Counting Bees vs Mountain's Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Counting Bees
This educational game helps children learn to count to 20 by guiding bees to flowers. It offers a safe, non-violent, and relaxing environment with multiple language options and customizable learning ranges.
- Learn to count to 20
- Guide bees to flowers by drawing paths
- Multiple language support
- Customizable counting ranges
- Encouraging and non-violent environment
- Relaxing music
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From Pi'ikea Street, the award winning developers of Interactive Alphabet and Memory Train. Kids will learn counting to 20 by guiding bees to the flowers! As they learn to count, they will fill four big honey bears. Learn to count in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese Chinese, and Japanese! This game is relaxing and non-violent and provides a safe and fun environment for kids to learn to count. Features: - Kids choose the path the bees fly to the flower by drawing it with their finger - Counting ranges included: 1-5, 1-10, 1-15, 1-20 - Encouraging, non-violent environment - Relaxing Ukulele music plays as your child is encouraged to help and learn. - Completely optimized for kids: No way to 'lose' this game - Special configuration option for parents to enable the languages they are most interested in their kids learning. Parents: Just touch the settings bubble in the top of the screen and then touch the flags of the languages you want to be available. Kids: Switch languages just by touching the flag that the bee is holding. Please check out our other apps "Interactive Alphabet" and "Memory Train" for more "Pi’ikea St." fun! "Piikea St." is a member of "Moms with Apps", a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families. Recommended Ages: 1-3, 4-7 Categories: Counting, Numbers, Games
Mountain's Diary
A children's book series that introduces nature through anthropomorphic mountains and rivers. Explore and learn about natural phenomena with fun, friendly characters.
- Interactive nature exploration
- Anthropomorphic mountain characters
- Educational content for children
- Seasonal themes (spring, fall)
- Focus on natural phenomena
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This is a series of kids book about nature. It's designed to showcase different phenomenon about nature. Mountains and rivers become real friends that can laugh and move, making them the real friends of the nature. You are now looking at the first book -- Mountain’s Diary. There are four mountain friends in this book. They are flower mountains in the spring time. Fruitful mountains in the fall. Some of them love the sun , some of them enjoy spending time with their animal friends. Like real little kids, they are fun and lovely and enjoy their days in nature. Opening this diary is like entering real nature. You can explore freely and learn everything about nature. We hope to introduce nature to our little friends through these books. Maybe they can think of more friends of the nature when they are playing with the diary of the mountains.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mountain's Diary at 5.0 against Counting Bees's 3.6. Mountain's Diary also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 179 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). Counting Bees's advantage is ratings volume (112 vs 1) and review sentiment (52% vs 33%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Counting Bees costs $0.99 and Mountain's Diary $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mountain's Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Counting Bees has 112 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of Counting Bees's written reviews are positive against 33% of Mountain's Diary's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Counting Bees ships an update every 179 months, Mountain's Diary every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Counting Bees | Mountain's Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (112 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.4% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 112 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 179 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piikea St. LLC | Yang Zhou |
Customer experience
Counting Bees
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In-app purchases
Counting Bees
No in-app purchases
Mountain's Diary
No in-app purchases
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