The Pinkfong Company
Kids enjoy the Baby Shark games and videos, but intrusive ads and a broken paid ad-removal option frustrate parents.
★ 3.4
56M+ installs
Duolingo
Duolingo remains a solid free habit-builder for casual learners, but its new energy system and thinner explanations frustrate long-term users.
★ 4.7
935M+ installs
AnkiDroid Open Source Team
AnkiDroid is a free, powerful spaced-repetition study tool that's dated-looking but reliable once you learn it.
★ 4.8
23M+ installs
Remind101
Remind works well for school messaging but is held back by unreliable notifications and no way to clear old conversations.
★ 4.3
30M+ installs
Life.Church
A free, well-loved Bible app for kids with charming interactive stories, held back by loud music controls and profile glitches.
★ 4.3
131M+ installs
PBS KIDS
A solid, ad-light educational video library for young kids, held back by casting bugs and no search feature.
★ 4.4
18M+ installs
PlantNet
PlantNet delivers impressively accurate, free plant identification, but its advertised offline mode reportedly doesn't work.
★ 4.5
48M+ installs
Cake Corp.
Cake offers fun, culture-driven Korean and English lessons, but longtime users say most real content now sits behind a paywall.
★ 4.7
124M+ installs
Simply Ltd
Simply Piano teaches real songs effectively but locks nearly all content behind a subscription almost immediately.
★ 4.6
90M+ installs
Chegg, Inc.
Mathway gives fast, accurate math answers, but subscription steps, ad load, and reported crashes hold it back.
★ 4.1
59M+ installs
Mojang
A niche preview tool for licensed schools, hampered by frustrating phone verification and poor touchscreen support for coding features.
★ 3.8
15M+ installs
Khan Academy
A free, well-structured learning app that excels at self-paced review but lacks read-aloud support and clear completion tracking.
★ 4.2
32M+ installs
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