Pocket Assembler User Reviews

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Super cool

Love it. Totally fun. I just wish there were more challenges. More commands would be great also!

Super cool

Love it. Totally fun. I just wish there were more challenges. More would be great also!

Great App to Learn Assembly

A nicely put together learning curriculum that tests your knowledge as you progress. This feels like a game. Perfect!

Pretty Cool

I really enjoy stuff like this, reminds me of a zachlike game.

The app is well made and intuitive, at least for me. However, there are a few points of contention I’ll just mention in the spirit of full transparency:

1. I’m sort of disappointed there isn’t a way to store programs or code snippets locally in the app, or even the ability to export a program to the file manager. Sure, you can just copy and paste, and I guess that’s sufficient because:

2. I’m don’t really expect to be spending much time in the app now that I’ve completed all the challenges. Granted, it did take 3 or 4 hours to do so from start to finish, but once the challenges are complete, the real challenge becomes coming up with a reason to stay in the app. This means that:

3. I’m finding it difficult to figure out any justification for the monthly subscription plan. Perhaps if there were a community of users uploading custom challenges to download, or any sort new content each month, or integration with leetcode or something, maybe it would make sense. I just don’t see there being enough users to warrant such a thing. That’s why I decided to just get lifetime pro just to support the dev.
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Excellent!

You did a great job!

Learning through solving

Introduces the principles and quickly moves to exercises. Good fun for making the time pass. Won’t make you an Asm developer but will give you a good appreciation as solving problems that are normally handled by a function, but no For or Do While loops and making it nice to appreciate the steps required.
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A hidden gem!

I am teaching myself programming, and, on a lark, I did a search for an app to practice assembly. This one is perfect. The learning process is made into a game which makes it much less tedious to get through the lessons, and you benefit by getting hands-on experience right away. I highly recommend this app
no matter what language(s) you plan on learning; the carry over is well worth the investment.
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Not “real” assembler

I love the concept, but sadly the language is not “real” assembler and doesn’t teach very useful assembler. MOD? PRINT??!

Back to the good old days

What an excellent idea for an app and what an excellent execution!
My only “criticism” lies with the CPU I used to work with, back in the eighties, having fewer registers and a much reduced set of commands 😎. Other than that misalignment with my own personal experience, this app is an excellent reminder for how we used to do things and a great lesson on how, way down inside, computers work.
I will also credit the app for its absolute respect of my privacy. Far from common these days, I’m afraid.
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Response from developer

We’re glad you enjoyed the app, and agree wholeheartedly about user privacy!

Learning tool but also a great game

This was very addictive to go through. The challenges are built in a way that it’s hard to out down. Now we just need a few more challenges :)

Super App for the 8086 Assembler nerds

I love this App. I was one of a number of people invited to test the App and it was an absolute privilege to do so.
If you have ever done any 8086 assembly you will love this. The challenges ramp up in difficulty and you need to subscribe to tackle the more difficult ones. I’m 71 and if I can do ‘em all, you can too.
Download it and enjoy.
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