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Freggers Play

Germany · Regensburg · Transnational · See the Germany profile

Freggers Play is a fun game for children between 8 and 14 year old (primarily girls) and a compelling learning environment at the same time. Freggers Play is an app that is available in the app store to download onto the phone or tablet. It is available for Android and Mac. It is

10,000

App users (as of 2020)

130,000

Projects created (as of 2020)

Details

Promoter: SPiN AG — website
Type: Other
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 10000
Period: 2016-12-15
Region (NUTS): DE23
Keywords: Game-Based Learning, app, girls, computer programming, digital storytelling creators

Context

Freggers Play is a free mobile app/game developed by German company SPiN AG (Regensburg) for children aged 8-14, primarily girls, teaching coding, digital literacy and problem-solving through creative play; it is used both independently and by teachers in classroom projects, and collaborates with the university-linked 'MINT Girls' mentoring scheme.

Results

As of 2020 the app reported 10,000 users and 130,000 projects created, with downloads concentrated in the USA, Germany, Japan, Australia and South Africa.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. Freggers Play. Persistent ID: ebda33a1-e428-49f2-9862-ae1fdb66ea06.

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