Grandpa's Workshop vs Potion Portions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grandpa's Workshop
Engage young children with a fun building and tool identification game. This app features a friendly grandpa and eight interactive mini-games designed to teach essential skills like measuring, fractions, and tool recognition through play.
- Tool identification mini-games
- Measuring and fractions practice
- Spot the difference challenges
- Painting and puzzle activities
- Real tool videos
- Number group recognition
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Build, measure, count, paint, and play alongside Grandpa in eight hands-on learning activities designed for children ages 6–8. Children explore: • tools and woodworking vocabulary • counting and number groups • measuring and fractions • visual puzzles and matching • painting projects • clubhouse customization and rewards Gameplay and narration are available in English only. Grandpa's Workshop has no advertising, in-app purchases, subscriptions, or account creation. Fairlady Media does not collect data from the app. External support and App Store links are protected by a parent gate.
Potion Portions
Become a wizard's assistant and learn fractions by mixing potion ingredients. Follow recipes to create potions for customers and complete over 20 challenging levels.
- Fraction learning
- Potion mixing simulation
- Over 20 levels
- Customer satisfaction goals
- Wizard theme
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Learn how to properly understand fractions with Potion Portions! You are a young wizard's assistant put in charge of making potions for the store. As customers arrive you will need to use your wit to correctly mix ingredients together based on the potion recipe. Complete the potions and make your customers happy! Challenge yourself with over 20 levels of gameplay!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grandpa's Workshop at 83% against Potion Portions's 0%. Grandpa's Workshop also leads on rating (4.2 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (91 vs 7). Potion Portions's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Potion Portions is free to download; Grandpa's Workshop costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Grandpa's Workshop holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grandpa's Workshop has 91 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Grandpa's Workshop's written reviews are positive against 0% of Potion Portions's.
Grandpa's Workshop ships an update every 4 months, Potion Portions every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grandpa's Workshop | Potion Portions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (91 ratings) — better | 1.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.6% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 91 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 485 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fairlady Media | Robot Sea Monster Games |
Customer experience
Grandpa's Workshop
Potion Portions
Bugs and requests
Grandpa's Workshop
Reported bugs
4 issues- No sound
- Crashing at specific points
- App reverts to iPad opening screen
- Crushes on iPad
Requested features
12 requests- More varied activities and games
- New videos and puzzles
- Additional difficulty levels or grade levels
- More spoken directions for non-readers
- More tool videos
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- More content to complete the clubhouse
- More variety in jobs/activities
- Updates with new tools and videos
- More levels and content
- Clubhouse expansion
- More crazy uncles
Potion Portions
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Grandpa's Workshop
No in-app purchases
Potion Portions
No in-app purchases
Questions
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