Finger Numbers vs SchoolTool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Finger Numbers
This app helps early learners develop rapid quantity recognition and a strong sense of numbers and operations through engaging games and practice modes. It adapts to individual learning needs with flexible settings and provides diagnostic reports for educators.
- Rapid quantity recognition
- Number decomposition practice
- Multiple game and practice modes
- Adaptive learning settings
- Multi-user profiles
- Diagnostic reports for teachers
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Finger Numbers is a motivating learning app that builds rapid quantity recognition (quasi‑simultaneous subitizing) and a robust sense of number and operations for early math. This release is a complete technical rebuild with expanded content—designed for children, parents, and teachers. What children practice: - Recognizing quantities at a glance and matching them with finger touches - Automating number decompositions, complements to 10, and strategies like the “Power of 5” - Moving fluently between representations (fingers, dots, mixed) Game and practice modes: - Basics: Fingers, Dots, Mixed - Pattern Recognition: structured arrangements - Calculation Strategies: Power of 5, complements to 10, How many are missing?, decompositions - Two Hands: cooperative/competitive split‑screen number decomposition - Jump and Run: an action mini‑game controlled by finger numbers Adapt to each learner: - Flexible number range from 3 to 10 fingers (start with 3-5 Fingers for learning the input) - Time pressure can be enabled/disabled as needed - Visual aids and flash‑view controls - Multi‑user profiles with individual progress; Guest mode without recording For teachers - Diagnostic reports with solution times, success rates, and strategy insights - Protected area to review learning progress - AI‑powered summaries with didactic guidance Note: On iPad, system gestures (e.g., 4–5‑finger gestures) may interfere with multi‑finger input. Consider disabling multitasking gestures in system settings if needed. Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)
SchoolTool
This app helps create a quiet learning environment with a visual noise warning light and a timer. It provides optical and acoustic feedback on volume levels and helps students grasp remaining work time.
- Noise warning light with optical and acoustic feedback
- Adjustable sensitivity for different groups
- Configurable warnings for noise limit breaches
- Visual timer for work phases
- Develops a sense of time in students
- Timer can be relative or absolute
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Intuitive. Effective. Engender a quiet working atmosphere and support your students while they concentrate on their work and complete their assignments effectively! Noise warning light: The noise warning light provides optical and acoustic feedback on the volume level in the classroom + Adapt the sensitivity to different study groups + Ask your students: the duration of downtime needed for evaluation can be varied. + Often a reminder is enough: Set warnings that remind them (as often as necessary) of breaches of the noise limits before a negative evaluation takes place + Save the settings for different situations or study groups! That way, you can switch, for example, between group and individual work phases. Visual Timer: The visual timer gives your pupils the possibility of grasping the remaining time for a work phase with just a glance + Train a sense of time into your students + Set the "direction" of the timer + The duration can be presented as relative or absolute (on a 60-minute scale) + Set whether an acoustic alarm is to sound at the end of the work phase
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Finger Numbers at 5.0 against SchoolTool's 1.0. Finger Numbers also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and price ($1.99 vs $7.99). SchoolTool's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). On ratings volume, 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
Finger Numbers costs $1.99 and SchoolTool $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Finger Numbers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Finger Numbers's written reviews are positive against 67% of SchoolTool's.
Finger Numbers ships an update every 9 months, SchoolTool every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Finger Numbers | SchoolTool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Urff | Oliver Kroeger |
Customer experience
Finger Numbers
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In-app purchases
Finger Numbers
No in-app purchases
SchoolTool
No in-app purchases
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