Musical Memory vs Osmo Coding Jam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Musical Memory
This app offers a classic memory game enhanced with musical tones. Challenge your recall by repeating increasingly complex sequences, improving your memory and cognitive skills through engaging gameplay.
- Classic memory game
- 6 different musical tones
- Increasingly fast sequences
- High score tracking
- Retina display graphics
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Musical Memory is a brilliant implementation of the classic family favourite, taking it to the next level with 6 different tones, not 4. Now you can have fun whilst at the same time improving your memory through the power of music. The computer generated sequence gets faster with each turn - it'll drive you crazy! What's the longest sequence you can hold in your head? The faster you can correctly repeat the sequence, the more points you get. Featuring beautiful Retina display compatible high resolution graphics.
Osmo Coding Jam
This app allows children to create original music by arranging physical coding blocks into patterns and sequences. It offers over 300 musical sounds and enables kids to record and share their compositions with others. It's a STEAM-based experience that teaches coding fundamentals through music.
- Create music with physical coding blocks
- Compose original tunes
- Over 300 musical sounds
- Record and share music
- Learn coding fundamentals
- Develop rhythm and melody skills
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Explore the creative side of coding with hands-on music-making! In Osmo’s Coding Jam, kids arrange physical coding blocks into patterns and sequences to compose original tunes. The game comes with over 300 musical sounds to produce the perfect song. Kids can safely record and share their music with friends, family and the Jam community. “a STEAM-based experience that promotes creative problem-solving.” - VentureBeat “Osmo Coding Jam teaches children coding with music” - Forbes About Osmo Coding Jam: 1. CREATE: Kids 5-12 use coding blocks to create explosive beats. 2. LEARN: Kids get to know coding’s creative side while developing an ear for rhythm, melody, and harmony. 3. SHARE: Once they’ve composed a jam, kids can safely share it with friends, family and the jam community. Learn with our hands-on coding language: Research shows that tangible blocks are a game changer when it comes to helping kids learn. Each of our blocks is a programming command kids can use to create unique jams. As they explore playing with coding blocks, the volume of fun — and learning — gets turned up! * Requires the Osmo Base and Coding Blocks. Each sold separately or as part of Osmo Coding Starter Kit or Osmo Coding Family Bundle. * Compatible with most iPads. Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
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Verdict
Musical Memory and Osmo Coding Jam both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of Osmo Coding Jam's written reviews are positive against 38% of Musical Memory's. Osmo Coding Jam also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). Musical Memory's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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 — 4.2 for Musical Memory against 4.2 for Osmo Coding Jam. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 284 and 272 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 38% of Musical Memory's written reviews are positive against 68% of Osmo Coding Jam's.
Musical Memory ships an update every 11 months, Osmo Coding Jam every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Musical Memory | Osmo Coding Jam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (284 ratings) — better | 4.2 (272 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 68.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 284 — better | 272 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 395 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Truncated Tales Limited | Tangible Play |
Customer experience
Musical Memory
Osmo Coding Jam
User reviews
Musical Memory
From 284 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Addictive and fun gameplay
- 💡 Clever concept
- 👍 Improves memory
- 👍 Simple yet engaging
- 👍 Good for aural memory improvement
Room to improve
- 😠 Too many ads
- 😠 Extremely loud volume
- 🐛 Buttons not working correctly
- 🐛 Game crashes frequently
- 🐛 Game freezes
Osmo Coding Jam
From 272 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and enjoyable gameplay
- 🎶 Great for learning coding and music
- 🤩 Inspiring and creative tool
- ✨ Amazing app experience
- 👍 Works well on older iPads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Incompatible with current iPads
- 🐛 App not working after updates
- 🐛 Crashing issues
- 🐛 Glitches and errors
- 🐛 Does not recognize tiles
Bugs and requests
Musical Memory
Reported bugs
18 issues- Ads interrupt gameplay
- Volume control has no effect
- Game is too loud even on mute
- No instructions
- Ads for other apps appear immediately
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- Games are short
- Layout issues with color sequences
- Cannot contact developer for fixes
- Constant pop-ups and ad tracking cause crashes
- Bottom buttons don't operate
- Game restarts unexpectedly
- Finger not synced with buttons
- Buttons don't register correctly
- App freezes and won't reload
- App goes to home page automatically
- Yellow button lights up when green is pressed
- Fails under new iOS
- Crashes every time on startup
Requested features
6 requests- Add an editor
- Allow choice of timbres
- More instructions
- Fix button glitches
- Increase number of buttons to 6
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- Update to fix issues
Osmo Coding Jam
Reported bugs
16 issues- Not compatible with current generation of iPads
- App does not work after returning from a trip
- App crashes on opening
- Cannot play on iPad 10
- Glitches when coding a song
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- App no longer opens after last update
- App keeps crashing
- Pieces don't work and cameras glitchy
- Camera sensors different combos
- Loading stops halfway
- Does not recognize tiles
- Sound doesn't work on 2018 iPad
- Horrible detection of grey piece
- 4th level practice keeps crashing
- Blue coding blocks not recognized
- Songs not appearing in categories
Requested features
5 requests- Add more characters
- Add a trade character feature
- Add more updates
- Add a feature to create own musical characters
- Add engineer feature
In-app purchases
Musical Memory
No in-app purchases
Osmo Coding Jam
No in-app purchases
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