This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.
Educational software by subject Amateur radio
Anatomy 3D Indiana Anatomography Bodyworks Voyager - Mission in Anatomy NeuroNames Neuroscience Information Framework Primal Pictures Visible Human Project ZygoteBody
Astronomy
Aladin Sky Atlas Astropy Cartes du Ciel Celestia Deep-Sky Planner FITS Liberator Gaia Sky Google Sky HNSKY IRAF KStars SpaceEngine Stellarium TOPCAT Universe Sandbox WorldWide Telescope
Aviation
Adacel Air Traffic Controller (series) DiSTI Digital Combat Simulator International Virtual Aviation Organisation Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Mechtronix SkyRadar Virtual Air Traffic Simulation Network
Biology
Biostatistics tools
Business and finance
Calculators
Open-source calculators DeskCalc GeoGebra GNOME Calculator GraphCalc KCalc Qalculate! Windows Calculator WRPN Calculator xcalc
Open-source expression / formula calculators bc (programming language) Calcpad Maxima
Chemistry
Aqion — simulates water chemistry Chemaxon ChemWindow JChemPaint Kalzium NWChem Overleaf — web-app that uses LaTeX Chemfig for chemical structure diagrams and does chemistry notation using mhchem PhET Interactive Simulations Spartan (chemistry software) XDrawChem
Children's software Bobo Explores Light ClueFinders titles Delta Drawing Edmark Fun School titles GCompris — free software (GPL) Gold Series JumpStart titles Kiwaka KidPix Museum Madness Ozzie series Reader Rabbit titles Tux Paint — free software (GPL) Zoombinis titles
Computer science Software
Alice (software) BlueJ Ch CircuitPython Code.org CodeCombat Codewars EarSketch Etoys GitHub Codespaces H5P Hackety Hack JFLAP — Java Formal language and Automata Package Kojo (learning environment) Little Computer 3 MIT App Inventor Racket (programming language) RoboMind Scratch (programming language) Smalltalk — Squeak and Pharo Swift Playgrounds VPython Wikitext — markup language used to edit Wikipedia, can learn using the wikipedia:Sandbox.
Hardware
Arduino Fritzing Raspberry Pi Tinkercad Circuits List of open-source robotics hardware projects
Chat bots
ChatGPT — OpenAI DeepSeek Gemini — Google Grok — xAI Khanmigo — Khan Academy Microsoft Copilot
Cryptography
Bouncy Castle CrypTool — illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts
Dance
Dance Dance Revolution In The Groove Just Dance Now Pump It Up StepMania
Dictionaries and reference
Britannica Encarta Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite
Digital art
Adobe Fresco Affinity Designer Blender GIMP Krita Pixelmator Pro Procreate
Economics
Aplia CORE Econ Rmetrics
Engineering
Chemistry software Construction software Comparison of electromagnetic simulation software Comparison of optimization software Comparison of system dynamics software List of 3D modeling software List of aerospace engineering software List of BIM software List of bioinformatics software List of chemical process simulators List of computational fluid dynamics software List of computer-aided engineering software List of computer-aided manufacturing software List of computer simulation software List of data science software List of discrete event simulation software List of electrical engineering software List of free and open-source EDA software List of free electronics circuit simulators List of HDL simulators List of numerical-analysis software List of scientific simulation software List of software for nanostructures modeling List of software for nuclear engineering List of structural engineering software Lists of mathematical software Physics software Power engineering software Wind energy software
Geography
Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas Google Earth — (proprietary license) QGIS — open-source geographic information system software Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America — a game that teaches geography to children Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series
Geology
BGS Groundhog Desktop Citcom GeoModeller GMS GPlates GSI3D MODFLOW Rockworks Seismic Unix The Geochemist's Workbench Visual MODFLOW
Health
TeachAids SonoSim EMCrit EthosCE Free Open Access Medical education resources (FOAMed) Learning Resource Server Medicine
History
Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline Euratlas Back in Time (iPad) Balance of Power Lemonade Stand Number Munchers Odell Lake Spellevator Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game Word Munchers
Home Schooling
ABCmouse Abeka CK-12 Connections Academy DreamBox Learning Edgenuity FlexBook GCompris Khan Academy Mathletics Penn Foster High School Prodigy (video game) Time4Learning
Journalism
Law
CALI DoNotPay Free Law Project Wex JurisPedia AltLaw Ravel Law WIPO Lex
Language
Managed learning environments
ATutor (GPL) Blackboard Inc. Chamilo Claroline eCollege eFront (CPAL) Fle3 (GPL) GCompris (GPL) Google Classroom ILIAS (GPL) Kannu LON-CAPA — free software (GPL) Moodle — free software (GPL) OLAT — free software Renaissance Place Sakai Project — free software WebAssign
Material science
FLEUR Materials Studio MPMC
Mathematics
Accelerated Math Algebrator Cantor Compu-Math: Fractions DataScene Desmos DrGeo GeoGebra The Geometer's Sketchpad Little Professor Matheass Mathletics Maths Pathway Mathspace Microsoft Mathematics Microsoft Math Solver MathFacts in a Flash StatCrunch Statistics Online Computational Resource Symbolab TK Solver WolframAlpha WorldWideWhiteboard Zearn
Mathematical education video games DragonBox FASTT Math FutureU The ClueFinders Math Adventures Tux, of Math Command
Physics
Open Source Physics
Mapping
ArcGIS Online — Esri's cloud-based mapping and spatial analysis platform Datawrapper — web-based interactive maps Google Earth Engine Google Sheets — choropleth maps from data tables QGIS — GIS software that is free and open-source, using GeoJSON, Shapefile, CSV data points to creat maps. OpenStreetMap — open map database updated and maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration Leaflet — JavaScript library used to build web mapping applications
Military Interactive Scenario Builder Pythagoras ABM Digital Combat Simulator
Massive open online course providers
Free / open-access Alison (freemium) FUN Khan Academy MIT OCW Stanford Online SWAYAM
Proprietary / commercial Canvas Network Coursera edX FutureLearn iversity Kadenze LinkedIn Learning OpenClassrooms openHPI OpenLearning Open Universities Australia Shaw Academy The Great Courses Udacity Udemy
Music
Comparison of music education software EarMaster List of guitar tablature software MuseScore Syntorial Yousician
Philosophy
Araucaria Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Kialo PhilPapers Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Wireless Philosophy
Physical fitness
Political science iCivics
Reading
Accelerated Reader Apple Books AutoTutor Bookshare Compu-Read DISTAR DreamBox Learning GCompris Google Play Books Hooked on Phonics Kurzweil Educational Systems Learning Ally MobyMax Newsela Open Library READ 180 Reading Eggs STAR (software)
Science
Betty's Brain Science Sleuths
Simulation
Simulation games
Caesar titles Capitalism Civilization The Oregon Trail Sid Meier's Colonization SimCity Zoo Tycoon
Spaced Repetition Anki Memrise SuperMemo Synap Mnemosyne
Touch-Typing Instruction
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Mario Teaches Typing Smorball Touch Typist Typing Tutor Tux Typing — free software (GPL) Typequick
Visual Learning and Mind Mapping
ConceptDraw MINDMAP Freemind — free software (GPL) Perception SpicyNodes
Writing
3D modeling
Blender FreeCAD Autodesk Fusion 360 LeoCAD Shapr3D Sketchup Free — web-app Tinkercad
Notable brands and suppliers of educational software Dorling Kindersley Promethean World Renaissance Learning Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology (previously Riverdeep) KDE Education Project SMART Technologies Software4Students RM plc
Historical brands and suppliers Edu-Ware JumpStart Games (previously Knowledge Adventure) Davidson & Associates (merged with Knowledge Adventure) SoftKey (acquired by Mattel, then Riverdeep) Broderbund (acquired by Softkey) The Learning Company (acquired by SoftKey) Creative Wonders (acquired by the Learning Company) MECC (acquired by Softkey) Edmark (acquired by Riverdeep)
See also List of online educational resources List of educational technology companies List of free educational software
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