Tami's Tower vs Osmo Tangram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tami's Tower
Guide a hungry tamarin to fruit by building a stable tower. Learn basic engineering design principles through interactive gameplay. This educational game is designed for young learners and can be used at home or in the classroom.
- Build towers to reach fruit
- Learn engineering design principles
- Educational content for K-2
- Metacognitive prompts for self-assessment
- Sandbox mode for level design
- Classroom or home use
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It’s lunch time and Tami, the golden lion tamarin, is hungry! Help Tami reach the delicious fruit by building a tower. But watch out! Other animals can cause Tami’s tower to topple over. From the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Tami’s Tower: Let’s Think About Engineering is an educational engineering design game that will help teach your student how to design a solution to a problem using basic engineering design principles. Educational features: • Aligned to educational science standards for kindergarten through second grade • Designed for emergent readers • Grounded in educational psychology research • Metacognitive prompts provide students an opportunity to monitor and assess their own confidence • Teachers can assess student responses to metacognitive prompts through an in-game summary screen • In-game tutorial to teach students how to play • Introduces students to engineering design principles • Students will learn how the shape of an object can help it function as needed to solve a problem • Students can reflect on previous attempts to improve design • Students can design a level in Sandbox mode • Designed to be used in the classroom or at home
Osmo Tangram
This app reinvents a classic puzzle game with a hands-on, interactive approach. Arrange physical tangram pieces to solve on-screen challenges, developing spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. Explore diverse puzzles and bring your creations to life.
- Physical tangram pieces
- On-screen puzzle matching
- Spatial reasoning development
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Creative shape building
- Interactive learning experience
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A timeless game reinvented in a hands-on, interactive way! In Osmo Genius Tangram, arrange physical tangram pieces to match on-screen puzzles. It’s a great way to exercise spatial and visual problem-solving skills. Start thinking with shapes! Animals, spaceships, people and more — there’s so much to create. Through a variety of puzzles, challenge yourself through multiple levels of difficulty and watch your creations come to life on screen! Play your favorite Osmo Genius Tangram on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the Osmo Base for iPad and Genius game hardware - each can be found at playosmo.com. * Requires the Osmo Base and Osmo Tangram Pieces. Each sold separately or as part of Osmo Genius Starter Kit or Osmo Genius Tangram. Learn more at playosmo.com. * Other Osmo Genius Starter Kit games Masterpiece and Newton are not available on iPhone today, they will be released in the next month or two, so keep your eyes peeled! * Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 "This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." - Forbes "Osmo has been a revolution in our family." - Wired Winner of the toy industry's top awards: **Best Design** - Good Design, 2016 **Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016 **Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015 **Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014 About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tami's Tower at 100% against Osmo Tangram's 56%. Tami's Tower also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Osmo Tangram's advantage is ratings volume (166 vs 14). On price, update cadence, 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.
Tami's Tower holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Tangram has 166 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tami's Tower's written reviews are positive against 56% of Osmo Tangram's.
Tami's Tower ships an update every 6 weeks, Osmo Tangram every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tami's Tower | Osmo Tangram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | 4.1 (166 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 166 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 501 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smithsonian Institution | Tangible Play |
Customer experience
Tami's Tower
Osmo Tangram
In-app purchases
Tami's Tower
No in-app purchases
Osmo Tangram
No in-app purchases
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