Cargo vs Osmo Tangram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cargo
A brain-challenging puzzle game where players program a robot to move crates. It's designed to help users learn fundamental programming concepts through engaging gameplay and beautiful graphics.
- Robot programming puzzles
- Learn programming concepts
- Beautiful graphics
- Fiendish puzzles
- Record and share solutions
- Programmed on iPad
Read full descriptionHide full description
Over one million people have enjoyed Cargo-Bot! The puzzle game that challenges your brain and helps you learn programming concepts. Cargo-Bot is the first game programmed entirely on iPad® using Codea It's a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. Sounds simple, right? Try it out! • Beautiful graphics • Fiendish puzzles • A game about programming, programmed entirely on iPad • Record your solutions and share them on YouTube • Learn more about how it was made by searching for Codea on the App Store
Osmo Tangram
This app reinvents a classic puzzle game with a hands-on, interactive approach. Arrange physical tangram pieces to solve on-screen challenges, developing spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. Explore diverse puzzles and bring your creations to life.
- Physical tangram pieces
- On-screen puzzle matching
- Spatial reasoning development
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Creative shape building
- Interactive learning experience
Read full descriptionHide full description
A timeless game reinvented in a hands-on, interactive way! In Osmo Genius Tangram, arrange physical tangram pieces to match on-screen puzzles. It’s a great way to exercise spatial and visual problem-solving skills. Start thinking with shapes! Animals, spaceships, people and more — there’s so much to create. Through a variety of puzzles, challenge yourself through multiple levels of difficulty and watch your creations come to life on screen! Play your favorite Osmo Genius Tangram on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the Osmo Base for iPad and Genius game hardware - each can be found at playosmo.com. * Requires the Osmo Base and Osmo Tangram Pieces. Each sold separately or as part of Osmo Genius Starter Kit or Osmo Genius Tangram. Learn more at playosmo.com. * Other Osmo Genius Starter Kit games Masterpiece and Newton are not available on iPhone today, they will be released in the next month or two, so keep your eyes peeled! * Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 "This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." - Forbes "Osmo has been a revolution in our family." - Wired Winner of the toy industry's top awards: **Best Design** - Good Design, 2016 **Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016 **Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015 **Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014 About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Osmo Tangram at 4.1 against Cargo's 3.6. Osmo Tangram also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid). Cargo's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 56%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Osmo Tangram holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Tangram has 166 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Cargo's written reviews are positive against 56% of Osmo Tangram's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cargo ships an update every 30 months, Osmo Tangram every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Cargo | Osmo Tangram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (27 ratings) | 4.1 (166 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.1% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 166 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 501 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two Lives Left | Tangible Play |
Customer experience
Cargo
Osmo Tangram
Bugs and requests
Cargo
Reported bugs
4 issues- Come together 2 hard mode crashes when I complete it in 8 step... wants you to stack 7 blocks but stashes when you do!!
- App froze while I was doing the tutorial. Still frozen each time I open it.
- ERROR: Parameters dt = random numbers. (about 1.6) OUTPUT: TEST TEST error: [string " -- StagePhysics.lua..":97: attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value) Pausing playback
- Infinite loop issue, recursion does not work correctly
Requested features
13 requests- Add a prog 5?
- Create your own level thing added in
- Saving multiple solutions, version control of unsolved puzzles, & saving off a set of instructions for reuse (building libraries of moves that are easy to reference in other puzzles)
- Settings to disable the sounds/music while letting background music play
- A button to simply change the "best solution" criteria
Show 8 moreShow fewer
- Updating the game or downloading "content" updates when new solutions are found
- An option in Settings to include a link to the video with the best solution displayed
- More explications... Per exemple, why a left arrow on the last sqarre of prog2 bring the claw automaticly to the leftmost colum no matter where your claw is???
- A reset levels button so you can use it with other users in a school
- A break function to stop infinite loops
- A tutorial about how to do the tutorial?
- A way to see the best solution for a level
- Multiple player profiles or even reset the game
Osmo Tangram
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cargo
No in-app purchases
Osmo Tangram
No in-app purchases
