9 Amazing Free Educational Apps for Students in 2023

With educational apps, learning has become at the fingertips of many students. It's been like opening your door and taking your gifts. 

Many people are ready to make a sacrifice, and on their way to doing so, they have spent their precious time inventing a useful mobile app that benefits learners in all aspects of education. 

After you go through this article, I'm sure you will find not less than 5 educational apps you will start with. These apps are not only limited to students but also the teachers at different levels will have something to catch up on. Also If you have a profession and wanted to go deeper into it and acquire a piece of extra knowledge, surely you will have something to catch up on here, because in this article we have refined and chosen the most useful and free educational apps that are coached by professional instructors. 

Note: All the applications that we will mention here are mobile apps that are available for free download in the Google play store and iOS app store. Copy the name of anyone you wish and search for it in the play store or app store and install it on your mobile phone. 

 

9 Best Free Educational Apps 

1. Khan Academy 

This is a free educational app associated with khanacademy.org, a non-profit organization aimed to provide free education for everyone in the world. 

They have high-grade lessons that help students to learn anything fluently. 

It covered almost all academic lessons starting from the Nursery level up to the University. It also included the syllabus of adult learners in the system. 

Why choose Khan Academy? 

This mobile app is free and has no hidden charge. Besides all, they have such amazing features that no one should ignore. The lessons come in video format in such a way that a student will admit he is in a live session with the tutor. 

They allow a student to download the video lesson so that he can watch it at any time without using data. After adding it to the bookmark it will be ready for download. This helps in reducing data consumption. 

Any video tutorial has a transcript, a learner can expand a transcripts button to see a written note and follow the tutor's speech step by step. This also helps low-level learners to catch up with anything at all. 

There are sets of motivational quizzes at the end of every lesson that tests the understanding of the students. 

You can share video courses with other people on social media platforms. 

2. Alison online courses 

This educational app is a learning center for students who want to learn skills and acquire extra beneficial knowledge in their present academic stages. 

The Alison app has been mapped out with standardized lecture tutoring in video format with English subtitles for better understanding. 

All the courses in Alison are free unless you want a certificate you will pay for it. 

The course certificate in this learning app is standard in such a way that it can add value to the CV for job seekers. 

How does Alison app look like? 

For the first time visit you will sign in using either your Facebook account or email address and select the following: 

1. Your main goal in Alison, choose one out of the three goals (upskill, explore hobbies & interests, or want to change your career field) 

2. Select which career categories are you most interested in. manufacturing, Information Technology, Health science, marketing, sales, law, public safety,  corrections, security, etc? 

3. You will also select what career stage are you currently in such as looking to start a new career, wanting to change your present career, currently unemployed, currently in university, etc. 

Alison will automatically suggest courses for you based on your learning goals and career objectives. 

How does Alison work 

A learner will select a course to study. 

Under each course, there is a short caption about it which includes course modules, course description, certification procedure, and the outcome at the end of lessons.

There is a course assessment at the end of each course to test the understanding of the students. A student who scores 80% will be eligible to obtain a certificate. 

3. uLesson Educational app 

I am very excited to share with you my experience with this app

This is the best educational app I have ever seen,  almost everything is free in uLesson. 

This application helps many students secure the best results in O-level examinations. 

Although it's designed for students from primary 1 to senior secondary, the lessons will also be beneficial for even university students. 

It has covered handy lessons in all the science, art, and commercial subjects including English and Mathematics. 

All the lessons are taught in video format in simple and understandable English. Additionally, all relevant illustrations that will facilitate learning have been incorporated into the lessons. 

They have also included cartoon animations for the lessons that are taught to primary school pupils that correspond to their level of study. 

One of the most amazing parts of the uLesson educational app is giving a live lesson and allowing the students to ask a live question directly to the tutor. 

There is also a provision for tests and exercises at the end of each lesson to test the learning capacity of the students. 

After you install this app on your phone sign in with your Facebook or email address. 

Enter your phone number to receive the code. 

Fill in your information and start enjoying it. 

4. Socratic by Google 

This is a free educational app for students and everyone. As the name suggests, it's a mobile app powered by Google that is used to search for questions in Google. 

How does it work? 

This free learning app is used to search for texts that are written in question format or any other single word, term, or expression. 

It searches for a given question on Google and YouTube and brings the search results in both video and text format. 

Once you have a question or any term that you want to know about, write it down on any visible content, then open the Socratic app and point your phone camera to snap it. After you snapped, select the exact text you want to search and click "Go", wait for the results, and choose the best answer to your query. 

One more thing that I found very interesting in this free learning app is you can utter the question using your phone mic instead of writing it. By just telling your question it will execute your request and bring the answers. 

Or you can write it using a phone keyboard. All these three options (camera snap, mic recording, and keyboard writing modes) are available for use in this free educational app. 

Tap the mic icon or search icons on the right and left sides respectively to switch between the searching modes. 

You will just sign in with your Google account after you installed it to start enjoying. 

If you are yet to create your Google or Gmail account you can check out how to create it for free, because almost all the mobile apps required signing in with either Google or Facebook accounts. 

5. Wikipedia 

Have you ever heard of this name? 

I know someone would say this name is common to us, why should you mention it here? 

Yes, I admit that Wikipedia is almost common to everyone. However, I believe if you read to the end, you would have something that will increase your commitment to this free learning app. 

Wikipedia is a home of information supported and operated by the Wikimedia foundation. It's considered the world's number-one source of information. 

It has over 40 million articles accessible in over 300 languages. 

This is the best educational app not only for students but also for everyone in need of free and reliable information. 

It's very easy to use and you can save an article for offline use. 

You can easily switch between languages. They write any single article in different languages. Any article will be translated into at least the whole regional languages that are related to it. 

For example, the history of China has been written in not less than 40 different languages including the world's most official languages and whole languages related to China such as Chinese Singapore, Chinese Malaysia, Traditional Chinese, Chinese Hong Kong, Simplified Chinese, Chinese China, and so on. 

If you search for an article in one of the languages you can switch to another available language to read it. 

Do you know Wikipedia is the best place to make educational research? Why?  Because it gives reliable references to all articles at stance. 

With Wikipedia, you can even search the information about your town everywhere you are. 

6. wikiHow 

This is another amazing free educational app that consists of thousands of articles that answer how-to questions. 

They have a distinctive quality of presenting articles in a unique form that made them stand out from their competitors. 

This quality is nothing but photographic illustrations. They made sketched images and in some cases videos for each point of the article to help the readers understand the full essence of the topic which they inquired about. 

This learning app has been developed to ease the accessibility of the father website (wikiHow.com). In this app, a user can bookmark an article for offline reading. 

7. Complete English Grammar Book 

This is the Grammar learning app that you can use offline. 

It was designed to help in the understanding of the English language and assist in the correction of grammatical errors. 

In this free mobile app, you will learn basic parts of English Grammar with full definitions and examples in a sentence, such includes English Grammar mistakes, punctuation, Determiners, Speech, Verbs and Verb tenses, Nouns, Pronouns, etc. 

Each of the parts has been broken down with different sub-topics under it. 

For example, under English Grammar mistakes you will learn how to avoid the overuse of adverbs, confusing similar spelling and words, misplacing apostrophes, etc. 

Under Speech, you will learn Verb use for reporting speech in English, reporting orders, requests and suggestions, direct and indirect speech, etc. 

Under Determiners you will study how to use Distributives: all, both, half, either, neither, each, and every. How to use Difference words: Other, and Another. How to use Pre-determiners: such, what, rather, quite. And many more. 

8. Microsoft math solver 

This is an incredible educational app for students and even teachers can take advantage of using it for the smooth running of their academic activities.   

This app is not only a math solver but also a math tutor because it explains a solution step by step that will help you learn how the problem is being solved. 

It can even help you to prove the accuracy of the math problem you have solved. 

With Microsoft maths solver you can solve all mathematical problems related to Elementary, Pre-algebra, Algebra, word problems on mathematical concepts, Basic calculus, and statistics. 

How to use Microsoft math solver 

You can use this mobile app in three different methods as follows: 

1. Snap and solve method

This works by writing your question on paper or any object and snapping it with your phone camera. Once you have snapped it will automatically solve and brings the correct answer. You can also import the image with the equation from phone storage if it's already present in your phone storage. 

2. Draw method

In this option, you will use your finger to draw any math question. There is also an eraser to correct any mistake or delete it completely. 

3. Typing method 

Here you will use your phone keyboard to input your question. The typing keyboard is made with an advanced scientific calculator. 

They made provision for all mathematical terms like π, ÷, ×, ℅, √,  f(x), square, bracket, theta, cos, tan, log, etc.

Why should you use this app? 

This learning app is free, plus it has the following incredible features: 

1. It gives accurate solutions to mathematical problems. 
2. It shows a detailed explanation of how the problems are solved. Moreover, you can choose to hear it through a voice reading. 
3. It allows you to edit the question if you made mistake in writing it. 
4. It has a history section where you can see the previous activities. 
5. This free learning app has an advanced scientific calculator and Graphing calculator. 
6. It gives a step-by-step explanation with a graph. 
7. It solves the equation in different forms.  

9. Advanced English Dictionary 

The English dictionary which is popular with different versions is a complementary part of using educational apps. Every student at all academic levels is supposed to have at least one edition of the English dictionary. 

It helps a lot in finding the meaning of unknown English words. 

The Advanced English dictionary is the best option in this part because it's free and used offline. It has many features that made it unique such as: 

1. In the free version, you can access over 5000 English words with explanations, examples, and symptoms. And over 400000 in the paid version and unlimited voice translation. 
2. It has a feature called "all languages translator" where you can translate a word from any language to another and vice versa. It also has a voice translator. 
3. You will learn how to pronounce a word correctly by tapping the speaker icon next to the word. 
4. You will learn English Proverbs, Idioms, irregular verbs, phrases, simple conversations, English common expressions, commonly confused words, and how to spell and pronounce words, in addition to 10 English daily quizzes. 

Bottom Line

Given that we embraced the usage of mobile phones for almost all of our learning activities. The introduction of educational apps by different organizations has been replicated in the space of mobile apps. 

Every human interaction is nearly associated with a mobile phone which in turn results in the initiation of many different types of educational apps that will help students and facilitate their learning activities. 

Here we have only mentioned a few out of hundreds. You can help us if you know any of the beneficial learning apps to drop them in the comments section. 

Also for any suggestions or inquiries, we're ready to hear them from you.