Abacus Practice: Mental Math
Lessons, flash & PDF drills
$0.99 · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Move wooden beads, check your answers and revisit mistakes. Try the motion and sound of Jelly and Glass skins before unlocking Pro.
Build an answer with beads. Check it, then try your mistakes again.
Abacus Practice brings Japanese soroban and mental arithmetic practice to iPhone and iPad. Use the on-screen abacus, work with your own physical soroban, or answer mentally.
LEARN AND PRACTICE
• 16 introductory lessons with bead movement demonstrations
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Flash mental arithmetic with adjustable speed and column-style drills
• Answer checking, per-question results and mistake-only review
• Start another session with your previous practice settings
CREATE YOUR OWN DRILLS
Generate problems from selected conditions and practice them in the app. Timed mock exams show answer progress and scores by subject. These are practice formats based on Japanese soroban exams, not official examinations or a guarantee of passing.
FIND YOUR FAVORITE BEADS
The standard wooden beads have a detailed natural texture. Pro adds skins including springy mint Jelly and transparent Glass, each with a distinct feel and sound. Try extra skins in the interactive preview before purchase. Sound, haptics and left-handed layout are adjustable.
FREE AND PRO
Introductory lessons, basic practice, a free abacus, and selected problem-generation and mock-exam options are available free. A one-time Pro purchase unlocks expanded practice conditions, advanced problem generation, PDF worksheet creation and sharing, additional exam levels, and extra skins. There is no monthly subscription.
No account or ads. Practice records are stored on this device.
Now available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean. Screens, all 16 introductory lessons, instructions, purchases and restore, practice history and PDFs follow your app language. Change it directly in Settings > App language inside the app; your choice applies immediately.
There are six skins in total: standard Amber is free; Pro adds Walnut, Red & Ivory, Indigo, Jelly and Glass.
The free abacus uses a large landscape board with minimal controls so you can focus on moving the beads.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Made the Settings skin list lighter to render. List thumbnails now use static images of the real abacus; tap a skin to try bead movement in its interactive preview. Non-interactive boards no longer participate in drag recognition.
Removed the duplicate keyboard-dismiss button in invoice arithmetic. The control is now beside the answer field. Hiding the keyboard preserves your entered answer.
Improved mock exam and generated-practice layouts. The complete abacus and answer controls remain visible with long questions. All problem lines can be read from first to last. Improved compact-screen and large-text layouts.
Reduced resource usage during sustained Free Abacus input. Bead images and touch sounds use bounded shared resources. Improved landscape transitions and initial screen stability.
Switch between five languages directly in the app settings, without restarting. Your choice is remembered after relaunch. Existing problem conditions and generated questions are preserved; PDFs are created in the selected language.
Translated purchase-information errors now clear correctly after the connection recovers.
Now available in Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean. Screens, all 16 introductory lessons, instructions, purchases and restore, practice history and PDFs follow your app language. Change it directly in Settings > App language inside the app; your choice applies immediately.
Improved practice layouts and answer checking. Fixed Clear, sign and keyboard controls and landscape clipping. The free abacus now uses a large landscape board and returns to a portrait layout on exit. Improved question generation for repeat sessions and added completion celebrations. Refined the six bead skins, colors and previews before purchase, mock-exam answer review, problem creation, PDF sharing and records.
The developer, SMART BIT K.K, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- SMART BIT, K.K.
- Size
- 18.9 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 4 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pro Unlock $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Smartbit
