Blockly AlternativesGame Development Tools and other similar apps like Blockly

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   Scratch

    124 likes

   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...

   81 Scratch alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Game Development
   • Code Learning

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online

   • United States

   

   

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   Scratch vs Blockly Comments

   Negative comment by thesuperdaine · Jun 15, 2017

   Scratch is a block-based programming environment. Blockly is a library for MAKING block-based programming environments. Therefore, they serve different purposes.

   Negative comment by hCommon · Jan 16, 2025

   Scratch is based off Blockly, so it’s not an alternative

   Negative comment by Guest · Feb 20, 2018

   It's not related. Scratch is a programming language and Blockly is an API basically.

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   • Scratch is Free and Open SourceBlockly is also Free and Open Source
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   Pocket Code

    18 likes

   Pocket Code allows you to create your own games, animations, interactive music videos, and many kind of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet.

   22 Pocket Code alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Game Development

   Origin

   • Austria
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone

   • Austria
   • EU

   

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   Flowgorithm

    15 likes

   Flowgorithm is a free application that helps you create programs using simple flowcharts.

   47 Flowgorithm alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows

   • United States

   

   

   

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   eBlock

    2 likes

   A Scratch-based application with which you can program a wide variety of devices (Arduino, BBC micro:bit, STM32, SAMD51, ESP32, NRF5 ... ).

   12 eBlock alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   Snap!

    12 likes

   Snap! is a broadly inviting programming language for kids and adults that's also a platform for serious study of computer science.

   21 Snap! alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Programming Language
   • Game Development

   Platforms

   • Online

   

   

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   EduBlocks

    9 likes

   EduBlocks is a visual block based programming tool that will hopefully help teachers to introduce text based programming languages, like Python, to children at an earlier age.

   20 EduBlocks alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (AGPL-3.0)

   Application typeApplication types

   • Programming Language
   • Game Development

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Online
   • Raspberry Pi

   

   

   

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   Glicode

    4 likes

   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

   • Code Learning

   Origin

   • Japan

   Platforms

   • Android
   • iPhone
   • Android Tablet
   • iPad

   • Japan

   

   

   

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    Coding Grid

     2 likes

    Coding Grid, your ultimate educational companion for mastering the art of coding.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Code Learning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    

    

    

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    Bingo

     5 likes

    Bingo is a programming language based on Scratch by MIT which uses a "block" UI, where the user can snap together different blocks to make more advanced scripts. There are many added blocks to Scratch 1.4.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Game Development

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    

    

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    Alice

     12 likes

    Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing.

    83 Alice alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    • Game Development

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • United States

    

    

    

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    Waterbear

     8 likes

    Waterbear is a toolkit for making programming more accessible and fun. Having a visual language means you don't have to focus on learning a syntax to start programming.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Canada

    Platforms

    • Online

    • Canada

    

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    Waterbear vs Blockly Comments

    Negative comment by Guest · Nov 13, 2015

    Nothing her is similar to Blockly, because all this stuff is solutions and Blockly is lib.

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    • Waterbear is Free and Open SourceBlockly is also Free and Open Source
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    Toontalk

     2 likes

    Describes ToonTalk - an animated interactive world inside of which children can build programs and games.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    • Programming Language

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online

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