Mathematical Playground Lite vs Geometry Nets Helper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mathematical Playground Lite
Explore three-dimensional shapes with this educational application. It aids in understanding and visualizing complex geometric forms, offering tools to manipulate and study them. This lite version provides access to all shapes and core functionalities.
- Explore 3D shapes
- Visualize geometric forms
- Cut and expand shapes
- Receive shape data from full version
- All shapes available
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This is an educational app that is useful for exploring three dimensional shapes. Have you ever had difficulty drawing three dimensional shapes? This app may help you study about shapes. Since this app is the lite version, less features are available than the full-version. But all shapes are available. And you can cut, expand shapes, and also receive shape data from the full-version of this app. --- This app runs on… [iPhone] iPhone 4s or newer. [iPad] iPad 2, iPad 3rd generation or newer, iPad mini series, iPad Air series, iPad Pro series. [iPod touch] iPod touch (5th generation or newer). [OS] iOS12.0 or elder.
Geometry Nets Helper
This app helps visualize the transformation between 2D cube nets and 3D solid cubes. Users can add colors and symbols to surfaces for clearer understanding and test various assembly scenarios. It supports all 11 types of cube nets, allowing for rotation and flipping.
- Net to solid cube visualization
- Surface, side, and point connection understanding
- Color and symbol customization
- Interactive problem-solving
- Support for all 11 cube nets
- Net rotation and flipping
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Geometry net learning support app produced by Digital Gene. This is an application that assists in understanding the relationship between a net cube and a solid cube. The app shows the cube gradually changing, moving from a net into a solid. The viewer can understand where the surfaces, sides, and points connect. [Add colors and symbols for easy understanding] Symbols and colors can be added to the surfaces, sides, and points. Various problems can be created and tested out. Which surface will face surface A? What direction will the surface face when assembling the net? Which net is the correct one for a dice? Etc. [Works with all the nets] All 11 different nets can be used. They can be rotated or flipped horizontally.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mathematical Playground Lite at 4.0 against Geometry Nets Helper's 1.0. Mathematical Playground Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). Geometry Nets Helper's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mathematical Playground Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 41% of Mathematical Playground Lite's written reviews are positive against 44% of Geometry Nets Helper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Mathematical Playground Lite ships an update every 2 months, Geometry Nets Helper every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mathematical Playground Lite | Geometry Nets Helper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | 44.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jun Nakashima | Plus Inc. (Japan) |
Customer experience
Mathematical Playground Lite
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In-app purchases
Mathematical Playground Lite
No in-app purchases
Geometry Nets Helper
No in-app purchases
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