Anki
Education & Learning
A spaced-repetition flashcard program. The desktop version is free and cards sync across devices via AnkiWeb.
Free plan
Education & Learning: apps with a free plan
12 apps
12 apps that APP NAVI confirmed from official sources to have a free plan. Last checked: 2026-11-05. Anything we could not confirm stays "Unverified"; we never guess. Prices and specs change, so check each app's official page before you use it.
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Exercism
Education & Learning
A free platform for learning and practicing programming, with exercises, mentoring and a CLI. It is run by a UK-registered not-for-profit.
Free plan
GCompris
Education & Learning
An educational software suite for children aged 2 to 10 with more than 100 activities covering reading, arithmetic, science and geography. It is developed by the KDE community.
Free plan
Kolibri
Education & Learning
An offline-first learning platform for delivering educational content without internet access. It is developed by the nonprofit Learning Equality.
Free plan
Mochi
Education & Learning
A spaced-repetition flashcard app that doubles as a Markdown note tool. It is local-first and supports LaTeX plus language-learning aids such as dictionaries and text-to-speech.
Free planAI
Sonic Pi
Education & Learning
A free open-source tool for making and performing music by writing code. The official site says it runs in the browser and also ships as apps for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Free plan
Tatoeba
Education & Learning
A collaborative multilingual sentence collection with translations, useful for finding example sentences when learning languages; it has a Japanese interface.
Free planJapanese UI
The Odin Project
Education & Learning
A free, open-source coding curriculum that can be taken entirely online. It offers a roadmap to full-stack development with hands-on projects and is maintained by volunteers.
Free planIndie
Tux Paint
Education & Learning
A free drawing program for children aged 3 to 12. The official site states it has no ads, is open source under the GPL and is built by a worldwide volunteer team.
Free planJapanese UIIndie
Zotero
Education & Learning
A research tool for collecting, organizing, annotating and citing sources, developed by a nonprofit and free to use.
Free plan
ドットインストール (dotinstall)
Education & Learning
A programming learning service built on videos of three minutes or less. Its top page lists 578 lessons and 8,635 videos, and it is run by dotinstall Inc. in Meguro, Tokyo.
Free planJapanese UI
なでしこ3 (Nadesiko3)
Education & Learning
An open-source programming language in which programs are written in Japanese, aimed at automation and learning to program. A web version and a PC (Go) version are available.
Free planJapanese UI