Colored Dots vs Allern Active
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colored Dots
This interactive story app for young children explores the world of colors and their connections to nature, geography, and daily life. It aims to spark curiosity, develop logical thinking, and foster emotional intelligence through engaging visuals and gameplay.
- Interactive color cognition story
- Explores color relationships with nature and life
- Develops intelligence and emotions
- Fresh and vivid images
- Enhances curiosity and logical thinking
- Includes color vision detection charts
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About the story: The story of "Colored Dots" not only inspired children's interested in color, also triggered their enthusiasm in playing the game of colorful lab and lead them thinking about the relationship of colors with security, plant, body, geography, art, natural and life. The positive story let children understand solidarity and friendship as well as courageousness. Children will enjoy in the wonderful and colorful story. Characteristic of our product: * The world's first interactive story relate to colour cognition specially designed for 3 to 6 years old kids. * From this interactive story which adheres to children's development at preschool ages, children are able to undergo a wide variety of educational experiences, exploring the relationship between colour and nature, geography and daily life, make friends with colour in a fun way, and develop both intelligence and emotions with a simple swipe of the finger. * Fresh and vivid images as well as excellent visual effects to satisfy preschool children's tastes allow them to enjoy a brand new reading experience. * Participate in the magic process of changing colors, explore the secret of the three primary colors and inhance natural curiosity and logical thinking abilities. * Includes numerous sets of colour vision detection charts to keep on top of children's visual health. Contact us: support_ukids@uyoung.com.cn
Allern Active
This educational app complements physical workbooks by offering video explanations for each question. Students can scan QR codes within their books to access digital lessons, aiding in concept revision and convenient learning anytime, anywhere.
- Video explanations for workbook questions
- QR code scanning for digital content
- Supports prescribed board syllabi
- Practice question/answer format
- Digital revision and concept explanation
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A student registered Allern Active app supports books physically printed and published by our various publishing partners such as Chetana & Subhas in association with Allern with a video “Teacher in the WorkBook” comprehensively across the prescribed board syllabus. These printed WorkBooks are in “Question/Answer” format as per the prescribed board syllabus. Every question in the WorkBook will have a blank space for the student user to write and practice the answer and will also have a unique printed Allern Active QR code next to it which when scanned by a recognized smart device links the student user digitally back to a video of the teacher who will explain each and every question and answer in the WorkBook. It helps the student revise the concepts briefly and conveniently or get the answers explained as the need may be anywhere/anytime digitally. The Allern Active Workbooks are available at your nearest bookstore. You could also order them from online marketplaces. The Allern Active app is absolutely free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colored Dots at 65% against Allern Active's 16%. Colored Dots also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.4). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Colored Dots holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Colored Dots's written reviews are positive against 16% of Allern Active's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and June 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Dots | Allern Active |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews — better | 15.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 北京优趣时光文化科技有限公司 | Apoorv Kumar |
Customer experience
Colored Dots
Allern Active
In-app purchases
Colored Dots
No in-app purchases
Allern Active
No in-app purchases






