SmartBaby vs Tinkerblocks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmartBaby
An educational game for young children that teaches letters, numbers, colors, and shapes through interactive touch. Each tap on the screen reveals and vocalizes a new learning element, with distinct sections for each subject.
- Interactive learning with touch
- Teaches letters A-Z
- Teaches numbers 1-10
- Teaches 9 colors
- Teaches 8 shapes
- Separate learning sections
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"SmartBaby" is an educational baby game developed for the iPhone. Each time you touch the screen you will hear and see a letter, number, shape, or color. The screen is divided up into four buttons one for each subject. Current version has A-Z, 1-10, 9 colors, and 8 shapes including happy and sad.
Tinkerblocks
This app offers a fun and accessible way for children aged six and up to learn coding concepts through a visual, language-free interface. Users can create projects, understand fundamental programming principles, and share their creations with others.
- Visual programming language
- Create custom projects
- Learn coding concepts (Commands, Loops, Conditions)
- Share creations with friends
- Develop computational thinking skills
- STEM and Creative Thinking focus
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Easy and fun coding – for everyone. Tinkerblocks is a coding app for girls and boys aged six and up – a language free digital toy! Create your individual "Magic Eight Project", invent your "Fun Alarm System" – bring your ideas to life! With Tinkerblocks children get into coding by a simple programming language they can touch. Coding is the language of today’s technology, with Tinkerblocks you will learn the concept of coding. Move from consumer to become an inventor! Tinkerblocks helps you in the easiest possible way: If you know how to code you can change the world! We designed a tangible and easy to follow approach to coding that lets anyone create great projects powered by your devices' sensors and advanced possibilities and your imagination. It’s perfect for students to quickly start out – no coding knowledge required! The following concepts, to understand code are featured within the app: Commands, Parameters, Functions, Loops, Conditions, Types, how to fix Bugs and FUN! :) Share your creation with a friend – you can easily sent your scripts to others and they can play, modify and resent the projects. Tinkerblocks fosters student learning in key areas like Social- Emotional, Creative Thinking, STEM, and Common Core: Children learn computational thinking skills through play. Tinkerblocks is based on ideas and publications by the MIT and the University of Tokyo – so the foundation is based on research and knowledge on how programming basics can be understood in a fast and easy way. We love to hear from you! Reach out: info@urbn-pockets.com Follow us at twitter.com/urbn_pockets Like us at fb.com/urbnpockets
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SmartBaby at Free against Tinkerblocks's $2.99. SmartBaby also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 37%). Tinkerblocks's advantage is rating (2.5 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases 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
SmartBaby is free to download; Tinkerblocks costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tinkerblocks holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tinkerblocks has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of SmartBaby's written reviews are positive against 37% of Tinkerblocks's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SmartBaby ships an update every 39 months, Tinkerblocks every 30 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmartBaby | Tinkerblocks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 2.5 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 36.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 30 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Mickey | urbn; pockets |
Customer experience
SmartBaby
Tinkerblocks
In-app purchases
SmartBaby
No in-app purchases
Tinkerblocks
No in-app purchases
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