Curious Cars vs Cubelets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Curious Cars
Build and program your own remote-control cars with this app, transforming simple vehicles into bulldozers, spaceships, or police cars. It's designed for children aged 7-12 to learn programming concepts through interactive play and creative construction.
- Build custom remote-control cars
- Program car functions
- Transform vehicles into different types
- Add sounds and lights
- Learn programming concepts
- Interactive game levels
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The Curious Cars app is the companion to SAM’s Curious Cars kit that helps you build and program your own remote control (and a little curious) cars. Start with a simple car, then turn it into a bulldozer, spaceship or police car, with sounds and lights and everything. You’ll need a SAM’s Curious Cars kit and this app to connect the Bluetooth Low Energy SAM blocks to each other to build the different Curious Cars. Children aged 7-12 can learn about programming while building their own real-life remote control cars by playing through the exciting levels. SAM is the smart construction kit. You create awesome inventions. No wires, no fuss. Just serious fun.
Cubelets
Expand your robot building possibilities with this app for Cubelets robot blocks. Control your creations remotely and explore thousands of building ideas by swapping Cubelet personalities. Updates are also available for your robot blocks.
- Remote control robot constructions
- Personality Swap for Cubelet behavior
- Receive important updates
- Expand building horizons
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Enhance your robot play with the Cubelets app. The official app for Cubelets® robot blocks. The app is not required to enjoy your robot blocks, but is a great way to expand your building horizons. Use the remote control feature to control Cubelets inside of a robot construction. Or check out Personality Swap to change how any Cubelet behaves at the touch of a button! Must own Cubelets robot blocks in order to use this application. To learn more about Cubelets, visit https://www.modrobotics.com. For the latest Cubelets news, follow us on twitter @Cubelets. Cubelets robot blocks: The building blocks of better thinkers ************** Features ************** • Remote control robot constructions • Explore thousands of building possibilities with Personality Swap • Receive important updates about Cubelets
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Verdict
Curious Cars and Cubelets both sit at 3.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Curious Cars's written reviews are positive against 44% of Cubelets's. Curious Cars also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 11.0). Cubelets's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 2). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Curious Cars against 2.9 for Cubelets. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cubelets has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Curious Cars's written reviews are positive against 44% of Cubelets's.
Curious Cars ships an update every 2 weeks, Cubelets every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Curious Cars | Cubelets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 2.9 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 288 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SAM Labs | Modular Robotics |
Customer experience
Curious Cars
Cubelets
In-app purchases
Curious Cars
No in-app purchases
Cubelets
No in-app purchases
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