Folded BY vs Origami Pic&Text Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Folded BY
Explore origami through video tutorials that teach you how to create figures and understand the underlying mathematical principles. This app is designed to help K-12 students develop abstract thinking, problem-solving skills, and an interest in engineering.
- Origami figure tutorials
- Origami math principles
- Abstract thinking development
- Problem-solving confidence
- Engineering concepts
- Video guidance
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Learn to make origami figures and understand origami math principles through easy video tutorials. The Folded BY-U application aims to reach and engage K-12 students, their parents and educators. The goal of this application is to be an excellent tool to help these groups to practice abstract thinking skills, develop problem solving confidence and broaden their ideas of what engineering is about. It builds on the familiarity and low barriers of entry of origami, in that it uses simple materials, is tactile, artistic and fun , as a means to move from elementary shapes and geometry, to more complex movements, materials, and mathematics as tools for engineering problem solving. This application has been created in collaboration with Brigham Young University's Museum of Art and Compliant Mechanisms Research for the Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami exhibit. This application focuses on three primary groups: 1) those preparing to attend the Museum Exhibit, 2) those that are at the Museum Exhibit or as a take-home activity after the exhibit, and 3) a separate experience for those students that will not have the opportunity to attend the exhibit.
Origami Pic&Text Guide
Learn to create various paper art with step-by-step graphic instructions. This app offers a teaching encyclopedia for animals, plants, and more, suitable for children, parents, and craft enthusiasts. Enhance creativity, fine motor skills, and parent-child interaction.
- Step-by-step graphic explanations
- Variety of origami categories (animals, plants, etc.)
- Improves fine motor skills
- Develops creativity and imagination
- Enhances parent-child interaction
- Suitable for all ages
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Origami video graphic teaching includes various kinds of origami teaching such as animals, plants, daily necessities, vehicles and toys. It helps children and adults who want to learn origami to turn a piece of paper into a beautiful paper art step by step through graphic explanation. If you are a child, you can learn all kinds of folding methods of origami through the teaching encyclopedia to improve your deep thinking about the structure of things; If you are a parent, you can teach your children in the teaching encyclopedia to increase the interaction between you and your children; If you are a craftsman, you can refer to the folding methods in the teaching book for inspiration, so that you can create new paper crafts Origami is a kind of hand-made game to provide entertainment, which can improve hands-on ability, develop intelligence and improve people's innovative thinking ability. Origami works not only have decorative effect, but also have good practical value, which can greatly enrich people's life. What are the advantages of origami for children? 1. Origami is very suitable for children's fine exercise, can exercise children's finger flexibility, as well as hand eye coordination. 2. Origami needs to be done step by step. It can cultivate children's ability to do things in an orderly way 3. Origami can also cultivate children's observation and attention. 4. As origami is ever-changing, children's creativity, imagination and image thinking ability can be developed through origami. 5. After a child folds an origami work, it will bring him / her a sense of accomplishment. 6. When making origami, we often communicate with teachers, classmates and parents. It not only promotes the harmony among students, teachers and parents, but also develops children's language expression and communication skills. 7. Origami is a very good parent-child game In addition, origami art can also improve children's artistic accomplishment. If you have any good origami making methods, you are welcome to provide them to us. Contact email :sairlen@qq.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Folded BY at 5.0 against Origami Pic&Text Guide's 3.6. Folded BY also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Origami Pic&Text Guide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Folded BY asks for nothing beyond the download.
Folded BY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively.
Folded BY ships an update every 3 weeks, Origami Pic&Text Guide every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Folded BY | Origami Pic&Text Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.6 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.1 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 167 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brigham Young University | 杰超 杨 |
Customer experience
Folded BY
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In-app purchases
Folded BY
No in-app purchases
Origami Pic&Text Guide
- Remove advertisement$0.99
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