Comparison

Scratch Shapes vs Niki Scene

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

Head to head
About

Scratch Shapes

This game helps toddlers and young children develop motor skills through a fun silhouette-scratching activity. Children reveal colorful pictures by scratching away shapes, guessing the image before it's fully uncovered. It offers multiple educational categories for learning about animals, letters, numbers, and more.

Highlights
  • Motor skill development
  • 12 educational categories
  • Interactive puzzle gameplay
  • Child-friendly interface
  • Supports 17 languages
  • Free to play
Features
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Scratch Shapes is a fun, free to play game for toddlers and young children that introduces motor skills with a entertaining and simple game. Using their finger children will scratch off the silhouette shape to reveal a colourful picture underneath; can they guess what it is before they reveal it all? Children can choose the difficulty of the game which will change the size of the scratch reveal brush. With multiple categories available Scratch Shapes is also a fun educational game where children can learn all sorts of animals, letters and numbers, professions, and much more. There are twelve main categories to choose from: Animals, Sports, Transportation, Adventures, Fantasy, History, People and Jobs, Nature, Season and Celebrations, Educational, Christmas, and Miscellaneous. Each category also has a number of sub-categories to refine your preferred images to play. Scratch Shapes is a fun puzzle that is supported in various languages, which includes: English, Español, Português, Русский, Deutsch, Français, Türkçe, Italiano, Polski, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Česky, Svenska, Català, Dansk, Suomi, Norsk Key Features Promotes hand-to-eye motor skills 12 Educational categories for learning Fun interactive puzzle Simple, child friendly user interface Supports 17 languages Free to play

About

Niki Scene

Easily create interactive scenes by adding hotspots to photos. These hotspots can trigger sounds, text, or symbols, aiding communication for individuals with disabilities.

Highlights
  • Create interactive scenes
  • Add hotspots to photos
  • Record voice for sounds
  • Display text or symbols
  • Multiple hotspots per scene
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Create an interactive scene in a few moments: - Take a photo. - Outline the area where you want to create the interaction (hotspot). - Choose whether to play a sound by recording it with your voice. - Select whether to show a text or a symbol. Add multiple hotspots to the scene and you're done. Niki Scene is an effective tool for children or adults with autism or any disability that impairs the ability to communicate. The visualization of a symbol can be useful to create a correspondence with the real object represented in the photo.

Screenshots

Scratch Shapes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scratch Shapes at none against Niki Scene's 1. Scratch Shapes also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). 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. Niki Scene sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scratch Shapes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Scratch Shapes against 5.0 for Niki Scene. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Scratch Shapes versus Niki Scene: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScratch ShapesNiki Scene
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequency—Every 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size134 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOnline Ocigrup SLAlessandro La Rocca

Customer experience

Scratch Shapes

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Niki Scene

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

In-app purchases

None

Scratch Shapes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Niki Scene

One-time1
  • Full Version$8.99

Questions

Is Scratch Shapes free?
Scratch Shapes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Niki Scene free?
Niki Scene is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Scratch Shapes or Niki Scene?
Scratch Shapes and Niki Scene are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Scratch Shapes or Niki Scene have ads?
Neither Scratch Shapes nor Niki Scene shows ads.

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