - FarFaria (normally $0.99)
- B Is for Bear - A Children's Book (normally $1.99)
- Bunty and Bubbly (normally $1.99)
- CIA: Operation Ajax (an amazing book for high school students and adults; normally $4.99)
- Cookie Next Door - Rainy Days (normally $1.99)
- Dan Garson's Woodstock Experience (amazing book about Woodstock; normally $10.99)
- Disney Storytime(three stories included free; others available with in-app purchase; normally $0.99)
- Dragon and Wolf (normally $1.99)
- The Earth Dog Story (normally $2.99)
- The Farm Animal Read-Along Story (normally $1.99)
- Finding Andy (normally $0.99)
- Frankie: The Untold Story of an Itsy-Bitsy Spider (normally $3.99)
- I Can I Can (normally $1.99)
- iRead - A Trip to the Park (normally $0.99)
- iStorytime Library (app includes four great full-length Read Aloud storybooks - The Giant Smurf, Madagascar, Ice Age and Robin Hood; normally $2.99)
- Jack and the Beanstalk - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- Just Me and My Mom - Little Critter (normally $1.99)
- Kona Ice (normally $0.99)
- Kung Fu Robot (cute interactive comic book)
- Lazy Larry Lizard (great interactive book; normally $3.99)
- Listen to My Body Read-Along (normally $1.99)
- Little Fox Gets His Wish (normally $1.99)
- Little Mamee Monster and the Missing Egg (normally $1.99)
- Lulu in the Amazon (cute book; normally $4.99)
- MangoReader - Moon and the Cap (normally $0.99)
- Mimi Mouse (normally $1.99)
- Molly Moccasins - Orchestra (interactive book; normally $3.99)
- My Friend the Bear (normally $1.99)
- Ollie the Cat
- Plan X: Evil Genius Comics (normally $1.99)
- Solar System AR Book HD (normally $2.99)
- Teenage Survival (normally $1.99)
- Thumbelina: HelloStory (normally $1.99)
- Up & Down (normally $0.99)
- Pepa Goes to Paris (normally $1.99)
- PH Summer Reading (normally $1.99)
- Pinocchio - The Cool Tale (normally $1.99)
- Poems for Little Children (normally $2.99)
- Princess and the Pea - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- Pwiggles on Pluto (normally $0.99)
- Sam the Knight - Interactive Kids Book
- Smelly Bunny (normally $1.99)
- Sock n Boots (normally $0.99)
- Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim
- Stone-Carver (normally $0.99)
- Three Billy Goats Gruff - an Interactive Children's Storybook (normally $1.99)
- Time to Go to Bed (normally $0.99)
- Trash Pack 2 (normally $2.99)
- 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)
Math
- 1 Mathematics (multiplication practice game; normally $11.99)
- 10monkeys Multiplication (normally $0.99)
- 3D Protractor (great app; normally $2.99)
- Baby Learns Addition 2 HD (normally $1.99)
- Factorisation Trainer (normally $1.99)
- Fraction Circle (normally $0.99)
- Fraction Poker (normally $1.99)
- Fraction Trainer (normally $1.99)
- Fun Math for Kids (normally $0.99)
- Kindergarten Subtraction (normally $1.99)
- Math 2 EN (normally $0.99)
- Mathstrainers (normally $6.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Math Tables for Kids (normally $0.99)
- NxtApp 4 Kids (normally $2.99)
- Space Voyager: K, First, and Second Grade Common Core Math (normally $2.99)
- Thinking Blocks Addition (great modeling app; normally $1.99)
- Abacus Rush(normally $0.99)
- Adding Antics (mental math; normally $0.99)
- Baby Farm HD(normally $1.99)
- Bedtime Math (great for parents; normally $0.99)
- Best Calc (normally $4.99)
- Bingo Math (normally $0.99)
- Bolt by Happsan (normally $0.99)
- 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)
- Ezy Triangle (normally $0.99)
- Honey Bee Math App for Kids
- Hooda Math Defense (great app for fractions, decimals, and percents; normally $1.99)
- K12 Equivalence Tiles (normally $1.99)
- Make 10 Puzzle (normally $3.99)
- Math Brainiac (normally $7.99)
- 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)
- Mr. Gin Math (normally $0.99)
- Octopus Planet 123 (great app for learning systems of numbers; normally $2.99)
- Ordinal Numbers (normally $1.99)
- Slate Math for Kids - Kindergarten and 1st Grade Games (very good app; normally $1.99)
- Sort the Fractions (normally $1.99)
- Space Cakes: Kids Bakery Game with Math and Numbers (normally $1.99)
- Teeth Defense for Basic Math Skills (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)
Music
- All Tune - Chromatic Instrument Tuner (normally $0.99)
- Easy Piano Chords (normally $1.99)
- Kangaroo Jump! Leap! Bounce! Music Education for Your Kids (normally $1.99)
- GoodEar Scales: Ear Training (normally $0.99)
- Leo's Songs
- Lion King Parade: Music Education for Your Kids (normally $0.99)
- Little Piano Master (normally $1.99)
- Musical Kids (normally $0.99)
- Music Theory, with Audio (normally $2.99)
Photography
- Amazing Baby Photo Frames HD (normally $0.99)
- Growth Cam (normally $0.99)
Primary/Preschool/Toddlers
- ABC 123 for Kids (normally $0.99)
- Alphabets & Numbers (normally $0.99)
- Alpha Sequence (normally $0.99)
- Art ABC (normally $2.99)
- Days Sequence (normally $0.99)
- Find the Shapes HD by KLAP (normally $2.99)
- Kids Christmas Pattern Game (normally $1.99)
- Kids Preschool Game Box HD Plus (normally $1.99)
- Month Sequence (normally $0.99)
- P.O.V. - Spatial Reasoning Skills Development (normally $2.99)
- Spot the Difference HD by KLAP (normally $2.99)
- Stagecoach Education: Pirates & Princesses (normally $0.99)
- Stagecoach Education: Project Christmas (normally $0.99)
- ABC Adventure HD: Front Yard Defense - Let Kids Love Learning Letters with Super Jay (normally $1.99)
- ABC - The Learning App (normally $0.99)
- ABC Write Listen Learn (normally $1.99)
- Animal High Five (normally $0.99)
- Backyard at Twilight: A Stella and Sam Adventure (normally $1.99)
- Beep & Boop by StoryBots (normally $1.99)
- Be PinkPowerful! (normally $0.99)
- Brush Your Teeth with Ben the Koala
- Buildo Museum Sticker Book (normally $2.99)
- Cambugs Letter Sounds (wonderful app for learning letters; additional students may be added with in-app purchase)
- Colory Caterpillar (normally $1.99)
- Fairytale Sort and Stack (normally $1.99)
- Franklin & Friends: Talk and Playset (normally $1.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- Fun with Animals (normally $0.99)
- Happy Farm (normally $0.99)
- Home KG
- iDollhouse (normally $0.99)
- K12 Choc It Up (normally $1.99)
- 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 Nature - Garden Helpers (great book app; normally $2.99)
- Kids Shape Match (normally $1.99)
- Ladybug's Ready, Set, Spot!
- Lazoo: Squiggles! (fun drawing program for young children)
- Learn Colors with Tamarind Tots (normally $0.99)
- Learn and Play ABC (normally $0.99)
- Leo's Colors
- Let's Bake Challah
- Live Puzzle! Forest Animals (normally $1.99)
- Lost Letters (normally $0.99)
- Make A Scene : Farmyard (normally $0.99)
- Mookie Goes to the Moon (normally $0.99)
- My A-Z (normally $0.99)
- My Shape Box (normally $0.99)
- Oliver's ABC (normally $1.99)
- The Party Thief (normally $1.99)
- Pascale's Puzzler (normally $0.99)
- Patterns by EdNinja (normally $3.99)
- Penguin First Grade: Math, Reading, Time, and Geometry Learning Game(normally $1.99)
- Penguin PreK (normally $1.99)
- Penguin Toddler: Fun with Numbers, Colors, Stickers, Size, Directions, and Expressions
- Pixopop Coloring Book (normally $2.99)
- Preschool Lunchbox Pack (normally $1.99)
- Princess Fairy Tale Coloring Wonderland (normally $2.99)
- Science and Weather - Science and Educational Games for Kids in Preschool and Kindergarten (normally $2.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- See and Play Animals: Africa (normally $0.99)
- 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)
- TJ and Spark (normally $0.99)
- Toca Band (normally $2.99)
- Toca Kitchen Monsters (normally $0.99; great for primary students)
- 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)
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Productivity
- Brainstorming Canvas - Generating Creative Ideas (normally $2.99)
- Easy Pie (make pie charts quickly and then screen shot the final product; normally $0.99)
- Engine Connect (great app if you have a broadcasting studio; normally $999.99)
- Home Screen Designer Pro ("pimp" your screen with these wallpapers and skins; normally $4.99)
- iSurvey This(normally $4.99)
- Lists To-Do (normally $0.99)
- MagicalPad - Notes with Paper Inside (additional features available with in-app purchase)
- MindMapper (normally $2.99)
- PDF Camera (normally $2.99)
- PublishME - Create & Share Presentations (normally $3.99)
- Smart Tools (flashlight, level, protractor, ruler, compass, metal detector, sound meter, and vibration meter; normally $0.99)
Religious Studies
- Bible Quiz for Kids (normally $2.99)
- God's Love: A Bible Storybook (normally $3.99)
- Nativity Time (normally $0.99)
Science
- Amazing Space Journey - 3D Solar System (normally $2.99)
- Color Uncovered (another amazing app)
- Connectorium(a great game about systems; normally $2.99)
- Sound Uncovered (an amazing app about the science of sound)
- AP Chemistry Flashcards Exambusters (normally $1.99)
- 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)
- Geology of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (normally $0.99)
- Keywords English: Photosynthesis
- Kids Nature - Garden Helpers (great book app; normally $2.99)
- Name It(normally $1.99)
- Preparing for Standardized Tests: Science (normally $1.99)
- Sea Slugs & Stuff Lite (normally $0.99)
- 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
- Basher's Presidents (normally $1.99)
- Colonie (game about the first French colony in North America; normally $1.99)
- 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)
- Geo Challenge - Flags, Maps, and Geography Learning Game for Kids (normally $0.99)
- Gettysburg 1863(normally $1.99)
- History: Maps of the World (good for older students; normally $1.99)
- India from a Kite (beautiful photos; normally $4.99)
- Map Adventure (normally $0.99)
- Planet GEO - Geography Games for Kids and Teens (normally $1.99; additional features available with in-app purchase)
- The Roman Forum - Walkthrough (normally $0.99)
- State Puzzles (normally $0.99)
- TexLege (everything about the Texas Legislature; normally $11.99)
- 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)
Special Needs
- More than 40 of the Webteam Corporation's apps for special needs students are free today; normally $0.99 each.
- Autism EducateMe (normally $1.99)
- iLookAskNShow (normally $0.99)
- P.O.V. - Spatial Reasoning Skills Development (normally $2.99)
- Bumps - A Braille Guide (normally $0.99)
- EASe Lite Listening Therapy (normally $0.99)
- Expressions for Autism (normally $3.99)
- Fingerspell (normally $0.99)
- 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)
- K12 Phoneme Videos (normally $1.99)
- 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
- Assigner (assign work over the web to students; normally $8.99)
- BookLeveler (normally $1.99)
- Bringing It to Life (normally $1.99)
- Kids Timer App (normally $0.99)
- Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook by Maria Montessori (ebook; normally $4.99)
- Noise Down - Sound Manager Alarm App (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)
Miscellaneous
- Dinosaurs Everywhere! (cool augmented reality app with five dinosaurs; others available with in-app purchase)
- DuckDuckGo Search & Stories(good search engine for students)
- Free Kids Movies Online - Animation (normally $2.99)
- Hopscotch HD (help young students learn programming by creating their own games and animations; normally $2.99)
- Kid-Safe TV - Free
- Lullabytes (great baby app; normally $2.99)
- NOAA Radar (normally $1.99)
- Timegg Timer (normally $0.99)
- U Decide College (good for high school students and counselors; normally $0.99)