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The best alternative to Scratch is GDevelop, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Scratch and 11 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Scratch are microStudio, Pocket Code, Urho3D and Hyperskill - JetBrains Academy.

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  1. GDevelop icon
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    GDevelop is an open-source game making software designed to be used by everyone. Any kind of 2D games can be created with it and no programming skills are required to get started. Logic of games are made using visual events.

    127 GDevelop alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
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  2. microStudio icon
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    microStudio is a free game engine online. Create games, learn programming, play, share, prototype and jam!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Raspberry Pi
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  3. Pocket Code icon
     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

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    • Android
    • iPhone
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  4. Urho3D icon
     43 likes

    Urho3D is a lightweight, cross-platform rendering and game engine implemented in C++ and released under the MIT license. Greatly inspired by OGRE and Horde3D.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Raspberry Pi
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  5. Hyperskill is an educational platform for future professionals with the opportunity to learn theory and practice by programming your own working applications.

    68 Hyperskill - JetBrains Academy alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  6. KTurtle icon
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    KTurtle is an educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easily as possible. To achieve this KTurtle makes all programming tools available from the user interface. The programming language used is TurtleScript which allows its commands to be...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Snapcraft
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  7. Flax Engine icon
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    Flax Engine is claimed the most agile game engine. It's open source, cross-platform and it lets you write scripts in C++ and C# seamlessly. Also focused on lightweight development. A true game changer.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. Maratis icon
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    Maratis is a portable, simple and visual game development tool designed for artists and developers.

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    • Discontinued

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    • iPad
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  9. TREPL icon
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    The main goal of this website is to provide a simple to use tool that will enable users to easily discover how computer programs work under the hood.. User can write his own programs and see how the computer's memory changes during it's execution.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. Project Anarchy is a complete end to end game engine and state-of-the-art toolset for mobile. Project Anarchy includes an entirely free license to ship your game on iOS, Android and Tizen platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. SIMPL icon
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    SIMPL is a free programming language and IDE built on a simple idea: pseudocode — the plain, readable code people use to sketch algorithms — should be able to run. Write IF…THEN, FOR…NEXT and WHILE the way you'd write them on paper, press Run, and see the result.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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