Comparison

Partial Product Multiplication vs Chaos Lab

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

Head to head
About

Partial Product Multiplication

This educational tool teaches and reinforces the partial products multiplication method. It offers an intuitive, interactive interface with customizable settings and animations to illustrate step-by-step understanding. Designed to help students grasp multiplication strategies.

Highlights
  • Teaches partial products multiplication method
  • Interactive and intuitive interface
  • Customizable colors and settings
  • Animations for step-by-step understanding
  • Supports custom and random problems
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
Features
Currently charting
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Partial Products Multiplication helps students learn and practice the partial products multiplication method step by step. The app gives students a visual way to multiply numbers by breaking the problem into smaller partial products. The partial products are then added to find the final answer. Students can solve randomly generated problems or enter their own multiplication problems. The Partial Products Method: In the partial products method, each place value is multiplied separately. For example, in 39 × 24, the partial products are 36, 120, 180, and 600. These are then added together to get the final answer: 936. Teacher endorsements: “The math apps by Esa Helttula allow students to practice and reinforce the specific computation strategies taught in class, with as much or as little scaffolding as necessary. They also provide individualized feedback to each student, with an immediacy that is not always possible through pencil and paper practice.” — R. Zeni, Ecole Sandy Hill Elementary, Abbotsford, BC, Canada “There are students who see my examples who still need some guidance, and after using your app have said, ‘Now I get it.’ The feature of selecting possible solutions in each step helps some of my students who are still building their multiplication facts.” — Z. R. Prowell, Highlands Elementary, Edina, Minnesota, USA Easy to Use: The numbers are aligned automatically so students can focus on solving each step. After the student solves each partial product, the correct answer moves into the right place. If the student presses the wrong button, the answer appears above the keyboard but does not move. Features: - Step-by-step partial products multiplication practice - Each number can have 2–3 digits - Randomly generated or manually entered problems - Current operation can be hidden - Operands of the current operation can be highlighted - Customizable interface colors - Adjustable animation speed Other iDevBooks Math Apps: Other iDevBooks math apps include Column Addition, Long Multiplication, Long Division, Column Subtraction, Visual Multiplication Table, Partial Differences Subtraction, Partial Quotients Division, Partial Sums Addition, Decimal Rounding, and more. Feedback: New ideas to make this app better are welcome. Please visit idevbooks.com to give feedback. Privacy: This app has no ads, no in-app purchases, and does not transmit user data during operation. The app also does not contain links to other apps or to the web.

About

Chaos Lab

Explore the beauty of chaos through interactive simulations of mathematical objects, chemical reactions, and celestial mechanics. Manipulate parameters with device tilt and touch to create stunning visual art and understand complex scientific principles.

Highlights
  • Interactive strange attractors
  • Chemical oscillator simulations
  • 3-body chaos simulation
  • Julian fractal morphing
  • Real-time parameter control
  • Multiple attractors included
Features
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Chaos Lab puts the beauty of chaos in your hands. With a tilt of your device, you control the parameters of beautiful mathematical objects called strange attractors, the reaction rates of a chemical oscillator, the position of two stars in a 3-body chaos simulation, and the shape of the Julian fractal. Now you can be an experimentalist and an artist. Using real-time integration of over 6,000 points for the attractors whose parameters are tied to your motion, over 7,000 data points for a fractal which morphs at your command, ten "asteroids" demonstrating chaotic sensitivity to initial conditions in a jittering twin-star system where the stars move with your tilt (can you keep them from escaping?), and a real-time BZ-reaction simulation which you control by both tilt and touch, this is chaos as you've never seen it before. Chaos Lab comes loaded with four of the most stunning attractors in chaos theory. The Rössler and Lorenz attractors are well known, but the Thomas and Newton-Leipnik attractors are relatively new and quite amazing! This work has been supported in part by grant PHY-0754081 from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Nonlinear Dynamics Research Group at Drexel University (directed by Dr. Robert Gilmore), and the Department of Physics at Drexel University. Please note, some of these experiments will run slower on the older models of iPhones and iPod touch devices. Find the beauty in the chaos!

Screenshots

Partial Product Multiplication4 screens
Chaos Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Chaos Lab at Free against Partial Product Multiplication's $3.99. Chaos Lab also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months). Partial Product Multiplication's advantage is chart position (#184 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Chaos Lab is free to download; Partial Product Multiplication costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chaos Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Partial Product Multiplication's written reviews are positive against 69% of Chaos Lab's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Partial Product Multiplication ships an update every 8 months, Chaos Lab every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Partial Product Multiplication versus Chaos Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPartial Product MultiplicationChaos Lab
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating2.5 (2 ratings)4.9 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews68.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#184 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEsa HelttulaTimothy D. Jones

Customer experience

Partial Product Multiplication

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Chaos Lab

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive68.8%
Neutral12.5%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

None

Partial Product Multiplication

No in-app purchases

None

Chaos Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Partial Product Multiplication free?
Partial Product Multiplication costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chaos Lab free?
Chaos Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Partial Product Multiplication or Chaos Lab?
Chaos Lab is rated higher. Partial Product Multiplication averages 2.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Chaos Lab averages 4.9 from 7 ratings.
Do Partial Product Multiplication or Chaos Lab have ads?
Neither Partial Product Multiplication nor Chaos Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Partial Product Multiplication or Chaos Lab?
Partial Product Multiplication ships an update every 8 months, and Chaos Lab every 3 days. Most recently, Partial Product Multiplication was updated on October 8, 2026 and Chaos Lab on October 1, 2026.

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