Comparison

Excel Exercises vs Desk Dojo

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

Head to head
About

Excel Exercises

Master Excel with this fun and engaging app. Learn functions, keyboard shortcuts for Mac and PC, and use flashcards to memorize popular formulas. It works offline and serves as a handy reference.

Highlights
  • Learn Excel functions
  • Practice formulas
  • Master keyboard shortcuts (Mac/PC)
  • Offline reference
  • Flashcards for functions
Features
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Become the Excel master of your office! Excel Exercises is the #1 fun and engaging way to learn Excel. The Excel Exercises app works offline and serves as a reference for all the Excel information you might need. Read about functions to write formulas in Excel, and learn the keyboard shortcuts, for both Mac and PC, to save time while working. Flashcards also help you learn what the most useful and popular Excel functions do.

About

Desk Dojo

Master Excel and business finance through interactive lessons, drills, and quizzes. Learn practical skills with over 170 lessons, track your progress with XP and achievements, and practice offline. Start for free with full access to beginner content.

Highlights
  • Interactive lessons and quizzes
  • 170+ lessons across Excel and Finance
  • Drills for speed and confidence
  • Daily Speed Challenge game
  • Progress tracking with XP and achievements
  • Offline functionality
  • Free beginner content
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Practice investment banking and consulting interviews with an AI interviewer, and learn Excel and Business Finance in the same app. You can start for free without an account. INTERVIEW PREP: INVESTMENT BANKING An AI interviewer asks the standard IB interview questions and follows up on what you say. You record your answer, or type it. Composure is graded from the pauses, restarts and recoveries in your audio, and each answer is labeled Held, Recovered or Froze. Clearly wrong finance is flagged. • Mock interviews with follow-up questions, up to 3 a day. • Technical rehearsal: say a classic walkthrough, such as a DCF, and get graded against the key points. • Behavioral rehearsal: rehearse your stories and build a story bank for the standard fit questions. • Lessons and drills across 7 IB topics, from accounting to LBOs, 487 questions in all. • Set your interview date and a daily plan paces what to learn, drill and rehearse until then. INTERVIEW PREP: CONSULTING An AI interviewer runs a full case. It shows you exhibits and gives some numbers only when you ask for them. You are graded on how you opened, whether your plan fit the problem, how you read each exhibit, whether your math was right, and your final recommendation. • Case interviews: 8 cases covering profitability, market entry, market sizing, pricing and M&A, up to 3 a day. • Spoken practice for structuring, market sizing and case math, graded against the key points. • Fit and PEI rehearsal: rehearse your stories and build a story bank. • Lessons and drills across 7 consulting topics, 122 questions and 245 drills in all. • The same daily plan covers this track, paced to your interview date. The app asks for microphone access the first time you record. Audio goes to Deepgram for transcription and is deleted, and the transcript goes to OpenAI for grading. Feedback is AI-generated practice, not career advice, and no app can promise you an offer. LEARN EXCEL AND FINANCE Excel has four worlds: • Foundations • Building Blocks: sorting, filtering, pivot tables and charts • Intermediate: text, date and number functions, Excel Tables and conditional formatting • Power User: dynamic arrays, multi-sheet workflows and formula troubleshooting Business Finance has four worlds: • Accounting & Financial Statements • Corporate Finance • Markets & Equity Investing • Fixed Income & Derivatives DRILLS AND PROGRESS Drills cover keyboard shortcuts, formula building, term recall and classification, with timed rounds and a daily speed game. Lessons and drills earn XP, and practicing each day builds a streak. There are nine ranks from Intern to Chairman, and achievements to earn. Lessons and drills work offline. AI practice needs an internet connection. FREE TO START World 1 of Excel and World 1 of Finance are free. So are the accounting topic in banking and the Case Room topic in consulting, with their drills. The first two structuring lessons, eight case-math drills, two graded spoken answers per account, the daily interview plan, beginner drills, XP and streaks are free as well. TWO SEPARATE SUBSCRIPTIONS Desk Dojo Pro covers all Excel and Finance content, every drill difficulty, certificates and prestige. The annual plan has a 7-day free trial. Interview Prep covers mock interviews, case interviews, spoken practice and every topic in both tracks. The two are sold separately, and you can cancel either one at any time. Privacy Policy: https://deskdojo.co/privacy Terms of Service: https://deskdojo.co/terms Support: support@deskdojo.co

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Verdict

The call

Excel Exercises and Desk Dojo both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Desk Dojo's written reviews are positive against 50% of Excel Exercises's. Desk Dojo also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 4). Excel Exercises's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads 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

Both are free to download. Desk Dojo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Excel Exercises asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Excel Exercises against 5.0 for Desk Dojo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Desk Dojo has 20 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Excel Exercises's written reviews are positive against 100% of Desk Dojo's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Excel Exercises versus Desk Dojo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExcel ExercisesDesk Dojo
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (20 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings420 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB52 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperApp Factory, LLCDesk Dojo

Customer experience

Excel Exercises

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Desk Dojo

All ratings20 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Excel Exercises

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Desk Dojo

Subscriptions2
  • Desk Dojo Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Desk Dojo Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Excel Exercises free?
Excel Exercises is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Desk Dojo free?
Desk Dojo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Excel Exercises or Desk Dojo?
Excel Exercises and Desk Dojo are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 4 and 20 ratings respectively.
Do Excel Exercises or Desk Dojo have ads?
Both Excel Exercises and Desk Dojo show ads.

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