Shapes Flashcards & Activities vs Math Learning Train
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shapes Flashcards & Activities
This app teaches young children basic 2D and 3D shapes through interactive flashcards and engaging mini-games. It helps develop memory, cognitive skills, and hand-eye coordination, making learning shapes fun and effective for preschoolers.
- Interactive shape flashcards
- Drag and match shapes game
- Touch the shape quiz
- Spaced repetition learning
- Multiple languages and voiceovers
- Montessori and PreK friendly
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Basic Shapes help building the memory and cognitive skills as the brain starts to relate real world objects with the basic shapes. Memorizing the 2D Shapes and 3D shapes helps the young minds to relate the real world objects with shapes that develops communication skills, basic cognition and cognitive abilities and also helps in mathematics and geometry later in their age. Shapes Flashcards & Activities is teaches the young minds about basic 2D shapes and 3D shapes using fun to learn interactive educational activities. The app is baked with three activities that provides an ideal amount of knowledge about shapes. It helps to memorize the basic shapes (square, rectangle, circle, etc), advanced shapes (pentagon, hexagon etc) and 3D shapes (sphere, cylinder, cube, pyramid, prism etc) using mini games that keeps motivated to repeatedly use the app. The first of them is a Shape Flashcard activity that uses spaced repetition technique. This technique teaches the shapes subconsciously in 8 months to 2 years. It presents the shapes in an adequate size on the screen and helps the parents and teachers to easily present basic shapes in the homes and in the classroom. The app also has a drag and match shapes activity. It is a fun activity that not only teaches the basic shapes but also develops hand-eye coordination. This is suitable for 2 years to 4 years of age. Touch the Shape is a fun and adaptive shapes quiz that keep asking to touch the required shape. The app works as an interactive first book of shapes that proves its value over time. It is far better to provide educational activity apps rather than uncontrolled youtube streaming. The app is provided in 6 different languages and two voiceovers are provided for every language. The app is an educational resource and is ideal to be used as a reinforcement tool to teach the shapes in Montessori, PreK, Nursery, kindergarten students. —— Activities —— Shape Flashcard Drag and Match Shapes Touch the Shape —— Features —— - Carefully selected shapes and colors - Multiple Fonts are provided - Shapes Quiz - Available in six different languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian) - Carefully designed user interface. - 2 Studio quality Voiceovers - High Quality Pictures - Animations and Sound We at Holiday Educationist have a team of certified teachers onboard to consult and proof-read the apps' content for the optimum quality assurance. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Math Learning Train
This educational app helps children master basic math through repetitive exercises. It ensures concepts are memorized before advancing, with individual progress tracking for up to ten users. The full version offers a wide range of arithmetic combinations.
- Repetitive exercise strategy for memorization
- Individual user profiles (up to 10)
- Progress tracking per user
- Comprehensive exercise combinations (1-10 operands)
- Supports addition and subtraction
- Age-appropriate for young learners
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The application is designed for kids to learn simple math exercises. It is a course type application and has the incorrect answer exercise repeating strategy, to help kids to memorize the exercises. It will not let the child to pass the exercise until the exercise is memorized. The application has the option of adding multiple (up to 10) users and keeps the records individually for each user. The full version contains every single combination of exercises from 1 to 10 of 1st and 2nd operand and some operation with 0 and some above 10.(from 1+1 to 9+10, 10 +10 or 1-1 to 20 - 10 in subtraction case)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Math Learning Train at none against Shapes Flashcards & Activities's shown. Math Learning Train also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume, 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. Shapes Flashcards & Activities sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Math Learning Train sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Math Learning Train holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 87 and 61 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Shapes Flashcards & Activities's written reviews are positive against 100% of Math Learning Train's.
Shapes Flashcards & Activities ships an update every 9 months, Math Learning Train every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shapes Flashcards & Activities | Math Learning Train |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (87 ratings) | 4.5 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | 61 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Naveed Abbas | Mikhail Magurean |
Customer experience
Shapes Flashcards & Activities
Math Learning Train
Bugs and requests
Shapes Flashcards & Activities
Reported bugs
5 issues- Ads showing after payment
- Volume not working
- Incorrect pronunciation of shapes (e.g., square called area)
- Oral text does not match written text
- Flower not recognizable menu button
Requested features
7 requests- Add more shapes
- Add more 3D shapes
- Add more interactivity
- Add simple tests
- Add more categories (animals, colors, numbers)
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- Improve German translation on purchase screen
- Change voice to 'Smith' for better pronunciation
Math Learning Train
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shapes Flashcards & Activities
- No Ads$0.991 Month
- Remove Ads$2.991 Year
- Shapes for Kids$4.99
Math Learning Train
- Full version$1.99
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