Counting Board vs Touch and Write
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Learn to count 1-100 with audio
- Interactive addition lessons
- Interactive subtraction lessons
- Drawing and creativity tool
- Suitable for ages 2-4
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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.
Touch and Write
This app helps children learn to write the Queensland Beginners Font with interactive textures and sounds. It allows for custom word lists and includes various educational features developed by teachers to make learning engaging and fun.
- Practice Queensland Beginners Font
- Interactive writing textures
- Toggle letter sounds or names
- Create custom word lists
- Includes high frequency and word family lists
- Australian accent
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Now for Queensland – practice Queensland Beginners Font with a Queensland accent! Teachers love "Touch and Write" because children delight in writing when they can use shaving cream, paint, and jello. Create your own, individualized word and name lists, or practice one of the many included word lists, such as high frequency words, and word families (-AT family, -AN family, and more.) Using the included word lists, children can listen to the SOUND of each letter as they write, or toggle to hear the NAME of each letter. Developed by classroom teachers – builds on best education practices! This is from a review of our Victorian "Australian Touch and Write" app: "Brilliant - fun way to learn Victorian cursive. I have been waiting for an app like this - a fun way teach Victorian Modern Cursive, an app my special needs son enjoys playing with and learns as he goes. He can even use a stylus to draw the letters and build the muscle memory in his hand, that can later be transferred to writing with a pencil or pen. All children will benefit from this app, presenting learning writing in an exciting format, great guides to help learn where to start and stop letters, and great celebration pages to keep them interested and rewarded. I like that you can use the word lists or make your own so then the app grows with the child into writing full words, not just letters. I think I will be trying it out with my son's spelling lists too and double benefit - writing and spelling. It is also great to be able to teach Aussie formats such as Victorian Modern Cursive.... Almost all the apps I have tried have been US based. Thanks FizzBrain! You are a star!" - kr4177, customer review FEATURES: ‣Toggle letter sounds or letter names for the included word lists ‣Children can practice writing their own names and individualized word lists – parents and teachers can create as many word lists as they want! ‣Australian accent! ‣Comes with 16 different writing textures: shaving cream, ketchup, lime gelatin, chocolate frosting, chalk, pencil, blue pen, lemon gelatin, chocolate pudding, syrup, grape jelly, whipped cream, pumpkin pie, red paint, and vanilla pudding! ‣Comes with 28 different writing papers, including 4 different line patterns children are most likely to find in real classrooms, food papers, animal papers, nature papers, and more! ‣Includes 2 high frequency word lists to help children practice the most common words encountered by early learners ‣Includes word family lists, such as the -AT family and -AN family ‣Includes 2 alphabet word lists – short words from a to z – providing practice in both upper and lower case letters ‣Includes 1 alphabet list – for just practicing the letters a to z, both upper and lower case ‣Brief reward at the end of each word reinforces learning and motivates children, without becoming a distraction! ‣Integrates visual, kinesthetic and simulated tactile modalities to enhance learning – and fun! ‣Created by elementary classroom teachers – based on best teaching practices! Search YouTube for "Touch and Write App" to see how our other writing apps work, or locate the FizzBrainApps channel. Please contact us at fizzbrain@gmail.com with any questions, problems, or suggestions. We will get right back to you – we listen to our customers! And if you have additional textures or papers you would like to see included in an update, let us know!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Touch and Write at 80% against Counting Board's 57%. Counting Board's advantage is update cadence (every 15 months vs every 50 months) and price ($0.99 vs $2.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Counting Board costs $0.99 and Touch and Write $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Counting Board ships an update every 15 months, Touch and Write every 50 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Counting Board | Touch and Write |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months — better | Every 50 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EverQuiz | FIZZBRAIN LLC |
Customer experience
Counting Board
Touch and Write
In-app purchases
Counting Board
No in-app purchases
Touch and Write
No in-app purchases
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