Smartoo vs TACHS Prep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smartoo
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Smartoo Pro makes training your mind feel like a game. Jump into quick, timed challenges across 8 cognitive areas and sharpen your thinking a few minutes a day. Every challenge is 10 focused questions. Pass a category to seal it - seal all eight to rank up, climbing a 17-step ladder from Bronze to Grandmaster. WHAT YOU GET - Timed 10-question IQ challenges across 8 categories - 5 question styles: pattern, visual, numeric, memory, and chart/data puzzles - A competitive rank ladder (Bronze to Grandmaster) that rewards consistency - Progress analytics: IQ trend, category mastery, and your strongest/weakest skills - Full exam history with answer-by-answer review - Three themes plus light and dark mode Smartoo Premium unlocks full analytics and your full exam history. Start training today and see how high you can climb. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Smartoo Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription: - Monthly - auto-renewing monthly subscription - 3 Months - auto-renewing quarterly subscription - Yearly - auto-renewing annual subscription (with a 3-day free trial on eligible plans) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the same price as the current subscription. You can manage and cancel your subscription at any time by going to your Account Settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://smartoo.cloud/privacy.html
TACHS Prep
Prepare for the TACHS exam with timed subtests, detailed worked answers, and a personalized study plan. This app simulates the actual test format, offering practice questions, lessons, and adaptive modes to identify weak areas and build confidence.
- Timed subtests simulating exam format
- Detailed worked answers with explanations
- Personalized study plan based on diagnostic
- Adaptive practice mode
- 1,940 practice questions
- 93 lessons with examples
- iPad and Apple Pencil support
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Most TACHS prep starts with drilling. That is the fastest way to waste the time you have, because you cannot study everything at once and you do not yet know what is weak. This app starts with a 28-question diagnostic, about half an hour. It is not a score. It tells you where to begin, and builds a study plan around your test date. BUILT FOR THE TEST AS IT IS NOW The TACHS runs on screen in six timed subtests, one after another: Reading, Written Expression, Mathematics, and three short Ability subtests of figure puzzles. About 2 hours 10 minutes of testing, with a short break between subtests. Inside a subtest you can skip, mark and come back; once you submit a subtest you cannot return to it. There is no penalty for a wrong answer. Practice here runs by those same rules: six subtests, each on its own clock, answer choices lettered the way the test letters them, a cross-out tool for choices you have ruled out, a highlighter on the reading passages, and a basic calculator in the math subtest, the way the test platform now provides one. The format itself is a lesson, so the shape of the day is already familiar. THE ABILITY SECTION, DRAWN Figure matrices, paper folding, figure classification: puzzles most students have never seen before test day. Here they are drawn on screen, hundreds of them, with a worked explanation of the rule behind each one and short lessons on how to read them. WORKED ANSWERS, NOT ANSWER KEYS Every question shows the method, step by step, and then checks the answer against it. Get one wrong and you find out why, not just which letter you missed. MADE FOR iPad, INCLUDING APPLE PENCIL On iPad the question sits beside a scratch pad you can write on with Apple Pencil or a finger, and your working stays next to the worked explanation afterwards so you can compare them line by line. Reading passages open side by side with their questions. WHAT IS INSIDE - 1,940 practice questions across the four sections - 93 lessons, each with worked examples - 89 reading and Written Expression passage sets - Full practice tests in the six-subtest format, about 176 questions each, drawn fresh to the same blueprint every time so a test is worth sitting more than once - Adaptive Practice, a shorter mode that picks what to ask next from how you are doing and tells you the difficulty level you were working at in each section - A one-page report your child can send you when they want to show how it is going The pass unlocks all of it. What stays free is next. FREE, PERMANENTLY - The 28-question diagnostic and the study plan it builds - Your error journal and your progress, always - 10 new questions a day, up to 150 in total - Unlimited redo of anything you have already answered Your progress stays on this device and in your own iCloud, and is never locked: with or without the pass, and after it expires. THE PASS: ONE PAYMENT, NO AUTO-RENEWAL It lasts 365 days from the day you buy it, it does not renew itself, and you will not be charged again. No subscription to remember to cancel. It unlocks every full practice test, the whole lesson library, and the whole question bank with no daily limit. NO DATA COLLECTED No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no advertising, no tracking, and nothing sold to anyone. Your work syncs privately between your own devices through your iCloud account and goes nowhere else. The App Privacy section on this page says "Data Not Collected" because that is literally true. Written for eighth graders sitting the TACHS for the Archdiocese of New York, the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Riverside Insights or any diocese or school.
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Verdict
Smartoo and TACHS Prep are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Smartoo sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and TACHS Prep sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smartoo | TACHS Prep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Walid Elharby | Simple Tree LLC |
In-app purchases
Smartoo
- Smartoo Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- Smartoo Premium 3 Months$9.993 Months
- Smartoo Premium Yearly Offer$14.991 Year
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- Smartoo Premium Yearly$24.991 Year
- Smartoo Premium Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
TACHS Prep
- 365-Day Pass$39.99
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