Digital Puppet vs AlgoRun
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Digital Puppet
A beautiful programming puzzle game where you command a puppet to defeat enemies. Solve 80 stages by inputting commands and aiming for three stars by using the fewest possible moves. It's designed for all ages and features addictive gameplay with great music.
- 80 programming puzzle stages
- Command a puppet to defeat enemies
- 3-star rating system for efficiency
- Addictive gameplay
- Suitable for all ages
- Awesome BGM and sound effects
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Digital Puppet is a very simple and beautiful programming puzzle game! Try to operate a puppet the way you want and beat all enemies! The Rules: 1) Input commands for a white puppet (player) to beat all red puppet (enemies) 2) Tap a run button 3) If you can beat all red puppet (enemies), you win (If you achieve the minimum number of commands, you can grab 3 stars) The features: ● 80 beautiful stages ● Everyone (children to adults) can play the game ● highly addictive ● The 3 star rating system ● Awesome BGM and Sound Effects The message from the developer: Can you 3 stars on all stages? Hints: The key point is whether or not you can use JOB wisely. If you can do it, you can use repetitive, looping procedures and solve all stages beautifully with much less number of commands. Ads: 5 retry activate ads.
AlgoRun
This game teaches fundamental coding concepts through interactive puzzles. It uses game mechanics inspired by programming principles like functions, loops, and conditionals to build algorithmic thinking skills in a fun and engaging way.
- Algorithmic thinking puzzles
- Sequential instruction execution
- Functions and recursive loops
- Conditionals
- Step-by-step debugging
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A puzzle game for learning, practicing and improving algorithmic thinking. AlgoRun features puzzles that will teach you the basics of coding in a fun interactive way by using game mechanics derived from programming concepts such as: • Sequential Instruction Execution • Functions • Recursive Loops • Conditionals • Step-by-Step Debugging
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Digital Puppet at 100% against AlgoRun's 57%. Digital Puppet also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). AlgoRun's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. AlgoRun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Digital Puppet asks for nothing beyond the download.
AlgoRun holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 65 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Digital Puppet's written reviews are positive against 57% of AlgoRun's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Digital Puppet ships an update every 10 days, AlgoRun every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Digital Puppet | AlgoRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (27 ratings) | 4.8 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tatsuya Nakano | bitcrumbs s.r.l. |
Customer experience
Digital Puppet
AlgoRun
In-app purchases
Digital Puppet
No in-app purchases
AlgoRun
- Algorun Premium$1.99
