Comparison

Tongo Circus vs Bitsboard Student

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

Head to head
About

Tongo Circus

Explore a magical circus world through interactive games designed for children. This app playfully introduces young learners to classical music and its emotional expressions through engaging circus scenes and animations. It's a joyful, ad-free experience crafted by music and education experts.

Highlights
  • Interactive circus scenes
  • Introduction to classical music
  • Playful learning without explanations
  • Focus on musical moods and expressions
  • Animations illustrating musical structures
  • 15 minutes of curated music
Features
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The magical world of the circus, interactive and set out in games specially for children. After the worldwide success of Tongo Music (Apple App of the Year 2016, Parents’ Choice Gold Award), Tongo Circus now follows with more music for children. Little Tongo introduces us to his ringing circus world. His companions are a powerful lion, a clumsy clown, foolhardy acrobats, skilful artists, a sounding popcorn machine, and many more. The circus is an emotional world where children cheer, rejoice, laugh and are amazed. They focus on the artists, hold their breath - and that's exactly the same with music. Especially for smaller children Tongo has selected beautiful music. Very playfully, Tongo manages to introduce children to the music. And so in this lovely app they learn without any explanations and with much joy. Our team of experienced musicians, pedagogues and illustrators stands for learning with fun. Made with love, without advertising, in-app purchases or data usage. 11 circus scenes to play with: - Tongo conjures from his magic hat - A strong lion jumps through the ring - The penguin family is balancing on the ball - Dancers to dream - The monkeys show their acrobatic art - A mouse is running on the rope - A bear plays the circus clown - A juggler practicing - The circus band ensures the best mood - A sounding popcorn machine - A sounding starry sky The music The Tongo Circus features 15 minutes of music for children of selected compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, Georges Bizet, Johannes Brahms, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Joseph Haydn, Modest Mussorgsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Nikolai A. Rimsky-Korsakov, Johann Strauss and Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky. +++ More about our concept for interested parents +++ HOW DO CHILDREN LEARN IN THE APP? We completely dispense with explanatory texts in the app. The learning on the smartphone or tablet is fun and playful. To do this, we actively involve the children in the design of the circus performances in small games. In doing so, children unconsciously experience how music can reproduce a variety of moods and expressions. The ears become pointed and abstract structures such as polyphony, musical phrases and motifs become visible. FIGURE OF MOOD The circus is an emotional world where children cheer, rejoice, laugh and are amazed. They focus on the artists, and hold their breath - and that's the same with music. In the lovingly illustrated circus scenes, very different pieces of music are played. The variety of moods and expressive possibilities of music can be experienced here. If the clown comes on stage, the music becomes fun, as soon as the lion is standing in the arena, the music sounds noticeably large and majestic, and everything changes to a tender tone, when the mouse stands on the rope. STRUCTURES OF MUSIC In many small animations children learn structures and building blocks of music. Complex terms such as polyphony, musical phrases or motifs become very clearly and intuitively comprehensible: when the penguins balance on the ball or the skilful monkey rocks on the trapeze. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS As a continuation of the app "Tongo Musik" Tongo introduces further musical instruments. The timbres and pitches of the instruments become audible as they sound individually and together in the circus band. RHYTHMS The popcorn machine becomes a rhythm machine. Children playfully hear many rhythms - from simple to complex rhythm sequences. THE MUSIC Tongo circus is an invitation to listen. All pieces have been carefully selected for children. In the app, we attach great importance to sound quality and high quality recordings of the classic label NAXOS.

About

Bitsboard Student

This app offers over 35 interactive learning games and flashcard decks for students. It personalizes the learning experience and tracks progress, making education engaging and effective for various subjects.

Highlights
  • 35+ educational games and study modes
  • Customizable flashcard decks
  • Progress tracking for each user
  • Multiplayer and single-player modes
  • Supports multiple user accounts
  • Accessibility options including switch control
Features
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BITSBOARD PRO vs. BITSBOARD STUDENT • The PRO app is for teachers. It includes access to the Bitsboard catalog to quickly download, create, customize and share your own boards and classes. The PRO app also makes it really easy to add students, share content with students, and keep track of your student's progress. • The STUDENT app was created for students. It allows schools to give students full access to the Bitsboard app on each iPad without having to pay the fee of the PRO app. The STUDENT app does not include the ability to create and share classes. Licensing terms • Please buy one PRO app per device / per teacher unless teachers share the same iPad • Please buy one STUDENT app per device (you can add unlimited students per device). You can also add one student per device via the FREE app A top 5 education game in the U.S. Spark excitement for learning with Bitsboard – an interactive learning app trusted by over 5 million parents, teachers and students worldwide. Create your own learning experience with 35+ educational activities, join a private classroom or dive into thousands of hand-curated flashcard decks – whatever you want to learn, Bitsboard is here to make it fun and make it stick! What you can do with the Bitsboard app: Teachers • Create lessons in minutes with beautiful images and clear audio • Adapt lessons to an individual user’s learning speed • Encourage higher level thinking with fun single/multiplayer mini-games • Keep track of individual progress • Automatically back up and sync data across devices Students • Turn boring assignments into addictive mini-games • Master languages, vocab, reading, spelling and more • Compete in multiplayer games with classmates • Study at your own pace or with others OVER 35+ POWERFUL MINI GAMES / STUDY MODES IN 1 APP INCLUDING • Flashcards • Photo Touch • Memory Cards (1-4 players) • Pop Quiz • Match Up • Word Builder • Sentence Builder • Spelling Bee • BINGO (1-4 players) • Letter Tracing • Sequencing • Related Items • Word Search • Crosswords • Letter Match • Odd One Out • What Comes Next? • Side by Side • Word Chunks • Communicator • Reader • Questions Game • Photo Hunt (1-4 players) • Racing Rivals (2 players) • Battle Time (2 players) • Say It Game TRACKS YOUR PROGRESS • Bitsboard keeps track of every answer for every game, user, and board SUPPORTS MULTIPLE USERS • Bitsboard makes it easy to add multiple users and switch between user accounts • You can now instantly review the detailed progress for each user • Automatically saves game settings at the user level ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS • Bitsboard fully supports switch control to make all of the games accessible for users with disabilities ORGANIZE YOUR BOARDS • You can now group your boards into classes. • Each board can fit into as many classes as you like. • Organize your boards by class, user, subject, and more. ACCELERATE YOUR LEARNING • Bitsboard's learning algorithm automatically personalizes each game based on the players skills. SHARE AND SYNC CONTENT ACROSS DEVICES • Automatically back up and sync data across devices BITSBOARD CLASSES • Share and automatically sync all of your content with other users / students on other devices • Bitsboard classes are private - only you and the students you approve see your content CLOUD SYNC • With cloud sync all of your boards, students, classes, and settings are automatically backed up and sync across all of your devices QR LOGIN CARDS To protect student’s privacy you can add student accounts without email or password.  Just email the QR code to your student and they will be able to download the free Bitsboard app and log into their Bitsboard account. Have questions? We are here to help. Email us at support@happymooseapps.com Privacy Policy: http://bitsboard.com/privacy-policy Subscription Terms: http://bitsboard.com/subscription-terms

Screenshots

Tongo Circus4 screens
Bitsboard Student4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tongo Circus at 92% against Bitsboard Student's 17%. Tongo Circus also leads on price ($2.99 vs $9.99) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 14.0). Bitsboard Student's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 19 months). On ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tongo Circus costs $2.99 and Bitsboard Student $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bitsboard Student holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 92% of Tongo Circus's written reviews are positive against 17% of Bitsboard Student's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tongo Circus ships an update every 19 months, Bitsboard Student every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tongo Circus versus Bitsboard Student: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTongo CircusBitsboard Student
Price$2.99 — better$9.99
Rating3.7 (6 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews91.7% of reviews — better16.7% of reviews
Number of ratings66
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size90 MB136 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperFirstconcert ProductionsHappy Moose Apps

Customer experience

Tongo Circus

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%

Bitsboard Student

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative83.3%

In-app purchases

None

Tongo Circus

No in-app purchases

None

Bitsboard Student

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tongo Circus free?
Tongo Circus costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bitsboard Student free?
Bitsboard Student costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tongo Circus or Bitsboard Student?
Bitsboard Student is rated higher. Tongo Circus averages 3.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Bitsboard Student averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Tongo Circus or Bitsboard Student have ads?
Neither Tongo Circus nor Bitsboard Student shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tongo Circus or Bitsboard Student?
Tongo Circus ships an update every 19 months, and Bitsboard Student every 6 weeks. Most recently, Tongo Circus was updated on September 28, 2026 and Bitsboard Student on October 7, 2026.

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