Comparison

SmartySprouts vs Square Panda Farming

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

Head to head
About

SmartySprouts

This app offers 21 interactive pocket chart activities for young learners on iPad. It covers essential early education skills like math, phonics, and word building, with progress tracking for parents and teachers. Designed for short, engaging play sessions, it simplifies gameplay by locking to portrait mode.

Highlights
  • 21 interactive pocket chart activities
  • Math: addition, subtraction, fractions
  • Literacy: phonics, spelling, word building
  • Early learning: counting, colors, shapes
  • Progress tracking for parents/teachers
  • Portrait mode gameplay
  • Short, engaging activity sessions
Features
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Do you love classroom Pocket Charts? Pocket Charts! Pro combines 21 pocket chart activities for your child to use on the iPad. Just like the pocket chart games popular in the classroom, this app gives young students a fun way to practice adding and subtracting, sorting blends and digraphs, matching positional words to picture, spelling 3 letter words, combining images to build compound words. The youngest iPad users are not left out, some early learning activities include counting, sorting, matching colors, shapes and uppercase to lowercase letters. Administrative features allow teachers/parents to manage the functionality of the app and track student progress. Pocket Charts! Pro gives kids a lot of learning fun for a very small price. Here’s what’s included: • Upper and Lowercase Letter Matching • Beginning Letter Sounds • Colors and Color Words • Counting • Shape Matching • Long and Short Vowel Sounds • Rhyming Words • Consonant Blends and Digraphs • Ending Letter Sounds • Position Words • Numbers and Number Words • Pre-Number Category Sorting • Compound Words • Spelling 3-Letter Words • Word Families • Fractions • Single-digit Addition and Subtraction • Halloween Match • Thanksgiving Match • Christmas/Hanukkah Match • Egg Match Teach and reinforce basic skills with Pocket Charts! Pro. Each game requires 3-5 minutes for a young learner to complete, making this iPad app ideal for students with limited attention spans or those requiring highly visual or tactile learning experiences. Additionally, these activities are designed to lock and play only in the portrait mode in order to simplify game play and eliminate an orientation switch if young learners jostle the iPad while playing. Good Neighbor Press has specialized in the development, illustration, design and production of educational material since 1991. High quality, developmentally-appropriate educational material with clean, charming instructional design is our specialty! For additional information on our activity book series, downloadable worksheet units, or free downloadable worksheets please visit www.goodneighborpress.com. Look for all our Early Childhood iPad Apps by searching Good Neighbor Press in the App Store.

About

Square Panda Farming

Children help Old MilkDonald plant, grow, and harvest crops by learning the alphabet, letter sounds, and rhyming words. The adaptive platform adjusts to each child's learning pace, making it ideal for ages 3-5+.

Highlights
  • Learn alphabet and letter sounds
  • Discover rhyming words
  • Practice spelling
  • Adaptive educational platform
  • Develop fine motor skills
  • Over 250 rhyming word pictures
Features
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Help Old MilkDonald plant, grow, and harvest fruits and vegetables in Square Panda Farming! When placing Square Panda smart letters in the Square Panda Playset, children learn the alphabet, explore letter sounds, and discover rhyming words, all while helping Old MilkDonald plant fruits and vegetables. When the plants are ripe, children pick the crops to help fill up Old MilkDonald’s wheelbarrow. While the plants grow, children chase away wild animals that enjoy fruits and vegetables too. How many fruits and vegetables will your child pick? Perfect for children learning: The Alphabet Phonics Word Construction Rhyming Words Spelling Fine Motor Skills Square Panda Farming is built on a unique educational platform that scaffolds the curriculum difficulty independently of the gameplay difficulty so each play session automatically adapts to your child’s present educational level and particular gameplay abilities. For example, if your child understands letters but cannot quickly place them in playset, the educational curriculum will continue to increase in difficulty without making the gameplay more difficult. This means that Square Panda Farming will be able to help your child learn at their own pace. For ages 3-5+ Features: Adaptive Educational Platform engages, challenges, and grows with your child Over 250 pictures that help children learn the rhyming words they are spelling Square Panda Playset required to play.

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Square Panda Farming at Free against SmartySprouts's $3.99. Square Panda Farming also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 2) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). SmartySprouts's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 71%). On rating, update cadence, ads 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

Square Panda Farming is free to download; SmartySprouts costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SmartySprouts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square Panda Farming has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of SmartySprouts's written reviews are positive against 71% of Square Panda Farming's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, Square Panda Farming every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SmartySprouts versus Square Panda Farming: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartySproutsSquare Panda Farming
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better4.3 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings212 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPadiPad
Requires iOS12.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB316 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood Neighbor Press, IncSquare Panda Inc.

Customer experience

SmartySprouts

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

Square Panda Farming

All ratings12 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

None

SmartySprouts

No in-app purchases

None

Square Panda Farming

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartySprouts free?
SmartySprouts costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Square Panda Farming free?
Square Panda Farming is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartySprouts or Square Panda Farming?
SmartySprouts is rated higher. SmartySprouts averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Square Panda Farming averages 4.3 from 12 ratings.
Do SmartySprouts or Square Panda Farming have ads?
Neither SmartySprouts nor Square Panda Farming shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartySprouts or Square Panda Farming?
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, and Square Panda Farming every 5 weeks. Most recently, SmartySprouts was updated on November 1, 2026 and Square Panda Farming on November 2, 2026.

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