Pocket Code: Learn programming

3.5
33.5K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Program, play, and share your own games, animations, interactive art, music videos, and many kinds of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet!

One Hour of Code tutorial: http://catrob.at/HourOfCode - for other tutorials see http://catrob.at/i and http://catrob.at/help

Pocket Code allows you to create, edit, execute, share, and remix Catrobat programs in a visual programming environment and programming language. You can remix programs that others have made and share them with your friends and the world. With Pocket Code you can up- and download Catrobat programs through the Pocket Code community website at http://pocketcode.org/ --- All Catrobat programs uploaded to this site can be downloaded by anyone under a free open source license to maximize learning, remixing, and sharing them freely.

Catrobat is a visual programming language and set of creativity tools for smartphones, tablets, and mobile browsers. Catrobat and the software developed by the Catrobat team are inspired by the programming system developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Pocket Code is ideally suited for the Hour of Code during the Computer Science Education Week http://csedweek.org/ organized by code.org, the European Code Week http://codeweek.eu/ as well as Google's "Made with Code" initiative https://www.madewithcode.com/ --- and it also is available on Google Play for Education http://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/edu/about.html in Google's Android market.

Catrobat --- http://www.catrobat.org/ and http://developer.catrobat.org/ --- is an independent non-profit project creating free open source software (FOSS) under AGPL and CC-BY-SA licenses. The growing international Catrobat team is entirely composed of volunteers. The results of many of our subprojects will be made available in the months and years to come, e.g., the ability to control more robots, or to create music in an easy and fun way. Currently we are working hard on extending Pocket Code as the next step with a physics engine that is almost ready and will allow you to program in a very easy and fun way your own Maze types of games.

Please note that Pocket Code currently runs well only on smartphones and tablets with a screen size up to 7".

Want to help us translate Pocket Code into your language? Please contact us via translate@catrobat.org telling us for which language you would be able to help. Even languages not directly supported by Android are welcome, as we are working on a way to switch manually to these languages.

News: http://www.catrobat.org/#news
Social media and newsletter: http://www.catrobat.org/#contact

We are all pro-bono unpaid volunteers working in our free time on this not-for-profit free open source project aiming at increasing computational thinking skills among teens and kids all around the world. Our apps will always remain free of ads and free of costs, so please give us some slack if we cannot solve bugs or add features immediately. On the other hand this allows the project to remain independent of any financing and ensures that it can keep running basically forever, so there is no danger that we will stop working on it. Already more than 500 volunteers have contributed to our project so far.
Updated on
28 Oct 2024

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Personal info
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Location, Personal info and 2 others
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Ratings and reviews

3.5
30.5K reviews
NewPoly 3
15 April 2025
Great app, but crashing is rather common unfortunately. I updated the game yesterday, and so far it hasn't crashed yet but it's only been 1 day. The update created a lot of bugs... First of all, I don't really like the new background color for sprites/looks. And whenever you try to zoom in when in the sprite editor thingy it will think that you're painting/drawing and marks will show up. It is also very hard to add bricks now as it automatically scrolls when you're trying to drop them.
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Nathan Gomes
20 October 2024
This engine is so good but it has more potential! I like the extensions, but I feel like adding an offline variable extension would be good. It would look like this: Every script with an offline variable block will work while you're offline Example: you wanna make a virtual pet game and need the variables to work while you're not playing the game. That would be useful! Another extension that would be cool is a Notifications extension, it would look like this: The game will send you notifications
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JauntyJon
30 October 2020
There is no mobile version of Scratch, but this is close to being one. I really loved it! EDIT: Might need to add some "tap and hold" bricks. Platformers are nigh impossible to make without them, as well as color and object collisions. EDIT 2: Scratch is now available on mobile devices, but it's tablet-only at the moment. EDIT 3: Fixed some errors and reworded some sentences. Also, most of the features I mentioned were added in and then some. Cool beans!
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Catrobat
5 September 2015
Dear Jonathan, Thanks! Yes, we also would like to have these features, the sooner the better :-P and are actually already working on all of them. Some of them might even be in one of the next releases as they are ready and only need to be integrated, such as physics style collisions. Kind Regards, Wolfgang

What's new

Target and minimum SDK Version Upgrade
User Interface Improvements:
New Visual Design for Formula Editor
Color Visualization in Formulas
Improved Image View
Drag and Drop for End Bricks
Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Performance and Stability Update