DesignRush reviewed 590+ educational app development companies based on their range of services, portfolio, industry reputation, pricing, and client reviews to bring you the best in the industry. Here’s a list of the best educational application developers.

The Number 1 Educational App Developer as Selected by DesignRush Is:

Geniusee

• Best for: Overall
• Average hourly rate: $40
• Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
• Founded: 2016
• Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
• Notable clients: MyTutor, Dell, Chegg, Bloomberg

Geniusee has a team of 200+ experts that specializes in developing end-to-end academic, self-education, and business training solutions. This includes learning management systems, mobile learning products, educational platforms, corporate learning software, and school management software.

Since it was established, Geniusee has delivered over 150 projects to brands across 20 countries. It is also ISO-certified, Nielsen Norman Group UX-certified, Scrum Alliance-certified, and a Gold Partner of the International Software Testing Qualifications Board.

MyTutor and Geniusee have worked together on a few projects and formed a strong partnership. For one particular project, MyTutor asked Geniusee to develop two educational platforms for its US market and another two for its UK market.

The educational app developer provided a 40-member team that built platforms with:

• Multiple integration capabilities
• Highly secure payment systems
• Tailored APIs for video lessons
• Customizable timetables
• Interfaces for the student, teacher, and tutor

Geniusee finished the minimum viable product (MVP) version within two months. To date, 1,300+ secondary schools use MyTutor.

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X2 Mobile

• Best for: iOS and Android native app development
• Average hourly rate: $60
• Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
• Founded: 2013
• Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania
• Notable clients: ClassLink, Collaborative Classroom, Ubongo Learning

X2 Mobile is dedicated to building dynamic mobile apps and technology for education, with tools that are used by 2,000,000+ students across 1,300 school districts. It offers UI/UX design, user research, mobile cross-platform development, and app maintenance and support services. Plus, it is highly involved with the European EdTech Alliance and EIT Urban Mobility, ensuring its educational apps follow the best practices.

Non-profit educational organization Collaborative Classroom wanted a game that helped children learn how to read and write at home. Using the client’s educational resources, X2 Mobile developed WordWorks — an educational app that taught children how to spell and categorize words through interactive gameplay. Today, the educational application has over 2 million users. Moreover, this project started the six-year partnership between Collaborative Classroom and X2 Mobile.

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Appinventiv

• Best for: Educational tech startups
• Average hourly rate: $25
• Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
• Founded: 2015
• Location: Noida, India
• Notable clients: Ikea, Google, Boston Consulting Group, Edfundo

With over 1,500 educational app developers, Appinventiv is one of the largest IT services providers worldwide. It also offers a wide range of educational app development services, including:

• Corporate training apps
• Induction and orientation apps
• Employee engagement apps
• Skill boosting apps
• Tuition apps
• Education to Career (E2C) eLearning apps
• Virtual classroom and video conferencing platforms
• LMS
• eLearning apps for the disabled
• On-demand eLearning apps

In total, Appinventiv has delivered 3,000+ solutions, transformed 500+ legacy systems, and helped startups raise $950+ million in investment.

Wanting to improve financial literacy among children, a group of teachers partnered with Appinventiv. The latter built the end-to-end mobile app Edfundo, using native iOS and Android application-based services. It also implemented flexible parental control features and data analytics to help guardians track their children’s money management.

Through Appventiv’s help, Edfundo earned $3.5 million in seed funding. The client also partnered with Visa and NymCard to improve the app’s capabilities. Lastly, Appventiv helped transform Edfundo into a SaaS-based platform.

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Sapphire Software Solutions

• Best for: White-label educational apps
• Average hourly rate: $10
• Minimum budget: $1,000 – $10,000
• Founded: 2002
• Location: Ahmedabad, India
• Notable clients: American Express, Loreal, Bayer, Vidyayala

Sapphire Software Solutions is a web, mobile app, and software development company that customizes white-label educational apps. This includes interactive eBooks, puzzle-solving apps, worksheet apps, classroom apps, skill-boosting apps powered by AR/VR, and tuition apps.

In the past years, the educational app developer has worked with 2,800+ satisfied clients and achieved a 95% client retention rate. It has also deployed 1,500+ projects across 18 industries and 30+ countries.

Wanting to help educational institutions digitize their school management system, Sapphire Software Solutions developed Vidyayala. The enterprise resource planning solution provides:

• A mobile app for parents to track their children’s academic progress
• An online portal where students can access educational resources and school updates
• An online payment portal
• A school bus management tool
• Automated SMS function that sends school alerts and news to parents
• Electronic exams

Thus far, Vidyayala has served 1,600+ educational institutions globally, including IIT Bombay Campus, Shanti Asiatic School, VEDIC Group of Institutions, and Adani Group of Schools. The app has also produced 1,500+ school reports and has helped train 20,000+ professionals.

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Techugo

• Best for: On-demand educational apps powered by AI
• Average hourly rate: Inquire
• Minimum budget: Inquire
• Founded: 2015
• Location: Dulles, VA
• Notable clients: Milkbun, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University, Lifology, Byju

Techugo aims to improve the learning experience by producing on-demand educational apps like LMS, student management systems, video conferencing software, exam preparation apps, and language learning apps. It also offers expertise in AR/VR, blockchain development, IoT, artificial intelligence, and mobile app development. Since it was founded, Techugo has built 14,000+ mobile apps and 50+ AI solutions that helped generate $860+ million in revenue for its 800+ clients.

The client collaborated with Techugo and six other educational organizations to build Byju’s. With its skills, Techugo improved the user experience by providing API to third-party vendors, simplifying the course purchasing process, and including personalized features based on data analytics. As a result, Byju’s:

• Gained over 150 million users
• Raised $5.6 billion in funding
• Achieved $18 billion valuation

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SoluLab

• Best for: Blockchain and mobile app development
• Average hourly rate: $30
• Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
• Founded: 2014
• Location: Woodland, CA
• Notable clients: Cambridge, Georgia Tech, Goldman Sachs, Instaclass

From progressive web app development to SaaS development and maintenance, SoluLab provides multidisciplinary software engineering services for the educational technology industry. But what makes this agency unique is its free service policy for 15 days. During this time, clients can experience SoluLab’s work and communication strategy before committing to a project.

SoluLab has worked with 500+ happy clients, delivered 1,500+ projects, and wrote 100 million lines of code. Moreover, the educational app developer has 220+ staff members and five global offices.

The client partnered with SoluLab to create an online educational solution. The educational app development company constructed Instaclass, a web and mobile app that supported online sessions, call recording, group chats, tutorial videos and notes, and multi-language support. Additionally, it complied with the Middle East’s educational and data privacy regulations.

As a result, Instaclass was named “Middle East’s first digital learning platform”.

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Hidden Brains Infotech

• Best for: Legacy system modernization
• Average hourly rate: $25
• Minimum budget: $25,000 – $50,000
• Founded: 2003
• Location: Schaumburg, IL
• Notable clients: DHL, Caterpillar Inc, StudyGate, ATP STAR

Specializing in digital transformation, Hidden Brains Infotech is a software development and IT consulting firm offering eLearning solutions. This includes school management systems, LMS, virtual classrooms, student and academic expert portals, and social and emotional learning solutions. Thus far, Hidden Brains Infotech has worked with 2,000+ clients across 107 countries, launched 5,000+ projects, and won over 15 awards. Additionally, its educational apps have been used by over 50 million students and 70,000 instructors.

Hidden Brains Infotech worked with clients to build ATP STAR, a video-based solution that helps Indian students prepare for engineering and medical exams. To develop this, the educational app developer used Mustache JS to simulate the actual exams and Vimeo and YouTube to host the 4,000+ tutoring videos. It also used Amazon SES and Google Firebase to manage 1,000+ push notifications. As a result, ATP STAR has 150,000+ downloads and 200,000+ registered users.

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Light IT Global

• Best for: Data engineering
• Average hourly rate: $35
• Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
• Founded: 2006
• Location: Rickmansworth, UK
• Notable clients: Tesla, McKinsey & Company, Pfizer, Tutorpeers

Light IT Global is a software engineering company that offers services in:

• Online learning and tutoring platforms
• Educational mobile apps
• Gamified learning software
• AR/VR education software
• Online education marketplace
• Vocational education and training
• Industry-specific training software and workforce development solutions
• Custom LMS development
• eLearning software development
• School software solutions

With its varied expertise, Light IT Global’s educational apps have been used by over 1,000,000 students and 100 accredited educational institutions in 30+ countries. It has also delivered 400+ end-to-end projects and won 20+ industry awards.

Wanting to create a data collection system for education institutions, an EU-based company approached Light IT Global. The educational app development company leveraged AI/ML for quick data analytics; included four types of analytics reports for easier data visualization; and integrated three different user roles to ensure maximum security. Through this, the client could produce reports in less than 60 seconds. To date, 100+ European educational institutions use the app.

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Altoros

• Best for: Legacy system modernization
• Average hourly rate: $50
• Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
• Founded: 2001
• Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Notable clients: Samsung, Hitachi, Huawei, Toyota

With a 95% hire-to-success rate, Altoros boasts of partnering with 750+ happy clients and producing 1,400+ projects across 30+ countries. The educational app developer also provides expertise in custom educational software development, legacy system modernization, third-party integration, UI/UX design, and educational software testing. Altoros has seven global offices and 350+ remote team members — 44% of which are mid-level experts and 56% are senior-level engineers.

A US Head Start provider partnered with Altoros to improve its eLearning system and mobile app. Altoros migrated the system from Windows Forms to Angular, integrated Vimeo, developed a mobile-first UX/UI design, and built a customizable video platform. In doing so, it reduced server response time by 20x and enhanced 11 business-critical modules. As a result, 1,600+ childcare centers now use the app.

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Innowise Group

• Best for: Medical education solutions
• Average hourly rate: $150
• Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
• Founded: 2007
• Location: St. Petersburg, FL
• Notable clients: Deloitte, Accenture, BMW, VOKA

Composed of a team of 1,600+ IT professionals, Innowise provides a full range of educational app development services for educational institutions, corporations, and startups worldwide. This includes business analysis, custom software development and engineering, UI/UX design, DevOps, and infrastructure management.

Thus far, Innowise has delivered 1,000+ successful projects and worked with 300+ businesses from 60+ countries, 93% of which are recurring customers.

Innowise collaborated with medical experts and institutions to create VOKA, a 3D human anatomy and pathologies atlas. To build it, the educational app company used extensive reality technology, authentic clinical CT/MRI scans, and web and app development. As a result, VOKA has been recognized as a leading MedTech software solution that is used by medical institutions across 158+ countries. It also has a 60% user return rate and 100% crash-free performance.

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How We Picked the Best Educational App Development Companies

After reviewing hundreds of agency profiles, case studies, and testimonials, DesignRush developed a scoring system to select the top educational app developers. We ranked each one based on the following:

• Reviews: Quality of work, client satisfaction, and level of trustworthiness
• Portfolio: Tangible examples of an agency's track record
• Awards, certifications, and tech stack: Industry reputation and innovation
• Team bios: The agency’s qualifications and team dynamics
• Top services: Core competencies and areas of expertise

Visit the DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology for more information on how we research agencies.

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