OctoStudio: Create-Code-Learn
From creators of Scratch @ MIT
Free
With OctoStudio, you can create animations and games on your mobile phone or tablet – anytime anywhere. Take photos and record sounds, bring them to life with coding blocks, and send your projects to friends and family. Made by the creators of Scratch at the MIT Media Lab!
Create an animated story using your own artwork, a musical instrument that plays sounds when you jump – or anything else you imagine!
OctoStudio is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group, the MIT Media Lab team that invented Scratch, the world’s most popular coding language for kids.
OctoStudio is completely free of charge - with no ads, no in-app purchases, and no data collected. Create projects without needing an internet connection. Available in more than 20 languages.
Create
• Create animations, games, and anything else you can imagine
• Combine emojis, photos, drawings, sounds, and movement
• Make your projects come alive with coding blocks
Interact
• Make interactive games you can play by tilting your phone
• Shake your phone or use a magnet to start your project
• Make your projects speak aloud
• Code your phone to buzz or turn on and off the flashlight
• Collaborate across phones using the beam block
Share
• Record your project as a video or animated GIF
• Export your project file for others to play
• Send to family and friends
Learn
• Get started with intro videos and ideas
• Explore and remix sample projects
• Develop creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Learn to code in a playful and meaningful way
OctoStudio has been designed in collaboration with educators in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India, Korea, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, United States, and other countries around the world.
To learn more about OctoStudio or share your feedback, please visit us at www.octostudio.org
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Information
- Size
- 59.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Languages
English and 34 more
- English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Pedi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Setswana, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Venda, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Zulu
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Provider
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Copyright
- © Massachusetts Institute of Technology