Comparison

SmartySprouts vs Addition Math Trainer

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

Addition Math Trainer

Features
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Discover a new way to master addition with our dynamic math trainer that turns learning into an exciting adventure. Enjoy fun, adaptive mini-games and intuitive handwriting input that make each practice session engaging and perfectly tailored to your skill level. Boost your abilities by practicing the following math skills: You can practice the following math skills: Add a number to a multiple of ten Add doubles Add three numbers up to 10 each Relate addition and subtraction Add a two-digit and a one-digit number Add two multiples of ten Add multiples of 10 or 100 Add two two-digit numbers Addition up to 100 Add two numbers up to three digits Add three numbers up to two digits each Add three numbers up to three digits each Add two numbers with four digits Complete the addition sentence up to three digits Balance addition equations up to two digits Balance addition equations up to three digits

Screenshots

Addition Math Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SmartySprouts at every 2 months against Addition Math Trainer's every 35 months. Addition Math Trainer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and price ($2.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

SmartySprouts costs $3.99 and Addition Math Trainer $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, Addition Math Trainer every 35 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SmartySprouts versus Addition Math Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartySproutsAddition Math Trainer
Price$3.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 35 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood Neighbor Press, IncSergey Malugin

In-app purchases

None

SmartySprouts

No in-app purchases

None

Addition Math Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartySprouts free?
SmartySprouts costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Addition Math Trainer free?
Addition Math Trainer costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartySprouts or Addition Math Trainer have ads?
Neither SmartySprouts nor Addition Math Trainer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartySprouts or Addition Math Trainer?
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, and Addition Math Trainer every 35 months. Most recently, SmartySprouts was updated on October 1, 2026 and Addition Math Trainer on October 8, 2026.

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