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Stack the Countries® vs next4

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

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About

Stack the Countries®

Learn world geography through a fun, interactive game. Stack animated countries by answering questions about capitals, landmarks, and locations. Collect all countries and unlock bonus games for a comprehensive learning experience.

Highlights
  • Learn country capitals, landmarks, and locations
  • Build stacks of countries to win levels
  • Collect all 193 countries
  • Unlock bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up!
  • Focus on specific continents or the whole world
  • 193 country flash cards and interactive maps
  • Play in English, Spanish, and French
Features
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- Featured on the TODAY show! - Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review - "Stack the Countries is worth every penny and this is an educational purchase that you absolutely will not regret." - The iPhone Mom Stack the Countries® makes learning about the world fun! Watch the countries actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game! As you learn country capitals, landmarks, geographic locations and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated countries anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of countries that reaches the checkered line to win each level. You earn a random country for every successfully completed level. All of your countries appear on your own personalized maps of the continents. Try to collect all 193! As you earn more countries, you begin to unlock the free bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up! Three games in one! CONTROL YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE: You can choose to focus on just one specific continent or play the whole world. You can also select which types of questions are asked. LEARN BEFORE YOU PLAY: Stack the Countries provides 193 country flash cards and colorful interactive maps of the continents. Use them to brush up on your world geography before you play or as a handy reference tool. HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD: ▸ Capitals ▸ Landmarks ▸ Major Cities ▸ Continents ▸ Border Countries ▸ Languages ▸ Flags ▸ Country Shapes FEATURES: ▸ More than 1000 unique questions ▸ 193 flash cards -- one for each country! ▸ Interactive maps of the continents ▸ Collect all 193 countries and track your progress on personalized maps ▸ Earn FREE bonus games: Map It! and Pile Up! ▸ Play in English, Spanish and French ▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app ▸ Create up to six player profiles ▸ Choose any of the friendly-looking countries as your avatar ▸ High resolution pictures of famous world landmarks ▸ All games are powered by a realistic physics engine ▸ Fun sound effects and music ▸ iPhone 4 Retina Display support THREE GAMES IN ONE: STACK THE COUNTRIES: Build tall piles of countries and try to reach the checkered line. MAP IT: Tap the location of the selected country on the map. Try to complete the whole continent! PILE UP: The countries are piling up! Identify and tap them quickly to get rid of them before they reach the top. Stack the Countries® is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play. Try it now and enjoy three games for the price of one! PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Stack the Countries®: - Does not contain 3rd party ads. - Does not contain in-app purchases. - Does not contain integration with social networks. - Does not use 3rd party analytics / data collection tools. - Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via Performance Horizon). For more information on our privacy policy please visit: http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/

About

next4

This app helps you discover colleges by ranking them based on your preferences. It uses a unique card-sorting system to understand what matters most to you, providing a personalized list of schools with clear explanations for their ranking.

Highlights
  • Card-sorting preference system
  • Personalized college rankings
  • Detailed school breakdowns
  • Majors quiz
  • No account required
  • Offline data storage
Features
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You know roughly what you want out of college. Turning that into an actual list of schools is the hard part. next4 doesn't ask you to fill out another search form. You sort a deck of 86 cards — things like class size, city vs. college town, Greek life, research opportunities, distance from home — into five piles: Not For Me, Would Rather Not, Doesn't Matter, Would Like, and Must Have. Pick up to seven Must Haves. That's the whole input. Then next4 ranks 6,000+ U.S. colleges against what you just told it, and shows you why. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most college finders rank on a score they won't explain. next4's matching is deterministic — the same answers always produce the same list, and every school comes back carrying the specific cards of yours that put it there, grouped the way you sorted them. If a school is #3, you can see the reason in your own words. We only rank on things the data can actually defend. If the data can't answer for a school on some card, that school is neither rewarded nor punished — unknown is neutral, never a strike. HOW IT WORKS 1. Answer a few quick questions — home state, GPA range, test scores if you have them, budget, intended majors, what year you're in. 2. Rank what matters most to you. 3. Sort the 86 cards. 4. Get your ranked matches instantly. 5. Swipe right to save a school, left to pass. 6. Open any school for the full breakdown: cost, size, programs, and the cards that matched. Not sure what you want to study? A separate majors quiz ranks fields of study by what you're actually drawn to. BUILT ON REAL DATA Rankings run against federal and public sources — IPEDS enrollment, cost and program data, Clery campus statistics, EADA athletics, NCHC honors college listings, and BEA cost-of-living figures. Not scraped opinions. NO ACCOUNT, NO INBOX There's no sign-up, no password, and no email. Your sort and saved schools live on your device. You can turn analytics off in Settings at any time. BEFORE YOU START next4 helps you build a list worth researching. It does not predict or guarantee admission, and it is not a substitute for a school counselor or professional advice. Always check details directly with a college before you rely on them.

Screenshots

Stack the Countries®4 screens
next44 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: next4 at Free against Stack the Countries®'s $2.99. next4 also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Stack the Countries®'s advantage is ratings volume (1K vs 3) and chart position (#10 vs unranked). On 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

next4 is free to download; Stack the Countries® costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

next4 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stack the Countries® has 1K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Stack the Countries® versus next4: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack the Countries®next4
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (1K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#10 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFreecloud Design, Inc.LUKA BENJAMIN HADZIC

Customer experience

Stack the Countries®

All ratings1,031 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral4.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews343 reviews
Positive91.5%
Neutral2.9%
Negative5.5%

next4

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Stack the Countries®

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Albania's position is tilted
  • Overlapping of certain countries (e.g. Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan)
  • Incorrect information (e.g. Pyongyang in South Korea)
  • Game freezing or crashing
  • Progress not saving properly

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add more countries and territories (e.g. Vatican City, Western Sahara, Kosovo, Taiwan)
  • Improve accuracy of country sizes and shapes
  • Increase variety of questions (e.g. capitals, landmarks, languages, geography facts)
  • Add read-aloud option for questions
  • Introduce more game modes and difficulty levels
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  • Create a sequel with enhanced features (like Stack the States 2)

next4

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Stack the Countries®

No in-app purchases

None

next4

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack the Countries® free?
Stack the Countries® costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is next4 free?
next4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Stack the Countries® or next4?
next4 is rated higher. Stack the Countries® averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while next4 averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Stack the Countries® or next4 have ads?
Neither Stack the Countries® nor next4 shows ads.

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