Tickle App: Learn to Code
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Free | Tickle Labs, Inc. | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Tickle is "the most awesome blocks programming environment for iPad".
Learn to create virtual games and stories, and have all your robots interact with one another. You can easily program MiPosaur, LEGO, Star Wars BB-8, Sphero, and Dash&Dot robots to move through mazes. You can even program Arduino wirelessly to control these robots and even build custom robots!
- “There are a lot of games and puzzles now that promise to teach kids how to code, but Tickle stands out.” – TechCrunch
- "'School is SO fun.' Thanks @tickleapp for teaching us to fly!" – Hillcrest Elementary
- "Unquestionably the best experience for programming Sphero. Lots of fun." – @ECiardelli, Math and Learning Resource Teacher.
- "The most awesome blocks programming environment for iPad." – @moenig, Lead Developer of Snap! (UC Berkeley's Computer Science course CS10).
- "Seriously loving the amazing new @tickleapp for iPad. Drag and drop programming for real-world objects like @Sphero" – Adam Bellow, Author and Educational Technologist.
Tickle is the world's first app that enables anyone to program an air drone. It's also the world's first visual programming app for MiPosaur by WooWee, the Star Wars BB-8 Droid, Sphero (SPRK) robotic ball, Ollie 2-wheeled robot, Parrot Rolling Spider, Airborne, and Jumping Sumo mini drones, Arduino LightBlue Bean, Philips Hue smart home lighting system, and Dash and Dot by Wonder Workshop – all wirelessly from your iPad. You can also program interactive stories and games using our library of animated characters and sounds.
All the devices, Arduino, and virtual characters work seamlessly with each other. For example, you can use Sphero like a Wii controller to fly a drone. Makers, makerspaces, and makerfaires around the world are empowered by Tickle to interactively and wirelessly program Arduino.
Tickle is easy to learn, yet incredibly powerful. Learn to code the same way as the introductory Computer Science courses at Harvard and UC Berkeley. If you've used Sphero MacroLab, orbBasic, Scratch, Pyonkee, Hopscotch, Tynker, Blockly, and Hour of Code, you'll fall in LOVE with Tickle!
Tickle Robotics Edition is inspired by visual programming languages like Scratch from MIT, Alice from CMU, Blockly from Google, and ScratchJr from Tufts/MIT. It is generously supported by awesome Kickstarter backers.
Reviews
Asks to purchase over and over
Funloving1
I spent 300 shells to get access to light blue bean and then the app asked me to pay again, so I did. Then it crashed, and now says I have to buy more shells and pay again. The app insists over and over it needs to update the bean software. Updating appears to work but it will ask again the next time you use it. If you can’t get in app purchases right, you really must give us the benefit of the doubt. I used to use this app in a classroom and I can no longer recommend it! Having the kids create a great app inside this closed platform has been so disappointing. I recommend finding a way to teach and learn that can’t be wrecked by platform bugs.
Not working
1 mo-re
Downloaded it on iPhone 6s and the Santa code started freezing. I didn’t have issues with my phone till this. Plus, it won’t allow me to sign up. How does a coding app not have good coding?
Fun app
Destroyer_02
Great app and compatibility overall, but I do think it should be updated for new speros and parrot drones.
Won’t let me make an account this has become useless to me
FJ583
This app I used a lot on my last phone but now I got a new phone every time I open the app it tells me to register and then says I can’t register! This happens with Facebook in app or on popup and google. Is access not public?! How do I make it work again
I wish there were zero stars
kid who loves this app
I would change it to five stars if all the devices became free and actually Worked?!!?!???!?!!?! This is stupid I cannot stay signed in and whenever I purchase a new device and leave the app it restores the purchase.DO NOT GET THIS APP My version is 5.2.5
Basic and glitchy
honest rando
Ugh, Where do I start. To be entirely fair I do like the UI for this app, and its what first got me interested in coding three years ago. My first three projects worked fine. After that, things stopped working. Making more than one or two variables doesn’t work, and forget trying to use a list. String methods only work on constants, which make them virtually useless. 3D/AR is a joke, because it is unbelievably limited and only operates on two axis anyway, basically making it another 2d orca device with even less options (and a camera, which is cool, but does very little else and rarely even works). What’s worse is that if 2-D projects are glitchy, “3d” ones are simply inexcusable. For me, I can’t even set a sprite to a CONSTANT DIRECTION! This app just keeps getting worse, going from an educational game building app rivaling Scratch, to a money-making mess of code that shouldn’t even be in Alpha yet. To anybody who has the slightest idea of what they’re doing, or else wants to do more than watch a whale or robot spin in circles, I do not recommend this app, and I honestly wish I could give it -5★
Arrrg
Dx101
They close the app off now and want you to buy the different moves like to simply move forward.
Your cheating!!!
I need solar panels
I’m trying to activate my account but I can’t because their is no link, you say their is a link but when I press the link ,it does not work.I tried to search my link up but it is still not working. I tried look up my link on my computer ,instead of activating my account ,it says that my connection isn’t private and it says that YOU might be trying to steal information about me. Are you cheating?!
STEALING?!?
Cuber123456789101112131415
Every time I try to verify my account it says it’s private and it might steal your personal info. DO NOT GET THIS APP!!
