Shape Up! Lite vs NumBots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shape Up! Lite
This educational game encourages young children to interact with basic shapes through tracing and coloring activities. Completed creations come to life with animations and sound effects, fostering curiosity and learning about colors and sizes.
- Shape tracing
- Color filling
- Animated creations
- Sound effects
- Shape identification
- Color recognition
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Shape Up! Lite is a shape game designed for very young children, but parents and older children will love it too! Simply trace around the simple shapes or use the paint bucket to fill them in. Once you have finished your creation will come to life! The rewarding animations and sound effects will ensure that children want to play again and again. Shape Up! introduces simple shapes of different colours and sizes to young children. The game encourages children to describe and name shapes as well as show curiosity about them.
NumBots
This platform helps children master mental addition and subtraction, moving them from counting to calculating. It focuses on building understanding, recall, and fluency in these core math skills. Designed for early learners, it offers an engaging way to achieve mathematical proficiency.
- Master mental addition
- Master mental subtraction
- Build understanding
- Develop recall
- Achieve fluency
- Transition from counting to calculating
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Addition & Subtraction. Solved. From the innovators who bring you Times Tables Rock Stars, comes a highly engaging platform for learning to add and subtract… NumBots! NumBots is all about every child achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating. Suitable from Year 1 (UK) or Kindergarten (US) upwards. Younger players will be able to access the early stages from a mathematical point of view but will find it increasingly harder to reach the level of fluency required to make continued progress.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shape Up! Lite at 100% against NumBots's 66%. Shape Up! Lite also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). NumBots's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 34 months) and ratings volume (304 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shape Up! Lite holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NumBots has 304 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Shape Up! Lite's written reviews are positive against 66% of NumBots's.
Shape Up! Lite ships an update every 34 months, NumBots every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shape Up! Lite | NumBots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (304 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 304 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 34 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | Maths Circle Ltd |
Customer experience
Shape Up! Lite
NumBots
Bugs and requests
Shape Up! Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NumBots
Reported bugs
5 issues- Coins and stars not tracking correctly
- Login issues across devices
- Keyboard not showing up on tablets
- Levels randomly locked or missing
- App crashing and freezing
Requested features
5 requests- More advanced levels and content
- Ability to skip to appropriate level
- Less emphasis on speed, more on accuracy
- Family account support
- Improved login and persistence
In-app purchases
Shape Up! Lite
No in-app purchases
NumBots
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Shape Up! Lite free?
Is NumBots free?
Which has better reviews, Shape Up! Lite or NumBots?
Do Shape Up! Lite or NumBots have ads?
Which is updated more often, Shape Up! Lite or NumBots?
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