Soroban Training vs Abacus Exercise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Abacus Exercise
Practice abacus calculations with a customizable digital tool. Adjust bead colors, sounds, and layout for a personalized learning experience. Challenge yourself with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division exercises.
- Customizable abacus layout
- Adjustable bead size and position
- Up to 15-digit support
- Customizable bead colors and sounds
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division practice
- Level-based challenges
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This app focuses on the ease of use of the abacus on the app, and aims to realize smooth and comfortable operability. In addition to being able to use the abacus widely on the horizontal screen, the size and position can be freely customized according to the device. The number of digits can be used up to 15 digits, and the color and sound of the beads can also be set. You can challenge the addition and subtraction, multiplication, division questions according to your level.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Abacus Exercise at none against Soroban Training's 1. Abacus Exercise also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Soroban Training's advantage is review sentiment (78% vs 46%) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Soroban Training sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Abacus Exercise asks for nothing beyond the download.
Soroban Training holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 176 and 60 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Soroban Training's written reviews are positive against 46% of Abacus Exercise's.
Soroban Training ships an update every 2 weeks, Abacus Exercise every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soroban Training | Abacus Exercise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (176 ratings) — better | 4.5 (60 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | 60 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jumpei Adachi | Hirokazu Komatsu |
Customer experience
Soroban Training
Abacus Exercise
In-app purchases
Soroban Training
- Remove Ads$2.99
Abacus Exercise
No in-app purchases
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