Free
Usability: There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
Dictionary for 51 language combinations, usable without an internet connection (offline dictionary). Vocabularies can be downloaded and updated within the app for free.
German-English dictionary: 920,000 translations
All dictionaries are bidirectional, so German-English doubles as English-German. Just type in your keyword in either language.
The following languages are available in combination with German and English:
Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech,…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
The DIY Sun Science app, funded by NASA, allows families and educators to investigate and learn about the Sun at home, at school, or anywhere you go! This app is the second in a series (including DIY Nano) that provides over a dozen free, easy to use, hands-on activities. Plus, view live images of the Sun from NASA’s SDO satellite, videos of the Sun, and much more! Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. The activity materials are widely…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
Paint tool with sounds.
When you draw, funny sounds will sound.
Children love it!
There is iPad version "Doodle Sounds for iPad" too.
enjoy!
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
Learn Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Totally fun. Totally free.
PC Magazine Editors' Choice for Language Learning: "Among iPhone apps for learning or practicing a language, you can't beat Duolingo." "Far and away the best free language-learning app." —The Wall Street Journal "We’ve also tried a few other methods such as book learning and Rosetta Stone, both of which bombed. That’s why I jumped at the chance to try Duolingo. And believe me, it’s…
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
A simple audio game simulating visual disabilities. The player's task is to complete the scenario assumptions for each level.
EchoVis Game is a simple audio game aimed at the blind and visually impaired, among others. The main purpose of this game is to demonstrate one of the many ways in which smartphones can be used to develop the hearing skills of people with visual impairments. People without vision problems are also encouraged to try their hearing skills.
There are…
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Welcome to the EchoVis Quiz game. We hope that it will help you improve your hearing sensitivity – and its effectiveness. It will increase your skills in the field of recognizing sound propagation in various environments, its reflections, distortions, and the knowledge of the echolocation phenomenon.
The main objectives of the game are:
• Improving the ability to use the hearing organ,
• Learning the skill of using echolocation,
• Providing entertainment through…
Free With In-App Purchase
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
A simple audio game simulating visual disabilities. The goal is to cross the crowded street safely listening to the sounds of passing cars.
EchoVis Street is a simple audio game, aimed for blind and visually impaired people. The main goal of this game is to present one of many possibilities of use the mobile devices to develop ability to use hearing skills by visually impaired people. We recommend sight persons also to try their skills in this area.
This game consist several…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
A powerful, flexible graphing calculator that's free. Scientific Calculator, Graphing, Unit converter, constant for scientific functions, Math/Science Reference. No more looking for that old dated graphing calculator, which is big and expensive.
Free
Usability: There are some minor accessibility issues with this app, but they are easy to deal with.
From iTunes App Store:
"Exoplanet" is a daily updated database of all discovered extrasolar planets.
Main features:
- Database with physical parameters of every known exoplanet.
- Interactive visualisations and animations accommodate the scientific information.
- Interactive 3D plot shows the position of all exoplanets in our Milky Way. You can zoom into any planetary system.
- Push notifications are sent out whenever a new planet is discovered.
…
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
This is a free lite version which has a LIMIT of 4 decks and 6 cards per deck. The paid version does not have this restriction.
Flashcards Deluxe is an easy to use, yet powerful flashcard app which you can use to study just about anything you want. I use this app for my own Chinese
studies, and am constantly improving it to make it better for myself and others.
Features:
• Two smart study modes that automatically focus more on the cards you miss: Leitner and a more…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
Learning piano has never been easier! Play your favorite songs and learn all there is to know about notes, chords, and the proper technique. Works with your real piano or keyboard, acoustic as well as electric. Ideal for beginners and advanced pianists.
DISCOVER THE NEW WAY TO LEARN PIANO:
- Play your favorite songs – hundreds of songs, from classical to pop, at your disposal
- Practice effectively with learning monitoring via microphone or MIDI connection
- Reach…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Fractions are everywhere and the Fraction Calculator is designed to ease the task of working with fractions with its simple and intuitive calculator style interface.
The Fraction Calculator feels and behaves exactly like a calculator with one exception, you're working with fractions. So now when homework (checking of course) calls for fractions, or your carpentry project needs you to add eighths and sixteenths dozens of times, or maybe you just want to be able to recalculate…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
From the AppStore:
With so many features for college and University students, FreeHour is truly the go-to app for all students. Feature list : 1. Shared Timetable - Finding free time with friends on campus has never been easier. With it’s super simple swiping interface, FreeHour can be used as a standard timetable app for every day of the week, however it also goes one step further. Simply choose friends you’d like to share your timetable with and just tap on any slot throughout the…
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Classroom is a free service for schools, non-profits, and anyone with a personal Google account. Classroom makes it easy for learners and instructors to connect—inside and outside of schools. Classroom saves time and paper, and makes it easy to create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized.
Classroom is designed to help teachers create, collect, and grade assignments paperlessly, including time-saving features like the ability to automatically make a copy of…
Paid
Usability: The app is totally inaccessible.
The award-winning Grammar Girl presents Grammar Pop: A fun word game for adults and a great way for kids to learn parts of speech. Match words with parts-of-speech
to pop clouds and progress from nouns and verbs to gerunds and participles.
The sentences get longer, the parts of speech get harder, and the timer gets shorter as you pop more clouds and advance through Grammar Pop. You won’t
even know you’re learning!
Grammar Girl has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey…
Paid
Usability: Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.
Recent #1 Ranked Education App - Improve your GRE vocabulary FASTER than with any other vocab app. Applying the latest in cognitive science techniques, Brainscape helps you efficiently learn over 2,000 “dynamic flashcards” covering both vocabulary words and their roots.
Rather than creating frivolous games or distracting quizzes to try to make learning “fun,” Brainscape provides a scientifically optimized algorithm to repeat flashcards in just the right pattern for your brain’s…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
This is the official Hadith of the Day app for iPhone.
HOTD brings you beautiful Hadiths, inspirational Ayahs and heart-warming Duas at your fingertips, in a unique manner, carefully selected and categorised for your own personal situations.
Do you or someone you know have a need that can only be fulfilled by Allah? Feeling like life has come to a standstill? Whether you are feeling on top of the world, blessed and thankful, need some patience, are thinking about a…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Learn and practice Morse code where ever you are.Brilliant if you really want to learn morse - ★★★★★Very very good... - ★★★★★This is one of the best cw tutor apps available - ★★★★★Just what I needed for handy practice anywhere anytime! Highly recommended! - ★★★★★ Ham Morse allows you to practice morse code on your iPhone or iPod Touch. It is designed particularly for Ham radio operators and others who wish to achieve or maintain a high level of proficiency in this classic mode of…
Paid
Usability: Some parts of the app are accessible with VoiceOver, but not enough to make it usable.
Like our other award-winning children’s apps, Itsy Bitsy Spider is based on a popular song, but this new app is even more interactive and has more educational activities to engage children. A friendly tutor (a fly!) teaches your child about nature and the environment.
NOTE TO PARENTS: Poke the spider to navigate from screen to screen. Touch everything else too! Everything in the illustrations is interactive.
Brought to you by the creators of Wheels on the Bus, the award…
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
TrueFire’s JamBox is an excellent collection of jam tracks and practice rhythm tracks for guitar including lead sheets and more.
Get 100 jam tracks for free just by downloading this app, and then upgrade and unlock more tracks within.
Jam away!
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Khan Academy allows you to learn almost anything for free.
Our iOS app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 3,500 videos.
We cover a massive number of topics, including K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even the humanities with playlists on finance and history.
Spend an afternoon brushing up on statistics. Discover how the Krebs cycle works. Learn about the fundamentals of computer science.…
Free
Usability: There are some accessibility issues with this app, but it can still be used if you are willing to tolerate these issues and learn how to work around them.
AccelaStudy is the award-winning language education software for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad that helps you understand and pronounce words in the shortest possible time. Learn new Chinese words quickly, easily, and permanently with AccelaStudy.
If you like FREE Chinese Essentials by AccelaStudy, learn even more by purchasing AccelaStudy Chinese | English.
Join over 4,000,000 people worldwide who have used AccelaStudy to master a language. Perfect for students, travelers,…
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Learning Ally Link for mobile is an educational reading app, designed for learning through listening.
Learning Ally provides more than 80,000 human-narrated audiobooks and audio textbooks for dyslexic, blind and visually impaired readers. The Learning Ally library offers bestsellers, classics, textbooks and more. In addition, it offers the VOICEtext format that includes on-screen highlighted text synced with the audio narration.
Learning Ally membership is required to use this…
Free
Usability: The app is fully accessible without the use of VoiceOver
Life Ready Games are a series of games designed to entertain and educate. Play through a series of stories and games, learning life skills for children with vision impairments to grow independence.
Pick up and practise life skills from a variety of life skill areas, such as independent living, compensatory access, orientation and mobility, assistive technology, sensory efficiency, social interaction, career education, self determination, and recreation and leisure. Life Ready Games…
Paid
Usability: The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.
Lists for Writers is a great addition to any writer’s toolbox. Helpful to both novice and expert writers alike, this app delivers list after list for your brainstorming sessions: names, character traits, plot lines, occupations, obsessions, action verbs, and much more!
Lists included:
Character
- Common first names (male and female)
- Common last names
- Clothing
- Occupations
- People (roles and relationships)
- Personality
- …