Osmo Numbers vs Brainzy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo Numbers
Engage in hands-on math activities with physical tiles that interact with your device. Solve problems to collect virtual fish, learn geography, and explore marine biology in a fun, stress-free environment.
- Hands-on play with physical tiles
- Counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication
- Collect over 100 virtual fish
- Learn geography and marine biology
- Real-time feedback
- Stress-free learning environment
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Dive into an ocean of hands-on math fun! In Osmo Genius Numbers, play with physical Osmo Numbers Tiles, including dots and digits. When your results match the numbers on the screen, cartoon bubbles burst with a satisfying pop! Count, add, subtract, or multiply to collect over 100 fish across the world to learn about geography and marine biology! Real-time feedback lets kids learn math through experimentation in a stress-free environment. When kids get the idea that there are multiple good ways to solve a problem, math becomes creative and fun. Play your favorite Osmo Genius Numbers on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the Osmo Base for iPad and Genius game hardware - each can be found at playosmo.com. * Requires the Osmo Base and Osmo Numbers Tiles. Each sold separately or as part of Osmo Genius Starter Kit or Osmo Genius Numbers. * Other Osmo Genius Starter Kit games Masterpiece and Newton are not available on iPhone today, they will be released in the next month or two, so keep your eyes peeled! * Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 * Compatible iPhones: iPhone 12, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max iPhone 13, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max iPhone 14, 14 Plus * Not compatible: iPhone 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max iPhone 12 Mini,13 Mini iPhone SE (1-3) iPhone 11 Series and older “One of 2016’s most intuitive product designs.” - Fast Company Award "...once again, Osmo has built something wonderfully creative and interactive." - Venture Beat "Osmo Numbers takes the fear out of figures." - Forbes "…revamp the unimaginative worksheets educators use to teach math" - TechCrunch Winner of the toy industry's top awards: **Best Design** - Good Design, 2016 **Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016 **Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015 **Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014 About Osmo Osmo is using 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 intelligent technology.
Brainzy
Engage in daily trivia challenges and solve puzzles to earn points and unlock real-life gifts. Compete globally for the fastest answers and climb leaderboards to win increasingly valuable rewards.
- Daily trivia challenges
- Solve puzzles
- Win real-life gifts
- Global leaderboards
- Hints available
- Puzzle archive
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You are looking for a trivia or puzzle game to keep your brain busy during your free time? Brainzy is a new trivia game where anyone can win real-life gifts by playing! Yes, Yes! You heard correctly: Real Life Gifts! Brainzy will feature multiple puzzles and challenging questions every single day. Puzzles will be live at the same time across the World! Start time of each puzzle will be available in the app. Once puzzle is live, the faster you answer or solve the puzzle, more points you will earn! You can always get help by utilizing hints available for each puzzle! Points you earn accumulate to reach new levels and once you reach a new level, you will win Real Life Gifts! Value of the gifts are increasing with each level! So, never stop playing as there is always next level where you can win even bigger gifts! Users can always review old puzzles! Archive will feature all the previous puzzles, user performance in each of puzzle, leaderboard featuring the fastest users to answer/solve the puzzle and puzzle solutions. Download for FREE now! Register and start competing to win precious gifts!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Osmo Numbers at none against Brainzy's 8. Osmo Numbers also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (32% vs 0%). Brainzy's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.0 vs 3.8). On price, monetization model 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. Brainzy sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Osmo Numbers asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brainzy holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Numbers has 146 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of Osmo Numbers's written reviews are positive against 0% of Brainzy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Osmo Numbers ships an update every 2 months, Brainzy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmo Numbers | Brainzy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (146 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 146 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 358 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | MobileApp LLC |
Customer experience
Osmo Numbers
Brainzy
Bugs and requests
Osmo Numbers
Reported bugs
12 issues- App glitches
- App crashes
- Game will not register tiles
- Reflector not sensing tiles
- App won't open on old iPads
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- Unable to login or create new account
- Codes to create account not working
- Not compatible with iPad Pro 4th generation
- App crashes when trying to open
- Black screen when starting app
- Numbers go up to 35 then lay down for 14
- Update caused son to stop playing
Requested features
5 requests- Increase timer duration
- Add more drawing games
- Add voice reading for math problems
- Improve tile sensing accuracy
- Make game go slower
Brainzy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Osmo Numbers
No in-app purchases
Brainzy
- 10 Timeless Puzzles$0.99
- 10 hints$0.99
- 25 Timeless Puzzles$1.99
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- 25 Hints$1.99
- 50 Timeless Puzzles$2.99
- 50 Hints$2.99
- 100 Timeless Puzzles$5.99
- 100 Hints$5.99
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