Blockly Alternatives

Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Features:

• Blocks
• Visual Programming
• 2D Game Creation
• Cross-platform
• Drag n drop
• Kid friendly
• Web-Database

Alice

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

Features:

• 3d animation
• Education
• Visual Programming

Pocket Code

Pocket Code allows you to create your own games, animations, interactive music videos, and many kind of other apps, directly on your phone or tablet.

Features:

• Scratch-Block programming
• 2D Game Creation
• Education
• Integrated Android Emulator
• Windows-like

Waterbear

Visual block syntax for programming languages. Waterbear is a Scratch-like visual programming language for JavaScript.

Features:

• Education
• Visual Programming

S2JS

S2JS answers the question of where to go after Scratch. S2JS is a tutorial that guides kids writing Javascript games that can run directly on their smartphones or any other browser-capable device. It explains Javascript in terms of Scratch, with a focus on achieving early results. Includes tutorial, development environment, and deployment platform. Free.

Features:

• Coding
• Education
• Javascript scripting

Snap

Snap (formerly BYOB) is a visual, drag-and-drop programming language. It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch (a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab) that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These added capabilities make it suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school or college students.

Features:

• Animation
• Drag n drop
• Education
• Object-oriented Language
• Visual Programming

Bingo

Bingo is a programming language based on Scratch by MIT which uses a "block" UI, where the user can snap together different blocks to make more advanced scripts. There are many added blocks to Scratch 1.4.

Features:

• Exe Compiler
• Animation
• Education

EduBlocks

EduBlocks is a visual block based programming tool that will hopefully help teachers to introduce text based programming languages, like Python, to children at an earlier age. EduBlocks features: Block Format: Easy and simple interface that uses a building block format to code. Extensive Documentation: Lots of documentation to get you ready to go quickly. New projects added every 2 weeks.

Features:

• Education
• Python
• Scratch-Block programming
• Visual Programming

HyperNext Studio

Easy Programming for beginners. HyperNext Studio is an easy to use software creation system that allows hobbyists, students, educators, in fact almost anyone, to quickly start building their own software that works. The HyperNext interface has just one design window and simple toolbar, and three modes: Design, Preview and Run. Controls such as buttons can be rapidly placed and their English-like scripts edited with its easy to use Script Editor.