28 Free Learning Apps for Homeschooling and At-Home Learning

Nowadays, it's really common to work from home, do things remotely and homeschool your kids. But if you've never homeschooled before, or you have young kids at home with nothing to do while you work, you might be feeling overwhelmed.

But maintaining a schedule is one of the best things you can do for your kids while they are at home with you during the work day or even just in their downtime on the weekend. If you're looking for homeschooling resources that can help you better play teacher at home, or you just want to help your child continue learning outside of the classroom, these 28 free learning apps are immensely helpful when it comes to creating a curriculum and stimulating your child's mind.

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28 Free Learning Apps

1. ABCmouse Early Learning Academy

ABCmouse is offering the first month of online learning free. After the first month, subscriptions start at $12.99/mo. On ABCmouse, your child can play educational games and puzzles and partake in a curriculum of reading, math, art, music, and science for ages 2-8.

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2. Duolingo

Duolingo is a free communications app that teaches you how to learn the language of your choice. Featuring language lessons for Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, Arabic, Czech, Welsh, Danish, Greek and more, Duolingo offers immediate grading on language challenges and rewards like virtual coins and an increase in your personalized fluency score.

3. Zoom

Zoom is a virtual conferencing app and platform that many offices have transitioned to during these work-from-home days. But Zoom can help students too. Whether it's meeting with teachers remotely or doing educational virtual playdates when friends are visiting family over the summer, Zoom is a great resource.

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4. Math Games

With more than 21 math-related, interactive games, Math Games makes the impossible possible—AKA makes math fun! Kids also have the option to practice their math by grade: from Pre-K up to eighth grade. Alternatively, students can also practice by skill—from addition and estimation to mixed equations and money.

5. GoNoodle

GoNoodle offers movement and mindfulness videos that are the perfect substitute for your child's regularly scheduled school gym class. The app aims to provide children with physical, academic, and social-emotional tools and overall wellness. GoNoodle has videos for children of all abilities.

6. Bamboo

In this day and age, Bamboo is one of the most tech-savvy educational tools there is. After all, it is compatible with Alexa. If you have an Amazon Alexa in your home, all you have to do is say, "Alexa, enable BambooLearning." Bamboo offers book services that help kids practice active listening and listening comprehension and Luminaries, an engaging social studies trivia game. They also offer math help to aid kids in practicing mental math and offer number problems and thousands of word problems. They have a music section, which introduces kids to basic music theory and music games like "Recognize the Instrument." And they have Highlights Storybooks, co-developed with Highlights magazine to offer stories and exercises that teach kids from levels kindergarten to third grade about active listening and improving listening comprehension.

7. Funbrain

If you're looking for interactive math games, reading puzzles and printable worksheets and games you can do at home together, Funbrain is an excellent, educational resource. Funbrain also has a Stories section where kids and parents can access digital versions of picture books. Not to mention all the fun educational videos to explore.

8. New American History

For grades 4 and up, New American History is a completely customizable way to homeschool your student in social studies. Once you log on, you can choose an individual subtopic of history, the reading level, grade level, learning strategy and more.

9. HippoCampus

With over 3,000 free videos in 13 different subjects, HippoCampus is brought to you by the NROC project. You can find classes on arithmetic, algebra and geometry, natural science, chemistry, social science, history and government, English, religion and more.

10. 123 Homeschool 4 Me

123 Homeschool 4 Me is a free homeschooling resource that provides downloadable worksheets and resources for parents who are new to homeschooling. Aside from worksheets, you can download everything from Alphabet Playdough Mats to Sandwich Book Report forms.

11. Beanstalk

Beanstalk provides interactive classes for kids ages 1.5- 6. Some classes are live, others are on-demand, but all classes are taught by experienced teachers. You'll find everything from "Create Your Imagination Station" to "How Rainbows Work." Each class designates the age group it's designed for.

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12. Accessibyte

Accessibyte has several different apps: Typio, Arcade, Quick Cards, Pro Pack and Teacher Dashboard, all of which have various capabilities. On each of the apps, students learn remotely with the help of typing tutors, educational arcade games, flash-cards and tests that challenge what they've learned in the app.

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13. Belouga

Made for students from kindergarten to 12th grade, Belouga gives kids access to a collection of educational resources. You'll find everything from social science videos to math problems to real-time communication with peers around the world. The free version is unlimited to students with limited lessons available. Otherwise, the $14.99/month subscription offers so much more.

14. BrainPOP

BrainPOP curriculums are designed for students K-12, but there's also BrainPOP Jr., which is ideal for kids 0-3. Both feature lesson plans and activities for science, reading and writing, math, social studies and health.

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15. ScratchJr

Is your kid interested in coding? ScratchJr offers free online courses for kids ages 5-7. ScratchJr is available on iOS, Amazon, Google Play and the Chrome Web Store.

16. Classroom Cereal

Need help teaching your child grammar? Classroom Cereal helps your young learner with grammatical exercises through free downloadable stories that you can print, then go through together.

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17. DuckDuckMoose

Designed for preschoolers and kindergarteners, DuckDuckMoose offers a bevy of apps featuring puzzles, maps and interactive music games.

18. Bedtime Math

Bedtime Math is a free app made for kids 2 and up; the app, which features engaging math activities, is available in both English and Spanish.

19. Poptropica

Poptropica is a story-based game that has kids create their own characters and complete educational quests. When a quest is accomplished, kids get a prize!

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20. Fish School

From the creators of DuckDuckMoose, Fish School is made with kids two and up in mind. It teaches young learners about colors, letters, numbers and shapes through matching games. Your little one's finger controls the schools of fish, which can form into letters, shapes and the numbers 1 through 20.

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21. Phonics Ninja

Think FruitNinja, but with some educational value! Phonics Ninja lets kids karate-chop their way through digraphs, letter sounds, and blends, teaching your child important phonics skills. There are three different levels of difficulty, and parents can even get involved by recording their own audio clues to help.

22. Science360

It may be only compatible with tablets, but Science360 from the National Science Foundation exposes your child to the latest science and engineering news, photos, and videos. Content comes straight from the National Science Foundation, so you know you're getting the best-vetted information. The app's main feature is a 360-degree view that offers exploration of every angle.

23. Vocabulary Spelling City

Vocabulary Spelling City aims to make spelling tests fun with games like Word Unscramble and HangMouse. Play any of the app's nine different games or input your child's own personalized vocabulary list to practice specific words.

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24. Awesome Eats

From the Whole Foods Foundation, Awesome Eats teaches kids about healthy eating, pattern recognition and sorting, making it perfect for children ages 5-10. Kids must sort fruits and veggies into baskets before the produce falls off the conveyor belt and onto the floor, spoiled. After each level is defeated, the app flashes facts about how to eat right.

25. Toca Kitchen Monsters

For kids ages 3 and up, Toca Kitchen Monsters challenges children to cook food for two hangry monsters using eight different ingredients. It's a fun game, for sure, but it's also educational! Kids have to follow directions, listen to ingredient combinations, and season the food with the appropriate amount or else the monsters have a habit of spitting.

26. Samsung Kids

Samsung Kids, an app-based platform for kids ages 3-12, is offering a 30-day free trial. The digital library has hundreds of apps, games, TV shows, movies and books featuring your child’s favorite characters and brands like Peppa Pig, Toca Boca and LEGO. Parents can set time limits, as well as track their child’s progress. After 30 days, Samsung Kids is $7.99/month.

27. TIME for Kids

TIME for Kids’ digital library has turnkey teaching tools and tips on how to discuss the news with children.

28. World of Peppa Pig: Kids Games

World of Peppa Pig: Kid Games offers children and fans of Peppa Pig fun games that not only include everyone's favorite British pig but also expand their minds with puzzles, building games and more.

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