Ancient Maya App vs Three
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ancient Maya App
Explore Mayan language and culture with this educational app. Create, share, and decode glyph blocks, convert calendar dates, and learn to recognize glyphs through interactive games and a comprehensive syllabary. Discover ancient artifacts and hear Mayan pronunciations.
- Create and share glyph blocks
- Decode Mayan glyphs
- Convert between Long Count and Gregorian calendars
- Navigate Mayan syllabary
- Explore Stela 11 from Yaxchilan
- Listen to Mayan pronunciations
- Learn glyphs with a game
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With the Ancient Maya App you can create glyph blocks, share glyph blocks, decode glyph blocks, learn to read phonetic glyphs, convert dates between the Long Count calendar and the Gregorian calendar and easily navigate the Mayan syllabary. Explore the famous Stela 11 from Yaxchilan and even listen to a Mayan read it. The app includes nearly 800 glyphs, their definitions and over 600 dictionary entries and games to learn to recognize and read glyphs.
Three
Explore the fascinating beauty of gravity and celestial motion. Interact with three bodies, discover countless orbital paths, and experiment with your own gravity scenarios. Turn curiosity into understanding with this educational simulation.
- Explore 16 classic periodic solutions
- Discover 10,059 3D periodic orbits
- Experiment with custom gravity scenarios
- Learn about the three-body problem
- Offline exploration of orbits
- Interactive celestial motion simulation
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Three bodies. Countless paths. Watch the beauty of gravity unfold. Three-Body Simulation brings abstract celestial motion into a world of orbits you can watch, interact with, and explore. See three bodies pull on one another as their trails gradually draw patterns, and discover how a simple law of gravity produces rich and fascinating motion. Explore 16 classic periodic solutions From the flowing Figure Eight to Butterfly, Moth, and Bumblebee, discover the shapes and rhythms of different periodic solutions. Detailed introductions to each orbit explain the motion behind these patterns. Discover 10,059 three-dimensional periodic orbits Explore published spatial periodic solutions and discover paths that weave and curve through space. Choose an orbit by number or discover one at random, then rotate the view to see its shape from different directions. Try your own gravity experiment Adjust the mass, initial position, and velocity of each body and watch how the orbit changes. You can also explore random three-body motion to see how the bodies approach, circle, and move away from one another. Turn curiosity into understanding Learn about the origins, history, and basic principles of the three-body problem. See the full system of three equations of motion, explore classic periodic solutions, and learn how the 10,059 spatial periodic orbits were discovered. Let the paths you see become a starting point for understanding gravity and motion. Available on iPhone and iPad in ten languages, including Chinese, English, and Japanese. Orbit data, simulations, and introductions are included in the app, so the core exploration experience works offline. The complete orbit catalog, random motion, and custom experiments are unlocked with a one-time in-app purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Three at 5.0 against Ancient Maya App's 4.2. Three also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Ancient Maya App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Three sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ancient Maya App asks for nothing beyond the download.
Three holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ancient Maya App has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ancient Maya App ships an update every 3 weeks, Three every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ancient Maya App | Three |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stephen McDonald | 志强 曾 |
Customer experience
Ancient Maya App
Three
In-app purchases
Ancient Maya App
No in-app purchases
Three
- Pro Lifetime Unlock$1.99
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