Shape Up! Lite vs Blue
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.
Blue
This app allows children to create and execute algorithms for a robot. It offers step-by-step and drag-and-drop programming, with features like repeats and 45-degree turns. Challenge modes introduce obstacles and limited controls for added difficulty.
- Step-by-step programming
- Drag and drop interface
- Repeat commands
- 45-degree turns
- Obstacle challenges
- Customizable voice commands
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Blue-Bot is one of the many loved members of the TTS Floor Robot family. The Blue-Bot app enables you to write an algorithm, send it and then Blue-Bot will follow your instructions. There are numerous features, which make writing algorithms both fun and educational. Use explore mode to develop algorithms: Step by step programming. Drag and drop programming. Include repeats to add efficiency. Program 45 degree turns. Challenge mode will add complexity into the algorithm: Blue-Bot will add random obstacles, adding complexity to the algorithm needed One or even two directional buttons can be removed Children can also record themselves saying a command and can assign it to a button on Blue-Bot. As the algorithm progresses, they will hear themselves giving the instructions. Please note to control a Blue-Bot floor robot your device must have Bluetooth.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shape Up! Lite at 100% against Blue's 43%. Shape Up! Lite also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.4). Blue's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 34 months) and ratings volume (7 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. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Shape Up! Lite's written reviews are positive against 43% of Blue's.
Shape Up! Lite ships an update every 34 months, Blue every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.
| Parameter | Shape Up! Lite | Blue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.7 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 34 months | Every 3 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 | 12.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | TTS Group Limited |
Customer experience
Shape Up! Lite
Blue
In-app purchases
Shape Up! Lite
No in-app purchases
Blue
No in-app purchases








