Best Biology Apps

This brilliant interactive app is a great way to teach your child about the human body and its different systems, helping them discover what we’re made of and how our bodies work. The app lets kids get a peek inside the body with seven models that highlight important structures such as bones, lymph nodes, the heart, and the intestines.

You can learn biology in an interactive model of the human body — the heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, skin feels, and eyes see.

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Devices: iOS

Science Practical Simulator is an engaging educational app that allows both the modelling and completion of science practical activities in a safe and innovative way. The app covers a vast range of experiments typically taught in Biology such as Micro-Biology, Food Tests, Osmosis, Photosynthesis and so on.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS and Android

This is for any student of GCSE Biology who wants to challenge their learning, whether its to prove they know it all or to help them know it all. In this app you’ll find all the key terms in the syllabus with their meanings along with video clips to help explain those tricky concepts. Then put yourself to the test – find out what you know and prove you’ve mastered every topic.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS and Android

Invite and make friends with animals round the globe to your home with Animals4D. It enables kids to experience the wildlife in life-size like never before.Animals4D is packed with amazing features like "SpellMe", which helps kids to spell & pronounce the name of the animals right. It also has an innovative feature like "AboutMe", help kids to know about the animal's life style and class.Cool, Angry, Attack are the exclusive features in which animal's express different moods.

Price: Free

Devices: Android

Curiscope is a popular biology app that features the 3D model of the different organs in the human body. This app is ideal for supporting STEM activities, for younger students wishing to explore the human body as well as GCSE wishing to revise Biology. It's one of the most innovative and engaging ways for everyone from curious middle schoolers to revising teenagers to learn about Biology. In this app, you can touch each organ (i.e, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, etc.) to see more information and detailed morphological descriptions.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS and Android

Everyone is curious what the lies beyond the skin. Frogs have been a long time model of understanding the function, position and relative size of organs, tissues, and systems. This is an excellent use of touch-driven educational activity that also happens to be odorless and environmentally sensitive. This app might be used instead of a frog dissection lab or as a pre-lab preparation exercise. It gives students an appreciation of the layers of a frog's tissue in a system approach to anatomy and function. Students drive a scalpel or scissors with their fingertips, 'lift' tissues or organs out of the way, and spin organs around while the narrator explains what they are seeing on the screen. Frog Dissection is best for high school biology students.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS

Explore, interact and learn about a wide range of biological processes and human organs with Bioanim Complete. This is an app that takes fully advantage of tablet technology by giving the learner free reign to visualise and grasp difficult concepts at a pace they choose to take.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS and Android

3D Brain is basically an interactive 3D brain map, or precisely, a collection of 29 individual maps showing different structures of the human brain, supported by information and reference links. The app is perfect for medical students, researchers, and educators in psychology and biology, as well as physicians treating brain disorders who might find it useful for patient education.

Price: Free

Devices: Android, iOS

Visual Anatomy is a reference app that teaches students about human anatomy and physiology. Students can learn the names and functions of human organs and other structures, as well as terminology and locations related to surface anatomy. Diagrams help students visualize locations of internal body structures, and being able to tap and read about a structure is extremely convenient. The app includes lots of interactive content for students to learn, but most of it is nicely organized by body system.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS

The National History Museum of London's 'NHM Evolution' packages together a quite astounding amount of fossil research and geological information into a very well-presented app. In 'NHM Evolution' there are close to 1000 fossils from over 600 million years to explore in rich detail and in a number of different ways.

Price: Free

Devices: iOS

Switcheroo Zoo is a fun, interactive site where students will enjoy watching animals morph into other animals right before their eyes. Switch Zoo is a fun way to start learning about different animals and their habitats. Switch Zoo is available as website and iOS app for mobile devices.

Price: Free

Available: iOS

The InvisibleEar ™ app is a 3D augmented reality app specifically for biogical and medical investigation of the gross anatomy of the ear as well as the structure of the inner ear with particular attention drawn to the perilymph, endolymph of the cochlea and the petrous temporal bone using highly detailed CT data. It is aimed at high school, post 16 and medical students as well as hearing specialists. The user can either buy a 3D printed model or print glyphs that the app then engages with via the 3D AR in order for the user investigate the positive and negative spaces of the particular anatomy of the ear. It is even possible for the glyph source to be obtained from other medical references.

Price: Free

Available: iOS

Whack A Bone is a series of educational games that teach kids the major bones of the human body. The Whack a Bone game focuses on the major bones of the body and is a great way to reinforce what your students have previously learned. The game is easy to learn and involves searching for and clicking the correct location of each bone named in the level. We love this quick quirky interactive game for identifying bones within the human body suitable for 10 years of age and above. The game is based on the online game and has a simple layout and great pirate themed graphics. Although the voices and music will drive you mad after a while (you can turn it off) the game is highly addictive and will get your students perfecting the names of the human bones within minutes. It does become a little frustrating that you need to get every answer correct to move onto the next level however, this is great fun! There are many wonderful Whack a bone alternatives available such as: Bone Anatomy 3D and Human Anatomy Atlas.

Price: Free

Available: Android, iOS

The life cycles app is a great app for Key Stage 2 Science. Each life cycle is illustrated and has both a written and voice over description.The life cycles included are: Life Cycle of a Frog, Phases of the Moon, Life Cycle of a Butterfly, Plant Life Cycle, Pollination and Fertilization, Rock Cycle, Water Cycle, Photosynthesis, Nitrogen Cycle and Oxygen Cycle. This app is a smart and efficient way of demonstrating an often difficult subject.

Price: $2.99

Available: Android

Froggipedia is one of a host of new ARKit apps that Apple just announced, and it does exactly what you'd expect -- use the Apple Pencil stylus to peel the skin off a virtual frog. It's a little less gruesome, and presumably fewer real frogs have to die.

Price: Free

Available: iOS