100s Board vs Hands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
100s Board
This educational app provides a digital 100s board for children to learn and practice math skills. It supports various number activities, including counting, addition, subtraction, and number games, with customizable number visibility and draggable counters.
- Digital 100s board
- Show/hide numbers up to 100
- Number color change
- Row/column number display
- Draggable counters
- Counting practice (1s, 2s, 5s, 10s)
- Math games
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"I love, love, love 100s Board. My child has cp, and he has to learn to do math in head because he cannot write on his own.....yet! We use the 100s Board almost daily, and it is always on my list of top 5 apps. He does addition, subtraction, counting coins, even time, as well as the regular things you'd do on a 100s board . . . It has truly been life-changing for my son as far as math is concerned." - One Happy Mom! The 100's Board app is exactly that! A digital 100's board that can show and hide all of the numbers to 100. Numbers can be pressed to change from black to red. All numbers can be hidden or shown at the same time, or in rows / columns of ten. Ten draggable counters are also included for even more fun and games! This is a great educational K-12 app for helping children with their mathematics, making sense of numbers to 100. 100's Board can be used for counting in 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's or can be used for any number of math games such as 'squeeze' or 'guess my number'. Great in the classroom, at home, or on the move!
Hands
This app provides a virtual playground for students to explore place value, addition, and subtraction with regrouping using interactive base ten blocks. It supports learning whole numbers and decimals through hands-on discovery.
- Virtual base ten blocks
- Place value exploration
- Addition and subtraction with regrouping
- Whole number concepts
- Decimal concepts
- Interactive learning
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Hands-On Math: Base Ten Blocks is a virtual math manipulative playground where students explore and discover place value concepts and also learn addition and subtraction with regrouping. Our Base Ten Blocks allow students to experience and develop math concepts through interaction and discovery. When first learning place value, blocks can be set to represent ones, tens and hundreds. Later, to introduce decimals, blocks can be set to ones, tenths and hundredths. Topics: Whole Numbers Reading and Writing Numbers Decimals Addition and Subtraction Regrouping A comprehensive instructor's guide is available at the app URL given below. Note to Reviewers: Use Settings options to control Sound and Decimal settings. iPad sound must be turned on in Settings and also the switch on the side of iPad must also be in ON position for the sound to work.
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hands at 5.0 against 100s Board's 4.0. Hands also leads on update cadence (every 6 months vs every 12 months). 100s Board's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 30%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.2). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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100s Board costs $2.99 and Hands $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hands holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of 100s Board's written reviews are positive against 30% of Hands's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
100s Board ships an update every 12 months, Hands every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 100s Board | Hands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews — better | 30.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthew Thomas | Ventura Educational Systems |
Customer experience
100s Board
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In-app purchases
100s Board
No in-app purchases
Hands
No in-app purchases
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