Khan Academy Kids: Learning!

Khan Academy

About this app

Khan Academy Kids is a free educational app for children ages 2-8. The Khan Kids library includes thousands of kids books, reading games, and more. Kodi the Bear and her friends at the Kids’ Club provide a safe and fun way for kids to learn and play. Best of all, Khan Kids is 100% free with no ads or subscriptions.

READING, MATH & MORE:
With over 5000 lessons and educational games for kids, there is always more to learn in Khan Academy Kids. Kodi the Bear guides kids through interactive learning games. Kids can learn the alphabet with abc games and practice phonics with Ollo the Elephant. During story time, kids can learn to read and learn to write with Reya the Red Panda. Peck the Hummingbird teaches numbers, counting, and early math skills while Sandy the Dingo loves shapes, sorting, and memory puzzles. Their fun math games for kids are sure to spark a love of learning.

ENDLESS LIBRARY BOOKS FOR KIDS:
As kids learn to read, they can grow their love of books with the Khan Kids Library. The library is full of kids books for preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school. Kids can read about nature, animals, dinosaurs, science, trucks, and pets with non-fiction books for kids from National Geographic and Bellwether Media. While kids practice reading skills, they can select Read To Me to have kids books read aloud. We have books for kids in both English and Spanish too.

EARLY LEARNING TO EARLY ELEMENTARY:
The Khan Academy Kids app is designed for children ages 2-8. From preschool lessons and kindergarten learning games to 1st and 2nd grade activities, kids can find fun learning games for every level. As they head to preschool and kindergarten, kids can learn to count, add, and subtract with fun math games.

KID-FRIENDLY CURRICULUM:
Designed by experts in early childhood education, Khan Academy Kids is aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and Common Core Standards.

LEARN AT HOME & AT SCHOOL:
Khan Academy Kids is the perfect learning app for families at home. From sleepy mornings to road trips, kids and families love learning with Khan Kids. Families that homeschool also enjoy our educational games and lessons for kids. And teachers love using Khan Kids in the classroom. Teachers from kindergarten to second grade can easily create assignments and monitor student learning.

KID SAFE & COMPLETELY FREE:
The Khan Academy Kids app is a safe and fun way for children to learn and play. Khan Kids is COPPA-compliant, so children’s privacy is always protected. Khan Academy Kids is 100% free. There are no ads and no subscriptions, so kids can safely focus on learning, reading, and playing.

OFFLINE ACCESS:
No wifi? No problem! Kids can learn on the go with the Khan Academy Kids offline library. Dozens of books and games for kids are available offline, so the learning never has to stop. Kids can practice the alphabet and trace letters, read books and spell sight words, learn numbers and play math games - all offline!

KHAN ACADEMY:
Khan Academy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy Kids was created by early learning experts from Duck Duck Moose who created 22 preschool games and won 22 Parents’ Choice Awards, 19 Children’s Technology Review Awards and a KAPi award for Best Children’s App. Khan Academy Kids is 100% free, without ads or subscriptions.

SUPER SIMPLE SONGS:
The beloved children’s brand Super Simple is created by Skyship Entertainment. Their award-winning Super Simple Songs combine delightful animation and puppetry with kids songs to help make learning simple and fun. With over 10 billion views and 10 million subscribers on YouTube, their songs for kids are favorites with parents, teachers and kids around the globe.

Ratings and reviews

First of all, I must give my gratitude to the Developers of this app. My child loves it and is learning lots from it. And the Super Simple Songs integrated with the games are really great. But the app tends to have some seriously glitchy behaviours. It often shuts off in mid-game and takes the user to the phone home screen. It freezes at that point for some time with a black screen and when trying to getting back into it, it resets the game so my child loses where the game left off. It's a real test of patience at that age. I have had to restart my phone in order to get it to work again sometimes. On another note, certain things that are required to be either clicked or dragged are placed way to close to the top of the screen, which oftentimes causes my child to activate the slide-in menu from the phone during some games. Also a minor thing, when there's a song involved, there are moments where the song is paused in order to begin an interactive game. But the songs are often paused on odd times. It's really not so crucial but it triggers my OCD to some degree. I would suggest to try to tackle that with a little more finesse :) I realize it's in beta but I hope they pay attention to these things when the time comes to launch the real thing. Other than the things I mentioned, we really love this app!

The graphics and voices are great and most of the games are as well. It's wonderful this app is free. But the main flaw is that there isn't a way for parents to customize it so that the child doesn't just skip to the easy bits and the videos with little or no educational value. Khan, please enable a 'locked' feature so the kids can't just back up to the home screen and access the full library or navigate backwards to the not-challenging content.

As much as I love Khan Academy and the lessons in the app, we're not really loving the app itself. I think it would improve the app a lot if there were more options to turn certain sounds off. The sound effects and voices are little repetitive and annoying. Also, every lesson in each section has the same intro and there isn't a way to skip it (that we've found). I think this app is great for younger kids, but I think it could use some improvements for kids older than five.

What's new

Winter has arrived at the Kids' Club! Update Khan Academy Kids today for new seasonal content including:
☃️ Festive videos from Super Simple Songs
❄️ Snowy math and reading activities
🛷Joyful coloring pages and fun stickers