Mind Designer vs Blue's Blocs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mind Designer
Explore a programming universe with this educational app. Create geometric art, solve tangram puzzles, and learn coding through blocks and laboratory challenges. Connect to a compatible robot to reproduce your designs.
- Geometric image creation
- Animal tangram puzzles
- Block-based programming
- Laboratory coding challenges
- Robot design reproduction
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MIND awaits you for an adventure in the programming universe. Hop onto its starship and have fun exploring all the game areas. The app is completely free. Create geometrical images by sketching them on screen, enjoy clearing all the animal tangram levels and learn to program by blocks and try your hand at laboratory coding. With your Clementoni MIND-DESIGNER robot purchase, you will be able to relay your personalised creations to the robot who will reproduce them on paper. Guide MIND in the real time area.
Blue's Blocs
This app extends the functionality of a physical robot, allowing students to program it using a block-based interface. It introduces concepts like decision-making, numerical functions, and variables for deeper learning in computer science.
- Block-based programming environment
- Control physical Blue-Bot robot
- Decision making logic
- Numerical functions
- Boolean operators
- Introduction of variables
- Bluetooth connectivity
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Blue’s Blocs is a complimentary app to the TTS Blue-Bot® which allows for expansion of knowledge and teaching at greater depth in KS2 and KS3 Computer Science. Using a familiar block-based environment, students can programme their Blue-Bot® using extended functionality which includes decision making, numerical functions, Boolean operators, and the introduction of variables. Seamlessly connecting to the physical Blue-Bot® device via Bluetooth connection, students can kinaesthetically work with their Blue-Bot® to embed computational concepts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mind Designer at 25% against Blue's Blocs's 0%. Mind Designer also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 12.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Mind Designer ships an update every 2 weeks, Blue's Blocs every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mind Designer | Blue's Blocs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 394 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clementoni S.p.A. | TTS Group Limited |
Customer experience
Mind Designer
Blue's Blocs
In-app purchases
Mind Designer
No in-app purchases
Blue's Blocs
No in-app purchases
Questions
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