Algodoo Play

AMAZING SIMULATIONS! AMAZING SCENES! Download now and you too can become an inventor!

At last! The hugely popular Algodoo available as a free play version! Loads of fun for everyone. Many games rolled into one, just pick your favourite and play or else take the challenge and try and complete some of the many tasks available. Send your favourite scenes to your friends to try! Algodoo Play allows you to see all the best scenes and integrate with them for free!

When downloading Algodoo Play you get a 15 hours trial period to create your own scenes with Algodoo Physics and Algodoo for Education.

For playing, sharing and daring

Algodoo Play comes with tools for loading, playing and interacting with Algodoo scenes.

• Play, pause and reload scenes to try them over and over again.
• Use the Drag tool to move and drag objects in the scene.
• Cut and destroy objects and components with the Cut tool.
• Control the scenes with given descriptions and commands.

Find scenes in “Algobox” - a library of Algodoo creations. There are more than 50 000 user-created scenes that you will find amazing, awe-inspiring and fun.

• Browse around for hours, download and play your favourite scenes.
• Sign up for your personal account and start sharing your favourite creations. Challenge your friends to try them or dare them to build even cooler scenes.
• Rate, comment and like all scenes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Note: When the Algodoo demo period is over this version of Algodoo falls back to the Algodoo Play mode.

Download Algodoo demo with Algodoo Play

Download and double-click to start the installer, then follow the instructions. Important: if Algodoo runs slowly, please make sure you update your graphics drivers! Algodoo 2.0.1 for Win

Download and double click to mount, then open the mounted image on your desktop and copy the Algodoo application to your Applications directory. Algodoo 2.0.1 for Mac

Algodoo Physics

Become an inventor with Algodoo Physics - Start designing and testing your ideas in seconds. Algodoo is endless fun for any age to create, play & learn physics!

In a simulated “real” world you can build, play and make your inventions come alive. With simple drawing tools, objects like gears, motors, lasers, springs, ropes, and even water, you can test wacky ideas, build amazing machines and design cool games. Easily share your beautiful creations with friends and challenge them to use their own creative minds.

For drawing and building

Algodoo Physics comes with an abundance of tools for constructing, building and creating your designs.

• Use the unique Sketch tool - an all-in-one tool with gestures for multi drawing and editing - that makes your workflow quick and easy.
• Or draw your creations with basic tools like Circles, Boxes, Polygons, Planes, Gears, Ropes & Chains.
• Make your inventions truly unique by adding physics like Springs, Axles, Thrusters, Lasers, Fixates and Tracers.
• Edit and interact with your creations using tools like Scale, Rotate, Move, Cut and Drag.
• For even more editing you can make water, set collision layers, group objects, add mechanics, etc, to your different components.

For design and final touches

The Algodoo world is colorful but you can easily change the look and feel in Algodoo.

• Set color for your background, water and your objects. Save your colors as different palettes for future work. You can also change the look of your artwork with pre-made palettes like X-ray, Optics, Sunset, and many others.
• Experiment with different materials in Algodoo Physics. In seconds you can set density, friction and restitution for your objects. Making them slippery like ice, heavy like gold or bouncy like a rubber ball. Algodoo comes with 9 different pre-made materials: Gold, Glass, Stone, Steel, Rubber, Helium, Wood, Ice and the Default Algodoo material.

For sharing and daring

If you want some inspiration, find scenes in “Algobox” - a library of Algodoo creations. There are more than 50 000 user-created scenes that you will find amazing, awe-inspiring and fun.

• Browse around for hours, download and play your favourite scenes, all within Algodoo.
• Sign up for your personal account and start sharing your creations. Challenge your friends to try them or dare them to build even cooler scenes.
• Rate, comment and like all scenes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.

Quick and easy to get started

Algodoo comes with built-in tutorials which step-by-step introduce you to all the tools an main functions. Getting started is made even easier. If you want additional training and tips then watch some of the many videos and webinars that exist from links within Algodoo.

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Algodoo for Education

Algodoo for Education is easy to use and easy to learn! Browse, load and create lessons from within Algodoo or examine your scenes with graphs and visualization of forces, velocities and momentum.

This fully interactive software allows children and students to benefit from the most effective method of learning – that of “learning by doing”. Algodoo for Education is therefore perfectly designed for science classes or exploring physics at home with quick and easy experimentation. Algodoo motivates students and children to explore and play with physics while having fun.

For exploring and analyzing

Algodoo for Education comes with an abundance of tools for experimenting, analyzing and educating in science.

• Request Plots to demonstrate exact changes in values and events in your scene
• View force arrows to help students understand friction, force, velocity, momentum and gravity’s effects on the things around us.
• Enhanced visualization with X/Y components for deeper analysis.
• Create, save and share your own lessons – either for your own personal use or for putting in the library for all Algodoo users to see and benefit from.
• View built-in lessons as well as those that other teachers have created and shared. Adapt them to suit your lesson requirements and complexity level. This saves time in lesson preparation as well as reduces the requirement for being an Algodoo expert in order to benefit from the program.

For teaching and learning

Algodoo for Education covers a huge variety of topics within the physics curriculum that are much easier for students to comprehend with the aid of simulation.

• Learn and teach about newtons law, kinematics, energy conservation, collisions, rotation, torque, angular momentum, fluids, optics, refraction and much, much more.
• Motivate and increase your students interest in science.
• Students themselves can “play” with the parameters and see the immediate results of their interaction.

What more can I teach and learn with Algodoo? Download this document with subject areas and disciplines of what you can teach and learn with Algodoo for Education.

For SMART Board and Interactive Whiteboards

Algodoo for Education is fully integrated and optimized for SMART Boards but also supports other whiteboard manufacturers systems.

SMART Board features:

• Multitouch supporting multi-user drawing, interaction and editing on SMART Boards
• Pen gestures for creating objects, interact with scenes and control simulations
• Full support for SMART Board pen colors, erasers and gestures

For quick and easy start up

Algodoo comes with built-in tutorials which step-by-step introduce you to all the tools and main functions. In the Algodoo for Education software you can also view a quick guide as to how to create and save your own lessons. Getting started is made even easier. If you want additional training and tips then watch some of the many videos and webinars that exist from links within Algodoo.