TeachMe vs Hands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TeachMe
This educational app helps kindergarteners learn essential skills like math, reading, and writing. It features a fun reward system with virtual aquariums and sticker scenes to keep children engaged. Parents can track their child's progress across various subjects.
- Virtual aquarium reward system
- Sticker reward scenes
- Sight words learning
- Addition and subtraction practice
- Letter and number writing
- Performance tracking for multiple students
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*** 5 Star Certification Educational App Store *** About.com Best Educational App Readers' Choice Awards 2013 *** SmartAppsForKids.com 2012 Readers' Choice *** 2010 Best App Ever Awards TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational iOS app which teaches six different age appropriate subjects to Kindergarten aged children: sight words, addition, subtraction, spelling and writing letters and numbers. Learning subjects align with common core standards to help your child get prepared for Kindergarten. Parents can review performance history for each subject to check how their child is doing. TeachMe: Kindergarten keeps children engaged with a rather unique reward system where children earn a coin for every three correct answers. Coins can then be used to purchase stickers to place in fun sticker scenes or to purchase items for the new virtual aquarium. Sticker scenes can be exported as wallpaper or emailed to family and friends. The simple and intuitive user interface is designed to be child friendly, which allows children to play without help from an adult. An animated teacher (Mimi Mouse) gives verbal instructions and feedback to the child which makes learning fun. FEATURES: • Virtual Aquarium reward (4 types of fish and 40+ items) • 6 different sticker reward scenes: farm, beach, underwater reef, pirate cove, city, playground • Over 150 different stickers for adding to scenes • Save learning information for up to 40 students • Select which subjects are displayed for each student • Turn on/off specific questions within a subject • Change the number of correct questions to earn a reward • Change the number of questions in a row to mark a question learned • Tracks performance for each subject item (last five) • Export sticker rewards scenes to Photos, for emailing or using as wallpaper LEARNING SUBJECTS: • Sight Words: Dolch (Pre-K), Dolch (K) • Addition: up to a total of 10 • Subtraction: from 10 down • Spelling: complete words by choosing the missing letter • Letter Writing: how to write letters a-z, A-Z • Number Writing: how to write numbers 0-9. COMMON CORE: For alignment info see https;//www.24x7digital.com/kindergartencc Email us at support@24x7digital.com for help & suggestions.
Hands
This app simulates a virtual geoboard for exploring geometry and math concepts. It offers interactive activities and an instructor's guide with lesson ideas for elementary and middle school students. Students can draw shapes and receive instant feedback on geometric properties.
- Virtual geoboard simulation
- Interactive math activities
- Instructor's guide with lesson ideas
- Geometric feedback on note card
- Shape properties exploration
- Measurement and coordinate geometry tools
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Hands-On Math: Geoboard creates a virtual geoboard on your iPad and includes activities for a variety of math topics. The app purchase includes an instructor's guide with hands-on activities for elementary and middle school age students. This free iBook provides teachers with lots of activities and lesson ideas that are designed to be used with the app. A simple tap downloads the extensive teacher's guide and installs it in iBooks. The app simulates the use of a popular math manipulative used to teach basic geometry and other math concepts. It is perfect for elementary and middle school classrooms. Our Geoboard is one of the best ways to help students explore and discover geometry. Students draw line segments, rectangles or circles on a 5x5 pegboard. As they draw geometric feedback is reported on a note card helping students better understand length, perimeter, and area. Using Hands-On Math Geooard students can develop the following important mathematical concepts: Properties of Shapes Composing and Decomposing Plane Figures Measurement Naming Shapes and Parts of a Circle Symmetry Drawing and Analyzing Two-Dimensional Shapes Congruence and Similarity Naming and Recognizing Basic Shapes Length, Area, Perimeter, Circumference, Radius and Diameter Coordinate Geometry
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TeachMe at 92% against Hands's 33%. TeachMe also leads on rating (4.3 vs 3.0) and monetization model (free vs paid). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
TeachMe costs $2.99 and Hands $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TeachMe holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TeachMe has 60 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of TeachMe's written reviews are positive against 33% of Hands's.
TeachMe ships an update every 2 months, Hands every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TeachMe | Hands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (60 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.8% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 24x7digital LLC | Ventura Educational Systems |
Customer experience
TeachMe
Hands
Bugs and requests
TeachMe
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crashes when accessing settings
- Writing practice not working on smaller devices
- Inability to download certain grade levels
Requested features
5 requests- Expand to higher grade levels (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
- Add more reward options beyond fish and stickers
- Implement cross-device progress sync
- Allow more flexibility in penmanship requirements
- Provide language/accent options (e.g., British English)
Hands
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TeachMe
No in-app purchases
Hands
No in-app purchases
Questions
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