Comparison

Hands vs Math Tutor (Lite)

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

Head to head
About

Hands

Explore mathematical concepts with a virtual hundreds chart. Students can use colored markers to discover number patterns, skip-counting, multiplication, division, and more. An instructor's guide is available for educators.

Highlights
  • Interactive hundreds chart
  • Color marker tool
  • Skip-counting exploration
  • Number pattern discovery
  • Multiplication and division practice
  • Prime and composite number identification
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Hands-On Math: Interactive Hundreds Chart creates a virtual math playground where students explore, investigate and discover mathematical concepts. Students use colored markers on the Interactive Hundreds Chart to represent patterns and number sequences. Using Hands-On Math: Interactive Hundreds Chart students can develop the following important mathematical concepts: Skip-Counting Number Patterns Multiplication and Division Facts Prime and Composite Numbers Least Common Multiple Divisibility of Numbers and more... An extensive Instructor's Guide for this app is available at the support website. Download the document and install it in iBooks to access ideas about how to use the Interactive Hundreds Chart for teaching elementary mathematics. Extremely easy for students and teachers to use. Tap a color and a marker, then tap numbers on the chart. To remove a marker simply slide it off the chart. Erase all markers by tapping the eraser. Note to reviewer: Simply slide a marker off the board to remove it. There is no need to erase entire board if you make a mistake.

About

Math Tutor (Lite)

This app helps parents build their 5-8 year old child's elementary school arithmetic skills. Parents can configure specific math skills, difficulty levels, and track progress with detailed test results and error analysis.

Highlights
  • Configurable math skills and levels
  • Detailed progress tracking
  • Error analysis and re-testing options
  • Customizable arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, factors)
  • Parental control over test parameters
Features
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Tired of math tutoring that are more of a game than tutoring? You are at the right spot. We don’t have cute Farm pets or angry birds. Instead we are striving to build your 5-8 year old child elementary school level arithmetic fluency skills at the least time possible. The parent can configure what type of math skills and at what level to exercise. Parent should instruct child how many problems to solve. Last test results (including total number, number of errors, percent correct and average time for each type of math operation) as well as incorrect answers are saved. The report is available and can be used by the parent to monitor child success. If number of errors or average time is unsatisfactory, parent can optionally instruct the child to take the test again. Each mathematical operation Plus (addition), Minus (subtraction), Times (multiplication), Divide (division) and Factors (especially useful to prepare for notoriously difficult 60-second sweep) can be either opted out, or once selected can be configured for frequency. Plus, Minus and Times also can be configured for the Max-Value – maximum result for addition, or max first operand for subtraction and multiplication. This way, for example, the parent can configure the test for infrequent subtraction from numbers as large as 30 and more frequent multiplication by 2, 3 and 4, so the child still practices subtractions while starting to study multiplication table. The Factors operation was specifically introduced to help children to master 60-seconds sweep where they need to know all the factors of the simple numbers – e.g. Factors of 8 is 2 and 4. When testing factors please instruct your child to enter all the factors of the number – Factors of 8=24, Factors of 12=2634 (if more than one pair the order doesn’t matter).

Screenshots

Math Tutor (Lite)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hands at 83% against Math Tutor (Lite)'s 0%. Hands also leads on rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). Math Tutor (Lite)'s advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, update cadence 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

Math Tutor (Lite) is free to download; Hands costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hands holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Hands's written reviews are positive against 0% of Math Tutor (Lite)'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands ships an update every 8 months, Math Tutor (Lite) every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hands versus Math Tutor (Lite): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandsMath Tutor (Lite)
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVentura Educational SystemsGASP Mobile Games Inc

Customer experience

Hands

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

Math Tutor (Lite)

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hands

No in-app purchases

None

Math Tutor (Lite)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands free?
Hands costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Math Tutor (Lite) free?
Math Tutor (Lite) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hands or Math Tutor (Lite)?
Hands is rated higher. Hands averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Math Tutor (Lite) averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Hands or Math Tutor (Lite) have ads?
Math Tutor (Lite) shows ads; Hands does not.
Which is updated more often, Hands or Math Tutor (Lite)?
Hands ships an update every 8 months, and Math Tutor (Lite) every 6 months. Most recently, Hands was updated on October 4, 2026 and Math Tutor (Lite) on October 12, 2026.

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