Adding Apples 2 vs Galton Board App
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Adding Apples 2
This app offers a fun and engaging math adventure for young learners aged 4-8. Through tropical-themed games and interactive play, children can build number confidence and practice early math skills like counting and sorting.
- Hands-on math learning
- Sorting and counting activities
- Problem-solving games
- Interactive characters
- Tropical-themed visuals
- Unlockable bonus content
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Learn math through tropical fun and games! Welcome to Adding Apples 2, the joyful math adventure made just for young learners. From cannonballing fruit friends to hilarious bots and beachy puzzles, Adding Apples 2 makes early math exciting and approachable. Whether at home or in class, Adding Apples 2 helps kids build number confidence with fun interaction and charming feedback. Play on iPhone, iPad, or Apple Silicon Mac — one purchase, all devices. What’s inside: • Fun math learning with hands-on play, sorting, counting, solving • Friendly Apple Bot and Commentators that reacts to your play style • Tropical pool parties, beachy visuals, and sunny soundtracks • Bonus characters to unlock with unique songs • Turbo mode and bonus timer for seasoned users • Kid-safe: no ads, no data tracking, no stress Perfect for: • Ages 4–8 • Home learners • Classrooms and learning centers • Special education and neurodiverse learners BONUS FOR SCHOOLS: 50% discount via Apple School Manager. Volume purchasing supported. Download now and make math the best part of your child’s day!
Galton Board App
Explore probability and mathematical concepts through an interactive simulation. This app uses your device's gyroscope to create a dynamic Galton Board, illustrating binomial and normal distributions. It also offers a stock market simulation to demonstrate market return probabilities.
- Interactive Galton Board simulation
- Binomial and normal distribution demonstration
- Stock market data simulation
- Detailed mathematical concept explanations
- Pause and slow-motion controls
- Historical market return bead simulation
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Unlock the power of probabilities and explore the beauty of mathematics in motion with the Galton Board App. This innovative application transforms your mobile device into a dynamic, interactive probability demonstrator that brings centuries-old mathematical concepts to life. The app utilizes your iPhone's and iPad's gyroscope capabilities, creating an immersive experience where the beads appear as if they are rolling around inside your device. The Galton Board was invented by Sir Francis Galton in 1873 to illustrate the binomial distribution. Through our app, we've recreated this educational tool to demonstrate how, with a large number of beads and rows of hexagons, it approximates the normal distribution - a concept known as the Central Limit Theorem. Key Features: • An interactive Galton Board that displays the principles of probabilities and the binomial distribution. • Detailed explanations of related mathematical concepts, including probability theories, independent identically distributed (IID) random variables, regression to the mean, the law of large numbers, the random walk, the Gambler's Fallacy, and more. • A "Stock Market Data" version, simulating the probabilities of a range of historical monthly market returns, and demonstrating their correlation with the binomial distribution. • The 'Historical Monthly Return Beads' featured with the Stock Market Data, where beads fall through the board based on monthly historical returns for a choice of 20 index portfolios. • Pause or slow-motion options to study the bead movement and distribution patterns in detail. The Galton Board App is ideal for statistics, math, and stock market enthusiasts. It is not just an app, it's an immersive, hands-on approach to understanding probabilities, the binomial distribution, and the stock market behavior. Presented by Index Fund Advisors, this app is your go-to educational tool. Download now and embark on a fascinating journey into the world of probabilities and the "law of unreason" as referred to by Sir Francis Galton himself!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Galton Board App at Free against Adding Apples 2's $2.99. Galton Board App also leads on ratings volume (116 vs 4). Adding Apples 2's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Galton Board App is free to download; Adding Apples 2 costs $2.99 up front. Galton Board App sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Adding Apples 2 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Adding Apples 2 against 5.0 for Galton Board App. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Galton Board App has 116 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | Adding Apples 2 | Galton Board App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (116 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 116 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 130 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcel Widarto | Index Fund Advisors, Inc |
Customer experience
Adding Apples 2
Galton Board App
Bugs and requests
Adding Apples 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Galton Board App
Requested features
1 request- Bring back the physical product (commented by EJ's App, likely not a feature request for the app itself but a general wish)
In-app purchases
Adding Apples 2
No in-app purchases
Galton Board App
- Stock Market DataFree
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