Comparison

Faces iMake vs Light & Color by Tinybop

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

Head to head
About

Faces iMake

This app encourages creativity by allowing users to build collages from everyday objects. It helps expand visual awareness and associations, serving as a non-verbal expression tool for children, including those with disabilities. Includes video lessons and inspirational images.

Highlights
  • Create collages from everyday objects
  • Expand visual awareness and associations
  • Non-verbal expression tool
  • Video lessons on creativity
  • Inspirational image gallery
  • Backgrounds to spark rediscovery
Features
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Celebrating our FIFTH YEAR and STILL POPULAR with EDUCATORS AND FAMILIES! * TOP 10 APPS FOR KIDS * - iPad Apps for Kids * 2012 - Parents' Choice Silver Award * Picked at ISTE 2012 - top 25 most innovative and useful tools vetted by teachers ****************************************************** Some reviews of Faces iMake we like: " Faces iMake Right Brain Creativity is the most entertaining and creatively expressive app for the iPhone I've seen. " (Parents' Choice Foundation) " This fantastic art App encourages kids to be creative and gives them the tools to express themselves." (Commonsensemedia.org) " Faces iMake is a modern day take on Mr. Potato Head " (Teacherswithapps.com) " Faces iMake is like nothing else in the App Store " applenapps.com " This app is a great way for kids to relax, unwind, have some fun, and most importantly use their imagination! - The students we worked with produced incredible masterpieces beyond our creative dreams. " Teacherswithapps.com " It is an amazing app to encourage kids creativity. " funeducationalapps.com " Faces iMake emerges as a powerful creative outlet for children. Adult artists may find the app a whimsical break from more serious pursuits. " Bestappsforkids.com " Terrific art app ... Endless creative possibilities. " Smartappsforkids.com ****************************************************** Faces iMake is a tool for creating collages using pictures of every-day objects but Faces iMake is much more than that: * It is a tool for expanding VISUAL AWARENESS and VISUAL ASSOCIATIONS, activities mostly controlled by our right brain. Indeed, Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, put it very well when he said, "It is fun and addicting if you can get it away from your kids." * It is an intuitive tool for CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES. Shannon Des Roches Rosa, editor of The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, wrote: "Our kids love Faces iMake ... its interface is one of the best I've seen for kids with autism." * It enables kids' EXPRESSION IN A NON VERBAL WAY. An enthusiastic student will have more incentive to articulate on his/her creation. ****************************************************** Faces iMake includes: • 5 video lessons on creativity by Hanoch Piven himself, geared for all ages. • A new set of Backgrounds which trigger and spark the user to rediscover familiar shapes and enhance them in a unique way. • A gallery of 20 inspirational images created by the Piven family (different age groups using the app) • A music player which allows for music to be played while creating. ****************************************************** Faces iMake was developed with renowned artist, children's book author and educator Hanoch Piven and is based on the highly acclaimed creative workshops he has conducted all around the world. Piven, whose art has been featured in publications such as: Time, Newsweek and The New Yorker, says about Faces iMake: "ART IS A GAME AND GAMES PREPARE US FOR LIFE" ************************************************************* About iMagine Machine™ - Based in New York City and Tel Aviv, iMagine Machine™ is an award winning edutainment publishing and development house specializing in innovative and cutting edge applications and games. Focused on children's applications, iMagine machine incorporates unique and intelligent programming to create and publish creative and entertaining applications for iOS devices. Copyright (C) 2009-2016 iMagine Machine™ *************************************************************

About

Light & Color by Tinybop

Explore the science and art of light and color through interactive experiments and AR features. Discover how light works, mix colors, and see the world through different creatures' eyes. Designed for curious kids ages 4+.

Highlights
  • Explore light refraction and reflection
  • Experiment with prisms, mirrors, and lenses
  • Mix paint and light colors
  • Create rainbows
  • Use AR to identify colors
  • See through animal eyes
  • Interactive vocabulary in 40+ languages
Features
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Have you dreamed of entering a rainbow? How about collecting the colors in your room or seeing through the eyes of a bee? Explore the magic of light and color as you learn at the intersection of physics and art.  **2022 Winner of Japan's Digital Ehon Yoichi Sakakihara Prize for outstanding children's media! Discover how light is made, how it moves, and the beauty it creates (hint: colors!). You can mix paint and light, play with prisms and lenses, sort colors, make rainbows, and so much more. Plus — use AR to collect and identify the colors all around you. Light & Color is No.12 in Tinybop’s award-winning Explorer’s Library, a series of apps designed for curious kids ages 4+ to dive into big ideas. Other Explorer’s Library apps include The Human Body, Plants, Simple Machines, The Earth, Weather, Homes, Skyscrapers, Space, Mammals, Coral Reef, and States of Matter. The apps in this series have won Best of the App Store, App Store Editors’ Choice, Parents’ Choice, and Children's Technology Review Editor’s Choice awards. Each Explorer’s Library app teaches kids foundational science. Kids learn by playing, experimenting, observing, asking questions, making guesses, and finding answers. We hope each app inspires conversations between you and your kids and sparks more learning in the world around us. Learn more at tinybop.com. FEATURES + Discover how light bounces, refracts and reflects. + Play with working models of prisms, mirrors, and lenses. + Make rainbows by generating storms. + Experiment with a variety of light sources including candles, incandescent lights, and lasers. + Peek inside a raindrop to learn about how rainbows are created. + Mix paints to create a color wheel (Subtractive RYB mixing). + Explore the science of light by mixing colored lights (Additive RGB light mixing). + Play with color sorting blocks to learn about different color systems. + Collect, capture, match, and name colors in the world around you using AR. + Explore how different creatures perceive the world around them (humans, color-blind humans, nearsighted humans, bees, dogs). + Consider the emotions you connect to different colors. + Interactive text labels in 40+ languages teach vocabulary. + Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). + Fun for the whole family — play and learn together. + No third-party advertising. + Open-ended activities with no rules. Curiosity and creativity are rewarded. + Original artwork by Jeanelle Mak Petrillo. FREE handbook Our expert-reviewed handbook is full of facts, interaction hints, and discussion questions to support learning in this app, in the classroom, or at home. Download in your app or at: http://tinybop.com/handbooks. Privacy Policy We take your and your child’s privacy very seriously. We do not collect or share personal information about your child, nor do we allow any third-party advertising. When the camera, lidar (TrueDepth), microphone, and other services produce data which could identify you used within an app, your information is neither collected nor distributed outside of the app to Tinybop or other parties. Tinybop does collect anonymous usage data that tells us which parts of the app you visit, how often you visit, and which parts of the app you use the most. This anonymous data is accessible only to Tinybop to help us make better apps and is never bought or sold. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. Tinybop, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow.  We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop Peek behind the scenes: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! If you have ideas, or something isn’t working as you expect it to, please contact us: hi@tinybop.com. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop. :)

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Faces iMake at 1.1K against Light & Color by Tinybop's 15. Faces iMake also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (81% vs 71%). Light & Color by Tinybop's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Faces iMake costs $2.99 and Light & Color by Tinybop $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Faces iMake against 4.5 for Light & Color by Tinybop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Faces iMake has 1.1K ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Faces iMake's written reviews are positive against 71% of Light & Color by Tinybop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Faces iMake ships an update every 3 months, Light & Color by Tinybop every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Faces iMake versus Light & Color by Tinybop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFaces iMakeLight & Color by Tinybop
Price$2.99 — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (1.1K ratings)4.5 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.5% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1.1K — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.3 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size197 MB422 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiMagine Machine Israel LTDTinybop Inc.

Customer experience

Faces iMake

All ratings1,087 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral7.6%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral5.6%
Negative13.0%

Light & Color by Tinybop

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

Faces iMake

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on first screen
  • Unable to add own music
  • Inappropriate content shown in video tutorials

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add ability to group and move multiple items together
  • Improve sound customization options to mute all sounds
  • Expand object library to include more options for older kids

Light & Color by Tinybop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Faces iMake

No in-app purchases

None

Light & Color by Tinybop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Faces iMake free?
Faces iMake costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Light & Color by Tinybop free?
Light & Color by Tinybop costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Faces iMake or Light & Color by Tinybop?
Light & Color by Tinybop is rated higher. Faces iMake averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while Light & Color by Tinybop averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do Faces iMake or Light & Color by Tinybop have ads?
Neither Faces iMake nor Light & Color by Tinybop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Faces iMake or Light & Color by Tinybop?
Faces iMake ships an update every 3 months, and Light & Color by Tinybop every 8 months. Most recently, Faces iMake was updated on October 23, 2026 and Light & Color by Tinybop on October 29, 2026.

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