# Cube Coach: 3x3 Solver & Timer — This Solver Teaches You How

> This Solver Teaches You How (iPhone/iPad app by Yonghao Xu.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cube-coach-3x3-solver-and-timer/id6770179692 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yonghao Xu](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896473497)
- Category: Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-05-26
- Data updated: 2026-08-14
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cube-coach-3x3-solver-and-timer/id6770179692/reviews.md

## What is Cube Coach?

MOST CUBE APPS JUST SOLVE THE CUBE FOR YOU.
CUBE COACH 3x3 TEACHES YOU HOW TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF.

Twenty-five hands-on lessons on a live 3D cube, from never-having-solved to
sub-20-second CFOP. Every lesson lets you scan your real cube, then walks
you through the moves on screen — one step at a time, exactly the moves you
need from the exact state of your cube.

THREE COURSES. TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS.

• Foundations  — Notation (free), the white cross (free), first layer corners (free),
  middle edges (premium), last layer (premium). Your first full solve.
• Intuitive F2L (premium) — Pair up corners + edges and slot them
  together. The transition from beginner to intermediate speedcubing.
• 2-Look OLL & PLL (premium) — Ten OLL algorithms + six PLL algorithms,
  with recognition drills under timer pressure.

THE KILLER FEATURE — STATE-AWARE SOLVES

In every lesson, tap "Capture your cube" to scan your physical cube with
the camera, then tap "Solve {step name} from this state." Cube Coach shows
you the exact moves to reach just that step's goal — not the whole solve,
not the next ten steps, just what the lesson is teaching. Step through
Prev / Play / Next on the 3D cube while mirroring the moves on your real
cube in your hands.

THIS IS HOW HUMANS LEARN. NOT HOW SOLVERS SOLVE.

The mid-stage solvers don't use a black-box optimizer. They emit the named
algorithms each lesson teaches — Sune, R U R' U', the A-perm — so what
you watch on screen is what you'll eventually do from memory.

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FREE TIER

• Three Foundations lessons + a cube solver
• Speedcubing timer with WCA-style Ao5 / Ao12 / best-single tracking
• Scrambler with full WCA random move sequences
• 3D cube playground — scramble, twist by tap or drag, solve from any state
• Capture your physical cube via the camera or paint it in by hand
• Save and load cube snapshots so you can return to a state later

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN PREMIUM ($8.99 one-time, lifetime)

• All Foundations lessons
• Every lesson in Intuitive F2L (10 lessons) + 2-Look OLL & PLL (7 lessons)
• Ad-free everywhere

ONE-TIME PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. YOURS FOREVER.

Cube Coach is built around one idea: the difference between watching a
solve and actually solving the cube is muscle memory. Every interaction
in the app — capture, step, play, scramble, time, drill — is designed to
move algorithms from the screen into your hands.

PRIVACY

No accounts. No tracking across other apps. No analytics SDKs. Cube
Coach stores your solves and lesson progress on-device only. The camera
is used solely to read sticker colors during cube capture — frames are
processed in-memory and never written to disk or transmitted off-device.

Built for iPhone and iPad. Universal app. Free to download.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Master the Cube | $8.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-03

iPad improvements:

• The manual cube color input now opens full screen on iPad, so the unfolded cube net and color palette are large and never cropped.
• Bigger sticker and color-palette targets make painting your cube state faster and easier to tap accurately.

### 1.0.3 — 2026-06-15

Meta data update for easier search

### 1.0.2 — 2026-05-31

Bug fixes on lesson subjects to adapt to cube colour setting. 
Improved UX on iPad with bigger colour input buttons

### 1.0.1 — 2026-05-28

Fixed ads positions for free tier

### 1.0 — 2026-05-26

No release notes.

## More apps by Yonghao Xu

- [Smiley Bank: Kids Rewards](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smiley-bank-kids-rewards/id6767419671)

All apps by Yonghao Xu: https://appshunter.io/developer/1896473497

---

*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-14.*