Apps for Learning

Built-in apps put creative power in every student’s hands.

Teacher and students using an iPad during a hands-on classroom project
MacBook showing a Pages document

Pages

Pages brings the best word processing and page layout experience to a broad range of writers. Built-in tools meet the needs of teachers and staff, while offering an intuitive experience that enables students to create stunning projects. Pages has everything teachers need to create and collaborate on beautiful documents and interactive books for the classroom on both iPad and Mac. With Pages, they can bring lessons and assignments to life through videos captured on iPad or by adding 3D objects that simulate natural lighting, shading and texture effects directly within the app.

Numbers

Numbers take spreadsheets to a new level with a canvas for collecting, analyzing and presenting data in creative and personalized ways on both iPad and Mac. Teachers can easily add interactive charts, tables, videos, images and more to bring data to life and create engaging experiences. For data-rich projects, Numbers helps students to express their ideas in ways that go beyond a mere spreadsheet. These tools allow students to analyze data intuitively and introduce interactive elements, such as videos and charts, that animate their ideas.

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MacBook and iPhone showing a Keynote presentation

Keynote

Keynote for iPad and Mac makes it easy to create and deliver beautiful presentations that support dynamic learning experiences. With Keynote, teachers and students can bring quotes, historical charts, mathematical graphs and science labs to life with animations, transitions and live videos. Interactive elements encourage personalized and independent learning, while sketching on slides during a presentation can guide learners through a mathematical equation or map the route of a famous march. Keynote helps teachers and students to present their ideas and foster critical thinking.

GarageBand

GarageBand is a complete music creation studio for iPad and Mac. It includes a sound library with software instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and virtual session drummers. The intuitive interface makes it easy to learn, play, record and create music. GarageBand can inspire students to learn and make great-sounding music, regardless of their musical backgrounds. When students learn to compose music and mix sound, they become powerful communicators, artists and storytellers. And with many options for sharing, students can integrate completed projects into class presentations, science reports, class blogs, community websites and more.

Student wearing headphones creating music on a MacBook
Two students collaborating on MacBooks outdoors

iMovie

iMovie provides students with engaging opportunities to demonstrate knowledge, develop media literacy, build communication skills and express themselves through multimedia. It’s also a fantastic tool for collaboration, allowing students to work together in different roles – actor, director, editor or narrator – towards a common goal. In the process, they can develop a deeper understanding of film-making and learn a new way to communicate their ideas.

Freeform

Freeform is a visual collaboration app for iPad and Mac that provides the perfect whiteboard experience for gathering inspiration and ideas in the classroom. With Freeform, students and teachers can organize, share and collaborate in one place without worrying about layouts or page sizes. A variety of brush styles and colour options to sketch ideas, add comments and draw diagrams give students and teachers the creative autonomy they need – whether a student is taking notes for a group project or a teacher is brainstorming their next lesson plan. Freeform supports a wide range of files – from photos and video to 3D shapes and diagrams – for even more flexibility. Designed for collaboration, Freeform also makes it easier than ever to invite others to work on a board together and sync across devices. Teachers can see what students are working in a board in real time and even follow along to ensure they’re on track.

Students collaborating on an iPad in a classroom

Apple Programs and Services

K-12

  • Flexible, easy-to-use tools for engaging learning
  • Built-in apps for education and creativity, including Swift Playgrounds, iWork (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers), GarageBand, and iMovie
  • Strong security and privacy protections for students
  • Designed with accessibility for all learners
  • Durable, powerful devices built for everyday classroom use

Higher Education

  • Flexible, high-performance devices for advanced research and learning
  • Productivity and creative apps like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro
  • Seamless integration with Apple TV and Airplay for collaborative classrooms
  • Streamlined device management and deployment for IT teams
  • Powerful tools for innovation, like MacBook Pro and iPad Pro

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