Comparison

Arty Mouse Colors vs Colorblocks World

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

Head to head
About

Arty Mouse Colors

This animated app helps children aged 3-6 learn about colors through interactive activities. It focuses on identification, matching, mixing, and using colors to create pictures, while also developing motor skills.

Highlights
  • Interactive color activities
  • Color identification and mixing
  • Picture creation
  • Motor skill development
  • Mini play-again games
  • Available in 7 languages
Features
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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 Colors, Arty Mouse and his colourful friends engage, enthuse and empower little learners, helping to fast-track them in key early learning color identification and picture-making skills. This fun animated app for boys and girls aged 3 to 6 has 12 exciting interactive colour activities to choose from, with mini play-again games to discover within each one. Covering a selection of color-related skills including identifying, matching, mixing and using 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 into color and create with Arty Mouse! 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 colors • 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 Colors 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.

About

Colorblocks World

Embark on a vibrant adventure with beloved characters from a popular children's show. Engage in creative painting, explore the color wheel, and unlock rewards while learning about colors in a fun, interactive way. This app fosters early color recognition and self-expression.

Highlights
  • Creative Painting Game
  • Explore the Colour Wheel
  • Dress up characters
  • Unlock rewards
  • Learn color recognition
  • Watch show clips and songs
Features
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Are you ready for the colour adventure of a lifetime? Enter the magical world of the hit CBeebies show, COLOURBLOCKS, and play with your favourite characters like never before!* Unlock rewards in the Colourblocks' houses and have fun dressing up the Colourblocks, create your own masterpieces in the Creative Painting Game, explore the colour wheel and watch much-loved clips and songs from the show. The colour learning doesn't stop there! Colourblocks World is packed with original makes and fun surprises along the way! COLOURBLOCKS helps children to see and understand colours in a brand new and exciting way. It's the story of a group of friends, who use Colour Magic to bring Colourland to life in the most vibrant way imaginable! COLOURBLOCKS uses the proven magic of Blocks to help young children dive into the wondrous world of colour. Developed in consultation with a global team of colour experts and packed with loveable characters, show-stopping songs, humour and adventure, the show delivers colour recognition, colour names, meaning and signifiers, mixing, mark making, similar and contrasting colours, light and dark and all kinds of patterns – and that’s just for starters. It's all designed to inspire young children to be Colour Explorers, discovering how the colours all around them work, whilst getting hands-on with colour themselves. Importantly, it's designed to instil a passion for colour in young children which they can take with them throughout life. COLOURBLOCKS WORLD has been carefully designed to support your child on their early colour learning adventure and provides an immersive digital milestone for children to engage with the Colourblocks. The paid subscription app is scaffolded to introduce children to colours in a particular order and helps children connect the concept of individual colours with how they might feature in the real world. Fundamentally, it gives children a foundation in colour, art and self-expression and enables them to get hands-on with colour through playing games, such as sorting colours, exploring light and dark, ordering colours and painting! "Colourblocks World is a fantastic new app, which takes children on an exciting learning journey exploring how colour really works. In addition, children can apply colour to different pictures and objects in the world, which encourages self-expression and so helps build confidence at this early stage of child development." Prof. Stephen Westland, Colour Literacy Project What's included? 1. Meet the Colourblocks and bring Colourland to life through the power of Colour Magic! 2. Enjoy surprises along the way! 3. Unlock rewards in the Colourblocks' houses and have fun dressing them up. 4. Explore creative expression alongside the Colourblocks in the Creative Painting Game. 5. Let the Colourblocks help your child learn about the Colour Wheel through fun and accessible gameplay. 6. Discover some of the Colourblocks' favourite things, making the connection between the things around us and what colour they typically are. 7. Enjoy video rewards and songs from the brilliant Colourblocks episodes. 8. Become a Colour Explorer and play along with arts and crafts videos! 9. Build confidence as an artist with new colouring pictures and videos - updated every month! 10. This app is entertaining and safe, being COPPA and GDPR-K compliant and 100% ad-free. Privacy & Safety At Blue Zoo, your child’s privacy and safety is the first priority for us. There are no ads in the app and we will never share personal information with any 3rd parties or sell this on. You can find out more in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service: Privacy Policy: https://blocks-website.webflow.io/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://blocks-website.webflow.io/terms-of-service * Requires paid monthly or annual subscription

Screenshots

Arty Mouse Colors4 screens
Colorblocks World4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Arty Mouse Colors at free with in-app purchases against Colorblocks World's subscription. Arty Mouse Colors also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Colorblocks World's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 43 months). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Arty Mouse Colors sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Colorblocks World sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arty Mouse Colors holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Colorblocks World has 159 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Arty Mouse Colors ships an update every 43 months, Colorblocks World every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Arty Mouse Colors versus Colorblocks World: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArty Mouse ColorsColorblocks World
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.2 (159 ratings)
Positive reviews—42.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3159 — better
Update frequencyEvery 43 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB711 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTap Tap Tales, SLBlue-Zoo

Customer experience

Arty Mouse Colors

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Colorblocks World

All ratings156 ratings
Positive77.6%
Neutral6.4%
Negative16.0%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive42.6%
Neutral14.8%
Negative42.6%

Bugs and requests

Arty Mouse Colors

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Colorblocks World

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • Cannot access membership after paying
  • Mixing factory won't allow mixing white, black, or gray
  • Charged on day one before trial ends
  • Cannot access premium features
  • Restore purchases pop-up is broken
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  • App crashes after paying for subscription
  • Subscription pop-up appears even when paid
  • Cannot get past brown color
  • Cyan arrow is gone
  • Blue is not unlocked even though it is paid for
  • Cannot pause videos
  • Videos go too fast
  • Subscription link is broken
  • Cannot report errors
  • Unable to subscribe due to insufficient funds error
  • App doesn't accept subscription completion

Requested features

9 requests
  • Add season 3 characters
  • Make creative coloring have light, dark, dull, and in-between colors
  • Add color mixing to creative coloring
  • Create a game to make your own Numberblock, Alphablock, or Colorblock
  • Add red to the sorting express game
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  • Make premium access free
  • Remove subscription requirement
  • Make more content free
  • Allow color mixing for coloring

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Arty Mouse Colors

One-time1
  • Buy All$0.99
5 purchases

Colorblocks World

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription4 variants$3.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription4 variants$39.991 Year
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  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$39.991 Year
  • Unlock All7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Arty Mouse Colors free?
Arty Mouse Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colorblocks World free?
Colorblocks World is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Arty Mouse Colors or Colorblocks World?
Arty Mouse Colors is rated higher. Arty Mouse Colors averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Colorblocks World averages 4.2 from 159 ratings.
Do Arty Mouse Colors or Colorblocks World have ads?
Arty Mouse Colors shows ads; Colorblocks World does not.
Which is updated more often, Arty Mouse Colors or Colorblocks World?
Arty Mouse Colors ships an update every 43 months, and Colorblocks World every 3 weeks. Most recently, Arty Mouse Colors was updated on October 22, 2026 and Colorblocks World on October 21, 2026.

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