Crayola Create and Play+ vs Unpacking+
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crayola Create and Play+
This app offers a variety of creative and educational activities for children, including digital art tools, interactive games, and pet care simulations. It encourages imagination, artistic expression, and learning through play, with regular content updates to keep things fresh.
- Digital art tools with real Crayola effects
- Interactive pet design and care
- Craftables for building and decorating
- Color-mixing and sorting games
- STEAM/STEM inspired learning activities
- Personal art gallery
- AR camera for garden visualization
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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
Unpacking+
A relaxing puzzle game where you unpack belongings into new homes, revealing a life story through objects. Enjoy meditative gameplay with no timers or scores, perfect for creating satisfying living spaces at your own pace.
- Unpack homes from single rooms to entire houses
- Meditative gameplay with no timers or scores
- Explore domestic environments and arrange items
- Discover a character's story through possessions
- Mobile-optimized with touch controls and haptics
- Award-winning soundtrack
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The multi-award winning Unpacking comes to Apple Arcade as Unpacking+, the zen game about the familiar experience of pulling possessions out of boxes and fitting them into a new home. Part block-fitting puzzle, part home decoration, you are invited to create a satisfying living space while learning clues about the life you’re unpacking. Over the course of eight house moves, you are given a chance to experience a sense of intimacy with a character you never see and a story you’re never told. FEATURES - Unpack a home — from a single bedroom to an entire house - Meditative gameplay with no timers, meters or scores — perfect for playing at your own pace or on the move - Explore domestic environments with all their nooks and crannies while you stack plates, hang towels, and arrange bookshelves - Discover a character's story through the items that come with her to each new home (and the items that get left behind) - Perfect for mobile — Unpack with the touch of a finger, feel the world through haptics, and easily create snapshots and videos for sharing on social media - Soundtrack by BAFTA award-winning composer and audio director Jeff van Dyck - Experience this handcrafted story in its entirety right in the palm of your hand
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Crayola Create and Play+ at 3 against Unpacking+'s —. Unpacking+'s advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Crayola Create and Play+ against 4.8 for Unpacking+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10K and 4.4K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Crayola Create and Play+'s written reviews are positive against 80% of Unpacking+'s.
| Parameter | Crayola Create and Play+ | Unpacking+ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (10K ratings) | 4.8 (4.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 80.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 4.4K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 15 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.0 GB | 570 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RED GAMES CO, LLC | Humble Bundle, Inc. |
Customer experience
Crayola Create and Play+
Unpacking+
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
Unpacking+
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crayola Create and Play+
No in-app purchases
Unpacking+
No in-app purchases
Questions
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