eyeCount School Edition vs Hands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
eyeCount School Edition
This educational app helps children aged 3-8 learn numbers 1-100 through an engaging train-themed adventure. Players identify and replace missing numbers to progress, reinforcing counting skills with visual aids like base 10 cubes.
- Number recognition 1-100
- Interactive train game
- Base 10 cube visualization
- Progressive counting challenges
- Ad-free and in-app purchase free
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eyeCount School Edition helps children ages 3–8 learn to count from 1 to 100. A strange futuristic train carries numbers from place to place, but some of the numbers mysteriously disappear. Children replace the missing numbers, travel through colorful hyper-tubes, and count higher and higher as they play. Every number on the train is matched with floating base-ten cubes, helping children connect number symbols with quantities. Correct answers earn fun on-device stickers as rewards. Features • Count from 1 to 100 • Reinforces number recognition and sequencing • Uses base-ten cubes to support early math concepts • Collect stickers for correct answers • Designed for young learners ages 3–8 Privacy eyeCount School Edition contains no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no web links, and no tracking.
Hands
Explore mathematical concepts with a virtual hundreds chart. Students can use colored markers to discover number patterns, skip-counting, multiplication, division, and more. An instructor's guide is available for educators.
- Interactive hundreds chart
- Color marker tool
- Skip-counting exploration
- Number pattern discovery
- Multiplication and division practice
- Prime and composite number identification
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Hands-On Math: Interactive Hundreds Chart creates a virtual math playground where students explore, investigate and discover mathematical concepts. Students use colored markers on the Interactive Hundreds Chart to represent patterns and number sequences. Using Hands-On Math: Interactive Hundreds Chart students can develop the following important mathematical concepts: Skip-Counting Number Patterns Multiplication and Division Facts Prime and Composite Numbers Least Common Multiple Divisibility of Numbers and more... An extensive Instructor's Guide for this app is available at the support website. Download the document and install it in iBooks to access ideas about how to use the Interactive Hundreds Chart for teaching elementary mathematics. Extremely easy for students and teachers to use. Tap a color and a marker, then tap numbers on the chart. To remove a marker simply slide it off the chart. Erase all markers by tapping the eraser. Note to reviewer: Simply slide a marker off the board to remove it. There is no need to erase entire board if you make a mistake.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hands at 83% against eyeCount School Edition's 33%. Hands also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.0). eyeCount School Edition's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
eyeCount School Edition costs $1.99 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, 3.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eyeCount School Edition has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of eyeCount School Edition's written reviews are positive against 83% of Hands's.
eyeCount School Edition ships an update every 12 months, Hands every 8 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | eyeCount School Edition | Hands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.0 (10 ratings) | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Ventura Educational Systems |
Customer experience
eyeCount School Edition
Hands
In-app purchases
eyeCount School Edition
No in-app purchases
Hands
No in-app purchases
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