Comparison

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games vs Relational Rods+ by mathies

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

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About

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games

This app makes learning fun and effective with over 35 interactive educational games and activities. Create custom lessons, track progress, and sync content across devices. It's designed for students and educators to master subjects like languages, spelling, and reading through engaging gameplay.

Highlights
  • 35+ educational games and study modes
  • Create custom lessons with images and audio
  • Multiplayer and single-player mini-games
  • Progress tracking and detailed reports
  • Cross-device content syncing
  • Private classroom feature
  • Accessibility options including switch control
Features
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A top 5 education game in the U.S. 2021 Academic Choice Awards Winner Spark excitement for learning with Bitsboard – an interactive learning app trusted by over 5 million parents, teachers and students worldwide. Create your own learning experience with 35+ educational activities, join a private classroom or dive into thousands of hand-curated flashcard decks – whatever you want to learn, Bitsboard is here to make it fun and make it stick! What you can do with the Bitsboard app: Teachers • Create lessons in minutes with beautiful images and clear audio • Adapt lessons to an individual user’s learning speed • Encourage higher level thinking with fun single/multiplayer mini-games • Keep track of individual progress • Automatically back up and sync data across devices Students • Turn boring assignments into addictive mini-games • Master languages, vocab, reading, spelling and more • Compete in multiplayer games with classmates • Study at your own pace or with others OVER 35+ POWERFUL MINI GAMES / STUDY MODES IN 1 APP INCLUDING • Flashcards • Photo Touch • Memory Cards (1-4 players) • Pop Quiz • Match Up • Word Builder • Sentence Builder • Spelling Bee • BINGO (1-4 players) • Letter Tracing • Sequencing • Related Items • Word Search • Crosswords • Letter Match • Odd One Out • What Comes Next? • Side by Side • Word Chunks • Reader • Questions Game • Photo Hunt (1-4 players) • Racing Rivals (2 players) • Battle Time (2 players) TRACKS YOUR PROGRESS • Bitsboard keeps track of every answer for every game, user, and board SUPPORTS MULTIPLE USERS • Detailed stats and progress reports for each user • Automatically save games and boards settings at the user level ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS • Bitsboard fully supports switch control to make all of the games accessible for users with disabilities ORGANIZE YOUR BOARDS • Easily group your boards into classes ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING • Bitsboard's learning algorithm automatically personalizes each game based on the players skills. SHARE AND SYNC CONTENT ACROSS DEVICES • Automatically back up and sync data across devices BITSBOARD CLASSES • Share and automatically sync all of your content with other users / students on other devices • Bitsboard classes are private - only you and the students you approve see your content CLOUD SYNC • With cloud sync all of your boards, students, classes, and settings are automatically backed up and sync across all of your devices QR LOGIN CARDS • To protect student’s privacy you can generate student accounts without any email or password.  Once created, you can share the login details of each student account via a simple QR login card.  Just email the QR code to your student and they will be able to download the free Bitsboard app and log into their Bitsboard account. BITSBOARD PRO SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS   The basic version of Bitsboard is FREE for all users. Premium features can be unlocked with an in-app subscription.    Bitsboard Premium Subscription:   • Unlimited access to all 500+ Premium Classes and Featured Boards + up to 10 new premium Classes per month • Add unlimited number of students and classes • Use "Cloud Sync" to sync and backup all boards, classes, and students   Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel a subscription during the active period. Your subscription may be managed and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after purchase.     support@happymooseapps.com Privacy Policy: http://bitsboard.com/privacy-policy Subscription Terms: http://bitsboard.com/subscription-terms Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@happymooseapps.com Privacy Policy: http://bitsboard.com/privacy-policy Subscription Terms: http://bitsboard.com/subscription-terms

About

Relational Rods+ by mathies

This app allows users to visually represent, compare, order, and perform operations on whole numbers, fractions, and decimals using digital rods. It supports exploring various mathematical concepts through interactive manipulation and customization of visual elements.

Highlights
  • Represent whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
  • Compare and order numbers
  • Perform arithmetic operations
  • Explore number patterns
  • Customize rod colors and visibility
  • Annotation tool for explanations
Features
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Represent, compare, order, and operate on whole numbers, fractions or decimals by dragging rods from the tower into the workspace and manipulating them. Relational Rods are rectangles of various lengths where each rod can be evenly subdivided by the smallest square rod. Whole Number Rods are rectangles of lengths 1 to 10 with numeric labels and dashed divisions on each rod. Decimal Rods are rectangles of lengths 0.1 to 1.0 with numeric labels and dashed divisions on each rod. Mathematical Concepts: Create visual representations that help explore mathematical thinking related to: • Exploring number patterns and concepts • Representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers, fractions or decimals • Composing and decomposing numbers • Skip counting forwards and backwards • Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing • Proportional reasoning • Exploring rectangular areas Features: • Show or hide the numerical labels on the rods. • Show or hide the dashed separations on the rods. • Set the colour of individual rods or the colour scheme for the entire set of rods. The “traditional” palette allows the digital tool to more closely match the colours of the concrete manipulatives used in classrooms. • Hide some of the rods in order to work with a restricted set. • Select a rod or set of rods by drawing a marquee around them. Click on a rod to add or remove it from the selection. • Copy selected rods. • Rotate selected rods. • Show or hide the background grid. • Activate or deactivate Snap to Grid mode. When active, rods snap to discrete positions making it easier to align them. Deactivation allows the free placement of rods. • Hide/show the ruler at the bottom of the work space. • Step through a history of your work with the undo/redo buttons. • Communicate your thinking or highlight various features of your representation using the built-in annotation tool.

Screenshots

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games4 screens
Relational Rods+ by mathies4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Relational Rods+ by mathies at none against Bitsboard Flashcards & Games's 10. Relational Rods+ by mathies also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14.0). Bitsboard Flashcards & Games's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (1K vs 6). On price, review sentiment, ads 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

Both are free to download. Bitsboard Flashcards & Games sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Relational Rods+ by mathies asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bitsboard Flashcards & Games has 1K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Bitsboard Flashcards & Games's written reviews are positive against 75% of Relational Rods+ by mathies's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games ships an update every 3 weeks, Relational Rods+ by mathies every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bitsboard Flashcards & Games versus Relational Rods+ by mathies: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBitsboard Flashcards & GamesRelational Rods+ by mathies
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1K ratings) — better4.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews81.4% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1K — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size136 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHappy Moose AppsOAME

Customer experience

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games

All ratings1,013 ratings
Positive84.7%
Neutral5.0%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive81.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative14.2%

Relational Rods+ by mathies

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Tracing game not working properly
  • Audio not playing correctly in some games
  • Inconsistent login and access issues
  • Boards and settings randomly disappearing

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to arrange games in a specific order
  • Option to import audio files instead of recording
  • Support for multiple fonts, including IPA
  • Easier board editing and navigation
  • Improved organization and folder support for boards

Relational Rods+ by mathies

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Bitsboard Flashcards & Games

Subscriptions2
  • Unlock All Subscription7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Unlock All Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time8
  • Image Search Upgrade$0.99
  • Add Unlimited Users$3.99
  • Unlock All Premium Classes$14.99
Show 5 more
  • Unlock All Features$14.99
  • Unlock All Games$19.99
  • Unlock Everything$24.99
  • Unlock Everything$47.99
  • Bitsboard Superpowers License (Unlocks ALL premium features)$49.99
None

Relational Rods+ by mathies

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bitsboard Flashcards & Games free?
Bitsboard Flashcards & Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Relational Rods+ by mathies free?
Relational Rods+ by mathies is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bitsboard Flashcards & Games or Relational Rods+ by mathies?
Bitsboard Flashcards & Games is rated higher. Bitsboard Flashcards & Games averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1K ratings, while Relational Rods+ by mathies averages 4.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Bitsboard Flashcards & Games or Relational Rods+ by mathies have ads?
Neither Bitsboard Flashcards & Games nor Relational Rods+ by mathies shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bitsboard Flashcards & Games or Relational Rods+ by mathies?
Bitsboard Flashcards & Games ships an update every 3 weeks, and Relational Rods+ by mathies every 2 months. Most recently, Bitsboard Flashcards & Games was updated on October 21, 2026 and Relational Rods+ by mathies on October 5, 2026.

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