Osmo Squiggle Magic vs Explore Globe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo Squiggle Magic
Bring your drawings to life with interactive game pieces. This app fosters creativity, cognitive skills, and pre-drawing abilities through hands-on play. Designed for young children, it offers a fun and engaging learning experience.
- Create with physical sticks and rings
- Watch creations come alive on screen
- Develop cognitive skills
- Foster creativity and pre-drawing skills
- Hands-on learning experience
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Create anything you want using sticks & rings and then watch them come alive! Develop cognitive, creative, social and emotional skills with our game pieces designed for little hands. Foster creativity and pre-drawing skills, through this fun-filled exploration. *Play your favourite Osmo Squiggle Magic on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the Osmo Base for iPad and Squiggle Magic Silicone Sticks & Rings pieces - each can be found at playosmo.com. *Requires the Osmo Base for iPad and Silicone Sticks & Rings pieces. Learn more by visiting www.playosmo.com. *Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 ABOUT OSMO -- 21ST CENTURY PLAY AND LEARNING Osmo uses 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 intelligence technology.
Explore Globe
This augmented reality globe uses advanced technology to offer children an intuitive and stereoscopic understanding of the world. It transforms traditional learning by making geography, astronomy, and general knowledge engaging and accessible.
- Augmented reality globe experience
- Spherical recognition and tracking
- 3D rendering technology
- Interactive learning of geography and astronomy
- Access to world encyclopedia knowledge
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AR globe redefines the concept of traditional globe and changes the way children perceive the world. It is a new children's enlightenment education product based on augmented reality (AR) technology. It uses spherical recognition and tracking technology and 3D rendering technology to enable children to understand the whole world intuitively and stereoscopically. AR globe is a high-tech multi-function globe, which subverts the cognitive model of traditional globe, makes children love learning, and easily master astronomical geography, world encyclopedia and other massive knowledge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Osmo Squiggle Magic at 4.0 against Explore Globe's 1.5. Osmo Squiggle Magic also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 11 months). Explore Globe's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Osmo Squiggle Magic holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Squiggle Magic has 196 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Osmo Squiggle Magic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Explore Globe's.
Osmo Squiggle Magic ships an update every 6 weeks, Explore Globe every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmo Squiggle Magic | Explore Globe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (196 ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.2% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 196 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 588 MB | 1.0 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | Shenzhen Weijing Technology Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Osmo Squiggle Magic
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In-app purchases
Osmo Squiggle Magic
No in-app purchases
Explore Globe
No in-app purchases
Questions
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