The Monsters by Tinybop vs Thinkrolls Space
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Monsters by Tinybop
Transform shadows into unique, imaginative creatures. Customize their features, bring them to life with emotions, and interact with them through play, sound, and even selfies. This open-ended building app encourages creativity for children.
- Create unique monsters from shadows
- Customize monster features and appearance
- Animate monsters with emotions
- Feed monsters and make them sing/dance
- Take monster selfies
- Explore different rooms and play areas
- Record custom monster sounds
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Turn shadows on the wall into wild and wooly creatures. Give them googly eyes, tiny arms, too many horns, spotted tails, or sparkly fur — any assortment of fantastical features that you like. Bring your monsters to life! Make them happy or sad, nervous or bad, lovely or mad. Feed them radioactive snacks and make them sing and dance. Take a monster selfie and decorate with stickers. Make the monsters of your dreams! “Weird, but in a good way” — Geeks with Juniors "A wonderful aesthetic experience" — Warren Buckleitner, Children's Technology Review The Monsters is the third app in Tinybop’s Digital Toys, a series of open-ended building apps that let kids ages 4+ create, play with, and collect whatever they can imagine. The second is The Everything Machine, an App Store Editors’ Choice and Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice. The first, The Robot Factory, is a Parents’ Choice Gold Award winner and the iPad App of the Year. FEATURES + Make monsters! Turn shadows into the creatures of your dreams...or nightmares. Millions of monsters are possible. + Give your monsters lots of arms and legs. Stretch or shrink their limbs as you like. + Add all kinds of eyes, mouths, and horns to your monsters. Give them scales or fur, feathers or hair. + Paint your monster with different colors, sparkles, spots, scales, and more! + Make happy, sad, scared, or mad monsters. What will yours be like? + Explore different rooms. In the closet, turn shadows into monsters. Keep and play with all your creations in a haunted hall. + Pop into the photo booth and take selfies with your monsters. + Have a monster battle! + Make your monsters speak. Explore the sound library or record your own monster sounds. + Intuitive, safe, and kid-friendly design. + Multi-user system: each child can create and save their own monsters. + Entertaining for kids and adults alike. + No in-app purchases or 3rd party advertising. + Original artwork by Tianhua Mao. + Original sound design. Privacy Policy We take your and your child’s privacy seriously. While none of our apps collect personally identifiable information, Monsters does not collect any analytics data, including usage data. We do not include third-party advertising or have in-app purchases in this app. If the camera, microphone, and other services are used in an app, your information is not collected or distributed outside of your device. The images are not transmitted to us, Tinybop has no access to them. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. About Tinybop is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow. We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop See us: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! Reach out: hi@tinybop.com. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop.
Thinkrolls Space
Embark on an interstellar adventure with this child-friendly puzzle game. Guide colorful characters through over 200 unique mazes across seven planets, using logic and physics to overcome obstacles and unlock new alien companions.
- Over 200 logic and physics puzzles
- Seven unique themed planets
- 24 collectible alien characters
- Two difficulty modes
- Unlimited penalty-free retries
- Enhances logic and problem-solving skills
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*** Featured as "App of the Day" on the App Store! *** Thinkrolls Space is a child-friendly puzzle game that’s out of this world. Colorful heroes boldly roll where no Thinkroll has rolled before, in over 200 mazes set across seven unique planets. A cast of oddball aliens will make you grin from ear to ear. But you’ll need brains and nimble fingers to reach your goal—and catch the waiting UFO that will beam your Thinkroll to the next fun-filled planet. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Thinkrolls and Thinkrolls 2 introduced our revolving heroes. Thinkrolls: Kings & Queens added exciting new concepts—and dragons. Now Thinkrolls Space blasts the award-winning series into outer space. You’ll meet goo monsters, bleeping robots, spring-like soprano aliens, and cheese monsters who love munching moon cheese. You’ll face vanishing rainbow bridges, plasma fields, teleporters—and more. Each of these can help or hinder. You must figure out which—and how to move and match objects to clear a path, get the key, and open a gate to the next level. REACH FOR THE STARS Two difficulty modes and unlimited penalty-free retries ensure the 200+ level journey is stress-free for children and adults alike. Along the way, stars and hearts can be collected, and later used to unlock 24 unique alien Thinkrolls. Throughout, players are encouraged to experiment. They will learn through trial and error to combine elements, and build on successive lessons to strengthen creative thinking, logic, problem solving, spatial cognition, and memory. Don’t be surprised when even younger players start thinking several moves ahead, in this fun, inventive, family-friendly combination of physics problems, logic puzzles, and exciting platform gaming! GAME FEATURES • 110 easy levels for ages 5+ • 108 hard levels for ages 8+ • Explore 7 bizarre, unique themed planets • 24 quirky alien Thinkrolls to collect • Gather hearts and stars and use them to unlock new aliens • Unlimited retries, and no time limits—play at your own pace • Enhances logic, problem solving, memory, strategic thinking, and perseverance • Store up to six separate player profiles • Intuitive, easy to understand touchscreen controls • Original concept, artwork, and sound design • COPPA and GDPR compliant; no third party ads; no in-app purchases • No internet connection required ------------------------------------------ *** Featured as "App of the Day" and "Best New App" on the Today tab and Home page of the App Store! *** 5 stars by Common Sense Media - "The adorable Thinkrolls and their sometimes maddening puzzle worlds will captivate kids of all ages, including some adults." *** Editor's Choice by Children's Technology Review (score 98%) ------------------------------------------ PRIVACY POLICY We respect our users’ privacy! We do not collect, store, or share any personal or location data. Thinkrolls Space does not contain third party ads and is safe for families and young children. Read our privacy policy: http://avokiddo.com/privacy-policy. ABOUT AVOKIDDO Avokiddo is an award-winning creative studio specializing in the development of quality educational apps for children. Hand-in-hand with kids, we design unique experiences crafted with love! Read more about us at avokiddo.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Thinkrolls Space at 3.4K against The Monsters by Tinybop's 62. Thinkrolls Space also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 75%). The Monsters by Tinybop's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 11.0). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
The Monsters by Tinybop costs $2.99 and Thinkrolls Space $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thinkrolls Space holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thinkrolls Space has 3.4K ratings behind it against 62, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of The Monsters by Tinybop's written reviews are positive against 93% of Thinkrolls Space's.
The Monsters by Tinybop ships an update every 6 months, Thinkrolls Space every 8 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | The Monsters by Tinybop | Thinkrolls Space |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $5.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (62 ratings) | 4.6 (3.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.6% of reviews | 92.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 | 3.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tinybop Inc. | AVOKIDDO |
Customer experience
The Monsters by Tinybop
Thinkrolls Space
Bugs and requests
The Monsters by Tinybop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Thinkrolls Space
Reported bugs
2 issues- Stuck on certain levels
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More planets and levels
- Easier difficulty options
- Ability to reset progress
In-app purchases
The Monsters by Tinybop
No in-app purchases
Thinkrolls Space
No in-app purchases
Questions
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