Comparison

Counting Board vs Pyonkee

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

Pyonkee

This app offers a real programming environment for creating games, animations, and stories using visual blocks. It's inspired by Scratch and optimized for touch devices, allowing users to learn logic, creativity, and collaboration through coding.

Highlights
  • Visual block-based programming
  • Create games, animations, and stories
  • Optimized for touch devices
  • Import sounds and pictures
  • Share projects easily
  • Connect with micro:bit
  • Utilize iPad sensors
Features
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Tired of consuming? Let's enjoy creating! Based on Scratch, Pyonkee provides a real, programming environment, anytime, anywhere! Pyonkee is a new dynamic media for developing various ideas. By combining visual blocks, kids/adults are able to create original games, animations, and stories on their own. Through the programming process, we will learn about logics, productivity, creativity, and collaborations. Pyonkee has been developed from the open-source code of "Scratch 1.4" from MIT Media Lab. Since Pyonkee is fully compatible with Scratch 1.4, millions of existing Scratch projects can be used for reference. Pyonkee's user interface is optimized for touch devices. We do not need cumbersome typing, even a mouse. Just write programs wherever you like. Pyonkee nicely supports pinch-in/out, and font scaling for small devices. Moreover, sound recorder and camera are provided for importing your sounds and pictures into the projects. We can mix various media on Pyonkee and program them. Moreover, you can share your projects via AirDrop, e-mail, iCloud, and other cloud storage services. From the version 2.1, you are able to create programs using various iPad sensors and Mesh network protocol. From the version 2.3, more than 100 instruments are available in sound block. You can even play other synth app's sounds by enabling Virtual MIDI. From the version 2.20, Pyonkee is able to connect to micro:bit. You can get values from various sensors and send analog/digital signals to the pins. By combining the micro:bit with Pyonkee, you can enjoy an even wider world of programming. Dive into the fun of visual programming!

Screenshots

Counting Board4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pyonkee at Free against Counting Board's $0.99. Pyonkee also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (51 vs 2). Counting Board's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.6) and device support (3 vs 1). On review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Pyonkee is free to download; Counting Board costs $0.99 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 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pyonkee has 51 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Counting Board's written reviews are positive against 62% of Pyonkee's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Counting Board ships an update every 15 months, Pyonkee every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Counting Board versus Pyonkee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCounting BoardPyonkee
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.6 (51 ratings)
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews61.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings251 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better13
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB137 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEverQuizSoftUmeYa, LLC.

Customer experience

Counting Board

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

Pyonkee

All ratings43 ratings
Positive60.5%
Neutral9.3%
Negative30.2%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral10.3%
Negative28.2%

Bugs and requests

Counting Board

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pyonkee

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • App crashes when importing photos
  • App kicks user out
  • Blocks not working
  • Stamp and select features not working
  • Forever if block issue
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  • Storage usage too high (5GB)
  • App crashes when making games (e.g., Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Loading screen stuck
  • Blocks/sprites disappear briefly when moved
  • Memory cleaning issues causing reloads
  • Pixels shift when drawing sprites
  • Image import forces rectangular crop
  • App crashes on launch (iOS 8, iPad Mini)
  • Slow performance/lagging
  • Editor runs slowly
  • Freezes when making multiple costumes

Requested features

24 requests
  • Update to Scratch 2.0/3.0
  • Support for .sb3 and .sjr files
  • Add clone blocks
  • Add original Scratch Cat sprite
  • Implement auto-save function
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  • Improve drawing/sprite editing tools
  • Add sharing rules and report buttons
  • Add social media sharing
  • Add new blocks (e.g., when screen swiped)
  • Support for importing images from camera roll
  • Support for importing audio from iTunes
  • Add more background images
  • Add more scripts and features
  • Improve performance and speed
  • Add scroll bar for UI elements
  • Make it lighter/less resource-intensive
  • Add a home screen
  • Allow uploading projects to Dropbox
  • Add online play and sharing
  • Add iMessage sharing and email file opening
  • Add mature sprites
  • Add programming explanations
  • Support for Kanji input
  • Make it more compatible with newer iOS versions

In-app purchases

None

Counting Board

No in-app purchases

None

Pyonkee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Counting Board free?
Counting Board costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pyonkee free?
Pyonkee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Counting Board or Pyonkee?
Counting Board is rated higher. Counting Board averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Pyonkee averages 3.6 from 51 ratings.
Do Counting Board or Pyonkee have ads?
Neither Counting Board nor Pyonkee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Counting Board or Pyonkee?
Counting Board ships an update every 15 months, and Pyonkee every 4 months. Most recently, Counting Board was updated on September 30, 2026 and Pyonkee on October 13, 2026.

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