hocus. vs Bella and Pan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
Bella and Pan
This math adventure app offers a journey through arithmetic challenges for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade. It features four difficulty levels, optional visual teaching aids, and engaging gameplay that progresses with correct answers. Play offline with no account required.
- Math challenges for K-5
- Four difficulty levels
- Optional visual teaching aids
- Offline play
- No account required
- Multiple language support
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Bella and Pan™ is a handmade math adventure with challenges for children in Kindergarten through 5th grade (U.S. K–5). Four difficulties offer a path from first addition to multiplication, division and order of operations, all within an imaginative journey through a world of well-loved stuffed animals. Math practice includes optional visual teaching. Turn a question card over to see the problem broken into smaller steps. Animated steps and written calculations explain how to find the missing number. Children can follow or replay the working, then try the same question themselves. Learning help is available in the iPhone and iPad Adventure, including compatible Macs. The Apple Watch game does not include learning help. Every correct answer moves the journey forward. Choose Bella or Pan, explore three connected Chapters, meet new friends and sail across Goldtide Sea in search of the missing toys and stuffed animals belonging to the children of Pebble Village. Earn Adventure Coins, discover personal bests and return to My Scores to see how each journey went. FOUR DIFFICULTIES Practice grows from kindergarten foundations to fifth-grade arithmetic challenges (U.S. K–5). Sixth graders and older children can revisit those foundations, too. Choose by your child's skills and confidence; grade ranges are a guide, not a limit. - Easy: Build confidence with addition, plus gentle subtraction in Kiko's and Brooklyn's challenges. Around U.S. grades K–1. - Medium: Practice addition, subtraction and missing numbers. Around U.S. grades 1–2. - Hard: Build multiplication skills and tackle larger subtraction problems. Around U.S. grades 2–3. - Expert: Explore multiplication facts through 12, division with whole-number answers, parentheses and short problems that combine operations. Around U.S. grades 3–5. Questions gradually grow more challenging within each difficulty. There is no answer deadline. A Parents guide explains the choices, and the difficulty shield beside the Chapter progress bar lets you choose another difficulty and restart the Adventure. Completed scores remain saved and grouped by difficulty. ONE PURCHASE - Three connected Chapters with animated characters, music and sound. - Written interface and story in English, Spanish, Polish, German and French. Audio remains in its original language. - Play offline, with no account required. - No advertising or in-app purchases. - No gameplay analytics or tracking; progress and scores stay on the device. - Portrait and landscape play on iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. - Music and sound-effects controls, plus parent-gated external links. Bella and Pan began with Brooklyn's drawings and a shared love of math. Created by a father and daughter, it brings imagination, learning and adventure together in a world of stuffed-animal friends. Made with love by Brooklyn & Dad at BKRXY. Bella also comes along on Apple Watch. Choose Easy, Medium, Hard or Expert and solve five math questions in a short round. See your answer time and attempts, then return to My Scores to compare your best results within each Difficulty. Watch rounds and scores stay separate from the iPhone and iPad Adventure. The Watch game is included with the same purchase.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bella and Pan at 5.0 against hocus.'s 4.3. Bella and Pan also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). hocus.'s advantage is ratings volume (234 vs 6) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
hocus. costs $1.99 and Bella and Pan $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bella and Pan holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: hocus. has 234 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of hocus.'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Bella and Pan's.
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Bella and Pan daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | hocus. | Bella and Pan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 234 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 536 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | BKRXY LLC |
Customer experience
hocus.
Bella and Pan
In-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
Bella and Pan
No in-app purchases









