Comparison

GeoFit vs ExplainTime EDU

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GeoFit

This educational app challenges users to fit geometric shapes into various frames, creating unique patterns. It offers a creative way to explore spatial reasoning and problem-solving with a variety of shapes and frame types.

Highlights
  • Geometric shape fitting
  • Multiple frame types (square, hexagonal, octagonal)
  • Variety of shapes (squares, diamonds, triangles, trapezoids)
  • Creative pattern generation
  • Spatial reasoning challenges
Features
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Based on Donna Bretl's wood "Bretl Blocks" puzzles, GeoFit challenges you to fit small squares, diamonds, triangles, and trapezoids into square, hexagonal, and octagonal frames. Lots of "solutions" are possible, resulting in a wide variety of interesting, surprising, and beautiful patterns.

About

ExplainTime EDU

Features
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ExplainTime EDU turns dates into a story you can see. Put events on a timeline, show how far apart they really are, and present it to your class, all in a few taps. Made for students and teachers, it works for any subject that happens in time: history, science, art, literature, or your own family. BUILD YOUR TIMELINE • Add events with a date, a description, photos with captions, and links to learn more • Go back as far as you need: dates before Christ are fully supported • Show only the year, or the full date when the day matters • Turn an event into a period, like a war or an empire, and see it as a bar along the timeline • Sort events into categories such as Politics, Science & Technology or Arts & Culture, and show only the ones you need • Draw with Apple Pencil or your finger when a sketch explains it better SEE THE DISTANCE IN TIME • Switch between evenly spaced events and a timeline drawn to scale • Add year markers every 1 to 1,000 years • Zoom in and out, and jump around with the overview map • Search for any event and go straight to it • On iPhone held upright, the timeline runs from top to bottom SET THE SCENE • Choose from 19 backgrounds inspired by history, from Prehistory and Ancient Rome to the Space Age • Or describe your own with Image Playground on supported devices PRESENT AND STUDY • Present your timeline full screen, one event per slide • Test yourself with the order quiz: drag the events into the right order and see your score • Get event ideas for any topic with Apple Intelligence on supported devices, then check them and add the ones you want SHARE AND HAND IN • Export your timeline as an image or a multi-page PDF • Hand in assignments from Schoolwork, with your progress reported to your teacher • Drag events between timelines, or drop photos to start a new event • Timelines are documents you keep in Files or iCloud Drive, with thumbnails in Files and Finder ON EVERY DEVICE ExplainTime EDU runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. On Mac, use the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts. On Apple Vision Pro, see your timeline in 3D around you. Built with accessibility in mind, with VoiceOver support and Reduce Motion respected. Not sure where to start? Open a new timeline and choose Explore a Sample to see Ancient Rome come to life. ExplainTime EDU collects no data. Your timelines stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ExplainTime EDU at every 5 days against GeoFit's every 36 months. ExplainTime EDU also leads on device support (3 vs 1). GeoFit's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GeoFit ships an update every 36 months, ExplainTime EDU every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
GeoFit versus ExplainTime EDU: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGeoFitExplainTime EDU
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 36 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThomas BretlLORENZO CONFALONIERI

In-app purchases

None

GeoFit

No in-app purchases

None

ExplainTime EDU

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GeoFit free?
GeoFit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ExplainTime EDU free?
ExplainTime EDU is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GeoFit or ExplainTime EDU have ads?
Neither GeoFit nor ExplainTime EDU shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GeoFit or ExplainTime EDU?
GeoFit ships an update every 36 months, and ExplainTime EDU every 5 days. Most recently, GeoFit was updated on October 8, 2026 and ExplainTime EDU on October 18, 2026.

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