Comparison

Crayola Create and Play+ vs Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

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

Head to head
About

Crayola Create and Play+

This app offers a variety of digital art, coloring, and educational activities for children. It features interactive learning experiences developed with the Smithsonian Institution, encouraging creativity and self-expression through diverse art tools and games.

Highlights
  • Digital art tools
  • Coloring pages
  • Interactive learning activities
  • Pet design and care
  • Craftables and building
  • Color mixing and sorting games
  • Coding and spelling practice
Features
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Explore dozens of art, coloring, and educational activities with Crayola® Create and Play™+, the official Crayola app for curious kids to learn through fun, creative play! Discover interactive digital learning experiences built in collaboration with experts from the world-famous Smithsonian Institution, where curiosity and exploration is brought to life! Crayola Create & Play+ encourages curiosity, artistic independence, and a safe place to develop self-expression. It’s so much more than drawing and coloring pages! Each of the activities helps develop imagination and a creative point of view...we're all kids at heart, and everyone can be creative! Our regular content updates add new features, activities, and learning games. There’s always something new to explore and master! *5-STAR PARENT TESTED AND PARENT APPROVED APP* *GOOD PLAY GUIDE APPROVED* *EDUCATIONAL APP STORE CERTIFIED* *WINNER OF THE ACADEMICS CHOICE AWARD* CREATE DIGITAL MASTERPIECES • Use REAL Crayola art tools to create masterpieces! Color, draw, doodle, paint, stamp, sticker, glitter, and more! • From princesses, dinosaurs, and unicorns...to fairies, cats, robots, and race cars, there are fun art projects for all ages to enjoy. • There’s more than coloring and painting in the art station! Stretch creativity to the limit with pixel art, glow art, tracing, and art lessons too! • Enjoy UNLIMITED coloring pages and activities, PLUS new content every month! • Kids can see their art in their own personal gallery! COLORS OF THE WORLD • Color and create with Crayola’s award-winning, skin tone-accurate colors and ethnically diverse coloring pages and activities. PRACTICE KINDNESS & CARE FOR PETS • Design pets and watch them come to life! • Pets have a mind of their own! Choose a home for them and watch them explore! • Feed, wash, and interact with pets in their habitat! Each pet has its own unique personality. CRAFTABLES • Bring imagination to life in Crayola Create & Play with Craftables! • Build rockets and fly them up to the sky! • Design and decorate kites, silly masks, or even a hot air balloon! • Create one-of-a-kind Dinosaurs! Kids can pick their bones and make it their own! EXPERIMENT, DISCOVER & PLAY • Match, mix, and delight in colors! • Sort the crayons, become a color-slicing ninja! • Grow a color garden and attract real butterflies (yes, gardening is creative too!). Better yet, kids can see their garden come to life in the room around them with the AR camera! ENCOURAGE CRITICAL THINKING BY PLAYING GAMES IN THE ARCADE • Stack as many ice cream scoops as possible in Scoop Stacks! • Children can solve puzzles made from their own artwork! • Play fun action games with pets, and much more! LEARN NEW CLASSROOM SKILLS • Try coding, practice spelling and letters, and watch behind-the-scenes videos on how Crayola Crayons are made. • Watch real Crayola professional artists as they teach new art and drawing techniques. PLAY GAMES WITH A PURPOSE • Inspired by STEAM and STEM education techniques, Crayola teaches core developmental principles through play. • Coding exercises and games help spark excitement for science and math topics. NEW GAMES & ACTIVITIES EACH MONTH • Ever-evolving content updates keep the inspiration flowing, there's something for everyone! Privacy Policy: https://www.redgames.co/crayola-create-and-play-privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://aut.crayocom.cloud.sitefinity.com/company/app-terms-of-use If you have any questions, please send an email to support@createandplay.zendesk.com

About

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

Color, care for, and play with a collection of digital pets. Engage in nurturing activities like grooming and washing, unlock new pets, and explore colorful 3D environments. This COPPA and PRIVO certified app offers a safe and creative pretend play experience for children.

Highlights
  • Color and customize 3D pets
  • Nurturing pet care activities
  • Collect over 90 pets
  • Explore interactive 3D environments
  • Watch coloring inspiration videos
  • Safe and kid-friendly pretend play
Features
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Color, care and play with adorable pets! Transform Crayola’s #1 selling toy into digital companions with endless creative fun and interactive pet care activities. PRACTICE EMPATHY, RESPONSIBILITY & KINDNESS WITH PET CARE • Engage in nurturing pet care activities like grooming, feeding and washing • Build emotional intelligence with pet vet check-ups • Encourage empathy and responsibility while caring for pets needs • Develop attention and memory skills through repetition and detail-oriented play GROW YOUR ADORABLE PET FAMILY • Collect and unlock 90+ cute pets for endless joy & sense of achievement • Partner with your favorite pets for endless imaginative journeys • Explore with your lovable companions in interactive and colorful 3D environments like the arctic, beach, pet house, and more COLOR, CUSTOMIZE & WASH YOUR DIGITAL PETS IN 3D • Customize your 3D pets and color them for fun occasions with digital Crayola art tools • Design your dream pets again and again! • Watch coloring videos to get inspired with new design techniques • Capture memories with your customized pets and decorate your photos CALM, SAFE & KID-FRIENDLY PRETEND PLAY • COPPA and PRIVO certified, and GDPR compliant so you can be sure the app is safe for the whole family • Play along with your children to watch them grow and learn TRUSTED AWARD-WINNING CRAYOLA TOY, APP & YOUTUBE SERIES • Built from the #1 selling physical Crayola toy Crayola Scribble Scrubbie Pets • Watch episodes from the hit Scribble Scrubbie YouTube series • Winner of the Mom’s Choice Award, PAL Award, and Toy of the Year, and trusted by families globally • Apple’s Top Apps for Kids, Favorite Coloring Fun for Kids, and 7-time App of the Day NEW PETS, PROPS, FEATURES & ENVIRONMENTS • New pets to color, environments to explore, and ways to take care of pets added regularly • Keep things fresh with new themes, outfits and seasonal events in monthly updates DEVELOPED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH RED GAMES CO. • Developed by a team of parents and educators focused on creativity and growth • Named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in Gaming (2024) • Explore even more creativity in Crayola Create and Play+ and Crayola Adventures Privacy Policy: https://www.redgames.co/scribble-scrubbie-pets-privacy-page Terms of Service: https://aut.crayocom.cloud.sitefinity.com/company/app-terms-of-use

Screenshots

Crayola Create and Play+4 screens
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+4 screens

Verdict

The call

Crayola Create and Play+ and Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Crayola Create and Play+ against 4.6 for Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10K and 8.2K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Crayola Create and Play+'s written reviews are positive against 79% of Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crayola Create and Play+ ships an update every 3 weeks, Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ monthly. Both last shipped on November 4, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Crayola Create and Play+ versus Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrayola Create and Play+Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10K ratings) — better4.6 (8.2K ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews79.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10K — better8.2K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size1.9 GB1.5 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRED GAMES CO, LLCRED GAMES CO, LLC

Customer experience

Crayola Create and Play+

All ratings10,216 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews636 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral8.2%
Negative18.6%

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

All ratings8,183 ratings
Positive89.4%
Neutral5.2%
Negative5.4%
Written reviews200 reviews
Positive79.0%
Neutral6.5%
Negative14.5%

User reviews

Crayola Create and Play+

From 10K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and engaging for kids
  • 🎨 Wide variety of creative activities
  • 🐶 Cute and interactive pets
  • 🔓 No ads or in-app purchases
  • 💡 Open-world exploration

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
  • 🔍 Lack of intuitive controls and guidance
  • 🎨 Limited customization options
  • 🕰️ Repetitive activities can get boring over time

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

From 8.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and colorful app
  • 👍 Lots of activities and pet characters to choose from
  • 👍 Creative and trustworthy app for kids
  • 👍 Helps kids learn and talk

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🐛 Logout issues and progress not saved
  • 🐛 Pets moving while trying to color them
  • 🐛 Marker not responding properly

Bugs and requests

Crayola Create and Play+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezes during loading screens
  • Saved progress not syncing across devices
  • Incorrect spelling and translations
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add undo/redo functionality for coloring
  • Introduce more advanced coloring tools and techniques
  • Expand pet system with more customization options
  • Develop separate profiles for multiple users
  • Add a night mode or adjust music volume

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Randomly logs out to home screen
  • Pets taken over the screen
  • Game freezes after coloring pet
  • No text shown at all

Requested features

2 requests
  • Access to more areas and locations
  • Improved stability and bug fixes

In-app purchases

None

Crayola Create and Play+

No in-app purchases

None

Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crayola Create and Play+ free?
Crayola Create and Play+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ free?
Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Crayola Create and Play+ or Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+?
Crayola Create and Play+ is rated higher. Crayola Create and Play+ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10K ratings, while Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ averages 4.6 from 8.2K ratings.
Do Crayola Create and Play+ or Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ have ads?
Neither Crayola Create and Play+ nor Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crayola Create and Play+ or Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+?
Crayola Create and Play+ ships an update every 3 weeks, and Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ monthly. Most recently, Crayola Create and Play+ was updated on November 4, 2026 and Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+ on November 4, 2026.

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