Colored Dots vs Cengage Read
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
Cengage Read
Access and study your digital textbooks from anywhere. This app allows students to read, take notes, highlight, bookmark, and use text-to-speech for a flexible learning experience on the go.
- Read eTextbooks on the go
- Take notes and highlight
- Bookmark important sections
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Search keywords
- Navigate via table of contents
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Read your eTextbook and study on the go with the Cengage Read app. Cengage Read lets students study whenever – and wherever – they want. Take notes, highlight and bookmark info, have the text read out loud with text-to-speech and easily search keywords and jump to pages with the table of contents. Just log in with your Cengage username and password to get started.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colored Dots at 65% against Cengage Read's 20%. Colored Dots also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 18). Cengage Read's advantage is ratings volume (4K 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
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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cengage Read has 4K 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 20% of Cengage Read's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 15, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colored Dots | Cengage Read |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (4K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.0% of reviews — better | 19.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 226 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 北京优趣时光文化科技有限公司 | Cengage Learning |
Customer experience
Colored Dots
Cengage Read
Bugs and requests
Colored Dots
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Cengage Read
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and sign-outs
- Inconsistent highlighting and note-taking functionality
- Inability to view full pages and content
- Text-to-speech feature not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Improve text formatting and layout
- Add split-screen support for note-taking
- Enhance accessibility features like text-to-speech
- Integrate assignment and due date tracking
In-app purchases
Colored Dots
No in-app purchases
Cengage Read
No in-app purchases
