Shape Up! Lite vs Bee
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.
Bee
This app allows children to practice directional language and programming sequences. It's designed for enjoyable gameplay, helping to expand computer science lessons and other curriculum areas for young learners.
- Directional language practice
- Programming sequences
- Forward, backward, left, right turns
- Curriculum expansion
- Optimized for game play
- Suitable for ages 4+
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The Bee-Bot® App from TTS is based on our well-loved and award winning Bee-Bot® floor robot. The App makes use of Bee-Bot’s key functionality and enables children to improve their skills in directional language, programming sequences of forwards, backwards, left and right 90 degree turns. Enabling for the expansion of your Primary Computer Science lessons using Bee-Bot®, the brand new Bee-Bot® App expands students learning into other relevant curriculum areas. Created with children in mind the Bee-Bot® App has been optimised for enjoyable game play of children aged 4 and above. We would love to hear which additional levels would benefit your lessons! Get in touch with us on Instagram at tts_computing or Facebook!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shape Up! Lite at 100% against Bee's 51%. Shape Up! Lite also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 11.0). Bee's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 34 months) and ratings volume (47 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 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bee has 47 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 51% of Bee's.
Shape Up! Lite ships an update every 34 months, Bee every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shape Up! Lite | Bee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.7 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 51.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 34 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | TTS Group Limited |
Customer experience
Shape Up! Lite
Bee
Bugs and requests
Shape Up! Lite
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Bee
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes when reaching level objectives (flower, eggs)
- App crashes on level 2 and level 3
- Controls unresponsive - pressing buttons twice executes wrong commands
- Directional controls inverted or reversed
- App closes unexpectedly on iPadOS
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- Cannot open app - keeps closing on startup
- Settings icon causes app to crash
- Steps/commands not visible during gameplay
- App quits during introductory game
- Level progression not recorded after completion
- iOS 13+ compatibility issues
Requested features
9 requests- New levels (Space, Disco, Dinosaur, Eco themes) - long awaited
- Home/Reset button to return bee to starting position
- Display code chain/command sequence on screen
- Ability to edit and correct programming mistakes
- More challenging levels for older age groups
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- Timed levels like in older version
- Sound effects restoration
- Higher resolution graphics
- Additional levels beyond current four worlds
In-app purchases
Shape Up! Lite
No in-app purchases
Bee
No in-app purchases
