Comparison

hocus. vs Bella and Pan

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
  • Create and share custom levels
  • Load levels from pictures
  • Endless mode
  • AI-assisted gameplay
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Math challenges for K-5
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Optional visual teaching aids
  • Offline play
  • No account required
  • Multiple language support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

hocus.4 screens
Bella and Pan4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Bella and Pan daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
hocus. versus Bella and Pan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterhocus.Bella and Pan
Price$1.99 — better$4.99
Rating4.3 (234 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings234 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB536 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETIBKRXY LLC

Customer experience

hocus.

All ratings234 ratings
Positive80.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.2%

Bella and Pan

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

hocus.

No in-app purchases

None

Bella and Pan

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hocus. free?
hocus. costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bella and Pan free?
Bella and Pan costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, hocus. or Bella and Pan?
Bella and Pan is rated higher. hocus. averages 4.3 out of 5 from 234 ratings, while Bella and Pan averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do hocus. or Bella and Pan have ads?
Neither hocus. nor Bella and Pan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hocus. or Bella and Pan?
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, and Bella and Pan daily. Most recently, hocus. was updated on November 13, 2026 and Bella and Pan on November 13, 2026.

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