Comparison

Colored Dots vs HMH Go

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

HMH Go

This app provides K-12 students with on-the-go access to educational content from HMH's core curricula. It allows for offline learning, downloading materials, and utilizing media-rich features like read-along audio and annotations.

Highlights
  • Offline content access
  • Downloadable learning materials
  • Read-along audio
  • Annotations and highlighting
  • Bookmark functionality
  • Content management and filtering
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HMH Go™ extends K-12 students’ learning beyond the classroom – offering on-the-go learning, regardless of device or connectivity. This app serves as a companion app to HMH’s core curricula on Ed: Your Friend in Learning® – allowing students to download HMH content and work offline. Simply use your HMH® user name and password to access intuitive, connected learning. Check out some of the ways HMH Go™ lets you enjoy a seamless, offline experience: • Provides select content from Ed: Your Friend in Learning® • Offers media-rich features including read-along audio, annotations, highlighting book-marking - online AND offline – with much more to come! • Allows users to download materials from an individual resource to a larger unit of learning • Enables users to easily manage and filter their downloads **Note: HMH Content cannot be purchased via this app, it is an application for educational institutions to access HMH Content they have purchased and licensed from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Screenshots

Colored Dots4 screens
HMH Go4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colored Dots at 65% against HMH Go's 22%. Colored Dots also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.0). HMH Go's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Colored Dots holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HMH Go has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Colored Dots's written reviews are positive against 22% of HMH Go's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Colored Dots ships an update every 2 months, HMH Go every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Colored Dots versus HMH Go: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColored DotsHMH Go
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better2.1 (80 ratings)
Positive reviews65.0% of reviews — better22.2% of reviews
Number of ratings180 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size226 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer北京优趣时光文化科技有限公司Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Customer experience

Colored Dots

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive65.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative15.0%

HMH Go

All ratings71 ratings
Positive26.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative69.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive22.2%
Neutral5.6%
Negative72.2%

In-app purchases

None

Colored Dots

No in-app purchases

None

HMH Go

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Colored Dots free?
Colored Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HMH Go free?
HMH Go is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Colored Dots or HMH Go?
Colored Dots is rated higher. Colored Dots averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while HMH Go averages 2.1 from 80 ratings.
Do Colored Dots or HMH Go have ads?
Neither Colored Dots nor HMH Go shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Colored Dots or HMH Go?
Colored Dots ships an update every 2 months, and HMH Go every 4 months. Most recently, Colored Dots was updated on September 29, 2026 and HMH Go on October 24, 2026.

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