# List of educational software

This is a list of educational software that is computer software whose primary purpose is teaching or self-learning.

## Educational software by subject
### Anatomy

* 3D Indiana
* Bodyworks Voyager – Mission in Anatomy
* Primal Pictures
* Visible Human Project

### Chemistry

* Aqion - simulates water chemistry

### 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

* JFLAP - Java Formal language and Automata Package

### Cryptography

* CrypTool - illustrates cryptographic and cryptanalytic concepts

### Dictionaries and reference

* Britannica
* Encarta
* Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite

### 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

* TeachAids

### History

* Encyclopedia Encarta Timeline
* Euratlas
* Back in Time (iPad)
* Balance of Power
* Lemonade Stand
* Number Munchers
* Odell Lake
* Spellevator
* Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game
* Word Munchers

### Literacy

* Accelerated Reader
* AutoTutor
* Compu-Read
* DISTAR

### 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

### Mathematics

* Accelerated Math
* Cantor (mathematics software)
* Compu-Math: Fractions
* DrGeo
* 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

### Music

* Comparison of music education software
* EarMaster
* Yousician
* MuseScore
* Syntorial

### Programming

* BlueJ
* Hackety Hack
* Racket
* RoboMind
* Scratch
* Swift Playgrounds

### Science

* Betty's Brain
* Science Sleuths

### Simulation
#### Simulation games

* Caesar titles
* Capitalism
* Civilization
* The Oregon Trail
* Sid Meier's Colonization
* SimCity
* Zoo Tycoon

### Spaced Repetition

* Anki
* Memrise
* SuperMemo
* Synap
* Mnemosyne

### Touch-Typing Instruction

* Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
* Mario Teaches Typing
* Smorball
* Tux Typing - free software (GPL)

### Visual Learning and Mind Mapping

* ConceptDraw MINDMAP
* Freemind - free software (GPL)
* Perception
* SpicyNodes

## 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)