Play Happy vs Their First Puzzles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Happy
This educational game helps children aged 2 and up learn animal sounds through interactive play. With intuitive swipe and tap controls, kids can explore colorful animals and discover their unique noises. It's designed for the whole family and offers a fun, ad-free learning experience.
- Learn animal sounds
- 16 colorful animals
- Over 30 sounds
- Intuitive swipe and tap controls
- Ad-free experience
- Designed for ages 2+
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With Play Happy your child can easily learn the sounds of various animals. Intuitive gesture controls make for simple handling - so there's more time for the fun and a little bit of learning. Play Happy is an educational game for kids from 2 years and it is ! FREE ! NO ADS ! FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY FEATURES ========= > 16 items 16 carefully designed and colourful animals raise your child's curiosity and the joy of discovery. - Frog, Cat, Chicken, Cow, Dog, Sheep, Horse, Mouse, Pig, Duck, Lion, Bear, Snake, Chick, Elephant and Rabbit. > 30+ Sounds The sounds play by a simple tap. Some items even have more than one sound. That gives your child exploration capabilities right at his fingertips. > Easy controls Swipe and tap - it's that simple! So no hassle stops the fun. Play Happy will be continually enhanced with exciting features. Stay tuned!
Their First Puzzles
This app offers a gentle and confidence-building puzzle experience for toddlers and preschoolers. It features five animal worlds with various matching and building activities, designed to be frustration-free and engaging.
- Five animal worlds
- Matching, building, and sorting activities
- No-fail design
- Wordless play
- Offline functionality
- Calm art and sound
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No fails. No ads. No catch. Just their first puzzles. Their First Puzzles is a calm, gentle puzzle app made for toddlers and young preschoolers — five little animal worlds to explore together. Your child brings creatures home to their shapes or babies to their grown-ups, builds animals piece by piece, and sorts who belongs where. Every creature they bring home makes the world come alive. There are no wrong answers. A piece that misses just drifts calmly back — no buzzers, no red X, no losing. If your child gets stuck, a gentle hand quietly shows the way. It's play that builds confidence, not frustration. WHAT YOU GET • Five animal worlds — Ocean, Forest, Desert, Savanna, and Jungle — each full of friendly creatures • Three gentle ways to play — bring creatures home to their shapes or grown-ups, build an animal, and sort who belongs where • Wordless play — nothing to read to play, so it works for any family, in any language • A no-fail design — wrong is never punished, and a helping hand appears if your child is stuck • A friendly companion who lights the way • Worlds that fill with life as your child plays • Calm art and soft sound — no flashing, no noise, no overstimulation • Works fully offline — every world is built in, so you can play with no wifi and no data (in the car, on a plane, at grandma's) • No account and no sign-in — just open it and play WHO IT'S FOR Their First Puzzles is made for toddlers and young preschoolers taking their first steps with tapping, matching, drag-and-drop, sorting, and building. It works the same whether a child plays alone or a grown-up plays along. • Parents who want a calm, gentle first puzzle for their child • Families looking for screen time they can feel good about • Grandparents, caregivers, and early educators • Anyone tired of noisy, ad-filled "free" apps 100% FREE. NO CATCH. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. Nothing to unlock, nothing to buy — Their First Puzzles is completely free. No accounts, no sign-in, no tracking. It works fully offline, and everything your child does stays on your device. The app never collects or sends it anywhere. MADE BY A FAMILY. We're the family behind Their First Words and Their First Numbers. We built Puzzles as a gift — a calm, honest little app we'd want for our own child. Their First Puzzles is completely free.
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Verdict
Play Happy and Their First Puzzles are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Play Happy ships an update every 3 weeks, Their First Puzzles every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Happy | Their First Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexandre Papanis | Their First Words LLC |
Customer experience
Play Happy
Their First Puzzles
In-app purchases
Play Happy
No in-app purchases
Their First Puzzles
No in-app purchases
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