Pocket Code Alternatives

Pocket Code is described as 'Allows you to create your own games, animations, interactive music videos, and many kind of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet' and is a game development tool in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Pocket Code for a variety of platforms, including Android, Windows, Web-based, Mac and Linux apps. The best Pocket Code alternative is Android Studio, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pocket Code are Scratch, Tasker, MIT App Inventor and Android Code Studio.

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  1. Android Studio icon
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    Android Studio is a new Android development environment based on IntelliJ IDEA. Similar to Eclipse with Android Development Tools for Eclipse, Android Studio provides...

    81 Android Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
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  2. Scratch icon
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    Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas...

    80 Scratch alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  3. Tasker icon
     145 likes

    Advanced automation app for Android that lets you trigger actions like alarms and app launches based on configurable events like phone calls or time of day. Tasker also lets you create apps using these automation features.

    55 Tasker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  4. App Inventor for Android is an application originally provided by Google and now maintained by the MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It allows anyone, including people unfamiliar with computer programming, to create software applications for the Android operating...

    54 MIT App Inventor alternatives

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    • Online
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  5. Thunkable icon
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    Thunkable is a powerful drag-and-drop app builder made by two of the first MIT engineers on MIT App Inventor.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. Blockly icon
     9 likes

    Blockly is a library for building visual programming editors. Users can drag blocks together to build an application. No typing required.

    21 Blockly alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. AIDE is a monster of an app. It allows you to program Android applications directly on your Android device. That way, you basically cut out the middleman of having to use a computer at all. AIDE is fully compatible with Eclipse projects, so it’s easy to transfer your projects...

    32 AIDE - Android IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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  8. Whimtale icon
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    Whimtale is a small game engine and a fantasy console for making interactive stories where you can navigate the worlds you create and talk with stuff!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  9. Sketchware Pro is a modified version of the popular app building tool Sketchware that includes additional features and improvements. Our repository welcomes contributions from anyone interested in adding new features and functionalities to the app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
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  10. Glicode icon
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    GLICODE TM turns every packet of Pocky into a bite-sized coding lesson. By laying out Pocky in the right order, you can use Japan’s (and the world's) favourite snacks to learn algorithmic thinking in a fun and engaging way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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