Comparison

SmartySprouts vs Bugs Math Games

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

Bugs Math Games

This app offers interactive math games for preschoolers aged 3-6. It covers counting, addition, subtraction, matching, and size comparison through engaging activities. The difficulty adjusts to the child's progress, making learning fun and effective.

Highlights
  • Counting and number sequences
  • Basic addition and subtraction
  • Size comparison games
  • Shape matching activities
  • Missing number identification
  • Adaptive difficulty
Features
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For ages 3 to 6. Bugs Math Preschool Learning: Kids Numbers and Math Free is a game about numbers, counting challenge, basic addition, subtraction for kids, matching and number sequences that allows your little one to build important math skills while they are continually entertained. Your child can practice to count, add, subtract, and match their way through engaging and fun games with nonstop play of super math adventures a fun preschool learning. The Bugs Math Preschool Learning: Kids Math Mania is a free app that features interactive, engaging, fun and cool math games that teach children about counting, matching, missing number, sizes, adding and subtracting. The app uses Family Play enabled technology to adjust the difficulty as they play or to hone in on one area and drill that. Kids learn while they play: BASIC ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION FOR KIDS Develop your addition and subtraction math genius skills to solve math problems. Help add and subtract the bugs fruits and vegetables. SIZE – KID MATH DRILLS Is it big or small? Help the ladybug figure it out. MATCHING THE SHAPES Is it a circle? Perhaps a pentagon? Help by matching the object to the shadow. MISSING NUMBER What is the missing number? A good activity and exercise for kids to recall numbers and number sequences easily. COUNTING Help find the butterflies, and count them all. For the parents: 1.Does not contain unprotected links to social networking sites or to the Internet. 2.Contains a limited amount of free content with an in-app purchase to unlock all games. Kids numbers and math, a math adventure that kids will love. It has addition for kids and subtraction for kids. A math trainer for your kids and the kid in you, learn basic math now and play math drills. Please join our community and tell us what you think. We truly appreciate your comments and feedback. Like our Facebook Page, http://www.facebook.com/FamilyPlayApps, to get the latest updates, contests and some freebies like app codes. You can also follow us on Twitter, @FamilyPlayApps, to get the latest news and new apps from Family Play. No Sound? If the sound is not working, make sure the mute is turned off, then turn up the volume and the sound will work. Need Help? Contact us with any questions or comments: support@familyplay.co We Value Your Feedback We always welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions. You can contact us at support@familyplay.co If you do like our app, please take a minute to rate and write a great review, it truly does help us. If you find a problem, let us know so we can fix it for you.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bugs Math Games at Free against SmartySprouts's $3.99. Bugs Math Games also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). SmartySprouts's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume and ads 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

Bugs Math Games is free to download; SmartySprouts costs $3.99 up front. Bugs Math Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SmartySprouts asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SmartySprouts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of SmartySprouts's written reviews are positive against 67% of Bugs Math Games's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, Bugs Math Games every 22 months. Both last shipped on June 5, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
SmartySprouts versus Bugs Math Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartySproutsBugs Math Games
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better3.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 22 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB145 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood Neighbor Press, IncFAMILY PLAY PTE. LTD.

Customer experience

SmartySprouts

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

Bugs Math Games

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SmartySprouts

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Bugs Math Games

One-time1
  • Bugs Math Preschool Unlock All$2.99

Questions

Is SmartySprouts free?
SmartySprouts costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bugs Math Games free?
Bugs Math Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SmartySprouts or Bugs Math Games?
SmartySprouts is rated higher. SmartySprouts averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Bugs Math Games averages 3.0 from 3 ratings.
Do SmartySprouts or Bugs Math Games have ads?
Neither SmartySprouts nor Bugs Math Games shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartySprouts or Bugs Math Games?
SmartySprouts ships an update every 2 months, and Bugs Math Games every 22 months. Most recently, SmartySprouts was updated on June 5, 2026 and Bugs Math Games on June 5, 2026.

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