Osmo Coding Jam vs Dragon Islands
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo Coding Jam
This app allows children to create original music by arranging physical coding blocks into patterns and sequences. It offers over 300 musical sounds and enables kids to record and share their compositions with others. It's a STEAM-based experience that teaches coding fundamentals through music.
- Create music with physical coding blocks
- Compose original tunes
- Over 300 musical sounds
- Record and share music
- Learn coding fundamentals
- Develop rhythm and melody skills
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Explore the creative side of coding with hands-on music-making! In Osmo’s Coding Jam, kids arrange physical coding blocks into patterns and sequences to compose original tunes. The game comes with over 300 musical sounds to produce the perfect song. Kids can safely record and share their music with friends, family and the Jam community. “a STEAM-based experience that promotes creative problem-solving.” - VentureBeat “Osmo Coding Jam teaches children coding with music” - Forbes About Osmo Coding Jam: 1. CREATE: Kids 5-12 use coding blocks to create explosive beats. 2. LEARN: Kids get to know coding’s creative side while developing an ear for rhythm, melody, and harmony. 3. SHARE: Once they’ve composed a jam, kids can safely share it with friends, family and the jam community. Learn with our hands-on coding language: Research shows that tangible blocks are a game changer when it comes to helping kids learn. Each of our blocks is a programming command kids can use to create unique jams. As they explore playing with coding blocks, the volume of fun — and learning — gets turned up! * Requires the Osmo Base and Coding Blocks. Each sold separately or as part of Osmo Coding Starter Kit or Osmo Coding Family Bundle. * Compatible with most iPads. Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
Dragon Islands
Embark on an adventure across fantastical islands, raising and evolving dragons from hatchlings to powerful alpha dragons. Collect resources, explore hidden sagas, and upgrade your island and dragons to become the ultimate dragon trainer. Enjoy a stress-free, one-finger gameplay experience anytime, anywhere.
- Raise and evolve alpha dragons
- Explore mysterious islands
- Collect various resources
- Upgrade island and characters
- Build a collection of pet dragons
- Easy one-finger gameplay
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Welcome to Dragon island, a fantasy island where many adventures keep happening. Adventures on islands with dragons! Grow alpha dragons and explore islands harboring fun and mysteries. Collect the resources on islands, grow your dragons, and discover new dragon islands. Find the hidden sagas of dragon islands and explore the islands with full of secret quests - you will have great fun continuously disovering new content. Discover the story of the Hidden Dragon Island, the island where the quests are hidden, and feel the joy of discovering new content. DRAGON ISLAND FEATUERS Raising a dragon: The fun of discovering and growing alpha dragons! Collect various resources on Dragon Island, hatch & evolve baby dragons until they transform into powerful alpha dragons. Experience the joy of helping tiny and cute hatchlings grow into huge dragons. Explore the fantastic Dragon Island: Explore new world, acquire and utilize new resources Get the resources in the island and uprade your island. Harvest sweet dragon fruit and raise your dragon! The more dragon-loving pig barbecues and fish you make to earn eggs, the more you can meet the upgraded islands. Enjoy the upgrade: Become the best dragon trainer! Become a dragon mania of dragon island. You can upgrade your character and worker dragons to grow them efficiently and create more powerful dragons. Easy and stress-free game Easy playing is possible with just a light swipe with one finger. Anyone can enjoy the game with cute dragons without any trouble or stress. Play anytime, anywhere with no time limit. Collecting my own pets: Upgrade to Dragon Mania! You can build a collection of pet dragons that you have raised. Collected pet dragons will help resource production be easier by helping the work around the island, increasing the speed of production, and etc. Enjoy the fun, achievement, strategic play of building a pet collection. Become Dragon Mania with Dragon Island!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dragon Islands at 4.7 against Osmo Coding Jam's 4.2. Dragon Islands also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (22K vs 272). Osmo Coding Jam's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and ads (none vs shown). On price, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Dragon Islands sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Osmo Coding Jam asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dragon Islands holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dragon Islands has 22K ratings behind it against 272, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Osmo Coding Jam's written reviews are positive against 51% of Dragon Islands's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Osmo Coding Jam ships an update every 2 months, Dragon Islands weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmo Coding Jam | Dragon Islands |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (272 ratings) | 4.7 (22K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.3% of reviews — better | 50.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 272 | 22K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 395 MB | 367 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | Aloha Factory |
Customer experience
Osmo Coding Jam
Dragon Islands
User reviews
Osmo Coding Jam
From 272 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and enjoyable gameplay
- 🎶 Great for learning coding and music
- 🤩 Inspiring and creative tool
- ✨ Amazing app experience
- 👍 Works well on older iPads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Incompatible with current iPads
- 🐛 App not working after updates
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 Glitches and errors
- 🐛 Does not recognize tiles
Dragon Islands
From 22K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ❤️ Cute and adorable dragons
- 🎨 Nice graphics and visuals
- 🕹️ Fun and engaging gameplay
- 🐲 Variety of dragons to collect
Room to improve
- 💰 Too many ads, even after purchase
- 🐌 Frequent lag and performance issues
- 🔁 Repetitive gameplay, lacking new content
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches, including crashes
Bugs and requests
Osmo Coding Jam
Reported bugs
16 issues- Not compatible with current generation of iPads
- App does not work after returning from a trip
- App crashes on opening
- Cannot play on iPad 10
- Glitches when coding a song
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- App no longer opens after last update
- App keeps crashing
- Pieces don't work and cameras glitchy
- Camera sensors different combos
- Loading stops halfway
- Does not recognize tiles
- Sound doesn't work on 2018 iPad
- Horrible detection of grey piece
- 4th level practice keeps crashing
- Blue coding blocks not recognized
- Songs not appearing in categories
Requested features
5 requests- Add more characters
- Add a trade character feature
- Add more updates
- Add a feature to create own musical characters
- Add engineer feature
Dragon Islands
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes or crashes on launch
- Weapons and upgrades not functioning properly
- Crab enemies becoming invincible
- Purchased boosts and features disappearing
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and islands to explore
- Reduced ad frequency or ad-free option
- Improved performance and stability
- Ability to save and restore progress
In-app purchases
Osmo Coding Jam
No in-app purchases
Dragon Islands
- Gem package_1$0.99
- rainbow potion$1.99
- master pack$1.99
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- RV ticket 30$1.99
- No Ads$2.99
- RV ticket 50$2.99
- Dragon wing$4.99
- Legend Skin 2$4.99
- pet_legend_1$4.99
- Legend skin 1$4.99
- Golden bag$9.99
- Golden axe$14.99
Questions
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