Puppet Pals vs Subitizing Flash Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puppet Pals
This app provides a complete toolkit for students to create animated stories, ideal for educational projects like book reports and historical reenactments. It allows for custom character and backdrop creation using drawing or photos, and includes over 100 pre-loaded characters. The app is safe for schools with no online sharing or ads.
- Create animated stories
- Draw custom characters and backdrops
- Use photos as characters/backgrounds
- Over 100 pre-loaded characters
- Printable lesson plans and resources
- Offline functionality
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The complete classroom storytelling toolkit Puppet Pals helps students bring learning to life through animated storytelling. Create book reports, historical reenactments, science explanations, and more — all with the magic of puppet theater. Everything included. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases. Unlimited characters! DRAW: Students can draw unlimited custom characters and backdrops, bringing any story to life. PHOTO: Students can turn any photo into a character or background. INCLUDED: Over 100 pre-loaded characters NEW: Printable Lesson Plans & Resources Ready-to-use activities aligned to curriculum standards: English Language Arts — Story structure, character development, dialogue History — "Interview a Historical Figure" projects, timeline presentations Science — Explain-a-concept projects, hypothesis presentations Social-Emotional Learning — Conflict resolution, feelings identification World Languages — Vocabulary skits, conversation practice Assessment rubrics included to evaluate student storytelling projects. Safe for schools: No online sharing or social features No accounts required No advertisements Works completely offline Perfect for elementary and middle school classrooms, homeschool families, speech therapy, and special education settings.
Subitizing Flash Cards
This app helps young learners develop number sense by practicing the immediate recognition of small groups of objects without counting. It offers various flashcard modes, dice games, and a number matching activity to build foundational math skills.
- Subitizing flashcards
- Dice pattern recognition
- Ten frame practice
- Number matching game
- Teacher creation tool
- Non-standard patterns
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Little Monkey Apps subitizing provides beginning counters the opportunity to practice and test their subitizing knowledge to quickly recognize small groups of objects without counting. When you look at a die, you don’t need to count the dots. This immediate response is called subitizing. Young students need repetition and practice to do this, as they do not always ‘trust the count’. Students can then build on this knowledge of standard patterns (die patterns) to look at non-standard patterns, mentally and visually manipulating the position of the objects and subitise the objects present. Subitizing provides opportunities for students to ‘trust the count’ which links to early addition and subtraction, counting on and counting back. Subitizing allows students to see and interpret patterns and part-whole relationships such as 2+1+2=5 on a die. Little Monkey Apps subitizing is designed to be used with an adult, peer work or for independent learning for short periods of time. The App is presented in sections to provide a variety of experiences. = Flash card = Flash cards with non-standard positioning of images up to twelve. Double click screen to show matching numeral. Swipe to move onto next card. = Dice = Flash cards with standard presentation of die dots. Swipe to move onto next card. = Doubles Dice = Flash cards with standard presentation of dice dots on two dice. This is useful to extend subitizing into addition facts. Swipe to move onto next card. = Ten frames = Flashcards with standard and non-standard presentation of dots in a ten frame. Double click screen to show matching numeral. Swipe to move onto the next card. = Number Match = A simple Game in which you are asked to click the numeral to match the group of images presented. = Teacher Tool = Create your own subitizing card then use the pencil tool to show groups or move the position of objects. Useful for demonstrating thinking or for demonstrating metacognition skills.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Puppet Pals at every 3 weeks against Subitizing Flash Cards's every 33 months. Puppet Pals also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 50%) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). Subitizing Flash Cards's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $6.99) and chart position (#178 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Puppet Pals costs $6.99 and Subitizing Flash Cards $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Puppet Pals against 4.0 for Subitizing Flash Cards. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puppet Pals has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Puppet Pals's written reviews are positive against 50% of Subitizing Flash Cards's.
Puppet Pals ships an update every 3 weeks, Subitizing Flash Cards every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puppet Pals | Subitizing Flash Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $6.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (13 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #178 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Polished Play, LLC | Aleesha Kondys |
Customer experience
Puppet Pals
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In-app purchases
Puppet Pals
No in-app purchases
Subitizing Flash Cards
No in-app purchases
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