Comparison

Symbols vs OpeningBook

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

Head to head
About

Symbols

Learn symbolic logic through interactive exercises and visual study cards. Master rules of inference, evaluate arguments, and translate everyday language into formal logic. Progress through various activities to build and solidify your understanding of logical reasoning.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive Studycards with clear explanations
  • Interactive activities for skill mastery
  • Validity: Evaluate pre-solved arguments
  • Justification: Deduce missing argument steps
  • Inference: Build valid arguments
  • Translation: Convert statements to logical form
Features
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Learn logic with Symbols, the app that teaches natural deduction and the rules of inference in an intuitive, accessible way. Our unique Studycards feature visual pictographs and interactive, step-by-step exercises that allow you to grasp each rule easily and quickly. Then, challenge yourself with activities specifically designed to practice those rules, building your skills progressively, and cementing them in your memory with every level completed. Why Symbols? Comprehensive Studycards: Learn essential rules like Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, Disjunctive Syllogism, and many more through clear explanations and examples. Perfect for students and anyone looking to understand formal logic. Engaging Activities for Skill Mastery: Validity: Sharpen your critical thinking by evaluating pre-solved arguments. This unique activity provides the benefits of repetition without the tedium, helping you apply, recognize, and grow familiar with the rules of inference. Justification: Challenge your understanding with puzzle-like scenarios where you deduce missing argument steps. This deepens your comprehension and refines your application of logical rules within complex arguments. Inference: By this stage, the training wheels are off, and the student has to draw on everything they've learned so far. Their task is to mentally build a valid argument from what’s provided—or to recognize that no valid argument can be formed. What would normally be worked out slowly on paper is now done at the speed of thought. Translation: Translation helps students practice turning statements with indicator words and phrases into logical form. These indicator words, commonly found in logic books and courses, give students a sense of how to translate everyday language into formal logic. Translation breaks this process into levels, allowing students to track their progress and earn new scores as they build proficiency. Download Symbols for free and begin your journey into formal logic. Your free access includes the first level of every activity and the Modus Ponens study card, a must-have for getting started. For more advanced content and features, simply use our in-app purchases to continue building your logic skills. Start your journey of mastering the rules of inference now!

About

OpeningBook

Features
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OpeningBook is a clean, offline reference and trainer for chess openings. BROWSE EVERYTHING • Thousands of named openings and variations, organized by ECO volume (A–E), family, and line — sourced from the open Lichess openings database. • Step through any line move-by-move on a real, playable board. • Read key ideas and classic traps for the major openings. SEARCH & FILTER • Find any opening by name, ECO code, or move sequence. • Filter by line length with a simple move-count slider. TRAIN YOUR REPERTOIRE • Add lines to your training set as White or Black. • Drill them in a play-your-side-vs-app loop. • Spaced repetition brings each line back for review at the right time. 100% offline. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Screenshots

Symbols4 screens
OpeningBook3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Symbols at 3 against OpeningBook's 1. Symbols also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Symbols sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and OpeningBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Symbols versus OpeningBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSymbolsOpeningBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew RayesZhenghong Peng

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Symbols

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly Subscription$3.991 Month
  • Weekly subscription3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Monthly Subscription$6.991 Month
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  • Three Month Subscription$18.993 Months
  • Yearly Subscription$24.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$39.991 Year
1 purchases

OpeningBook

One-time1
  • Training Mode$3.99

Questions

Is Symbols free?
Symbols is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OpeningBook free?
OpeningBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Symbols or OpeningBook have ads?
Neither Symbols nor OpeningBook shows ads.

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