Soroban Training vs Abacus Simulator
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 Simulator
Enhance your mental math abilities with interactive abacus exercises. This app offers guided lessons and daily drills to improve calculation speed, focus, and accuracy. Customize your abacus for a fun and engaging learning experience.
- Interactive abacus exercises
- Guided step-by-step lessons
- Daily skill-sharpening exercises
- Focus, speed, and accuracy improvement
- Customizable abacus
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Count faster with Abacus! Build your mental math skills with our interactive exercises. From basic to advanced calculations, we got you covered! It is easy, fun, and free! Why Abacus? Guided lessons - step-by-step tutorials on every level. Sharpen skills - improve focus, speed, and accuracy through our daily exercises. Fun - customize your abacus and have fun with it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Abacus Simulator at none against Soroban Training's shown. Abacus Simulator also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Soroban Training's advantage is ratings volume (176 vs 31). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 and Abacus Simulator sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Soroban Training against 4.6 for Abacus Simulator. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Soroban Training has 176 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Soroban Training's written reviews are positive against 72% of Abacus Simulator's.
Soroban Training ships an update every 2 weeks, Abacus Simulator every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Soroban Training | Abacus Simulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (176 ratings) — better | 4.6 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.5% of reviews — better | 72.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 176 — better | 31 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jumpei Adachi | Nicholas Ang |
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In-app purchases
Soroban Training
- Remove Ads$2.99
Abacus Simulator
- Cloud Beads$1.99
- Coconut Beads$1.99
- Lemon Beads$1.99
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- Mushroom Beads$1.99
- Penguin Beads$1.99
- Flower Beads$1.99
- Orange Beads$1.99
- Snail Beads$1.99
- Snowman Beads$1.99
- Watermelon Beads$1.99
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