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This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.
Educational software by subject
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Amateur radio
Anatomy
Aviation
Biology
Business and finance
Calculators
Chemistry
- Aqion - simulates water chemistry
- Chemaxon
- ChemWindow
- JChemPaint
- 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
- Yenka
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
- 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
Chat bots
- ChatGPT — OpenAI
- DeepSeek
- Gemini — Google
- Google AI Studio — can view your screen and hear your voice[1]
- Grok — xAI
- Khanmigo — Khan Academy
- Microsoft Copilot
Cryptography
- Bouncy Castle
- CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts
Dictionaries and reference
Digital art
Economics
Engineering
Geography and Astronomy
- Cartopedia: The Ultimate World Reference Atlas
- Celestia
- Google Earth - (proprietary license)
- Gravit - a free (GPL) Newtonian gravity simulator
- KGeography
- KStars
- NASA World Wind - free software (NASA open source)
- Stellarium
- Swamp Gas Visits the United States of America - a game that teaches geography to children
- Where is Carmen Sandiego? game series
- WorldWide Telescope - a freeware from Microsoft
Health
History
Home Schooling
Journalism
Law
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
Mathematics
- Accelerated Math - progress tracking software
- Cantor (mathematics software)
- Compu-Math: Fractions - digital tutorials
- DrGeo - interactive geometry software
- Geogebra
- The Geometer's Sketchpad
- Maple
- Matlab / GNU Octave
- Mathematica
- Matheass
- Math Blaster
- Microsoft Mathematics
- MathFacts in a Flash
- SAGE - free software (GPL)
- TK Solver
- Tux, of Math Command- free software (GPL)
- Zearn - online K-8 digital math curriculum
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
Music
Philosophy
Physical fitness
Political science
Reading
Science
Simulation
Simulation games
Spaced Repetition
Touch-Typing Instruction
Visual Learning and Mind Mapping
- ConceptDraw MINDMAP
- Freemind - free software (GPL)
- Perception
- SpicyNodes
Writing
3D modeling
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Notable brands and suppliers of educational software
- Dorling Kindersley
- Promethean World
- Renaissance Learning
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Learning Technology (previously Riverdeep)
- 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)
- Brøderbund (acquired by Softkey)
- The Learning Company (acquired by SoftKey)
- Creative Wonders (acquired by the Learning Company)
- MECC (acquired by Softkey)
- Edmark (acquired by Riverdeep)
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