brainsparker® | creativity app for school teachers, professors, and educators | ignite your creativity at work and in life

ignite creativity
in the classroom

Tap into thousands of random prompt cards to help your students think differently, explore new perspectives, and develop important creative thinking skills – all in one easy-to-use creativity app.

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engage your students

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stimulate fresh thinking

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integrate into lesson plans

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enhance teaching skills

7 ways to use brainsparker in your classroom:

start your class with a prompt to activate thinking
ask students to write a story based on a given prompt
use for brainstorming new ideas in group projects
pick a card to inspire an art, design, or music session
ask students to create a visual story for a prompt
use for role-playing and drama exercises
give individual prompts as a homework assignment
download free lesson plan

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tap into 25+ card decks

Developed by coaching experts over the last 10 years, our range of digital card decks include 1000s of questions, trigger words, quotes, action statements, and images ideal for stimulating thinking and exploring new perspectives.

learn new creative techniques

Enhance your teaching skills with our micro-courses on creative thinking, coaching, and brainstorming techniques. Put them into practice in your next class or session.

inspire your creativity every day

Keep your own creative spirits high with daily spark notifications and by adding our widget on your home screen. A quick glance is all you need when you feel the frustration rising!

over half a million downloads worldwide

Brainsparker is more than just an app; it’s a pocket-sized brainstorming buddy that can improve student engagement and accelerate learning. For over 10 years, it’s been used by teachers, professors, and educators across the globe who want to equip their students with strong creative thinking skills and prepare them for our fast-changing world.

550K downloads | 2.8K+ reviews

“The biggest problem with creativity is that our brains get used to a routine way of thinking. So what we really need is a little spark to jolt these ideas. Brainsparker provides us with creative prompts we can use in class to help students (or yourself) think about creative opportunities in a creative way."

" If you’re in need of creative inspiration, look no further than Brainsparker, which generates trigger words and phrases to inspire new ideas, enrich creative writing and journaling, and spark innovation."

"I use this at home and also in my classroom. My students are Deaf and the stories and poems they created are beyond wonderful, especially because they started this year absolutely hating reading and writing. When students begin to check brainsparker as soon as they walk into my room and smile when they used to intentionally soak their notebooks in water, I know that they are truly enjoying this."

"Having a creative block is something that happens to everyone. Brainsparker provides random, creative prompts that will inspire writing, art or just brainstorming session."

"This app is a work of genius. I can’t wait with each morning I see a bit of true inspiration. It has reminded me to look for inspiration in big things and also in the little things. Thanks for making this app."

cultivating creative minds - one young person at a time

The brainsparker app was created in 2013 by Gabriella Goddard, an international Executive Coach, Leadership Development facilitator, and Published Author with 20+ years of coaching and training experience. She is the author of “Gulp! : The seven day crash course to master fear and break through any challenge,” (Penguin/Bantam).

Gabriella is passionate about developing the creative minds of the future generation especially in the fields of STEAM and Space, and she is a Mentor for the United Nations Space4Women program.

upgrade to the vip pass

The brainsparker app is free to download and gives you instant access to five card decks with 1000+ spark card prompts. When you upgrade to the vip pass, you can tap into 25+ more card decks on specialist topics around creative mindset, writing, art, and work. Here’s a taster of the writer’s deck, conversation deck, and metaphor deck which are great for spicing up your lessons.