SmartySprouts vs Shapes Learning Games
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Shapes Learning Games
Engaging educational games designed to help young learners explore colors, shapes, and sizes. Features 24 levels across three game types with simple controls and no complex menus.
- Learn shapes, colors, and sizes
- 24 levels
- 3 game types
- Simple controls
- No menus
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Play the best learning games on your phone. Shapes And Colors Learning– to explore colors, shapes, and sizes. - Includes 24 levels, 3 types of games for studying shapes, colors, and sizes - Simple to control; no menus
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shapes Learning Games at Free against SmartySprouts's $3.99. Shapes Learning Games also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). SmartySprouts's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 87 months). On review sentiment, ads 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
Shapes Learning Games is free to download; SmartySprouts costs $3.99 up front. Shapes Learning Games sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SmartySprouts asks for nothing beyond the download.
SmartySprouts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shapes Learning Games has 10 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 86% of Shapes Learning Games's.
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, Shapes Learning Games every 87 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartySprouts | Shapes Learning Games |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.2 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 87 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 185 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Good Neighbor Press, Inc | Bilal Mirza |
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In-app purchases
SmartySprouts
No in-app purchases
Shapes Learning Games
- Remove Ads$2.99
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