Cubelets vs Sphero Edu Jr
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cubelets
Expand your robot building possibilities with this app for Cubelets robot blocks. Control your creations remotely and explore thousands of building ideas by swapping Cubelet personalities. Updates are also available for your robot blocks.
- Remote control robot constructions
- Personality Swap for Cubelet behavior
- Receive important updates
- Expand building horizons
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Enhance your robot play with the Cubelets app. The official app for Cubelets® robot blocks. The app is not required to enjoy your robot blocks, but is a great way to expand your building horizons. Use the remote control feature to control Cubelets inside of a robot construction. Or check out Personality Swap to change how any Cubelet behaves at the touch of a button! Must own Cubelets robot blocks in order to use this application. To learn more about Cubelets, visit https://www.modrobotics.com. For the latest Cubelets news, follow us on twitter @Cubelets. Cubelets robot blocks: The building blocks of better thinkers ************** Features ************** • Remote control robot constructions • Explore thousands of building possibilities with Personality Swap • Receive important updates about Cubelets
Sphero Edu Jr
This app allows users to connect to a robot and customize its actions using visual programming blocks. Create mazes, play games, and compose music while learning fundamental coding logic.
- Block programming interface
- Customize lights, sounds, and movements
- Create mazes and games
- Learn basic programming logic
- Classic and new drive modes
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With Sphero Edu Jr you can connect to your indi and customize its behavior with simple yet powerful programming blocks. By coding the lights, sounds, and movements of indi, you can create unique mazes, play games, write simple songs, and ultimately learn the basic logic of programming. Features include: • All new block programming experience, designed for the uniqueness of indi. • Drive modes, including the classic Sphero driving experience and a new mode designed specifically for indi.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sphero Edu Jr at 3.6 against Cubelets's 3.0. Cubelets's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 17 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Sphero Edu Jr holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 15 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 44% and 44% positive.
Cubelets ships an update every 2 months, Sphero Edu Jr every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on July 21, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cubelets | Sphero Edu Jr |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (25 ratings) | 3.6 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 128 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Modular Robotics | Sphero, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cubelets
Sphero Edu Jr
In-app purchases
Cubelets
No in-app purchases
Sphero Edu Jr
No in-app purchases
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