Cubelets Updater vs Spike™ LEGO® Education
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cubelets Updater
This app connects to Bluetooth Cubelets, allowing real-time construction updates and remote control of up to six robot blocks. It also supports upgrading older Cubelets to the latest operating system.
- Real-time construction map updates
- Remote control of up to six Cubelets
- Steer Drive blocks
- Activate Flashlight blocks
- Read Distance block output
- Upgrade Cubelets OS
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Cubelets robot blocks are a fast and easy way to inspire kids to become better thinkers. The Cubelets app connects to your Bluetooth Cubelet, and allows you to play with Cubelets in new ways. Connect to your Bluetooth Cubelet and see a map of your Cubelets update in real time as you change your construction. Then, select up to six Cubelets to remote control them. Steer your Drive blocks around, light up your Flashlight block, or read the output from the Distance blocks on your robot. This app supports Cubelets OS 4, a new operating system for Cubelets. If you have older Cubelets, you may upgrade them to OS 4 in the app.
Spike™ LEGO® Education
This app facilitates playful STEAM learning for students, designed to work with specific LEGO® Education kits. It helps develop computational thinking through coding, encourages building and experimentation, and supports programming for various projects and competitions.
- Icon-block, word-block, and text-based coding
- Develop computational thinking
- Build, tinker, and experiment with LEGO® creations
- Program and debug designs
- Create stories with LEGO® Minifigures
- Prepare for FIRST® LEGO® League competitions
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Engage every student in playful STEAM learning with the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ App. Designed for use with the LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Portfolio, the SPIKE App is a powerful tool that helps teachers facilitate engaging, hands-on STEAM learning. When combined with SPIKE Essential or SPIKE Prime, the SPIKE App allows students to: - Develop computational thinking skills using a progression of icon-block, word-block, and text-based coding. - Build, tinker, and experiment - progressing from simple creations to complex structures. - Learn to program, test and tweak designs, debug and optimize, create stories with LEGO® Minifigures, prepare for FIRST® LEGO® League competitions, and more! *** IMPORTANT*** This is not a standalone educational app. This app is used to program LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Essential and LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime, which are sold separately. Please contact your local LEGO Education reseller for further information. LEARN MORE: LEGOeducation.com/Teacher-resources For app support, contact LEGO® Education at https://support.legoeducation.com. LEGO, the LEGO logo and the SPIKE logo are trademarks and/or copyrights of the LEGO Group. FIRST® LEGO® League is a jointly held trademark of FIRST® and the LEGO Group. ©2026 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spike™ LEGO® Education at 4.7 against Cubelets Updater's 2.6. Spike™ LEGO® Education also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 33%) and ratings volume (3.7K vs 5). Cubelets Updater's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spike™ LEGO® Education holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spike™ LEGO® Education has 3.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Cubelets Updater's written reviews are positive against 68% of Spike™ LEGO® Education's.
Cubelets Updater ships an update every 6 months, Spike™ LEGO® Education every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cubelets Updater | Spike™ LEGO® Education |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 68.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 3.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 227 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Modular Robotics | LEGO Education |
Customer experience
Cubelets Updater
Spike™ LEGO® Education
Bugs and requests
Cubelets Updater
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Spike™ LEGO® Education
Reported bugs
3 issues- Bluetooth connection issues
- Unable to flash hub or connect
- Incompatibility with programs written in previous version
Requested features
5 requests- Hub-to-hub control
- RC features
- Merge Inventor app into one
- Add more color options for color sensor
- Bring back Python coding support
In-app purchases
Cubelets Updater
No in-app purchases
Spike™ LEGO® Education
No in-app purchases
Questions
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