Comparison

Blox 3D City Creator vs Tot Paint

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

Head to head
About

Blox 3D City Creator

Design and populate your own vibrant cities with buildings, characters, and vehicles. Watch your creations come alive with animated people and dynamic weather. Share your unique urban landscapes with others.

Highlights
  • Build fully functional cities
  • Create and customize characters
  • Add cars, trucks, and trains
  • Animate people and actions
  • Dynamic weather and time of day
  • Create and share city movies
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***Editors Choice Award -90% Rating*** Excellence In Design, Children's Tech Review" ***Featured by Apple in Top Ten Apps for Creativity" Blox 3D City lets you create fully functional cities and towns from busy metros to sleepy towns and rain-swept docks. Create your own characters and populate your cities with hundreds of unique characters. Add shops, garages, bridges and trees to fully populate your world with no limit on time or creativity. Over 2 million different cities have been created and shared by kids worldwide since release. *Add cars, trucks, roads and people to watch your world come alive. *People walk into buildings, cops chase robbers and trains chug through the night. *Create turntable movies of your cities and share them via email . *Rain, fog and night conditions add different times of day to your creations. *Create your own characters and populate your city with hundreds of them...add costumes, hairstyles and clothes.

About

Tot Paint

Features
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Leave the mess at home and make creations where ever you go. Tot Paint is finger painting fun that invites you to master the original art. Draw, paint and share with your friends and family. All the splattering painting fun with none of the mess.

Screenshots

Blox 3D City Creator4 screens
Tot Paint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tot Paint at Free against Blox 3D City Creator's $8.99. Blox 3D City Creator's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Tot Paint is free to download; Blox 3D City Creator costs $8.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blox 3D City Creator ships an update every 4 months, Tot Paint every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Blox 3D City Creator versus Tot Paint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlox 3D City CreatorTot Paint
Price$8.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size286 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArjun GupteOld Coder Design

In-app purchases

None

Blox 3D City Creator

No in-app purchases

None

Tot Paint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Blox 3D City Creator free?
Blox 3D City Creator costs $8.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tot Paint free?
Tot Paint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Blox 3D City Creator or Tot Paint have ads?
Neither Blox 3D City Creator nor Tot Paint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blox 3D City Creator or Tot Paint?
Blox 3D City Creator ships an update every 4 months, and Tot Paint every 8 months. Most recently, Blox 3D City Creator was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tot Paint on November 3, 2026.

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