TAG · 64 REVIEWS
Education
Every App Comrade review tagged Education, across every platform.
Vegetable Farm teaches a toddler what a courgette looks like, and not much else.
A free single-purpose vocabulary app from APPOND that pairs vegetable photos with names and a tap-to-hear pronunciation — enough to fill a fifteen-minute car ride and not a minute more.
MAY 11, 2026
Pocket Dinos is a small, honest dinosaur reference for small humans.
A $2.99 illustrated species deck from Distant Train that does one thing — name and describe dinosaurs at a kid's pace — and stops before it learns any bad habits.
MAY 11, 2026
A bare-bones bridge between two languages most translators forget.
m2list's Japanese Korean Translator on Fire is a utility, not a tutor — it picks up a pair the big players treat as an afterthought and does the minimum competently.
MAY 11, 2026
Letter Name Flashcards is a $1.99 alphabet drill, and that's the whole pitch.
Dezol Inc.'s toddler flashcard app does one thing — show a letter, say its name, swipe to the next — and asks for two dollars instead of a subscription. On a Fire Kids tablet, that math still works.
MAY 11, 2026
Bumblebees turns a children's curiosity into a pocket field guide.
A single-topic encyclopedia for Fire tablets that does one thing — explain bumblebees to a kid — and gets the depth roughly right without trying to be anything else.
MAY 11, 2026
Cities in Netherlands is a one-page reference dressed up as an app.
A free Fire-tablet curiosity that does exactly what its name promises: lists Dutch cities. The five-star rating is a small-sample artefact, not a verdict on the product.
MAY 11, 2026
Particle Physics is a Wikipedia article that learned to charge for a download.
A single-topic Kindle reference book that lifts its scaffolding from open-source encyclopedia text, repackages it as a 'book,' and asks Fire tablet readers to treat it as a primary source.
MAY 11, 2026
Space Probes is a Wikipedia mirror with a fresh coat of paint.
A single-topic reference app for Fire tablets that bundles encyclopedia text about deep-space missions into a tidy reader. Useful if you want it offline. Otherwise, you already have the source.
MAY 11, 2026
Arabic English Translator is a free utility that asks you to bring your own expectations.
TTMA Apps ships a no-frills bilingual translator on Fire tablets. The listing tells you almost nothing, and the app is built to match — fine for a phrase here and there, not a study companion.
MAY 11, 2026
Wyt ti'n Gwybod? is a small Welsh quiz app doing necessary work.
Canolfan Peniarth's Fire-tablet trivia game won't change anyone's mind about Welsh-medium education, but it sits a child in front of the language for ten minutes at a time, which is most of the battle.
MAY 11, 2026
Learn Math Addition Quiz Games is a drill book in app form.
A free Fire tablet app that teaches addition the way flashcards do — one sum at a time, with a tap-the-answer loop that asks nothing of the parent and not much of the child.
MAY 11, 2026
Oral Presentation is a static handbook with an app wrapper.
Simplatex's free Fire app collects the standard public-speaking advice into one screen-by-screen reference. It does the job, but you could photograph the same chapters out of any high-school speech textbook.
MAY 11, 2026
Connect the Dots is exactly the quiet kids app a Fire tablet needs.
A free, ad-light connect-the-dots puzzle from Semibase that does one thing — trace numbers in order, watch a picture appear — and does it without nagging the kid or the parent.
MAY 11, 2026
AR Drawing turns a Fire tablet into a tracing window, and not much else.
A camera-overlay tracing app aimed at kids who want to draw cute subjects from a pre-loaded gallery — useful for the half-hour it takes to learn what it does, light on everything past that.
MAY 11, 2026
Toca Boca World is the sandbox kids actually keep coming back to.
The Spin Master-owned studio collapsed Toca Life's separate apps into one ever-growing world, and the result is the rare kids' app that respects its audience and the parent paying for it.
MAY 11, 2026
Khan Academy Kids is the rare free app you can hand a four-year-old without flinching.
A nonprofit-backed early-learning app with no ads, no upsells, and a curriculum that actually maps to what schools teach. The catch is that there isn't one.
MAY 11, 2026 · EDITOR'S PICK
Prognosis trains clinicians the way med school never quite manages to.
Medical Joyworks turned the case-of-the-week format into a pocket simulator that respects how doctors and nurses actually learn — one ambiguous chief complaint at a time.
MAY 11, 2026
PBS Kids Video is still the gold standard for kids streaming.
Free, no ads, no upsell, no algorithmic rabbit hole — just decades of public-broadcasting children's programming in one well-built iOS app.
MAY 11, 2026 · EDITOR'S PICK
Quizlet still wins on flashcards, even after the paywall got bigger.
The AI features come and go, but the core deck — fast typing, fast reviewing, fast sharing — remains the reason students keep installing it.
MAY 11, 2026
Figure 1 turned bedside curbsides into a global group chat for clinicians.
A verified-only feed of anonymised patient cases lets doctors, nurses, and medical students crowdsource diagnoses the way they would in a hallway at 2am.
MAY 11, 2026
AvMath is the no-frills flight-math calculator pilots actually open.
A focused aviation reference that replaces the cross-check between an E6B, a unit converter, and a scratch pad with a single screen — for the small audience that needs exactly that.
MAY 11, 2026
NoDrug is a government awareness app doing earnest work in a category that rarely gets one.
The National Authority for Combating Drugs ships a free iPhone app aimed at education, reporting, and pointing users toward real support. The execution is plain, but the intent is unambiguous.
MAY 11, 2026
Coursera turned the MOOC catalogue into a credential factory.
The iPhone app is a competent shell around an aggressive pivot from free university lectures to stackable certificates and full degrees.
MAY 11, 2026
Babbel treats language learning like adult education, not a video game.
The structured ten-minute lessons and live tutor add-on make Babbel feel less like Duolingo's owl and more like a community-college night class on your phone.
MAY 11, 2026
Brilliant turns STEM study into something you actually finish.
Interactive lessons in math, computer science, and AI replace passive video with hands-on problem solving — and it shows in the completion rates.
MAY 11, 2026
edX is still the academy's app, even after 2U's bankruptcy.
The MIT-and-Harvard-founded platform survived its parent's 2024 Chapter 11 with the catalogue intact and the credential ladder mostly straight, but the iPhone app makes you feel the strain.
MAY 11, 2026
ClassDojo is the most consequential K-5 app no one voted to install.
The default classroom-communication and behavior-tracking app for elementary teachers across the U.S. and beyond — and the one that turned point-and-bell gamification into a school-day fixture.
MAY 11, 2026
Scribblenauts Unlimited still rewards the weirdest word you can think of.
5th Cell's type-any-noun-and-it-appears puzzle game ports its core trick to Android intact. The vocabulary is the gameplay.
MAY 11, 2026
Geo Quiz is the solo capitals-trainer that earns its slot on a quiet evening.
Valeriy Skachko's free webOS trivia app strips the genre to a single-player drill loop — no menus, no modes, no fuss — and that restraint is most of what makes it work.
MAY 11, 2026
Fire Word Challenge is a serviceable kids word quiz built for the living-room TV.
HexaBrain's free webOS word game pairs picture prompts with letter tiles for primary-school spellers, leaning on the Magic Remote to do the typing kids would otherwise fumble on the directional pad.
MAY 11, 2026
Fortis+ on LG webOS is a thin classroom companion looking for a use case.
A free education app from Fortis Institute that lands on the TV without much to do once it gets there.
MAY 11, 2026
Freethought TV is a single-purpose channel for a specific audience.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation's Roku channel collects its talk show, conference talks, and member interviews in one place. If you don't already know what FFRF is, this channel won't sell you on it.
MAY 11, 2026
Perfect Pitch Player turns the Samsung TV into an ear-training rig.
A single-purpose music utility that drills pitch recognition through your living-room speakers — useful for the right learner, awkward for everyone else.
MAY 11, 2026
Fender Play arrives on Samsung TVs with the lessons sized for a living room.
Fender's subscription guitar school lands on Tizen as a dedicated big-screen client — same structured curriculum, finally framed for the couch and a real instrument in your lap.
MAY 11, 2026
Law by Mike on Samsung TV turns a TikTok lawyer into ten-foot viewing.
Mike Mandell's short-form legal explainers — a TikTok and YouTube staple — get a dedicated Tizen channel. The format mostly survives the jump to the living room.
MAY 11, 2026
ChemMathsDroid is a working engineer's pocket reference, not a polished one.
A free chemical and process-engineering calculator from a tiny developer that bundles dozens of single-purpose tools into one app — useful, dense, and visibly built by someone who has actually solved the problems it solves.
MAY 10, 2026
A 2017 listicle wearing an app costume.
Sweezy's Make Money is the kind of Amazon Appstore filler that gets uploaded once and never touched again — a wrapper around generic side-hustle blog text, with a 2.4 rating that flatters it.
MAY 10, 2026
MeetMe turns office-hours chaos into a calendar a student can read.
A small-team utility that solves one boring problem — booking time with a teacher, advisor, or counsellor — on the one tablet a campus has probably already deployed.
MAY 10, 2026
Toca Boca World gives Fire tablets the rare kids' app that respects them.
The hub that absorbed every Toca Life town is still the most generous open-ended sandbox a child can hand a parent without flinching — provided you understand what's free and what isn't.
MAY 10, 2026
Duolingo on iPhone is no longer a language app.
Chess, Music, and an AI tutor named Lily now share the home screen with Spanish. The owl is building a curriculum company, and the iOS app is where the experiment lives.
MAY 10, 2026
Geo Expert turns the LG TV into a passable geography drill machine.
GameLabTV's free webOS quiz app is a no-frills capitals-and-flags trainer that earns its keep on family-night rotation and very little else.
MAY 10, 2026
Geo Expert USA is a passable couch geography drill for LG TVs.
GameLabTV's US-states quiz channel turns the TV remote into a flashcard system. Functional, lightweight, and sparse enough that a printed map does most of the same work.
MAY 10, 2026
Brainy Numbers Quiz fills a quiet corner of the LG Content Store.
A small, single-purpose math drill app on webOS — useful for a few minutes a day, awkward for anything longer.
MAY 10, 2026
Curiosity University is a thin Roku listing with an unverified promise.
An educational channel from Curiosity Inc., released late 2025 with no store description, no review count, and no public footprint. Worth a look — but go in expecting to find out what it is yourself.
MAY 10, 2026
The HR Channel is a niche bet on workplace TV nobody asked for.
A streaming network built entirely around hiring, leadership, and the future of work arrives on Roku as a curious experiment in vertical-interest television.
MAY 10, 2026
NEW-ACE KOR-ENG is the school-desk Korean dictionary, ported faithfully to Galaxy.
Geumseong's New-Ace bilingual dictionary — the one Korean students grew up consulting in print — packaged as a Diotek lookup app for Samsung devices. Authoritative, narrow in scope, and exactly what its audience wants.
MAY 10, 2026
Norstedts Swedish-English on DioDict 3 is the reference shelf, shrunk to a phone.
A licensed Norstedts Swedish↔English database for SELVAS AI's DioDict 3 dictionary engine. Old-school lexicography on a Galaxy Store shelf that mostly doesn't carry it.
MAY 10, 2026
DioDict 3 puts a serious bilingual Arabic dictionary in your pocket, with the rough edges of an older app shell.
A licensed Al-Mughni English-Arabic/Arabic-English dictionary wrapped in Diotek's ageing reader. The lexicography is the draw; the chrome around it is its limitation.
MAY 10, 2026
TEDICT turns TED Talks into the most disciplined English drill on the Galaxy Store.
Dictation practice built on real TED Talks — slower, harder, and more honest than most language-learning apps. The LITE tier is enough to know whether the method clicks.
MAY 10, 2026
Halloween - How to Draw is a single-occasion tracing app dressed for October.
A free kids' drawing tutorial built around pumpkins, ghosts, and witches. Useful for one weekend a year, forgettable the other fifty-one.
MAY 10, 2026
Proportions Easy solves one math problem and shows its work.
Pentawire's tiny Galaxy Store utility cracks the four-term proportion — including continuous ones — and walks you through the steps. It's a homework helper with no ambition to be anything else.
MAY 10, 2026
Baby Piano Animal Sounds is a tap-and-squeak toy that does exactly what a two-year-old wants.
A toddler-grade musical toy from The Learning Apps. Animal noises, coloured keys, no menus to get lost in — and the usual Galaxy Store ad cadence parents have to plan around.
MAY 10, 2026
Animal Coloring Pages is a tidy finger-paint primer that runs out of pages too fast.
A free coloring app from The Learning Apps that pairs a small zoo of outline drawings with picture-book animal facts. Pleasant enough for a toddler's first ten minutes — thinner once the novelty fades.
MAY 10, 2026
ABC Vegetables Alphabet teaches the produce aisle one crayon at a time.
A pre-school colouring-and-vocabulary app that pairs each letter with a vegetable. The premise is narrow, the execution is fine, and a toddler will not care that the art is generic.
MAY 10, 2026
Tips for Organizing and Managing Time is a leaflet, not an app.
A free, ad-light reading app built from a short stack of time-management advice. The content is fine; the format is a brochure stretched into an install.
MAY 10, 2026
Vivid Collection Irregular Verbs is a narrow, useful drill for Russian-speaking English learners.
A single-purpose flashcard trainer for the 150-or-so English irregular verbs. Built for a Russian audience and shaped around that one job.
MAY 10, 2026
The Homeschool Helper plants a TV-sized study hall in the living room.
A free Tizen video channel from The Homeschool Helper LLC aimed at families who school at home and want a screen-friendly lesson companion alongside the workbook.
MAY 10, 2026
PlayKids Learning brings the Brazilian preschool app to the Samsung TV living room.
Sandbox Group's PlayKids+ catalogue — 5,000-plus cartoons, songs, and games for ages two to twelve — lands on Tizen as a TV-shaped front door to a subscription product designed for phones and tablets.
MAY 10, 2026
MathQuizGame is a quiet, well-meaning oddity on the Samsung TV store.
A free arithmetic drill from Aristomax Technologies that lands in a category Tizen barely supports — education on a remote control.
MAY 10, 2026
Durioo+ on LG webOS is the kids' streaming service for Muslim households.
Durioo's halal-content streaming service, built around children's animation and family programming for Muslim families. The LG webOS app is a competent client to a niche the global streamers don't serve.
MAY 9, 2026
Scholastic TV brings the school book fair to webOS.
A free, ad-supported kids' channel built around the Scholastic back catalogue. The library is sturdy and familiar, the LG remote integration is mostly fine, and the experience is exactly as ambitious as it needs to be.
MAY 9, 2026
Law by Mike on webOS turns a phone-shaped lawyer into a couch lecture.
Mike Mandell's TikTok-native legal explainers get a TV channel app on LG. The format survives the jump to a 55-inch screen, but only barely.
MAY 9, 2026
ClassDojo became the operating system of US elementary education.
It started as a classroom-management toy and ended up a parent-teacher comms layer in 95% of US schools. The 2026 launch of in-app payments puts it on a different roadmap entirely.
MAY 8, 2026
Duolingo became a great game and a worse language app.
The owl earned its hundreds of millions of users through gamification that worked. Now the gamification is the product, and the AI pivot has stretched the experience further from what made it useful in the first place.
MAY 7, 2026