Socratic: for Android, for the world!

Shreyans Bhansali
Building Socratic
Published in
3 min readMay 3, 2017

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Our mission at Socratic is to make learning easier, and to do it for learners everywhere in the world.

Today we’re thrilled to announce three major changes that make Socratic available to over 1.5 billion people worldwide: an Android app, six languages, and a beautiful iPad experience.

Socratic for Android!

We’ve been floored by the positive response we’ve received since launching Socratic on iOS. We’ve received thousands of 5-star reviews from iOS users, but also tens of thousands of messages from students demanding Socratic for Android.

It’s no surprise: 88% of smartphones around the world run Android, and even in the US that number is over 50%. So, we listened and got to work.

Today, we’re happy to shout from the mountain tops that it’s finally here! With the new Socratic app on Android, students can use the best homework app on the biggest mobile platform in the world.

Get it now on Google Play.

And, speaking of making Socratic available to students everywhere …

Learn in six languages!

With a team that speaks 12 languages* and users in every country in the world, it’s no surprise that we couldn’t wait to start translating Socratic.

Starting today, students can ask questions in 6 languages: English, Spanish, Indonesian, French, Portuguese, and German, opening up the app to over 1.5 billion people in their native language.

Countries that speak one of our six supported languages

Internationalization is a challenge (especially for a team of 10), so we started with languages that at least one of us speaks. Over time, we’ll continue adding languages until we can help every student in the language they understand best.

A beautiful iPad experience

Students at schools and homes around the world often use a device other than their phone. Sometimes it’s a classroom iPad, and other times it’s a family tablet. Until today, that experience left much to be desired.

Today we’re excited to release a version of Socratic designed and built for the iPad. The larger screen size makes reading our beautiful learning content that much easier and more pleasurable — we think it might be better than the phone version!

Learn bigger on iPad

We started Socratic because we believe that students everywhere deserve the best help when they’re learning. With an Android app and support for six of the world’s major languages, we’re a little bit closer to our goal.

It’s a very long road to making learning easy and accessible for all students, and there’s nothing we’d rather do than continue taking steps towards it.

PS. If you love Android, we’re hiring an experienced Android Lead in our New York office.

*Our team of 10 speaks English, French, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic, Polish, Hindi, Indonesian, Mandarin, Portuguese, German, and Yoruba.

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