Comparison

Smarty Buddy vs Induction

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Smarty Buddy

This educational game helps prepare children in pre-K through 5th grade for gifted and talented tests. It offers engaging challenges across multiple difficulty levels and test topics, with progress tracking for parents.

Highlights
  • Gifted and talented test preparation
  • Pre-K to 5th grade curriculum
  • 3 difficulty levels
  • 5 test topics
  • Over 670 questions
  • Progress reports for parents
  • Game badges for positive reinforcement
Features
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SmartyBuddy is an educational math and logic game geared toward getting kids (pre-K - 5) ready for gifted and talented tests, school entrance tests and/or qualifying tests such as CoGAT, InView, SCAT, OLSAT, NNAT, etc. Your review is very important to us, please leave a review! Great for homeschool math program! The game features 3 grade levels, 5 test topics, and 3 levels of difficulty. With over 670 questions to play, this fun game can complement or replace any worksheet test preparation. Test Topics: Number Sequences, Picture Sequences, Picture Analogies, Quantitative and Number Puzzles Features: Positive reinforcement through game badges; progress reports for parents. Look for our Smarty Buddy Books! Kid tested, kid approved! All rights reserved by SmartyBuddy LLC.

About

Induction

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Somewhere inside the box, lodestones are hiding. You can't see them. You can only fire probes into the machine and watch what comes out. A beam that flies straight through? Nothing in its path. A beam that never comes out? A direct hit. A beam that exits somewhere unexpected? Now you're getting somewhere. Every deflection is a clue! Induction is a pure logic deduction game in the tradition of the classic Black Box puzzle: a hidden grid, a limited set of probes, and everything solvable by reasoning alone. No luck, no timers, no move-matching. If you love Minesweeper, nonograms, or picross-style deduction, this is that same "aha!" — with beams. HOW IT PLAYS • Fire probes into the edges of a hidden grid • Read the results: hits, deflections, reflections, pass-throughs • Mark your deductions in the grid until you're certain • Seal your answer. Clean solves and streaks are tracked. WHAT'S INSIDE • Over 1,000 hand-tuned puzzles across notebook collections, from gentle on-ramp to expert codex • A new Daily Challenge every day. The same puzzle for everyone, and streaks to keep • A tutorial that teaches by demonstration, not walls of text • Beautiful vintage-laboratory notebook style PLAYS ANYWHERE • Fully playable offline (commutes, flights, dead zones) • No account required. Sign in with Google or Apple only if you want your progress backed up or synced across devices • Progress backup and cloud sync when signed in FAIR & FOCUSED • Free, supported by ads; rewarded ads are always your choice • No pay-to-win, no energy systems, no consumable nonsense • Your brain is the only power-up From Connexus Digital, the makers of Connexus Puzzles. Charge the coils. Fire the probe. Find what's hiding.

Screenshots

Smarty Buddy4 screens
Induction4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Induction at Free against Smarty Buddy's $9.99. Induction also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Smarty Buddy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Induction is free to download; Smarty Buddy costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smarty Buddy ships an update every 2 months, Induction every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Smarty Buddy versus Induction: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmarty BuddyInduction
Price$9.99Free — better
Rating3.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size126 MB86 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmarty Buddy LLCConnexus Digital, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Smarty Buddy

No in-app purchases

None

Induction

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smarty Buddy free?
Smarty Buddy costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Induction free?
Induction is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smarty Buddy or Induction have ads?
Induction shows ads; Smarty Buddy does not.
Which is updated more often, Smarty Buddy or Induction?
Smarty Buddy ships an update every 2 months, and Induction every 2 days. Most recently, Smarty Buddy was updated on October 3, 2026 and Induction on October 7, 2026.

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