Stick Around is an app where learners can play and design sorting and labeling puzzles. Although Stick Around comes with some pre-loaded puzzles such as ordering decimals and classifying rocks, the true value of the app is in its ability to design new puzzles. In three easy steps, learners and educators can create individualized puzzles to review classroom content, create study guides for upcoming tests, and make games for cooperative learning. Stick Around can be used from Pre-K through college by simply adjusting the content of the puzzles: from sorting colors to categorizing powers of different government branches.

Website: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id557949353

What Users Love About the App

“Stick Around fits a need I’ve been looking for a long time-EASY, custom built skill practice. It’s a year round app for all levels and subject areas.”

“It applies many elements of Universal Design for the Learner (UDL)-multi-modalities, feedback and customization. It’s rare to get an app that can be both a skill practice and CREATIVITY app depending on who is building the activities.”

“This app combines the best elements of creation and innovation. It is a brilliant concept and the best use of app smashing that I have seen so far in the apps store. The integration of several cloud platforms is another area where this app rise above others.”

“The way it allows resources to be brought together from several platforms into one place is amazing because it maximizes the options for content creation. This is their first version, so I imagine it is only going to get better over time. I look forward to seeing where Tony Vincent’s imagination take us.”

“I have been the Technology Integration Specialist at my elementary school for a year and have been wanting an app like this the entire time! It has the functionality of a Smart Board- the ability to drag images around with the added bonus of a check your answers template.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“Since the iOS 13 update, now the app CRASHES when you open it. If this is not fixed, our school will not buy this app for students anymore. Also, my students and parents feel ripped off since I made them purchase it for Biology classes.”

“Each student must have this program to work. This is impossible. To have each student spend $3.00 for a limited app is crazy. There should have a lite version where the student can only play and not design a game. Please be aware of this important fact.”

“This app is so trash and it wouldn’t let us use it because it kept crashing.”