Comparison

Counting Board vs Puppet Pals 2

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

Head to head
About

Counting Board

This educational tool helps young children aged 2-4 learn basic counting, addition, and subtraction through interactive tapping and audio pronunciation. It also includes a drawing feature to encourage creativity.

Highlights
  • Learn to count 1-100 with audio
  • Interactive addition lessons
  • Interactive subtraction lessons
  • Drawing and creativity tool
  • Suitable for ages 2-4
Features
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Over 900,000 downloads. Kids just love it. This is a colorful teaching tool for your kids to learn the basic of numbers. It suitable for age from 2 to 4. Features: 1. Teach your children to count from 1 to 100 by tapping the numbers one by one and read it loudly. Automatic pronounce function included. 2. Learn add method: e.g. Learn 5 + 2 = 7. First tap 5, and then tap next 2 blocks, count the blocks from 1 to 2 while tapping. The answer will be 7. 3. Learn minus method: e.g. 16 - 4 = 5, First tap 16, and then tap previous 4 blocks, count the blocks from 1 to 4 while taping, The answer will be 11 4. Let your kids to use their imagination to draw a picture.

About

Puppet Pals 2

Unleash creativity by creating animated cartoons with interactive puppets. Even young children can produce high-quality animated stories, starring alongside built-in characters. This app is ideal for educational purposes, allowing students to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver presentations.

Highlights
  • Create animated cartoons
  • Interactive puppet show
  • Star alongside built-in characters
  • Share finished projects
  • Educational content creation
  • Storytelling and reports
Features
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• “Puppet Pals is an amazing app that lets you create animated cartoons.” -David Pogue (NewYork Times) Children unlock creativity with this easy to use (but hard to put down) interactive puppet show! Even young children can create high quality cartoons from their imaginations. Kids can even star in the show along side the built-in characters! Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog). • Create short instructional videos (in any learning area) • Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells • Help reluctant public speakers present to the class • Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills • Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!

Screenshots

Counting Board4 screens
Puppet Pals 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Counting Board at 5.0 against Puppet Pals 2's 4.3. Counting Board also leads on price ($0.99 vs $6.99). Puppet Pals 2's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). 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

Counting Board costs $0.99 and Puppet Pals 2 $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Counting Board holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 57% and 58% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Counting Board ships an update every 15 months, Puppet Pals 2 monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Counting Board versus Puppet Pals 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCounting BoardPuppet Pals 2
Price$0.99 — better$6.99
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews57.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB339 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEverQuizPolished Play, LLC

Customer experience

Counting Board

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%

Puppet Pals 2

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral23.7%
Negative18.4%

In-app purchases

None

Counting Board

No in-app purchases

None

Puppet Pals 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Counting Board free?
Counting Board costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Puppet Pals 2 free?
Puppet Pals 2 costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Counting Board or Puppet Pals 2?
Counting Board is rated higher. Counting Board averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Puppet Pals 2 averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Counting Board or Puppet Pals 2 have ads?
Neither Counting Board nor Puppet Pals 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Counting Board or Puppet Pals 2?
Counting Board ships an update every 15 months, and Puppet Pals 2 monthly. Most recently, Counting Board was updated on October 15, 2026 and Puppet Pals 2 on October 19, 2026.

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