Greycells18 Media, the company set-up by Network18 and Educomp, which owns the Topper Learning brand in India, and runs the subscription based education channel Topper TV, and website, Topperlearning.com, has launched Android mobile apps developed for school children in classes 6th till 10th. The company has launched two apps, Prepora-Exam Practice App, and Chapter Notes revision app, both of which have been developed in-house by the company's development division, Topper Labs, and have been made for Horlicks. The Prepora-Exam prep app, allows students to select subjects and individual topics and answer multiple choice questions in a gamified environment. Students can only unlock and move to the next level when they achieve a certain score, and they can compare themselves with other users via a Leaderboard screen. The Chapter Notes revision app offers quick notes summaries including important concepts, explanations and formulae, from different topics across all subjects, to enable students to revise them. We found the apps to be well designed and intuitive, although we experienced some connectivity hiccups while trying to use the Prepora app for the first time on our Galaxy Nexus device. The Prepora app even offers a scratch pad and a calculator to allow children to answer questions. But we feel that some visual elements such as diagrams could have been illustrated better. Also, instead of just multiple choice questions, the app could have also made use of interactive elements to create virtual models or remember formulae. Overall, it's a decent attempt at making at making learning apps. Downloads,…
