Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Starfall

The 20 closest children's educational games alternatives to Starfall, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Starfall? The closest matches are Khan Academy, Brilliant and IXL. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Starfall

Starfall starfall.com

Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

Wikidata: website that teaches children how to read and write

Top 10K · #1,946 English 6 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Starfall

Summary by Claude

Educational website with interactive games, videos, books and songs teaching reading, phonics and math to children from pre-K through 5th grade. A free learn-to-read program is funded by paid memberships that unlock full grade-level content.

Who it’s for
Young children, parents and teachers
Business model
Nonprofit funded by memberships

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Starfall’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

GeeksforGeeksInvestopediaW3Schoolsweb.devRaspberry Pi FoundationWikibooksprodigygame.comIXLBrilliantKhan Academy

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Starfall

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Starfall, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  2. 02
    Brilliant brilliant.org English

    Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding

    Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.

  3. 03
    IXL ixl.com Top 10K English

    IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish

    IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K–12. Used by over 18 million students, IXL provides personalized learning in more than 20,000 topics, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, and Spanish. Interactive questions, awards, and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

  4. 04
    prodigygame.com Top 10K English

    Prodigy Math | Boost Student Learning & Love of Math

    Make math fun and engaging with Prodigy! Curriculum-aligned, game-based learning helps students build skills, gain confidence, and enjoy math

  5. 05
    Wikibooks wikibooks.org Top 10K English

    Wikibooks

    free multilingual online collection of textbooks

  6. 06
    Raspberry Pi Foundation raspberrypi.org Top 10K English

    Teach, learn, and make with the Raspberry Pi Foundation

    We are a charity with the mission to enable young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

  7. 07
    code.org Top 10K English

    Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency | CodeAI

    Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.

  8. 08
    Teachers Pay Teachers teacherspayteachers.com Top 10K English

    Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT

    World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.

  9. 09
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

    Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games

  10. 10
    web.dev Top 10K English

    web.dev

    Guidance to build modern web experiences that work on any browser.

  11. 11
    W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

    W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

    Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.

  12. 12
    HowStuffWorks howstuffworks.com Top 10K English

    American media company

  13. 13
    Investopedia investopedia.com Top 10K English

    Simple Page

    website focused on finance and investing

  14. 14
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  15. 15
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

  16. 16
    MasterClass masterclass.com English

    online education platform

  17. 17
    Typing.com typing.com Top 10K English

    Learn to Type | Type Better | Type Faster - Typing.com - Typing.com

    World's most popular free typing program! Typing.com’s K–12 typing curriculum features touch typing, digital citizenship, coding lessons, and games.

  18. 18
    Codecademy codecademy.com Top 10K English

    Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy

    Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).

  19. 19
    Wordwall wordwall.net Top 10K English

    Interactive Activity Maker for Teachers | Wordwall

    Create interactive quizzes, matching games, flashcards, and 30+ activity types in minutes. Used by millions of teachers in 96 countries.

  20. 20
    Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

    Captcha Challenge…

    online studying platform

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to starfall.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Starfall uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Starfall is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://www.starfall.com/h/_js/jquery/jquery-4.0.0.min.js?ds=20260901
Web servers
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • Mailjet TXT v=spf1 +mx ip4:209.197.228.0/25 ip4:209.197.224.192/28 ip4:64.71.165.…
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 +mx ip4:209.197.228.0/25 ip4:209.197.224.192/28 ip4:64.71.165.…
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)

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