Base Ten Blocks ES vs Read and Count PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Base Ten Blocks ES
This app simulates physical math manipulatives to teach place value, addition, and subtraction with regrouping. Students can represent numbers and practice operations on an interactive playground, with support for both English and Spanish.
- Simulates physical base ten blocks
- Teaches place value concepts
- Supports addition and subtraction with regrouping
- Interactive playground for number representation
- Dual language support (English and Spanish)
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Hands-On Math Base Ten Blocks supports both English and Spanish languages. Hands-On Math Base Ten Blocks simulates the use of a popular math manipulative used to teach place value and addition and subtraction with regrouping. Base Ten Blocks are one of the best ways to help students learn about place value. While using the app students place Base Ten Blocks on an interactive Playground to represent numbers. Blocks can be regrouped or exchanged by dragging a virtual manipulative from one column to the next. Using Hands-On Math Base Ten Blocks students can develop the following important mathematical concepts: * Place value concepts * Regrouping in the ones, tens and hundreds places * Basic operations: addition and subtraction * Naming numbers * Expanded notation * Reading and writing numbers Base Ten Blocks are a very useful way for student visualize numbers, intuitively understand place value and deepen their understanding of addition and subtraction. Use Base Ten Blocks to have students represent numbers, as well as read and write the numbers. Rules for regrouping can be difficult for children. Use Base Ten Blocks to illustrate regrouping by dragging and dropping blocks from one column to another. A simple switch on the settings screen allows the user to select that the text and speech used in the program be presented in either English or Spanish.
Read and Count PRO
This educational app helps preschoolers learn essential early childhood concepts. It covers the alphabet, numbers, basic math, shapes, colors, and a wide range of vocabulary through interactive activities.
- Alphabet learning (A-Z)
- Number recognition and counting (0-100)
- Basic addition and subtraction
- Geometric shapes identification
- Color recognition and mixing
- Vocabulary building (animals, fruits, instruments, transport)
- Sign language alphabet
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If your child is starting preschool learning, this app can help. In our application your child learns the alphabet, vowels and consonants, syllables, numbers, sign language, addition and subtraction, geometric shapes, colors, opposites, animals, fruits, musical instruments, means of transport, more than 1000 words and much more! ALPHABET Complete and illustrated alphabet from A-Z, children can learn to speak and write each letter. Activities to recognize the letters of the alphabet, learn some words that start with each letter, practice writing letters, organize letters, learn lowercase and uppercase letters, organize letters in alphabetical order and much more. VOWELS AND CONSONANTS Introduces the group of vowels and the group of consonants to children. Activities to learn how to separate groups of vowels and consonants and where to use each letter. NUMBERS Children can also learn to speak and write the numbers from 0-100 and even count on fingers from 0-10. Various activities to practice writing numbers, counting on fingers, organizing numbers, counting objects and much more. SIGN LANGUAGE Contains the entire alphabet in pounds. Learn to recognize the signs and identify each letter of the alphabet. ADD AND SUBTRACT Addition and subtraction in a simple and easy way to learn. Count on your fingers to learn to add, they are additions and subtractions in various ways. GEOMETRIC SHAPES Teaches how to speak and draw the main geometric shapes giving examples of objects that have these shapes. Here you learn to identify which geometric shape some objects have, to draw shapes, and to use and assemble geometric shapes. COLORS There are 12 colors, the most popular, with several variations of the same color and 2 examples of each, and now you also learn the mixtures of the main colors. Learn what colors are and their mixtures and identify the colors of objects. OPPOSITE WORDS Learn the antonym of words, there are 36 examples of words and their opposites. Activities to connect the opposite images, identify which is the opposite of each word and form pairs of opposites. ANIMALS Children can learn the animals' names and the sounds they make. There are 60 animals with illustration and 4 photos of each one. In the activities you learn to identify the animal by the sound it makes and by the name. You can also link the many different photos of each animal. FRUITS Meet 30 different fruits with illustration and several photos of each one. Exercise to link the drawing of the fruit with the real photo of it, color it, click on the correct fruit and assemble the fruit. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS There are 30 musical instruments. We teach the name of each instrument, with a real image and the sound each one makes (2 sound examples for each instrument). Learn to recognize the instrument by its name and the sound it makes and other activities. MEANS OF TRANSPORT Get to know the main means of transport, there are 30 examples of vehicles with illustrations and 4 photos of each one. Activity to color each vehicle, identify each vehicle by name and link the illustration with the vehicle photo. WORDS A menu with over 200 words to try to read and write. Activity to read and write the word correctly. We also added a small word quiz for the child to try to read and identify the word. RANDOM ACTIVITIES In all categories, you will find the option to play activities randomly, improving your child's learning in a more didactic and complete way. Liked? And that's all in a single application totally free! Available in Portuguese, Spanish and English. I'm sure your son will love it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Base Ten Blocks ES at 100% against Read and Count PRO's 33%. Base Ten Blocks ES also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (13.2 vs 15.0). Read and Count PRO's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 26 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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
Base Ten Blocks ES costs $2.99 and Read and Count PRO $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Base Ten Blocks ES ships an update every 26 months, Read and Count PRO every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Base Ten Blocks ES | Read and Count PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 26 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 236 MB | 322 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ventura Educational Systems | Apps Bergman Ltda |
Customer experience
Base Ten Blocks ES
Read and Count PRO
In-app purchases
Base Ten Blocks ES
No in-app purchases
Read and Count PRO
No in-app purchases
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