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codeSpark - Coding for Kids

Code. Create. Play. Repeat.

Ratings

Age

4+

Category

Education

Languages

English

codeSpark Academy is the leading learn-to-code app for children, designed to teach the basics of computer science without the need for reading. Using a word-free interface, kids solve puzzles to master sequencing, loops, and conditionals. The app also features a 'Game Maker' and 'Story Maker' where children can apply their skills to build their own interactive projects and share them in a kid-safe community.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

88/100

codeSpark Academy is an absolute standout in the educational app space. It manages to solve the 'reading barrier' that prevents many young children from learning logic and computer science. By using the 'Foos'—a cast of wordless, expressive characters—and a pure iconography-based interface, it teaches complex concepts like loops and conditionals to kids who haven't even finished kindergarten.

The 'Game Maker' is the secret weapon of the app. It transitions kids from 'solving' puzzles to 'creating' their own, which is the most important leap in any STEM education. The difficulty curve is masterfully handled, ensuring that the child feels a constant sense of 'Aha!' without the frustration of getting stuck. It’s a colorful, safe, and genuinely brilliant tool that turns screen time into a productive, skill-building session. It’s the gold standard for early-childhood coding education.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Word-free interface for pre-readers

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Curriculum developed with MIT and Princeton

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Hundreds of puzzles and coding challenges

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Game and Story creation tools

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Kid-safe community for project sharing

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Q&A

It is designed specifically for children ages 5 to 9.

Ratings & Reviews

Some updates
Sat Jan 31 2026 💚🩵💙💜🩷❤️🧡💛💚

This is a note to the developer. I like the codeSpark app, but I was wondering if you could put a holiday update on the app and also make a coding mode where you can make your own multiplayer games. Can you also make a animation/movie mode where you can make animations and movies? Thanks. Do what’s possible! P.S., can you guys add an update where you can make your own animals? And add stripes to the ‘clothing’ section, wings to the wings section, a stinger to the tails section, and antennae to the ears section, because I’d like to make bees. Add a crown, too, in the hats section, just in case! And in case I want to make an ant, add legs in the legs section. And add a ‘choose eyes’ section on create a foo, to choose between lashes and no lashes, because sometimes when I want to make a boy foo, I do not want the teeth poking out or lashes sometimes. Plus, add prosthetics and wheelchairs, and possibly braces in the ‘create a foo,’ too. And please add more ants: a purple queen, a cyan (turquoise) worker, a lime green worker, and an orange worker, oh, and a yellow worker, too. Also, add a control on adventure mode where you can jump, and when you click the adventure mode, it first shows 2 buttons, one perspective where you can see the sky and another where you can only see the ground like normal. And can you guys add more cooking ingredients, and cooking codes in all the modes? And add utensils too, please And again, do what’s possible! Ok, thank you! - Name N/A

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Codespark! Please read developer!
Sat Feb 10 2024 ✨Just A Huntrix Fan✨🎤

Hi! I’m a 👧who loves this game and I play it all the time! It’s so fun and I love sharing my projects ( and P. S. I wrote a review before! Anyways, I love this game and this is really great because it’s so fun and great at learning with coding. My parents say it’s not REAL coding, but I disagree and I love this game and I play it almost everyday so yeah. Anyways, let’s see about the complaints, well theirs a bug in splash clash and when I am playing in splash clash and finding someone to play with it says description of the message so I get confused 😐. But once something worse happened in it! I was about to play with the person online but instead something worse . So I was about to play with the person online and it made the AI play instead of the person online and I had to go back so I was really mad 😡 that that happened because no one showed up. But that only happened once. But the rest is great. 😊 Anyways I just posted the Transform the Floor contest. Tell Fooville Legends I said hi. So bye now! Have a nice day and don’t give up on this game because I LOVE it! So byyyye now! - Ella Ghost Glitch kid coder. Oh and here are a few rules: IF YOU ARE A READER DO NOT GO AND FIND MY PAGE ON CODESPARK!!!!!! If you do I will be mad! Developers please read!

Wonderful App with Top Notch Customer Service
Fri Aug 07 2020 KR617

I cannot say enough great things about this app and company! My kids LOVE it so much! They play alone or together, sometimes on a video call with friends so they can share screens and work on designing levels together; which has been a great way to stay connected while physical distancing. I contacted customer service with a log in issue and it was quickly resolved. But then once logged back in, my kids’ profiles were gone. Sandra went through 1,000s of emails and found that I had unknowingly created two accounts, one of which I entered my email wrong. She took so much time just to recover the lost profiles with all of my kids’ levels they had made. I cannot tell you how wonderful she was!!! She was beyond kind and patient with me while resolving the mistake I had made. My daughter screamed in excitement when her profile was found! I honestly cannot say enough wonderful things about this app and company!

I just want to learn
Sat Sep 07 2019 Starlight_sno

Hello, I’m 14 and my school doesn’t have any classes or really anything on coding and I would love to learn how and where to start and all that, so I took it upon myself to learn how. I saw an ad for this and hoped for the best. I downloaded it and apparently you must pay monthly for this. I understand it’s how they make their money and what-not but I’m only 14 and, of course, can’t do monthly payments especially since my parents are both poor and against the idea of learning from something other than what the school teaches us. I haven’t actually done any lessons or anything because I would have to pay which is why I gave 2 stars instead of 1 because the lessons could be amazing an work really well but I’m pretty sure and kid who actually wants to learn and not be forced to do something like this by their parents or school would love it if their were a stripped down version of the app that one could use and learn to do at least simple coding would be greatly appreciated by anyone looking to learn who might not be able to pay because of the situation their in. Besides, shouldn’t education be free? Especially for kids who want to learn?

Used to love this game so much <3
Mon May 26 2025 ツ🌈SPR◎UTkip!!💉ツ

This is a coding game like no other honestly. I used to play this when i was younger and i can still remember how much fun it was publishing stories, games and adventures :D I’m planning near the future to play this game again to go back in my childhood, it’s really fun and i love how you can create your own profile pic and avatar!! :3 I want to mention some things that i feel like would be cool in the game. One thing is commenting. I know there may be some creeps online but what if someone types in something mean or inappropriate? I think a good thing for that is like idk a 1 month suspension or something? I also want a drawing feature where you can draw something for your stories and put them in! :3 the final thing i want to mention for this game is collaborative project feature. I think it would be nice for kids around the world to collaborate with each other and work out their errors. I think that’s what coding is all about, right? Now what has been annoying me in the past is that you have to pay for a 1 year or 7 day trail. Now it may seem reasonable for the developers to make that but i just find it pretty random. I love this game and i wanted to keep playing it for a couple of hours, and i’m not paying money to play the game. But honestly this was a blast in my childhood, i hope you add the features i’ve mentioned <3

Amazing app
Sun Aug 18 2024 Randomperson_4444

I played this ever since I was six but I have kept on deleting it and re-downloading it and it has been very annoying for my parents to keep signing me in and so I decided that I would stop deleting it and finally re-download it guidelines to stop and I want to enjoy the game before I may have to delete it, but I might actually keep playing because it’s so fun for me that kind of my stress if you haven’t noticed, I’m using my microphone so my microphone could’ve gotten some things that I’m saying wrong what I mean by kind of my stress I meant kind of relieve my stress. I also love this game because you get to solve problems while having so much fun and, it’s really nice and I kind of regret it now that there’s a lot and just know when I was six years old that was many years ago and I only deleted this just to free some space

ARGH THIS IS MY 3RD (probably gonna glitch) REVIEW
Thu Sep 30 2021 uh do i have to write my name?

Hi I’m (can’t tell you cuz I’m not aloud to :v ) and I got my device as a Christmas present. CodeSpark was one of my first apps and one of my FAVORITE APPS. I played it everyday! I adore creating stories, and playing other coders games. Also, watching your little weekly fooville clips are so fun! But, I do wish you could communicate with other coders. I think the fact we could add an emoji or like someone’s game or story is cool, but it still can be confusing. Like, the TROLL EMOJI. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!?!?!?!?! Also, the empty emoji. I worked so hard on my story and it just makes me very sad, though I have to respect their opinion. I just wish they could actually express why they thought it was empty. Communicating with other coders could help you make friends, get story ideas, and express your true feelings on someone else’s game or story. Hope you respond back!

Lily puppydog stole my items
Mon Aug 12 2024 Micki He

For a while I couldn’t buy anything from the shops and then my items started disappearing. I kept receiving messages saying error not enough coins . And if I tried to use a pet pals foo or Safari sam it said foo not available then it kicked me out of the game and then when I got back in the item would be gone. Then I would go to the shops and it would say error not enough coins. then I saw made by kids do not tap on this story! By lily puppy dog . I tapped on it and the scene was a photo all black no items. so I tapped on next scene and it was all the animal foos, safari sam, villager , golden foonicorn, cage, fire truck, all the items I lost. witch (angry witch) said Mwa ha ha I stole your items beyonce the only way to get them back is to report your own story. at first I didn’t know why lily would steal angry witch but now I know to make me mad. please fix this bug so people cannot steal items!

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