Comparison

Strong Mind Puzzles vs Where is Ploppy Hidden objects

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

Head to head
About

Strong Mind Puzzles

This game challenges your brain with progressively difficult puzzles designed to enhance cognitive skills. It helps users reduce impulsivity, improve planning, and develop introspection through unique gameplay mechanics.

Highlights
  • Progressively difficult puzzle variations
  • Internal dialogue for skill building
  • Reduces impulsivity
  • Enhances planning behavior
  • Encourages introspection
  • Error-detection reflex training
Features
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Strong Mind Puzzles update provides progressively difficult variations. This encourages deliberate rehearsal and enhances learning. The rules, graphics, number of icons, and abstract images become more complex. Individuals must use the voice in their head to match the goal and complete the game. The voice in our head (internal dialogue) builds executive skills because it helps: * reduce impulsivity * contributes to planning behavior * encourages introspection and reflection * provides a system to generate alternatives This updates include all previous Strong Mind Puzzle Variations. The user is able to control their starting point and progression. The user has the flexibility of moving between games to individualize their learning experience. — Strong Mind Puzzles is a game designed to challenge your brain. In her 35 years of cognitive restructuring practice, Dr. Markus created a series of paper-and-pencil puzzles to explore new ways to challenge the brain and rehearse cognitive abilities. To reach beyond her clinical practice, these puzzles were converted to a mobile format which provide numerous, varied opportunities for learning. Effective problem-solving and decision-making is based, at least in part, on the number of variables a problem solver or decision maker is capable of evaluating. With deliberate rehearsal, individuals can learn to increase the number of variables that they use to make a decision. -- Why Finding Mistakes Develops Critical Thinking Behaviors Strong Mind Puzzles can help reduce mistakes. Think about what happens when you make a mistake. You become emotionally attached to the mistake. As a result, this emotional investment makes it difficult to examine results objectively. Such reasoning helps explain why we are better at catching other people's mistakes than our own errors. These puzzles give you practice in identifying and learning to anticipate errors. When you are comparing and contrasting images you search for mistakes. With practice, this develops an error-detection reflex.

About

Where is Ploppy Hidden objects

A fun and safe hidden object game for young children. It features endless replayability with randomized challenges and is designed to be accessible for colorblind users and those who cannot yet read.

Highlights
  • Child safety focused design
  • No data storage for children
  • Offline playable
  • Colorblind accessible
  • Endless gameplay
  • Sticker pack included
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CHILD SAFETY Where is Ploppy?, a colorful fun hidden object game for everyone, is designed with your child's safety in mind. In addition to Apple's guidelines for children's games, we go one step further and firmly believe that any data about your children belongs exclusively to you and your children and should stay that way. Therefore, Where is Ploppy? does not store any of your children's data! There are additional security mechanisms in place to prevent your child from being routed out of the app while playing. This means that as soon as a link is called up, such as to rate the game, a short math problem must be solved beforehand. Furthermore, the game is also designed for the colorblind and children who can't read yet. So, if you are looking for a game that you can give to your children without hesitation, where they can also train their memory, then download Where is Ploppy? now! :) DESCRIPTION A game where you have to find a wanted Ploppy. It can be played over and over again. HOW TO PLAY At the beginning of the game you see a card which Ploppy is wanted. After pressing play, the Ploppies on the board get mixed up all over the place. Then you have to start searching - sometimes, you will find them quite easily, sometimes you have to look more closely and sometimes you maybe even have to first pop some of the overlaying Ploppies by touching them. In the menu you can randomize the wanted Ploppy as often as you want. FEATURES - No advertisements - Offline playable - Kids-friendly designed - can be played by everyone even the youngest ones who cannot read yet - Endless gameplay by randomized cards - Sticker Pack included - share the Ploppies with family and friends via iMessage Terms of Use: https://www.tempuno.com/terms/where-is-ploppy/

Screenshots

Strong Mind Puzzles4 screens
Where is Ploppy Hidden objects4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Where is Ploppy Hidden objects at 100% against Strong Mind Puzzles's 45%. Where is Ploppy Hidden objects also leads on price (Free vs $29.99) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). Strong Mind Puzzles's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Where is Ploppy Hidden objects is free to download; Strong Mind Puzzles costs $29.99 up front. Strong Mind Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Where is Ploppy Hidden objects sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Where is Ploppy Hidden objects holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 45% of Strong Mind Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 100% of Where is Ploppy Hidden objects's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Strong Mind Puzzles ships an update every 5 weeks, Where is Ploppy Hidden objects every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Strong Mind Puzzles versus Where is Ploppy Hidden objects: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStrong Mind PuzzlesWhere is Ploppy Hidden objects
Price$29.99Free — better
Rating4.1 (10 ratings)4.4 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1033 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size127 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDonalee MarkusMichael Temper

Customer experience

Strong Mind Puzzles

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive45.0%
Neutral15.0%
Negative40.0%

Where is Ploppy Hidden objects

All ratings33 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral12.1%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Strong Mind Puzzles

One-time1
  • Levels 4-9$1.99
6 purchases

Where is Ploppy Hidden objects

One-time6
  • Jungle PackFree
  • Farm Pack$0.29
  • Animal Pack$0.99
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  • Sea Animal Pack$0.99
  • Candy Pack$0.99
  • Safari Pack$1.49

Questions

Is Strong Mind Puzzles free?
Strong Mind Puzzles costs $29.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Where is Ploppy Hidden objects free?
Where is Ploppy Hidden objects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Strong Mind Puzzles or Where is Ploppy Hidden objects?
Where is Ploppy Hidden objects is rated higher. Strong Mind Puzzles averages 4.1 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Where is Ploppy Hidden objects averages 4.4 from 33 ratings.
Do Strong Mind Puzzles or Where is Ploppy Hidden objects have ads?
Neither Strong Mind Puzzles nor Where is Ploppy Hidden objects shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Strong Mind Puzzles or Where is Ploppy Hidden objects?
Strong Mind Puzzles ships an update every 5 weeks, and Where is Ploppy Hidden objects every 2 months. Most recently, Strong Mind Puzzles was updated on October 8, 2026 and Where is Ploppy Hidden objects on October 8, 2026.

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