Osmo Newton vs ABC Workbook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo Newton
Engage with creative physics puzzles by drawing or placing physical objects. Guide falling balls into target zones using everyday items. Experience a blend of physical and digital play.
- Draw lines to solve puzzles
- Place physical objects to interact
- Guide falling balls into targets
- Works with everyday items
- Hands-on learning experience
- Promotes creativity and problem-solving
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Solve creative physics puzzles by drawing lines or placing items in front of the screen. Play your favourite Osmo Newton on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the "Osmo Base for iPad" which can be found at playosmo.com. * Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 "..games that interact with just about any physical object—pen, paper, blocks, even toys your kids already own. - The Wall Street Journal "This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." - Forbes "Osmo has been a revolution in our family." - Wired Awarded: **Best Design** - Good Design, 2016 **Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016 **Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015 **Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014 Works with any object or drawing – Mom’s keys, hand-drawn basket, even toys you already own. Simply place the object/drawing in front of the screen and manipulate it to guide the falling balls into the target zones. About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
ABC Workbook
This app helps young children learn to trace lines, uppercase and lowercase letters, and numbers. It uses interactive graphics and sounds to make learning fun and engaging, promoting early literacy skills.
- Line tracing (standing, sleeping, slanting)
- Uppercase and lowercase letter tracing
- Number tracing
- Interactive graphics and sounds
- Phonics sounds
- English pronunciation learning
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ABC Workbook App is for learning to trace Line, Alphabets, Numbers and Small Alphabets. It's very easily with funny sound and interactive graphics. Features: - Line Tracing (Standing line, Sleeping line, Slanting line) - Uppercase and lowercase letters to trace, listen to. - Numbers letters to trace, listen to. - Just pure educational fun! Benefit: - Free preschool line, alphabet, number learning toddler game. - Awesome phonics sounds of alphabets. - Kids will learn English pronunciation from A to Z. - Simple and easy way to learn A to Z alphabets. - Kids ABC Learning and Writing game help your toddler learn the alphabet quick and with amazing sound quality. - A colourful early educational school that helps children learn the English ABC. This app does not test for accuracy, as it will help teach kids with repetition and free flow letter tracing activities. Learning the basic skills such as the alphabet by tracing the letters of the alphabet will help kids be better spellers and better readers. Happy Parenting !!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Osmo Newton at none against ABC Workbook's 1. Osmo Newton also leads on ratings volume (384 vs 34). ABC Workbook's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. ABC Workbook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Osmo Newton asks for nothing beyond the download.
ABC Workbook holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Newton has 384 ratings behind it against 34, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Osmo Newton | ABC Workbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (384 ratings) | 4.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 384 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 453 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | RAYO INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITED |
Customer experience
Osmo Newton
ABC Workbook
Bugs and requests
Osmo Newton
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Unresponsive app after recent updates
- Lorem Ipsum placeholder text stuck on screen
- Achievement page frozen preventing gameplay
- App incompatible with iPad Air 2 and 11-inch iPad
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- Camera permission prompt issues on newer iOS
- Line detection fails to recognize drawings
- Game slows down significantly with multiple balls
- App fails to load or gets stuck on loading screen
- Whiteboard compatibility issues
Requested features
8 requests- Back/front camera option for better positioning
- Pause menu functionality
- More levels beyond the current 61
- Grid screen option for better line detection
- Adjustable camera sensitivity settings
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- Better instructions and tutorial for beginners
- Start button before gameplay begins
- Support for older iPad models
ABC Workbook
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Osmo Newton
No in-app purchases
ABC Workbook
- Remove Ads$0.99
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