HowWow vs What If
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HowWow
This AI-powered learning companion engages students in grades 6-12 through real-time voice conversations. It employs a Socratic method, guiding users to discover concepts independently and reinforcing learning with instant questions and gamified elements.
- Real-time voice interaction
- Socratic teaching approach
- Instant concept reinforcement
- Gamified learning experience
- Multiple AI tutor personalities
- Covers full school syllabus
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HowWow is not just another learning app. It turns the world around you into interactive adventures — where you don’t just read facts, you build, test, investigate, and discover how things really work. HowWow helps curious minds explore real-world systems through hands-on activities, simulations, missions, and evidence-based challenges. From making electricity with a hand crank to building satellites and solving real-world problems, every experience is designed to make learning feel alive. What makes HowWow different? Interactive Wow Concepts Explore big real-world questions like “How does electricity reach your home?” through step-by-step interactive activities. Touch, change, test, and see the concept respond instantly. Learn by doing No passive videos. No long lectures. HowWow turns ideas into actions — spin a handle, assemble a satellite, balance trade-offs, collect clues, and make decisions. Real-world missions Step into exciting roles like satellite engineer and solve challenges inspired by how experts think and work in the real world. Curiosity-first learning Every journey begins with a question. Instead of memorizing answers, you investigate the “how” behind everyday wonders. Make your case Collect evidence, compare clues, and build your own explanation. HowWow helps you develop reasoning, problem-solving, and deeper understanding. Premium collectibles As you discover powerful ideas, you earn collectible cards based on real scientific laws and principles — turning learning milestones into something worth keeping. Built for deep understanding HowWow connects science, technology, systems thinking, and real-life applications in a way that feels playful, visual, and meaningful. HowWow is built for anyone who looks at the world and wonders, “How does that actually work?” The world is full of wow moments. HowWow helps you discover the how behind them.
What If
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Break the world. Guess what happens. A setup, some drawings, and then it happens. Drop a book and a flat sheet of paper — which lands first? Blow between two hanging apples — do they swing apart, or together? Tap what you think, watch it happen, and then find out why. Every answer is real science, and most of them are things you can go and try at home with a straw, a balloon or a glass of water. YOU ANSWER BY LOOKING Nearly every question is a picture. There is almost nothing to read, so a child who cannot read yet can still play — and the ones who can are not slowed down by paragraphs. NINE WAYS TO PLAY Guess what happens. Set a dial and watch the picture move. Spot the thing that cannot happen. Put three moments in order. Two dials that fight each other. Tap at exactly the right instant. WHAT IS IN IT 326 questions across 6 topics and 82 levels, plus an endless mode that never runs out. NOTHING TO BUY. NO ACCOUNT. ONE VIDEO YOU CHOOSE. Nothing to sign up for. Progress is saved on your device. There is one advert in the game and it is never played at you: run out of coins and you can choose to watch a short video for more. A child who never taps it never sees one, and it is never shown on opening the app, between levels, or while a question is on screen. Leaderboards and achievements are optional — turn them on and your scores go to the platform's own game service; leave them off and the game plays exactly the same. IT WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL The questions and the narration are all inside the app, so it plays on a plane, in a car, and anywhere with no connection. From Doodle Theory, the channel that makes 60-second what-if explainers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HowWow at none against What If's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | HowWow | What If |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 145 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anushank Dagar | Sharebird, Inc. |
In-app purchases
HowWow
No in-app purchases
What If
No in-app purchases








