Bee vs Busy Bundle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Busy Bundle
This educational app offers a collection of engaging mini-games designed to develop problem-solving skills, sound discrimination, and basic math for young children. Parents can customize difficulty levels to suit individual abilities.
- Helicopter cow rescue
- Monster caging challenges
- Baby outfit customization
- Animated street screen creation
- Math sum practice
- Sound discrimination games
- Shape-based puzzles
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Navigate the helicopter to rescue cows from the trees and place them in the matching baths. At later levels you will need to cage the monster first! Another great problem-solver from Busythings Ltd for very young children aged between 3 to 6. Complete the bundle to create crazy outfits for the baby, make an animated street screen, answer simple sums with a bungee jumping pink man, practise sound discrimination and plug a hole in the road with the correct shape! Parents can adjust settings to make the games suitable for different abilities. More Busy Things games available at www.busythings.co.uk
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Busy Bundle at 4.5 against Bee's 3.7. Busy Bundle also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 11.0). Bee's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 49 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Busy Bundle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bee asks for nothing beyond the download.
Busy Bundle holds the better App Store score, 4.5 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 complicate that: 51% of Bee's written reviews are positive against 40% of Busy Bundle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bee ships an update every 4 months, Busy Bundle every 49 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bee | Busy Bundle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (47 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 49 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TTS Group Limited | Busy Things Limited |
Customer experience
Bee
Busy Bundle
Bugs and 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
Busy Bundle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bee
No in-app purchases
Busy Bundle
- Complete Busy bundle 1 app$1.99
