Photon Coding vs Joy School English
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Photon Coding
Create programs for your Photon robot using intuitive, icon-based languages like Draw, Badge, and Blocks. Explore your robot's capabilities and build custom programs directly from your mobile device.
- Icon-based programming languages
- Draw, Badge, and Blocks modes
- Mobile device control
- Explore robot possibilities
- Create custom programs
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Program your Photon robot from your mobile device anytime and anywhere. Photon Code is an application that allows you to create programs for your Photon robot in Draw, Badge and Blocks - fully icon-based robot programming languages that are super easy to use. Use the app to build any program for Photon and discover the unlimited possibilities of your robot. NOTE: This app requires a Photon robot and a Bluetooth 4.0 device to play.
Joy School English
This app offers a comprehensive language and values learning experience for young children. It features thousands of interactive activities, videos, books, and songs designed by experts to teach English and important life values through engaging gameplay.
- Thousands of learning activities
- Interactive games
- Educational videos and songs
- Hundreds of books
- Values-infused curriculum
- Emphasis on oral language development
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Thousands of learning activities, over 15,000 invitations to speak, thousands of videos, hundreds of books and songs. Joy School English is a language-learning and values-infused experience for young children. Designed using the latest research on game-based learning, motivational psychology, and learning English, Joy School English uses videos, songs, and interactive games designed by a U.S.-based team with a proven track record of teaching kids English as well as important values. Previously three separate applications, Joy School Kinder now includes Joy School English Level 1, Joy School English Level 2, Joy School English Level 3, and Joy School English Older Beginner all in one single app. Joy School English is built on five proven pillars: - Curriculum design that tightly integrates the language domains - Design based on research—digital and EFL learning - Core values interwoven throughout (courage, honesty, patience & perseverance, responsibility, kindness, empathy & kindness, self-worth, positivity & gratitude, responsibility) - Emphasis on oral language - Irresistible engagement
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Joy School English at fortnightly against Photon Coding's every 3 months. Joy School English also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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 — 5.0 for Photon Coding against 5.0 for Joy School English. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 9 respectively.
Photon Coding ships an update every 3 months, Joy School English fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Photon Coding | Joy School English |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 295 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Photon Entertainment sp. z o.o. | Alegra Learning |
Customer experience
Photon Coding
Joy School English
In-app purchases
Photon Coding
No in-app purchases
Joy School English
No in-app purchases
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