Comparison

The Gingerbread Man vs Space Time Quest

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

Head to head
About

The Gingerbread Man

This interactive storybook allows children to engage with a classic tale through animation, music, and games. It encourages creativity by letting kids record their own voices and write new stories, fostering literacy and storytelling skills.

Highlights
  • Animated rhyming story
  • Interactive song
  • Touch-to-animate characters
  • Listening games
  • Story sequencing activity
  • Voice recording
  • Story writing
Features
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Our multi award-winning Come Alive Stories software is now multi-platform which means that you can use your favourite software on your favourite tablets! Simply use your multi-platform licence to activate The Gingerbread Man on your iPads and computers. There are a host of new features in the new multi-platform edition that make great use of your iPad tools including the facility for children to voice record their own stories and create their own story books. Whether they are using the interactive whiteboard or iPad, working individually or in small groups, they’ll love getting actively involved with the story as they explore the interactive e-book, listen to the song, play listening games and investigate story-related non-fiction covering gingerbread, running, farm animals, foxes and rivers. And, as they record and write their own stories, they’ll become practiced storytellers and authors! FEATURES - Read along with and listen to the animated rhyming story - Listen to and sing along with the catchy song - Play with the story by touching the screen to make characters and scenery move - Play a listening game to enhance auditory discrimination - Sequence story events with the ‘What happened next?’ activity - Use the recording function to create your own version of the story; children will love getting into character and practising the voices! - Write your own story; children will enjoy getting creative and typing alongside scenes from the tale. - Find out about facts related to the story through a range of clear photographs, cross-curricular information and interactive activities. - No third-party advertising - No in-app purchases WHO IS YELLOW DOOR? We are a publisher offering a range of inspiring and innovative literacy and maths resources to support early childhood and special education. From multisensory games to interactive software, we combine hands-on learning with open-ended technology to promote communication and language, collaborative play and creativity across the curriculum. Our aim is to create products that are appealing to small hands and curious minds, that will help build an engaging, playful learning landscape for all young children. OTHER APPS FROM YELLOW DOOR The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Billy Goats Gruff. REVIEW THE APP We would love to hear what you think of our NEW app, so please leave a review!

About

Space Time Quest

Manage a massive budget and lead a continent-spanning scientific project to build a gravitational wave detector. Optimize subsystems and be the first to discover elusive gravitational waves to win a Nobel Prize.

Highlights
  • Budget management
  • Scientific project simulation
  • Gravitational wave detector construction
  • Subsystem optimization
  • Discovery simulation
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in charge of a budget of 100 million!? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a continent spanning science project, with the aim of making one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years? In Space Time Quest you use your scientific skills to build the most sensitive gravitational wave detector ever, and use it to listen to the symphony of the Universe as never before! Spread your budget wisely and optimise the different subsystems of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, of the same type as the real detectors, such as LIGO and Virgo. Be the first to detect the elusive gravitational waves, and the Nobel Prize will surely be yours! Space Time Quest can be played in English, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, German, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese!

Screenshots

Space Time Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Space Time Quest at every 4 months against The Gingerbread Man's every 38 months. Space Time Quest also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for The Gingerbread Man against 5.0 for Space Time Quest. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Gingerbread Man ships an update every 38 months, Space Time Quest every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
The Gingerbread Man versus Space Time Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Gingerbread ManSpace Time Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYellow Door LtdLaser Labs

Customer experience

The Gingerbread Man

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Space Time Quest

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

The Gingerbread Man

No in-app purchases

None

Space Time Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Gingerbread Man free?
The Gingerbread Man is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Space Time Quest free?
Space Time Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, The Gingerbread Man or Space Time Quest?
The Gingerbread Man and Space Time Quest are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do The Gingerbread Man or Space Time Quest have ads?
Neither The Gingerbread Man nor Space Time Quest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Gingerbread Man or Space Time Quest?
The Gingerbread Man ships an update every 38 months, and Space Time Quest every 4 months. Most recently, The Gingerbread Man was updated on November 6, 2026 and Space Time Quest on November 3, 2026.

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