micro:bit

3.0.12

Micro:bit Educational Foundation

2.51

1,685 reviews

500,000+
Downloads

Free

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About micro:bit

micro:bit is an education app developed by Micro:bit Educational Foundation.

Download Statistics

micro:bit has been downloaded 750 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 12 thousand times.

User Ratings

micro:bit is rated 2.51 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.7 thousand ratings.

App Information

micro:bit is FREE to download. The APK download size is 8.97 MB. The latest version available is 3.0.12. The last update was on September 8, 2025.

Technical Requirements

micro:bit requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play February 2016.

Description

The best bits

• Create games on your phone then ‘flash’ them on to your micro:bit to get playing – no wires or cables needed!
• Snap a selfie by connecting your phone or tablet, and use your micro:bit as a remote control
• Never miss your mates again – now you can code your micro:bit to wake up and tell you when you’re getting a call or text

What’s in the app?
There are four areas to explore:

Discover takes you to the official website where you can find code ideas from other micro:bit fans. There’s loads of cool stuff to try out.
Create Code allows you to use the micro:bit MakeCode editor. You can also go back and edit code you’ve already created.
Connect is where you can go to pair your phone or tablet to your micro:bit. Choose the device you’d like to connect to through a secure Bluetooth pairing.
Flash is where the fun begins: send a program from your phone or tablet and see it on your micro:bit!

Permissions

read phone status and identity - This permission is used to allow the micro:bit to read basic state information of the phone. The user can write code on the micro:bit to react to these different states e.g. whether the display is on or off or a call or SMS message is received

receive text messages (SMS) - The micro:bit can react to different events on the phone and vice versa. This permission allows the user to make the micro:bit react in the event the user receives an SMS message. The message contents and details are not used or stored by the application.

take pictures and videos - The user can programme the micro:bit to send events to the phone to launch the camera or take a picture or video.

approximate location (network-based) – The application has to find and connect to the micro:bit over Bluetooth low energy. Scanning for Bluetooth low energy devices needs the approximate location service.

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage and read the contents of your USB storage - The application will save scripts, photos and any content you may have created to your USB storage. The application must be able to read, write and delete these files.

full network access and view Wi-Fi connections - The application needs access to the internet to access the micro:bit website so that the user can download code samples, access the code editors and to send usage statistics.

access Bluetooth settings and pair with Bluetooth devices - The application can discover, pair and connect to the micro:bit over secure Bluetooth.

draw over other apps - The user can program the micro:bit to display alerts on the phone or find the phone.

control flashlight, control vibration and prevent phone from sleeping - This permission is used to send a visual cue that a photo or video is being captured, to send events to make the phone vibrate and to prevent your phone from sleeping when it is flashing your micro:bit. "

Recent changes:
- Update to support Android 15 devices
- Fix project download for Lenovo M10

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More data about micro:bit

Price	Free to download
Total downloads	750 thousand
Recent downloads	12 thousand
Rating	2.51 based on 1.7 thousand ratings
Ranking	Not ranked
Version	3.0.12
APK size	8.97 MB
Number of libraries	24
Designed for Android	5.0+
Suitable for	Everyone
Ads	NO ads

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Google Play Rating history and histogram

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Downloads over time

micro:bit has been downloaded 750 thousand times. Over the past 30 days, it averaged 400 downloads per day.

Changelog of micro:bit

Sep 8, 2025UpdateVersion 3.0.12
Jan 7, 2025UpdateVersion 3.0.11
Jul 24, 2024UpdateVersion 3.0.10
Apr 15, 2024Installs500,000+ installs
Dec 11, 2020UpdateVersion 2.8.8
Nov 26, 2020UpdateVersion 2.8.2
Aug 25, 2020UpdateVersion 2.6
May 5, 2019Installs100,000+ installs
Mar 8, 2019UpdateVersion 2.4
Feb 19, 2019UpdateVersion 2.2
Feb 27, 2018Installs50,000+ installs
Jan 9, 2017UpdateVersion 2.0
Oct 11, 2016UpdateVersion 1.5.3
Aug 17, 2016Installs10,000+ installs
Jun 19, 2016Installs5,000+ installs
Mar 9, 2016Installs1,000+ installs
Feb 29, 2016Installs500+ installs
Feb 25, 2016New AppVersion in EDUCATION for Free

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Developer information for Micro:bit Educational Foundation

Micro:bit Educational Foundation

help@microbit.org

Website

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Comments on micro:bit for Android

★★★★☆ R Z · Aug 7, 2021

The app works amazingly. I only have two problems: it takes ages to flash, and I wish there was a way to send and receive messages to it over Bluetooth. I know there is the Nordic UART app, but it crashes if I connect it to my micro:bit v2.

★★★★★ Benson Baker · Aug 20, 2025

I am loving coding projects on my microbit on PC and I thought it would be fun to do it on mobile, but I can't for the life of me figure out pairing, I'm fine coding on PC, but it would be nice if pairing was explained a little better, same with connecting it to scratch, I couldn't get pairing to work, other than that, VERY fun software to make little programs, so interactive, so user-friendly for beginners, and more advanced programmers, and nothing beats seeing the little red pixels light up.

★★★★★ vimala subramaniam · Aug 12, 2021

Micro:bit It's verry nice I'm I do my rbt homework verry simpel I love micro:

★★☆☆☆ Abdulhadi Tahan · Jan 17, 2024

My micro bit not pairing with Bluetooth My card V2.21 İ try everything

★★☆☆☆ James Preston · Sep 27, 2021

Installed this for Bluetooth flashing for kid's phone, but it is not really functional. Using a V1 device and Android 11 you can pair okay, then half the time you can flash the device once (rest of time flashing process hangings) and you can NEVER flash again without unpairing and re-pairing to then having another 50% chance of flashing exactly once again. After first flash error message is always "DFU CHARACTERISTICS NOT FOUND" until re-pair. Sigh. Back to USB.

★☆☆☆☆ Mike · Feb 13, 2022

Useless front end for microbit website, except this app manages to break the ability to import hex files stored on the tablet. Pairing is impossible to achieve, so no actual direct microbit programming anyway. Better off using a tablet browser for kids programming experiment, then use computer to drag kids hex files directly from tablet onto microbit. Baffling this is so difficult for Samsung to sort out.

Google Play Rankings for micro:bit

This app is not ranked

Technologies used by micro:bit

micro:bit is requesting 21 permissions and is using 26 libraries.

Permissions

Development tools

test access to protected storage

Your location

approximate (network-based) location, precise (GPS) location

Network communication

view network connections, view Wi-Fi connections, pair with Bluetooth devices, full network access

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

Phone calls

read phone status and identity

Hardware controls

take pictures and videos, control vibration

System tools

access Bluetooth settings, draw over other apps, prevent phone from sleeping

Extra

android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT, android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE, android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_CONNECTED_DEVICE, android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS, android.permission.INTERACT_ACROSS_USERS_FULL, com.samsung.microbit.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

Ad network libraries

None found

Social libraries

None found

Development tools

Android Jetpack core

Android Architecture Components

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Firebase

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Android Jetpack Media

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AndroidX Cursor Adapter

AndroidX Local Broadcast Manager

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