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ZType review: a fun typing game

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 1 Oct 2026

3.6/5Recommended

ZType typing game

DAREBEE review: free, ad-free workouts with plenty of choice

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.6/5Recommended

DAREBEE workout catalogue with exercise cards and filters for type, difficulty, focus and equipment

Drawabox review: disciplined drawing practice, free to read and hard to finish

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.4/5Worth a look

Drawabox home page describing its free, exercise-based drawing lessons

Khan Academy review: free maths practice with a teacher dashboard

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

4.3/5Highly recommended

Khan Academy home page with pathways for students, families and teachers and links to its free courses

Language Transfer review: learn to build sentences by listening

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.7/5Recommended

Language Transfer home page inviting visitors to choose a free audio language course

The Learning Scientists review: the study advice worth printing

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.6/5Recommended

The Learning Scientists home page introducing research on effective studying for teachers and students

musictheory.net review: excellent free drills with surprisingly good teacher tools

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

4.3/5Highly recommended

musictheory.net home page offering animated lessons and practice exercises

PhET review: free science simulations that make variables visible

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

4.2/5Highly recommended

PhET Interactive Simulations home page introducing science and mathematics simulations

English & literacy

ReadWorks review: free comprehension texts with a privacy question

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.8/5Recommended

ReadWorks home page introducing reading comprehension resources for teachers and families

History & humanities

World History Encyclopedia review: a well-edited first stop, not a primary source

By SharperMinds Editorial Team · 30 Sept 2026

3.7/5Recommended

World History Encyclopedia home page featuring edited history articles and maps

The Toymaker review: two decades of free paper toys, on a website from 2004

By Tom Halloway · 29 Sept 2026

3.5/5Recommended

The Toymaker's paper toys index, a dense grid of hand-illustrated printable toys grouped into animal friends, fairies and magic, maths and learning toys, and toys that move

PowColoring review: thousands of free colouring pages, with a licensing problem

By Tom Halloway · 28 Sept 2026

2.7/5Worth a look

The PowColoring home page, headlined "Free Coloring Pages For Kids", with themed category tiles whose artwork includes Mario, Sonic, Minions, Stitch, Elsa and Bluey

MuscleWiki review: a clickable muscle map that is not built for children

By Priya Raman · 26 Sept 2026

2.9/5Worth a look

The MuscleWiki home page, showing front and back anatomical figures whose muscle groups can be clicked to find exercises, with equipment filters for barbell, dumbbells, bodyweight and more listed alongside

Open courseware

MIT OpenCourseWare review: the deepest free library, and the loneliest

By Dr Amara Osei · 24 Sept 2026

3.7/5Recommended

The MIT OpenCourseWare home page, headlined "Unlocking knowledge, empowering minds", offering free lecture notes, exams and videos from MIT with no registration required

Health & the body

Human Atlas review: a free 3D anatomy atlas built on real scan data

By Dr Amara Osei · 22 Sept 2026

3.6/5Recommended

The Human Atlas viewer showing an adult male body with every system switched on — muscle, artery and vein layers together — beside a sidebar listing 15 systems and their part counts

Coding & making

Tinkercad review: the best free on-ramp to 3D design and circuits

By Priya Raman · 11 Sept 2026

4.3/5Highly recommended· 3 comments

The Tinkercad home page, headlined "All you need is a 'what if…'", with a toy biplane built from coloured primitives floating on a blue design grid

SightReadingTraining review: the free browser drill that finally fixes note reading

By Tom Halloway · 2 Sept 2026

4.8/5Outstanding· 3 comments

The SightReadingTraining home page, showing a generated exercise on a grand stave with each note colour-coded for timing accuracy, above continuity and rhythm scores

ChessKid review: the safest place for a child to actually get good at chess

By Priya Raman · 28 Aug 2026

4.4/5Highly recommended· 4 comments

The ChessKid home page, headlined "The #1 Chess Platform for Kids", with cartoon chess-piece characters, Play Now and Learn Chess buttons, and counters for 13 million children and 32,000 schools

IXL review: relentless practice that works, if you can live with SmartScore

By Dr Amara Osei · 19 Aug 2026

3.6/5Recommended· 3 comments

The IXL home page, headlined "IXL is personalized learning", listing its K–12 subjects and per-year-group skill and video counts