Fractio vs Help Assist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fractio
A versatile calculator designed for everyday use, handling numbers, fractions, and various measurements like linear, area, volume, and weight. It offers a natural display format and essential functions for common calculations.
- Fractional and decimal notation
- Linear, area, volume, and weight calculations
- US and metric unit conversions
- Natural number display
- Memory, rounding, percentage, trig, and log functions
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Fractio is a calculator for people that deal with plans, patterns, models, recipes, etc. In addition to plain numbers using either decimal or fractional notation, it can calculate linear measurements, areas, volumes, and weights, all in a variety of units including US and metric units. It includes easy conversion between the supported measurement units. Fractio displays numbers in "natural" format (not scientific notation), and is intended to calculate numbers that people use commonly. It includes memory, rounding, percentage, square/square root, trig, and log functions. Send bug reports, feature requests, etc to FractioApp@gmail.com
Help Assist
This app helps users communicate by displaying words and phrases in various languages, which can then be spoken aloud. It's designed for travelers, those with speech difficulties, or anyone needing to bridge a language gap in everyday situations or emergencies.
- Display words by category
- Pronounce words in chosen language
- Supports English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, Hindi
- Intuitive tilt controls for navigation and pronunciation
- Useful for travel and emergencies
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Speech problems with the desire to express a basic foreign word? In another country as a tourist who cannot communicate with the people there? Or maybe you’re having an emergency. No problem, your phone will speak for you. If you have any of these problems, this app helps you by displaying a list of words, under a category, that will be visible in a language you understand and pronounced in either the same language, or another language of your choice. The language options at the current version are English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Korean, and Hindi. Controls: To change categories, turn your phone to the left or right. Once you are in the category you want, tilt your phone up or down. To pronounce the selected word, tilt your phone to the left or right.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Help Assist at 5.0 against Fractio's 3.2. Fractio's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Help Assist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fractio has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Fractio ships an update every 9 months, Help Assist every 21 months. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.
| Parameter | Fractio | Help Assist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.2 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | James Campbell | WLADIMIR MEDINA |
Customer experience
Fractio
Help Assist
In-app purchases
Fractio
No in-app purchases
Help Assist
No in-app purchases
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