Comparison

Hands vs ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full

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

ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full

This app offers a digital magnetic board experience for children to learn letters, numbers, and shapes. It encourages creativity and imagination with a vast collection of pieces and themed sets, making learning fun and engaging for kids of all ages.

Highlights
  • Digital magnetic board experience
  • Learn alphabet, numbers, and shapes
  • Creative play with themed sets
  • Resize and rotate pieces
  • Save compositions as images
  • Includes all expansions
Features
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Play with your kids and teach them to write with the Magnetic Alphabet! It's the iPad edition of the old fashioned magnetic board suitable for kids of all ages! An infinite source of fun and a great way to stimulate their imagination and creativity! It comes with a rich set of colored pieces that can be placed freely on the board: letters, numbers, symbols, funny figures and themed sets. This version includes all the available expansions and will also include future expansions without additional costs. ----- ### Featured by Apple as New and Noteworthy in September 2010! ### ----- Reviews on the web: * ipadmodo.com: "Magnetic Alphabet is a great tool for everyone. It aids in teaching preschoolers their alphabets/numbers, a learning tool in teaching one how to spell or sending messages to friends and family! The characters on the app are rendered beautifully and provided with nominal sound effects! [...] Magnetic Alphabet is recommended for kids of all ages, especially to those parents with kids who are just beginning to learn their alphabet and numbers!" * padgadget.com: "Just like the letters we all know and love, these new high tech “magnets” are colorful and fun to play with! Kids of all ages can use them to create messages, practice spelling or make funny pictures!" * product-reviews.net: "A great game that teaches children the alphabet and numbers! [...] allows children to be creative and not have to worry about rules and features found on more demanding games" ----- One of the best educational apps for kids, chosen from dozens of schools around the world to teach the alphabet and numbers in a fun new way. A simple and straightforward app, which stimulates creativity and imagination because it has no rules: your kids will freely create endless stories with the shapes of the classic set and with the themed magnets. An excellent tool for those who have problems with learning or communication: there are many cases in which children with autism have benefited from the use of the application. It will help your kids to: * learn the alphabet * learn to spell words * learn to recognize letters * learn to recognize numbers * learn to recognize shapes * learn to compose their first words and sentences Key features: * More than 1250 pieces available (including expansions)! * Alphabet, numbers, signs, shapes and themed sets * 11 different backgrounds * Themes composed by a set of magnets and a background * Resize and rotate magnets * Set the default size for magnets * Every single magnet can be used more than once * Save the composition as image locally * No need to pick up dozens of pieces all around the room when the game ends! If you have any problem write us at abc@dotnext.it! :-)

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hands at $2.99 against ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's $12.99. Hands also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 50%). ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 8 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Hands costs $2.99 and ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Hands's written reviews are positive against 50% of ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hands ships an update every 8 months, ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hands versus ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHandsABC Magnetic Alphabet Full
Price$2.99 — better$12.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)4.6 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings113 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS15.615.6
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB222 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVentura Educational SystemsDot Next srl

Customer experience

Hands

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

ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hands

No in-app purchases

None

ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hands free?
Hands costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full free?
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hands or ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full?
ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full is rated higher. Hands averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full averages 4.6 from 13 ratings.
Do Hands or ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full have ads?
Neither Hands nor ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hands or ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full?
Hands ships an update every 8 months, and ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full every 6 weeks. Most recently, Hands was updated on November 1, 2026 and ABC Magnetic Alphabet Full on November 1, 2026.

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