Comparison

Learning Shapes vs Arty Mouse Shapes

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

Head to head
About

Learning Shapes

Children can learn to identify and classify seven common shapes through interactive exercises and animated feedback. This educational app makes learning shapes enjoyable by incorporating sorting games with familiar items and toys.

Highlights
  • Identify common shapes
  • Sort resembling items and toys
  • Animated feedback and effects
  • Fun learning exercises
  • Progress tracking
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Start your children on a journey to learn seven common shapes: triangle, rectangle, crescent, circle, square, semicircle, and trapezoid. Let them understand and classify their toys by their shapes. It is more fun than you think! Fun features: - Identifying common shapes; - Sort resembling items and toys; - Animated feedback and effects! Make learning shapes simple for children with fun exercises. See the result with BabyBus!

About

Arty Mouse Shapes

This animated app helps children aged 3-6 develop early learning skills in shape identification and creative picture-making. It features 12 interactive activities and mini-games designed to build confidence and motor skills for writing.

Highlights
  • Interactive shape activities
  • Picture-making skills development
  • Motor skill enhancement
  • Animation and sound effects
  • Multiple languages
  • Mini play-again games
Features
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Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Shapes, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them in key early learning shape identification and picture-making skills. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive shape activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of shape-related skills including identifying, drawing, completing and manipulating to create pictures, this app also helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. Get going with Arty Mouse and create with shapes! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • Available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian. • Sound effects • Featuring Arty Mouse and his colourful friends • 12 fun themed activities to choose from • Numerous mini games to play again and again to develop confidence with shapes • Proven educational content • Encourages creative play on and off screen • Ideal for children aged 3 to 6 • Free app download including open content and in-app purchases. For more detailed information about Arty Mouse Shapes App, please visit: http://www.taptaptales.com Tap Tap Tales also has other applications such as Hello Kitty, Maya The Bee, Smurfs, Vic The viking, Shaun the Sheep, Tree Fu Tom, Heidi, Caillou and Care Bears. In Tap Tap Tales we care about your opinion. For this reason, we encourage you to rate this app and if you have any comments please send them to our e-mail address: hello@taptaptales.com. Web: http://www.taptaptales.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taptaptales Twitter: @taptaptales Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/taptaptales Our Mision Bringing joy to children and contributing to their development through the creation and publication of amazing interactive adventures full of fun educational activities. Motivating and helping the kids to accomplish the tasks of the educational game. Learning and growing with our users, adapting to their needs and sharing happy moments with them. Helping parents and teachers in their educational and caring endeavors with young children, offering them top-quality, state-of-the-art learning applications. Our Privacy Policy http://www.taptaptales.com/en_US/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Learning Shapes4 screens
Arty Mouse Shapes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Arty Mouse Shapes at 5.0 against Learning Shapes's 4.0. Arty Mouse Shapes also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). Learning Shapes's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 44 months) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Learning Shapes sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Arty Mouse Shapes 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

Arty Mouse Shapes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learning Shapes has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learning Shapes ships an update every 3 months, Arty Mouse Shapes every 44 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Learning Shapes versus Arty Mouse Shapes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearning ShapesArty Mouse Shapes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 44 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBABYBUS CO.,LTDTap Tap Tales, SL

Customer experience

Learning Shapes

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Arty Mouse Shapes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Learning Shapes

Subscriptions3
  • 连续包月SVIP$6.991 Month
  • 连续包季SVIP$19.993 Months
  • 连续包年SVIP$41.991 Year
One-time3
  • 1个月SVIP$4.99
  • 3个月SVIP$9.99
  • 1年SVIP$29.99
1 purchases

Arty Mouse Shapes

One-time1
  • Arty Mouse Buy All$0.99

Questions

Is Learning Shapes free?
Learning Shapes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arty Mouse Shapes free?
Arty Mouse Shapes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Learning Shapes or Arty Mouse Shapes?
Arty Mouse Shapes is rated higher. Learning Shapes averages 4.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Arty Mouse Shapes averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Learning Shapes or Arty Mouse Shapes have ads?
Both Learning Shapes and Arty Mouse Shapes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Learning Shapes or Arty Mouse Shapes?
Learning Shapes ships an update every 3 months, and Arty Mouse Shapes every 44 months. Most recently, Learning Shapes was updated on November 1, 2026 and Arty Mouse Shapes on November 3, 2026.

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