Education App Builder for Schools, Tutors, and Course Creators

With a builder, building is free and publishing costs a monthly plan. On Appy Pie that is $16 per app a month for Google Play, $36 on Gold for premium features such as in-app purchases, and $60 on Platinum, which adds iOS, as shown on the pricing page on 30 September 2026. The stores charge Google $25 once and Apple $99 a year. A custom build is a different scale: Jotform’s September 2026 guide puts a basic education app at $20,000 or more and a complex one above $100,000, and Cleveroad’s January 2026 guide gives $20,000 to $500,000+.

You can build it, try every feature and test it on your own phone during a 7-day free trial for personal, non-commercial use, with no credit card. Publishing to the stores, push notifications and removing Appy Pie branding are on paid plans, and the stores charge their own developer fees. That is the same on every builder, because the stores, hosting and push service cost money.

Some are. Paid exam-prep and course apps sell access through in-app purchases, and one G2 reviewer who builds certification and licensing exam apps on Appy Pie wrote in 2020 that it helped him build a profitable business. A school or tutor app usually pays back in time saved and in students who stay, not in direct sales. Apple and Google take 15% of in-app payments under their small-business programmes.

ChatGPT can plan the app, write lesson content and quiz questions, and write code, but it does not host the app, sign a build or submit it to the stores; you would still need a developer to turn its output into a published app. An app builder does the hosting, the build and the store submission for you. Many teachers use both: ChatGPT for the questions, the builder for the app.

No. Appy Pie builds a branded app for your learners: quizzes, reading material, videos, reminders and a place to talk. It does not keep a gradebook, take attendance or track each student’s progress through a course the way an LMS such as Moodle, Canvas or Google Classroom does. Many schools use both: the LMS for grades, the app for everything students open every day.

Yes. The Quiz feature adds multiple-choice quizzes with instant feedback, which teachers use for revision and exam practice. A blended-learning teacher reviewing Appy Pie on G2 in 2023 chose it because it was the only builder with the quiz options her students needed. For a standalone quiz from any text, the AI quiz maker is a separate free tool.

You can add live video in two ways: stream a class from YouTube, Vimeo or Livestream into the app, or add the Video Conference feature for face-to-face sessions. The video conferencing app builder page covers what that feature does. The education app itself does not take attendance during a class.

Selected content, such as reading material and pages you mark for offline use, stays available without a connection and syncs when the device reconnects. Streaming video and live classes need a connection.

Yes, with care. Apps for children under 13 must follow Apple’s Kids Category rules and Google Play’s Families policy, which limit ads and data collection, and in the US COPPA requires verifiable parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13. Keep a kids’ app free of third-party ads and sign-up forms that ask for a child’s personal details, and read the stores’ rules before you submit.

Yes, through the In-App Purchase feature on the Gold and Platinum plans: a paid unlock for a course, a set of mock tests or a premium section. Payments go through Apple’s and Google’s billing, which take their share of each sale.

Yes, from one build. The Basic and Gold plans publish to Google Play; the Platinum plan adds the Apple App Store. Apple reviews 90% of submissions within 24 hours, and Google Play asks new personal developer accounts to run a 14-day closed test with 12 testers before the first public release.