OctoStudio: Coding for Kids

MIT

About this app

With OctoStudio, you can create animations and games on your mobile phone, tablet, or Chromebook. Made by the creators of Scratch at MIT. Code an animated story or game using your own artwork, sounds, and ideas!

OctoStudio is completely free of charge - with no ads, no in-app purchases, and no data collected. Create projects offline, without needing an internet connection. Available in more than 30 languages.

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.

Create
• Create animations, games, interactive art, 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 ways
• Supports STEM education and creative learning
• Used in classrooms and schools all around the world

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

Ratings and reviews

It seems like scratch, but on your phone. There's no mathematical functions that aren't the basic 4 (+-×÷). It would be nice to see others, like log or powers. The available coding functions are also pretty basic. That's great for the targeted age demographic, but for older people or just anyone who want a more in depth experience, I would recommend Fancade.

Hello, OctoStudio, i noticed you actually added a costume feature, and i really appreciated it, and i need that you can add inputs to your custom block to make the game more fun, and a make your own idea and save feature, and i can't wait for it, i started coding here and i made advanced projects here, and then booleans and that input like boolean that is a circle like, and like the original scratch style, and an plugin feature, i can't wait for the features, Thank you.

Its like scratch but on mobile. I would recommend adding sound import and svg import and also gradients. and I would like point editing like scratch

What’s new

New costumes and animations feature:
- New "Play Costumes" and "Set Costume" coding blocks
- People and animal emojis now include multiple costumes
- New paint editor features including onion skinning and grouping tool