Star Wars The Force Coding Kit vs Star Wars Unlock!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Star Wars The Force Coding Kit
Learn to code by creating your own Star Wars adventures. Control iconic characters and starships with hand gestures and build interactive stories using code blocks that reveal JavaScript. Customize your avatar and share your creations with a community.
- Control characters with hand gestures
- Learn coding concepts (loops, logic, variables)
- Create custom Star Wars stories
- Code block to JavaScript conversion
- Avatar customization
- Share creations with a community
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Explore the Force Move your hand to swing Lightsabers, levitate X-wings, pilot starships, make Force lightning, Jedi Mind Trick Stormtroopers, and more. Learn to code Step-by-step challenges show you how. Connect code blocks, see the JavaScript. Learn about loops, logic, and variables. The more you train, the more powerful you become. Code your galaxy Create your own Star Wars adventures with iconic characters, creatures, starships, sounds, and planets. Simple for beginners, expansive for experts. What's your Star Wars story? Choose the light side or the dark side. Code a blue or red Lightsaber, pilot an X-wing or TIE fighter, levitate Stormtroopers or Rebels. There's no end to what you can make. Share your adventures Be inspired. Make, share, and play Star Wars creations with the Kano World community. Safe and friendly. Endless play See the code behind any creation, then tweak it to make it your own. Swap a character, add a starship, alter the Force gesture, fill the screen with Porgs. Create your avatar Level up as you complete challenges. Discover costumes, Lightsabers, and Droids to customize your avatar.
Star Wars Unlock!
This companion app enhances a physical escape room-style card game with interactive puzzles, clues, and a timed countdown. Experience three Star Wars adventures by searching scenes, combining objects, and solving riddles with friends.
- Interactive puzzles and riddles
- In-app clues and hints
- Timed countdown and penalties
- Atmospheric music for each adventure
- Score attribution based on performance
- Search scenes and combine objects
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THIS APP REQUIRES THE UNLOCK! Star Wars The Escape Game CARD GAME. Unlock! is a cooperative card game inspired by escape rooms that uses a simple system which allows you to search scenes, combine objects, and solve riddles. Play Unlock! to embark on great adventures, while seated at a table using only cards and a companion app that can provide clues, check codes, monitor time remaining, etc. Experience 3 adventures in the Star Wars galaxy! As rebels, smugglers, or imperial agents, search locations, interact with ships, weapons, items and droids and solve the puzzles ! Experience the thrills of an escape room at home! The Unlock! Star Wars The Escape Game application is a free “companion app”: you need a copy of Unlock! Star Wars The Escape Game to enjoy it. This application will allow you to get valuable clues, enter secret codes and interact with a lot of different devices, machines, ships and droids. It will set the mood with a specific music for each adventure, penalties ... and the fatal countdown! At the end of the game, a score will be attributed to your team, based on the time spent to complete the adventure, the number of collected penalties, the number clues requested, etc. Unlock! is a game created by Cyril Demaegd, published by Space Cowboys and distributed by Asmodee (Game’s POS list available at www.asmodee.com) Try the Unlock! game for free: check and download the demo adventures, game rules and tutorial at www.spacecowboys.fr/unlock-demo. Unlock! STAR WARS The Escape Game. - (Release: August 2020) - 1 to 6 players - 60 minutes - Ages 10 and up
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Star Wars Unlock! at 3.4 against Star Wars The Force Coding Kit's 2.0. Star Wars Unlock! also leads on review sentiment (40% vs 13%) and device support (3 vs 1). Star Wars The Force Coding Kit's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Star Wars Unlock! holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 79 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Star Wars The Force Coding Kit's written reviews are positive against 40% of Star Wars Unlock!'s.
Star Wars The Force Coding Kit ships an update every 3 weeks, Star Wars Unlock! every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Star Wars The Force Coding Kit | Star Wars Unlock! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (79 ratings) | 3.4 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.1% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kano Computing | JD Editions |
Customer experience
Star Wars The Force Coding Kit
Star Wars Unlock!
Bugs and requests
Star Wars The Force Coding Kit
Reported bugs
15 issues- Login/signup fails with 'Load Failed' error
- App freezes when placing code blocks
- Lightsaber disappears or fails to render
- Jedi training remote puzzle non-functional
- BB-8 guide appears on blank screens
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- Hand gestures only move cursor, not lightsaber
- Bluetooth connection drops after lessons
- Audio turns to static or feedback loop
- Canvas remains blank or unresponsive
- App crashes on iPad Pro and newer devices
- White blank screen on app launch
- Region selection form won't accept input
- Coding blocks won't change or progress
- App restarts unexpectedly during gameplay
- Incompatible with iOS 14 and later
Requested features
6 requests- Regular app maintenance and updates
- iOS compatibility updates with new releases
- Improved Bluetooth stability and reconnection
- Background app refresh controls
- Better error messages and troubleshooting guides
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- Company responsiveness to user feedback
Star Wars Unlock!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Star Wars The Force Coding Kit
No in-app purchases
Star Wars Unlock!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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