Comparison

Bedtime Stories Collection vs Simurgh App

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

Head to head
About

Bedtime Stories Collection

Discover a vast collection of classic bedtime stories for children. Featuring beloved characters, native narration, original illustrations, and optional subtitles, this app offers engaging tales that encourage moral development and imaginative thinking.

Highlights
  • Dozens of bedtime stories
  • Beloved classic characters
  • Native narrators
  • Original illustrations
  • Optional subtitles and narration
  • Autoplay or manual reading
Features
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Do your kids always ask for stories when they go to bed? Are they bored of the same old story books you have at home? With Bedtime Stories Collection, you can find: - THREE FREE stories, "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", "Rapunzel" and "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", so you can enjoy the app with your kids; - All the beloved characters: Sleeping Beauty, Three Little Pigs, Robin Hood, Rapunzel, Snow White, Gulliver, Pinocchio, Aladdin..; - Dozens of Bedtime Stories to discover; - Native narrators and original illustrations; - Optional subtitles and narration; - Autoplay or read it at your own pace.   The stories moral encourages children's thinking while teaching them about rightness, friendship and society behaviours. Little Red Riding Hood, the Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, the King Midas, Snow White, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Aladdin, Sinbad, Gulliver, Ali Baba, Don Quixote, Robin Hood, Heidi and even Frankenstein... they're all here! If you have little kids at home then you can't miss having this story collection!

About

Simurgh App

Features
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Experience Dennis Rudolph's artwork for the Karachi Biennal 2022 with this app.  The supernatural has always been a source of interest amongst artists. What if a mythical figure was to appear and guide the visitor to experience a 200 years old book? The 200 year old illustrated copy of Firdousi’s ‘Shahnama’ in the NJV School library is brought to life through Augmented Reality. Rudolph uses his ‘3D’ paintings through the Simurgh App to create a new ‘virtual’ way of connecting to one of the longest epic Persian poems, the Shahnamah (977–1010 CE). AR drawings meet the mythical history of Persia’s golden days. Kindly supported by Goethe Institute Karachi.

Screenshots

Bedtime Stories Collection4 screens
Simurgh App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simurgh App at none against Bedtime Stories Collection's 10. Simurgh App also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Bedtime Stories Collection's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Bedtime Stories Collection sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Simurgh App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bedtime Stories Collection ships an update every 4 months, Simurgh App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bedtime Stories Collection versus Simurgh App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBedtime Stories CollectionSimurgh App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (590 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews59.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings590 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB382 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperLisbon LabsDennis Rudolph

Bugs and requests

Bedtime Stories Collection

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Error downloading stories
  • Compatibility issues with iOS updates
  • Unreliable performance
  • Freezing login screen

Requested features

7 requests
  • More stories please
  • Interactive storytelling
  • Highlight words as read
  • Ability to share purchased stories
  • More free or bundled stories
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  • Improved narration quality
  • Wider selection of stories

Simurgh App

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Bedtime Stories Collection

One-time10
  • The Dancing Monkeys$0.99
  • The Dog And The Shadow$0.99
  • The Bold Knight, the Apples of Youth and the Water of Life$0.99
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  • The Ant and the Grasshopper$0.99
  • The Hare and the Tortoise$0.99
  • Cinderella$0.99
  • Little Red Riding Hood$0.99
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears$0.99
  • Three Little Pigs$0.99
  • Gingerbread man$0.99
None

Simurgh App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bedtime Stories Collection free?
Bedtime Stories Collection is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simurgh App free?
Simurgh App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bedtime Stories Collection or Simurgh App have ads?
Neither Bedtime Stories Collection nor Simurgh App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bedtime Stories Collection or Simurgh App?
Bedtime Stories Collection ships an update every 4 months, and Simurgh App every 2 months. Most recently, Bedtime Stories Collection was updated on November 6, 2026 and Simurgh App on November 3, 2026.

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