Abacutor vs Soroban Training
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Abacutor
This app serves as a digital abacus for students to practice mental math and abacus skills. Teachers can assign homework and monitor student progress in real-time, facilitating faster learning.
- Digital abacus simulation
- Mental math (Anzan) training
- Homework assignment and management
- Real-time student progress monitoring
- Abacus and Soroban method
- Classwork and homework tool
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Abacus, called as Soroban in Japanese and Suanpan in Chinese is an ancient arithmetic tool used even today in many countries and taught to children around the world as a way to improve their mental math (Anzan) abilities. Abacutor, an Abacus Tutor App is a classwork and homework management tool for Abacus teachers and students and follows the Soroban Abacus method. Abacutor allows students to do their classwork and homework on the tablet and provides real time status to Sensei (The Teacher). The sensei can monitor progress of students' homework in real time and provide new homework anytime anywhere for students to practice. Abacutor helps students to practice their homework regularly and get better at Abacus and Anzan at a faster pace. Visit http://www.abacutor.com/ for privacy policy and terms and conditions.
Soroban Training
Learn and practice abacus skills directly on your touchscreen. Generate custom problems to hone your abacus techniques, even with a physical abacus.
- Touchscreen abacus simulation
- Custom problem generation
- Practice with physical abacus
- Abacus learning tool
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This app enables you to play an abacus on the touch screen. You can also just create problems, so you can practice the abacus using your actual abacus.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Soroban Training at 4.7 against Abacutor's 3.8. Soroban Training also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (176 vs 29). Abacutor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Soroban Training sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Abacutor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Soroban Training holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Soroban Training has 176 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Abacutor ships an update every 2 months, Soroban Training every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Abacutor | Soroban Training |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (29 ratings) | 4.7 (176 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 176 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Soroban League North America Corp | Jumpei Adachi |
Customer experience
Abacutor
Soroban Training
In-app purchases
Abacutor
No in-app purchases
Soroban Training
- Remove Ads$2.99
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