Comparison

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox vs Apptude

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

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About

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

This app offers seven engaging educational games for preschoolers aged 2-5. Children help a friendly monkey pack a lunchbox by learning about colors, letters, counting, shapes, matching, and identifying differences. It provides unlimited play with positive reinforcement through animated stickers and voice recordings.

Highlights
  • 7 educational games
  • Teaches colors, letters, counting, shapes
  • Matching and difference identification
  • Lovable animated monkey guide
  • Animated sticker rewards
  • Unlimited play
Features
Currently charting
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The #1 preschool game in the app store. Learn and have fun by helping monkey pack lunch! Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is a collection of seven exciting educational games for your preschooler (ages 2 to 5). *** FEATURES *** -7 different games that teach kids about colors, letters, counting, shapes, sizes, matching, and differences. -Lovable animated monkey helps kids along as they play the games. -Dozens of sounds and voice recordings of colors, letters, fruit names, and more. -Animated Stickers! Kids get sticker rewards to encourage their progress. -Designed for preschoolers -- no confusing menus or navigation. -Unlimited play! Each game flows right into the next. *** INCLUDED GAMES *** 1. COLORS. This picky monkey only likes fruit of a certain color, touch only the color they like to pack the lunchbox. Teaches colors, color names, and grouping. 2. MATCHING. Match pairs of fruit hidden behind the cards to pack lunch for this monkey. 3. COUNTING. Count off the fruit the monkey is looking for to fill up the lunchbox. Teaches numbers and counting. 4. LETTERS. This monkey only wants fruit that starts with a certain letter, pick the fruit that starts with that letter. Teaches letters and letter sounds. 5. PUZZLE. This monkey's fruit broke into pieces! How odd! Put it back together for them. Teaches shapes and pattern recognition. 6. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE. Help the monkey spot the fruit that looks different, or is a different size. Teaches patterns, bigger, and smaller. 7. SHAPES. Help the monkey find the fruit in the shapes. Contact THUP! Have some comments on our apps? We'd love to hear it! Want to find out what we're doing next? Come visit us: Email us: support@thup.com Like us: http://www.facebook.com/THUPgames Follow us: http://twitter.com/THUPGames

About

Apptude

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This fun app has 5 games through which kids can play and learn at their own pace. Learn through games app by Ajax Media Tech is the ideal initial step that your little one can take into the universe of learning! It presents kids and their parents to a vast ocean of fun learning experiences, setting up an interesting and happy and inventive way to learn. This application utilizes the best of innovation and instructional methods to draw in, teach, and engage kids. This application is ideal for kids of ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. No annoying ads in between, letting your kid concentrate fully on what they are doing. It offers a game-based foundation of learning exercises to create intellectual competence and imaginative capacities in children. It has various educational games from a lifecycle of butterfly to coloring and a lot more. Read below to find out more games in this app: Shuffle / Puzzle Game : The goal is to rearrange the shuffled numbered blocks to view the hidden image underneath. 4 levels of absolute fun and entertainment for kids. Lifecycle of Butterfly : Colorful illustrations and animations explaining the lifecycle of a butterfly. Kids can take up a quiz in the end to understand better. Learn Colors With Fun : Learn primary, secondary and tertiary colors. Mix colors through drag and drop concept and find out new colors. Loaded with beautiful images for your kids to paint. It additionally encourages them to figure out how to shade inside the layouts, subsequently improving their creativity. Color Lab : Children will understand the science of mixing colors to create a new color. It contains more than 30+ splendid colors. Hidden Alphabet : Hidden Alphabets is an educational game created to help kids for learning alphabets, numbers, colors and shapes. The app will entertain and teach your kids as they learn the alphabets and numbers with voice-over, quiz and games.

Screenshots

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox4 screens
Apptude4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Monkey Preschool Lunchbox at every 3 months against Apptude's every 24 months. Monkey Preschool Lunchbox also leads on price ($1.99 vs $5.99) and chart position (#38 vs unranked). Apptude's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox costs $1.99 and Apptude $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, Apptude every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox versus Apptude: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonkey Preschool LunchboxApptude
Price$1.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.1 (325 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings325 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 24 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#38 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size235 MB372 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTHUP Gameswww.ajaxmediatech.com

Bugs and requests

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game freezes after extended playtime
  • Compatibility issues with newer devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Difficulty levels to challenge older kids
  • More variety of mini-games
  • Option to turn off monkey sounds
  • Ability to save sticker collections

Apptude

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Monkey Preschool Lunchbox

No in-app purchases

None

Apptude

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monkey Preschool Lunchbox free?
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apptude free?
Apptude costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monkey Preschool Lunchbox or Apptude have ads?
Neither Monkey Preschool Lunchbox nor Apptude shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monkey Preschool Lunchbox or Apptude?
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox ships an update every 3 months, and Apptude every 24 months. Most recently, Monkey Preschool Lunchbox was updated on October 29, 2026 and Apptude on October 15, 2026.

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