Comparison

Turtles vs Zoya's Wheel

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

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About

Turtles

Embark on a programming journey with Turtle Graphics, designed for all ages to learn coding fundamentals. Create drawings, mini-games, and explore computer science concepts through interactive exercises. Ideal for both individual learning and classroom settings.

Highlights
  • Interactive Turtle Graphics for drawing
  • Learn programming concepts like variables and functions
  • Create mini-games
  • Explore recursion and fractal shapes
  • Beginner-friendly interface
  • Suitable for classroom use
Features
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Simple commands, deep thinking. Turtles is a turtle graphics programming app for elementary school students and beginners. Draw shapes while learning the basics of programming, including loops, variables, and functions. Give commands to the turtle on the screen to draw lines, create shapes and patterns, and build interactive projects. Before memorizing difficult syntax, learners can build a program, run it, see the result, and improve it step by step. Turtles can be used for children’s first programming experience, adult learning, school lessons, coding classes, and workshops. It also works on iPhone, but a larger screen such as iPad is recommended for creating projects. Sample projects and related information are available on our website. https://turtle360.net/ First Steps in Programming: Turtles is a programming app that helps learners think by combining simple commands. Starting with basic commands such as “move forward,” “turn right,” and “repeat,” even first-time programmers can quickly begin experimenting and learning by doing. Learn Programming Basics: By drawing shapes, learners can understand important programming concepts such as sequencing, loops, conditions, variables, and functions. Because the result appears immediately on the screen, it is easy to understand how a program works. Try More Advanced Expressions: After learning the basics, learners can try more complex shapes, patterns, and fractal drawings. They can also explore ideas connected to computer science, such as recursion, in a natural and visual way. Create Mini Games and Projects: Turtles is not only for moving a turtle. Learners can also create interactive projects and simple mini games based on their own ideas. By combining the commands they have learned, they can experience the joy of thinking and creating by themselves. About Turtle Graphics: Turtle graphics is a programming method where learners give commands to a turtle on the screen to draw shapes. It was developed in the 1960s for the LOGO programming language, and it is still used today in many programming learning environments. Turtles is designed based on this idea so that both children and adults can enjoy learning programming. Acknowledgments: Turtles was inspired by many programming languages and learning environments, including LOGO, Squeak Etoys, Scratch, Python, and Swift. We thank the developers around the world who created and nurtured these ideas.

About

Zoya's Wheel

Features
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Zoya's Wheel is a small, beautifully made tool for the tiny decisions a family makes every day — what's for dinner, who picks the show, whose turn to feed the dog. The child taps to spin. The family agrees to the result before it lands. The wheel decides — not the parent — and a four-year-old will accept a verdict from the wheel that she'd have argued about for ten minutes. • Two tactile pickers — a Wheel and a Coin — set inside three hand-painted living worlds (Meadow, Ocean, and Enchanted Forest) a non-reader can navigate by sight alone. • Truly fair. Every slice is equally likely. No weighting, no anti-repeat, no "smart" pacing. Nothing ever shapes the odds. • A Decision Diary remembers your spins — on your device only. • No character voices. No streaks. No notifications. No ads. No accounts. Free to download with six ready-made wheels and the coin to spin. Want to make them your own? One optional $2.99 unlock ("Make Your Own") lets you personalize the six wheels and build unlimited wheels of your own, with your own photo backgrounds — once, forever, no subscription, Family Sharing included. Spinning, fairness, every world, the coin, and the diary are always free. Made for grown-ups and kids together. Privacy you can actually trust: Zoya's Wheel runs no servers of its own, no analytics, and no third-party SDKs. The only network it ever uses is Apple's App Store, to complete a purchase you choose to make. Nothing about you or your child ever leaves your device — Apple handles the purchase, and we never see payment details.

Screenshots

Turtles4 screens
Zoya's Wheel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Turtles at none against Zoya's Wheel's 1. Turtles also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Zoya's Wheel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Turtles asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Turtles versus Zoya's Wheel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTurtlesZoya's Wheel
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (12 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB91 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperToshio MiyasakaIntelfish LLC

In-app purchases

None

Turtles

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Zoya's Wheel

One-time1
  • Make Your Own Wheels$2.99

Questions

Is Turtles free?
Turtles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Zoya's Wheel free?
Zoya's Wheel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Turtles or Zoya's Wheel have ads?
Neither Turtles nor Zoya's Wheel shows ads.

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