Turtle Universe was an education app developed by NetLogo. It was removed from Google Play May 31, 2026 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Turtle Universe had been downloaded 5 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Turtle Universe was rated 3.80 out of 5 stars, based on 12 ratings.
App Information
Turtle Universe was free to download. The APK download size was 175.76 MB. The last available version was 1.4.1. The last update was on May 24, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Turtle Universe required Android 4.4+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Everyone. The app had been available on Google Play June 2021.
Description
Understand social and scientific phenomena & learn STEM, coding, social science & many other topics by playing with scientific models created and used by scientists!
Explore various kinds of microworlds that explain social and scientific phenomena in Turtle Universe. You can also create your own microworlds by coding with text or with blocks, and engage in discussion with other learners around the globe!
1) Play with 40+ fascinating scientific models from different fields - with more coming soon! 2) Explore phenomena such as traffic jams, wolf sheep predation, the blossoming of flowers, etc. 3) Engaging and fun storylines for you to immerse in the microworlds. 4) Play with and create computational art & games for fun!
Turtle Universe is inspired by NetLogo, the most widely used multi-agent programmable modeling environment. We now bring the power of computational modeling to the phones and tablets of young students and educators alike! Please enjoy the authentic scientific modeling experience shared by tens of thousands of researchers and hundreds of thousands of students worldwide.
Turtle Universe supports most NetLogo, NetLogo Web, and NetTango models out-of-the-box.
Brought to you by the same team that created Physics Lab, a physics experiment simulation app that has been used by more than 3 million learners and teachers.
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Copyright 2021 John Chen & Uri Wilensky. All rights reserved.
Turtle Universe is authored by John Chen & Uri Wilensky and supported by CCL at Northwestern University. If you mention the software in a publication, please include the citation below:
* Chen, J. & Wilensky, U. (2021). Turtle Universe. Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Recent changes: Using Augmented Reality (AR) to play with turtles around you! 1) Fixed reported interface issues. 2) Improved a few translation texts. 3) Fixed issues around import and export. If you have any questions, please contact civitas@u.northwestern.edu
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