LEGO® Powered Up vs Deckle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LEGO® Powered Up
Control motorized LEGO sets like trains and the Batmobile via Bluetooth. Bring your custom LEGO creations to life by coding movements and sounds using drag-and-drop programming. Experience interactive play with lights, sensors, and motors.
- Bluetooth control for LEGO vehicles
- Customizable coding for models
- Drag-and-drop programming
- Add sounds and lights
- Control speed and direction
- Bring custom builds to life
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Combine this app with the LEGO DC Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile (76112), the LEGO City Cargo Train (60198), or the LEGO City Passenger Train (60197) (each sold separately) to operate the motorized engines via Bluetooth controls, or use your imagination and build entirely new creations using LEGO Powered Up components and bring them to life by coding them. Make your models move and respond to real-world events. The LEGO Powered Up app puts you in the driver’s seat of the awesome 4-wheel-drive Batmobile to speed through the streets of GOTHAM CITY™. Drive forwards, backwards, left and right… or pull 360-degree turns! You can even activate cool tricks and stunts as you become the Dark Knight and fight crime. You can customize and code your Batmobile tricks and choose your sounds and movements – pretty awesome! The LEGO Powered Up app also controls LEGO trains to haul goods or pick up passengers around LEGO City. You can control the speed, change directions, and bring even more life to your play with various sounds such as a whistle, passenger announcement, railroad crossing bell, and more! The Bluetooth remote control app and the remote control handset included in the LEGO City train sets aren’t compatible with older infrared remote-controlled LEGO train sets. Thanks to Powered Up components like hubs, motors, sensors, and lights you will be able to bring your customized creations to life. You can also bring your existing LEGO models to life. Is your device compatible? Please go to LEGO.com/devicecheck to check if your device is compatible. Ask your parents’ permission before going online. The LEGO Powered Up App Feature List - Access control panels for DC Super Heroes App-Controlled Batmobile, LEGO City Cargo Train or LEGO City Passenger Train. - Control speed and direction of LEGO vehicles with a variety of exciting interfaces. - Add playful sounds and take your play to the next level. - Use LEGO Powered Up hardware components in your customized models to bring them to life! - Code movements and sounds for your models to create real-life behaviors. - Simple, easy-to-understand programming language based on drag’n’drop coding. LEGO and the LEGO logo are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2019 The LEGO Group
Deckle
Create engaging real-life events with unique games like scavenger hunts, AI-generated trivia, and emoji-based group challenges. Designed for community events, it ensures everyone participates with automatically assigned tasks.
- Incredible race scavenger hunts
- AI-generated trivia quizzes
- Emoji-based group matching
- Automatic task assignment
- Customizable event games
- Community and group engagement
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Deckle has unique games you can use to run a fun event in real life with many groups and teams in your community, including the incredible race game, mate's trivia and emoji buddies. The scavenger hunt, or what we call the Incredible race, allows you to create tasks for your participants, such as answering questions, going to places and taking pictures or video and even drawing tasks! What's special, is that every group member will be assigned automatically to a task at least once. That way, everyone is involved! Mates' Trivia is a trivia quiz generated based off your answers to our pre-game survey! Questions and multiple choices are AI generated. Eg. What's your favourite hobby? What would you do if you mom starts yelling at you? Emoji buddies is a game where everyone gets matched into groups with their assigned emoji! Perfect for any number of participants to have fun and get engaged. Make sure to leave feedback and send any feature requests in the app's feedback tab or send an email to lex@deckle.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Deckle at 92% against LEGO® Powered Up's 42%. Deckle also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). LEGO® Powered Up's advantage is ratings volume (555 vs 9) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). 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.
Deckle holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LEGO® Powered Up has 555 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 42% of LEGO® Powered Up's written reviews are positive against 92% of Deckle's.
LEGO® Powered Up ships an update every 2 months, Deckle every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | LEGO® Powered Up | Deckle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (555 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.5% of reviews | 92.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 555 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.5 GB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | LEGO | Deckle App Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
LEGO® Powered Up
Deckle
Bugs and requests
LEGO® Powered Up
Reported bugs
12 issues- Bluetooth connection drops
- Motors not controllable through app
- Timer blocks don't work
- Motor code blocks don't work
- Coding canvas is broken
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- Loses Bluetooth connection randomly
- Coding blocks not working properly
- App doesn't run in background
- Doesn't work on latest iOS
- Doesn't work with new hubs and motors
- Can only connect one hub at a time
- Train stops when app closes
Requested features
12 requests- Add more sound effects
- Add more music to the playlist
- Allow custom sounds
- Improve parameters
- Add more controls
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- Add more widgets
- Allow custom themes
- Add documentation
- Add support for LEGO Boost and Mindstorms
- Add loop option for sounds
- Add dark mode option
- Add advanced analytics dashboard
Deckle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LEGO® Powered Up
No in-app purchases
Deckle
No in-app purchases









