Jungle Jam vs Osmo Coding Jam
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jungle Jam
Explore an interactive jungle world with a musical xylophone and playful characters. This app encourages discovery and creativity for young children through touch-based exploration and engaging animations.
- Interactive jungle exploration
- Bamboo xylophone with full musical scale
- Touch-based discovery
- Bouncing baby monkeys
- Flying toucans and giggling suns
- No buttons, menus, or ads
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Play the xylophone and explore a fully interactive world filled with colorful bananas, flying toucans, giggling suns and bouncing baby monkeys. Jungle Jam encourages discovery and creativity! EXPLORE THE JUNGLE With no buttons, menus or ads, everything on the screen is interactive and encourages baby to touch and find flying toucans, giggling suns and bouncing bananas. GET CREATIVE Watch the monkeys bounce with the jungle rhythm or join in the music by playing the bamboo xylophone (Did we mention this is also the best full musical scale xylophone in the App Store?) • Featured in Babble's top 50! • Featured in iTunes "What's Hot" for Kids & Family! • Famigo APProved App Badge recipient! • Featured on The iPhone Mom Friday Findings! • As seen on WXII12.com! • As seen on digtriad.com! • Millions of satisfied customers! "It's a fun app, with very appealing art. It drove my co-workers bananas, which is a good thing!" - Matt, Famigo "This app is perfect for little ones! The animations are cute and it is extremely easy for even a 1 yr old to use. My kids had a lot of fun with it." -User Review "Great for musical kids. I recommend playing duets, either on the same iPad or with two iPads." - Famigo "This is a fun game that is easy to start and play. Great for toddlers." -4_Review “As parents and teachers, we believe in friction-free learning for kids of all ages. We strive to build fun experiences with eye-popping visuals, professional narration, catchy music, and lots of positive encouragement. Thank you for supporting us and making our vision come to life. Have fun!!” - Blake, Mike & Amanda, Eggroll Games
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
The clearest difference is price: Osmo Coding Jam at Free against Jungle Jam's $0.99. Osmo Coding Jam also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.9) and ratings volume (272 vs 15). Jungle Jam's advantage is chart position (#68 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, 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
Osmo Coding Jam is free to download; Jungle Jam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Osmo Coding Jam holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Coding Jam has 272 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Jungle Jam's written reviews are positive against 68% of Osmo Coding Jam's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Jungle Jam ships an update every 4 months, Osmo Coding Jam every 2 months. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Jungle Jam | Osmo Coding Jam |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.9 (15 ratings) | 4.2 (272 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.3% of reviews — better | 68.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 272 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #68 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 395 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eggroll Games LLC | Tangible Play |
Customer experience
Jungle Jam
Osmo Coding Jam
Bugs and requests
Jungle Jam
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Jungle Jam
No in-app purchases
Osmo Coding Jam
No in-app purchases
Questions
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