Comparison

Cubilo vs Mental Rotation Spatial Test

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

Head to head
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Cubilo

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Build mathematical spatial sense through hands-on practice. Cubilo offers expanding training in shape composition, mental rotation, 3D visualization, spatial memory, logic, and planning. Learners drag, rotate, flip, combine, observe, remember, reason, and construct. Clear introductions explain each objective and learning value. My provides records, six-skill analysis, and family guidance. The first 3 tasks in each activity are free. One purchase permanently unlocks training and free practice. Apple Standard EULA:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Mental Rotation Spatial Test

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Spatial thinking is a skill. Build yours. Most brain training can't honestly promise improvement. Spatial reasoning is the exception: Uttal's meta-analysis of 217 studies found that spatial training produces durable gains that transfer to new spatial tasks (effect size g ≈ 0.47). Hone Spatial is built on that evidence — and on its other finding, that teaching strategy is a large part of the effect. Every unit leads with technique, then drills it. THE TWELVE PUZZLES • Block rotation: same shape rotated, or its mirror twin? The classic Shepard–Metzler task. • Flat rotation: the same question on 2D shapes, where flips are the trap. • Paper folding: fold, punch, unfold — where are the holes? • Cube nets: which cube does this net fold into? • Cross-sections: slice a solid — what shape is the cut? • Views: which is this figure's top view? Its front view? • Block counting: hidden cubes must be there; nothing floats. • Exposed faces: six, minus the neighbours, minus the ground. • Gear trains: which way does the last gear turn, and how fast? • Pulleys: count the rope segments — that IS the mechanical advantage. • Viewpoints: stand at the arrow; what order do the objects appear? • Hidden figures: find the simple shape camouflaged in the busy drawing. STRATEGY FIRST Each family comes with the technique that actually solves it, taught with worked examples: holistic rotation, the chirality check (a mirrored figure can NEVER be rotated into its twin), the cube-net rules, folding backwards, the gear rules, the pulley rope-segment rule, sketching, and knowing when verbal encoding fails. YOUR OWN NUMBERS Your mental rotation rate in degrees per second, your mirror-catch accuracy, your accuracy by unit, your solve times — measured from your own answers, never invented. TEST PREPARATION, HONESTLY Gears, pulleys and rotation are a standing section of the ASVAB and most mechanical-aptitude batteries; the folding and rotation tasks are staples of spatial-ability tests generally. Practising here is practising that actual content. Hone Spatial is not an IQ test, produces no intelligence score, and never diagnoses anything. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No analytics. No tracking. Everything stays on your device; export or erase it all from Settings at any time. ADAPTIVE, GENERATED, FAIR Every puzzle is generated fresh from a seed with a constructed answer key — the correct answer is the actual unfolding, the actual rotation, the actual count — and each drill holds its own level, stepped from your recent scores. Guessing floors far below the promotion bar: random tapping never levels up. SUBSCRIPTION Practice and lesson texts require a Hone Spatial Pro subscription (monthly or yearly), with a free trial for eligible new subscribers. Your history and every measurement stay readable forever, subscription or not. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://studioam.art/apps/hone-spatial/privacy/

Screenshots

Cubilo4 screens
Mental Rotation Spatial Test4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cubilo at 15.0 against Mental Rotation Spatial Test's 26.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cubilo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Mental Rotation Spatial Test sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Cubilo versus Mental Rotation Spatial Test: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCubiloMental Rotation Spatial Test
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer建超 崔Hyun Sik Kim

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cubilo

One-time1
  • Unlock All Training$3.99
2 purchases

Mental Rotation Spatial Test

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Cubilo free?
Cubilo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mental Rotation Spatial Test free?
Mental Rotation Spatial Test is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cubilo or Mental Rotation Spatial Test have ads?
Neither Cubilo nor Mental Rotation Spatial Test shows ads.

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