Arty Mouse Shapes vs First Step
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Arty Mouse Shapes
This animated app helps children aged 3-6 develop early learning skills in shape identification and creative picture-making. It features 12 interactive activities and mini-games designed to build confidence and motor skills for writing.
- Interactive shape activities
- Picture-making skills development
- Motor skill enhancement
- Animation and sound effects
- Multiple languages
- Mini play-again games
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Arty Mouse loves to get stuck into fun creative activities, which is why he is always smiling! He is the perfect enthusiastic mentor for young children just getting to grips with early learning concepts. In Arty Mouse Shapes, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them in key early learning shape identification and picture-making skills. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive shape activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of shape-related skills including identifying, drawing, completing and manipulating to create pictures, this app also helps to develop important motor skills for learning to write. Part of the award-winning Arty Mouse Early Learning Through Art product family. Get going with Arty Mouse and create with shapes! Over 1 million Arty Mouse books sold worldwide. KEY FEATURES • Animation • Available in 7 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Russian. • Sound effects • Featuring Arty Mouse and his colourful friends • 12 fun themed activities to choose from • Numerous mini games to play again and again to develop confidence with shapes • Proven educational content • Encourages creative play on and off screen • Ideal for children aged 3 to 6 • Free app download including open content and in-app purchases. For more detailed information about Arty Mouse Shapes App, please visit: http://www.taptaptales.com Tap Tap Tales also has other applications such as Hello Kitty, Maya The Bee, Smurfs, Vic The viking, Shaun the Sheep, Tree Fu Tom, Heidi, Caillou and Care Bears. In Tap Tap Tales we care about your opinion. For this reason, we encourage you to rate this app and if you have any comments please send them to our e-mail address: hello@taptaptales.com. Web: http://www.taptaptales.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/taptaptales Twitter: @taptaptales Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/taptaptales Our Mision Bringing joy to children and contributing to their development through the creation and publication of amazing interactive adventures full of fun educational activities. Motivating and helping the kids to accomplish the tasks of the educational game. Learning and growing with our users, adapting to their needs and sharing happy moments with them. Helping parents and teachers in their educational and caring endeavors with young children, offering them top-quality, state-of-the-art learning applications. Our Privacy Policy http://www.taptaptales.com/en_US/privacy-policy/
First Step
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An electronic developmental scale focuses on identifying the aspect that represents apparent delay in the condition, specifying it by measuring against the natural development of children from the age of 1 to 18, encompassing psychological, cognitive, motor, and functional development, followed by speech and language development in the condition, as well as any developmental or sensory disorders (motor, visual, auditory). This is achieved through the response of the parent or caregiver to diverse questions on the application, according to the chronological age of the individual, enabling us to determine the extent of development in the aforementioned aspects or the degree of delay compared to the normal growth and acquisition rate. The application provides an indicator of a delay in one or more of these aspects. The scale includes 360 questions distributed across 5 skills: 1. Communication Skills 2. Academic and Functional Skills 3. Functional Skills 4. Social Skills 5. Motor Skills Estimated time for the application: 30 minutes Languages: Arabic, English, Russian The methodology was tested and translated by the Ural Federal University (the Russian Federation).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: First Step at none against Arty Mouse Shapes's 1. First Step also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 44 months). On price, 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. Arty Mouse Shapes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. First Step asks for nothing beyond the download.
Arty Mouse Shapes ships an update every 44 months, First Step weekly. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Arty Mouse Shapes | First Step |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 44 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tap Tap Tales SL | Zayed Higher Organization for People of Determination |
In-app purchases
Arty Mouse Shapes
- Arty Mouse Buy All$0.99
First Step
No in-app purchases
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