Comparison

Shapes Flashcards & Activities vs Simple Shape Sort

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Interactive shape flashcards
  • Drag and match shapes game
  • Touch the shape quiz
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Multiple languages and voiceovers
  • Montessori and PreK friendly
Features
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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/

About

Simple Shape Sort

This educational game allows users of all ages to drag and drop colorful shapes into corresponding holes. It offers a simple, engaging way to learn shape recognition. Proceeds from optional in-app purchases support the developer's children's college fund.

Highlights
  • Drag and drop shape sorting
  • Colorful shape designs
  • Intuitive gameplay
  • Educational for all ages
  • No advertisements
Features
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This app for all ages lets you drag and drop colorful shapes into matching holes. There are no ADs in this game, but there is a single in-app purchase to unlock all of the shape packs. This is a game that I made for my kids and the proceeds from any purchases go towards their college fund.

Screenshots

Shapes Flashcards & Activities3 screens
Simple Shape Sort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Simple Shape Sort at 5.0 against Shapes Flashcards & Activities's 4.2. Simple Shape Sort also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Shapes Flashcards & Activities's advantage is ratings volume (87 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Shapes Flashcards & Activities sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Simple Shape Sort sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Simple Shape Sort holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shapes Flashcards & Activities has 87 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shapes Flashcards & Activities versus Simple Shape Sort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShapes Flashcards & ActivitiesSimple Shape Sort
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (87 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings87 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaveed AbbasFesta Tech LLC

Customer experience

Shapes Flashcards & Activities

All ratings88 ratings
Positive78.4%
Neutral5.7%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews44 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative20.5%

Simple Shape Sort

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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)
Show 2 more
  • Improve German translation on purchase screen
  • Change voice to 'Smith' for better pronunciation

Simple Shape Sort

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Shapes Flashcards & Activities

Subscriptions2
  • No Ads$0.991 Month
  • Remove Ads$2.991 Year
One-time1
  • Shapes for Kids$4.99
1 purchases

Simple Shape Sort

One-time1
  • Unlock All Shapes$1.99

Questions

Is Shapes Flashcards & Activities free?
Shapes Flashcards & Activities is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Shape Sort free?
Simple Shape Sort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shapes Flashcards & Activities or Simple Shape Sort?
Simple Shape Sort is rated higher. Shapes Flashcards & Activities averages 4.2 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Simple Shape Sort averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Shapes Flashcards & Activities or Simple Shape Sort have ads?
Shapes Flashcards & Activities shows ads; Simple Shape Sort does not.

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