Abacus Simulator vs Abacus Lesson
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Abacus Lesson
Learn the simple and fast method of division using an abacus. This app focuses on developing mental calculation skills by leveraging the abacus technique. It's recommended to master addition, subtraction, and multiplication with an abacus first.
- Learn abacus division techniques
- Develop mental calculation skills
- Focus on Soroban method
- Step-by-step division instruction
- Builds on addition, subtraction, multiplication
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An abacus is named "Soroban" in Japan. Do you know what an abacus is? The abacus is very simple calculator used in China, Japan, Korea and so on. Some people may say "Isn't it an unnecessary tool if you have a calculator such as a smartphone?". Answer would be "No". The biggest difference between electric calculators and the abacus is whether you need to hold it in your hand when calculating. Because of its simplicity, you will be able to easily use the abacus in your mind. In the app, we will explain simple and fast method of the division using the abacus. To learn division, it is essential to be able to add, sub, and multiplication with an abacus. If you are new to them, we recommend that you learn addition subtraction multiplication with the app in my app list first. This app will give you the skill of calculation of division.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Abacus Simulator at none against Abacus Lesson's shown. Abacus Simulator also leads on ratings volume (41 vs 8). Abacus Lesson's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Abacus Simulator sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Abacus Lesson sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Abacus Lesson holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Abacus Simulator has 41 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Abacus Simulator's written reviews are positive against 100% of Abacus Lesson's.
Abacus Simulator ships an update every 3 weeks, Abacus Lesson monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Abacus Simulator | Abacus Lesson |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Ang | Hirokazu Komatsu |
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In-app purchases
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
Abacus Lesson
- Donation Lv1 for hiding Ad$1.99
- Donation Lv2 for hiding Ad$3.99
- Donation Lv3 for hiding Ad$8.99
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