Cube Coach vs Turnsmith

MOST CUBE APPS JUST SOLVE THE CUBE FOR YOU. CUBE COACH 3x3 TEACHES YOU HOW TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF. Twenty-five hands-on lessons on a live 3D cube, from never-having-solved to sub-20-second CFOP. Every lesson lets you scan your real cube, then walks you through the moves on screen — one step at a time, exactly the moves you need from the exact state of your cube. THREE COURSES. TWENTY-FIVE LESSONS. • Foundations — Notation (free), the white cross (free), first layer corners (free), middle edges (premium), last layer (premium). Your first full solve. • Intuitive F2L (premium) — Pair up corners + edges and slot them together. The transition from beginner to intermediate speedcubing. • 2-Look OLL & PLL (premium) — Ten OLL algorithms + six PLL algorithms, with recognition drills under timer pressure. THE KILLER FEATURE — STATE-AWARE SOLVES In every lesson, tap "Capture your cube" to scan your physical cube with the camera, then tap "Solve {step name} from this state." Cube Coach shows you the exact moves to reach just that step's goal — not the whole solve, not the next ten steps, just what the lesson is teaching. Step through Prev / Play / Next on the 3D cube while mirroring the moves on your real cube in your hands. THIS IS HOW HUMANS LEARN. NOT HOW SOLVERS SOLVE. The mid-stage solvers don't use a black-box optimizer. They emit the named algorithms each lesson teaches — Sune, R U R' U', the A-perm — so what you watch on screen is what you'll eventually do from memory. WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE FREE TIER • Three Foundations lessons + a cube solver • Speedcubing timer with WCA-style Ao5 / Ao12 / best-single tracking • Scrambler with full WCA random move sequences • 3D cube playground — scramble, twist by tap or drag, solve from any state • Capture your physical cube via the camera or paint it in by hand • Save and load cube snapshots so you can return to a state later WHAT'S INCLUDED IN PREMIUM ($8.99 one-time, lifetime) • All Foundations lessons • Every lesson in Intuitive F2L (10 lessons) + 2-Look OLL & PLL (7 lessons) • Ad-free everywhere ONE-TIME PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. YOURS FOREVER. Cube Coach is built around one idea: the difference between watching a solve and actually solving the cube is muscle memory. Every interaction in the app — capture, step, play, scramble, time, drill — is designed to move algorithms from the screen into your hands. PRIVACY No accounts. No tracking across other apps. No analytics SDKs. Cube Coach stores your solves and lesson progress on-device only. The camera is used solely to read sticker colors during cube capture — frames are processed in-memory and never written to disk or transmitted off-device. Built for iPhone and iPad. Universal app. Free to download.

Stuck on a scrambled cube? Turnsmith shows you how to solve it, one quarter turn at a time, on a 3D cube that turns exactly like the one in your hands. COPY YOUR CUBE Paint the colors face by face while the cube on screen turns to show you which face comes next. Tap to paint, drag to paint a whole row, and undo anything. If a color is wrong, Turnsmith says where: which color is counted twice, which piece cannot exist, and which square is probably the culprit. FOLLOW THE MOVES Every move is shown on the 3D cube with a brass arrow, in words ("the right column goes up, away from you") and in notation. Go at your own pace, set how long each move holds, step back, scrub, or turn the view with a finger. Solutions for the 3x3 are about 20 moves, worked out in under a second, entirely on your device. A TWISTED CORNER? A FLIPPED EDGE? If a piece was turned or popped out by hand, Turnsmith spots it, solves everything else, and tells you exactly which piece to fix with your fingers. LEARN TO SOLVE IT YOURSELF Eight short lessons for the 3x3 and four for the 2x2 teach the beginner method, each with demos and practice cubes. Coach my cube solves your own cube the same way, lesson by lesson. TIME YOUR SOLVES A competition-style timer: hold to start, 15-second inspection with calls at 8 and 12, +2 and DNF, sessions, averages of 5, 12, 50 and 100, a chart and your full history to export. Optional Game Center leaderboards and achievements. PATTERNS AND FLAGS Checkerboards, cube in a cube, the superflip and more, plus flags from around the world. Play any pattern from a solved cube or straight from your own, undo it just as quickly, or design your own and let Turnsmith find the moves. MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE - Works offline, with no account and no sign-up - Designs for your cube, including a color-blind design with a shape on every color - Dark and light appearances, larger text, VoiceOver and Reduce Motion - iPhone and iPad, iOS 15 and newer FAIR AND SIMPLE Nothing is locked away: every puzzle, solution, lesson and pattern, and the timer. A small banner appears only on the pattern, lesson and statistics lists, and an occasional short ad after a finished solution, never while you are solving. Ads are non-personalized and suitable for all ages. Remove Ads is a single purchase, not a subscription, and also unlocks every design.