Reckoning Skills (Privacy Friendly) vs Wa-Tor
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
Reckoning Skills (Privacy Friendly)
Privacy Friendly Reckoning Skills helps you improving your mental calculation skills in the four basic calculating operations. For each game, the player can choose between the four basic arithmetic operations and four difficulties (exercises up to 10, 100, 1000 and 10000). After finishing an exercise round the player receives a score which depends on the number of exercises answered correctly and the time it took to answer all ten exercises. After every game there is an overview which shows whether the exercises were solved correctly. It is also possible to choose "Direct Feedback" in the settings. If direct feedback is chosen, the player will receive feedback whether the exercise was solved correctly after each single exercise. How does Privacy Friendly Reckoning Skills differ from other similar apps? 1) No permissions Privacy Friendly Reckoning Skills does not require any permissions. For comparison: The Top Ten of similar apps from the Google Play Store requires an average of 3,4 permissions (in November 2017). These are for instance the location permission or the permissions to access, modify or delete storage. 2) No advertisement Moreover, Privacy Friendly Ludo distinguishes from many other applications in the way that it completely relinquishes advertisements. Advertisement might track a user's actions. It could also shorten battery life or use mobile data. This App requires minimal permissions and is part of the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Technische Universität Darmstadt. More information can be found at https://secuso.org/pfa Feel free to contact us via: Bluesky - @secusoresearch.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/secusoresearch.bsky.social Mastodon - @SECUSO_Research@bawü.social https://xn--baw-joa.social/@SECUSO_Research/ Job opening - https://secuso.aifb.kit.edu/english/Job_Offers.php
Wa-Tor
Wa-Tor simulates a torus (or donut shaped) world with two species: shark and fish. The fish happily reproduce while the shark need to eat fish to survive. Wa-Tor was devised by Alexander Keewatin Dewdney and originally presented in the December 1984 issue of Scientific American.
| Feature | Reckoning Skills (Privacy Friendly) | Wa-Tor |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | ProductivityGames | ProductivityGames |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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