Comparison

SmartySprouts vs Bitsboard Student

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

Bitsboard Student

This app offers over 35 interactive learning games and flashcard decks for students. It personalizes the learning experience and tracks progress, making education engaging and effective for various subjects.

Highlights
  • 35+ educational games and study modes
  • Customizable flashcard decks
  • Progress tracking for each user
  • Multiplayer and single-player modes
  • Supports multiple user accounts
  • Accessibility options including switch control
Features
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BITSBOARD PRO vs. BITSBOARD STUDENT • The PRO app is for teachers. It includes access to the Bitsboard catalog to quickly download, create, customize and share your own boards and classes. The PRO app also makes it really easy to add students, share content with students, and keep track of your student's progress. • The STUDENT app was created for students. It allows schools to give students full access to the Bitsboard app on each iPad without having to pay the fee of the PRO app. The STUDENT app does not include the ability to create and share classes. Licensing terms • Please buy one PRO app per device / per teacher unless teachers share the same iPad • Please buy one STUDENT app per device (you can add unlimited students per device). You can also add one student per device via the FREE app A top 5 education game in the U.S. 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 • Communicator • Reader • Questions Game • Photo Hunt (1-4 players) • Racing Rivals (2 players) • Battle Time (2 players) • Say It Game TRACKS YOUR PROGRESS • Bitsboard keeps track of every answer for every game, user, and board SUPPORTS MULTIPLE USERS • Bitsboard makes it easy to add multiple users and switch between user accounts • You can now instantly review the detailed progress for each user • Automatically saves game 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 • You can now group your boards into classes. • Each board can fit into as many classes as you like. • Organize your boards by class, user, subject, and more. 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 add student accounts without email or password.  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. 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

Screenshots

Bitsboard Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SmartySprouts at 91% against Bitsboard Student's 17%. SmartySprouts also leads on price ($3.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Bitsboard Student's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume, 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

SmartySprouts costs $3.99 and Bitsboard Student $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bitsboard Student holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of SmartySprouts's written reviews are positive against 17% of Bitsboard Student's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, Bitsboard Student every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SmartySprouts versus Bitsboard Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartySproutsBitsboard Student
Price$3.99 — better$9.99
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB136 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperGood Neighbor Press, IncHappy Moose Apps

Customer experience

SmartySprouts

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

Bitsboard Student

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%

In-app purchases

None

SmartySprouts

No in-app purchases

None

Bitsboard Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartySprouts free?
SmartySprouts costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bitsboard Student free?
Bitsboard Student costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SmartySprouts or Bitsboard Student?
Bitsboard Student is rated higher. SmartySprouts averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Bitsboard Student averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do SmartySprouts or Bitsboard Student have ads?
Neither SmartySprouts nor Bitsboard Student shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartySprouts or Bitsboard Student?
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, and Bitsboard Student every 6 weeks. Most recently, SmartySprouts was updated on October 1, 2026 and Bitsboard Student on September 22, 2026.

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