Cargo vs Zoombinis
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
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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
Zoombinis
Guide adorable blue creatures through a series of logic puzzles and challenges to escape their captors and reach a new home. This re-creation of a classic game sharpens problem-solving, data analysis, and pattern recognition skills with engaging story and characters.
- Logic puzzles
- Data analysis challenges
- Pattern recognition
- Problem-solving skills
- Story-driven adventure
- Twelve unique puzzles
- Digitally painted backgrounds
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Play Zoombinis and guide the little blue creatures through fun and increasingly challenging puzzles on their way to a new home. Zoombinis is a re-creation of the classic, award-winning 1990’s puzzle game Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The small blue creatures, each with distinct personalities and appearances, are escaping imprisonment by the evil Bloats who have taken over the Zoombinis’ home. Players take on the role of guide and help the Zoombinis reach the safety of Zoombiniville. Use logic, analyze data, spot patterns and hone problem solving skills. Players face a series of increasingly difficult challenges that stand between the Zoombinis and freedom. Twelve perilous puzzles each with 4 levels of increasing difficulty, a great story, and many fun and memorable characters make for an engaging and challenging experience. We challenge you to get all the Zoombinis to safety! The Challenges • Allergic Cliffs • Stone Cold Caves • Pizza Pass • Captain Cajun’s Ferryboat • Titanic Tattooed Toads • Stone Rise • Fleens • Hotel Dimensia • Mudball Wall • Lion’s Lair • BubbleWonder Abyss • Mirror Machine Featuring • Beautiful digitally painted backgrounds • The original voices for the Narrator, Stone Guards, Pizza Trolls, Captain Cajun, and the Innkeeper • Restored music from version 1.0 of the original game • Improved celebrations and achievements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Zoombinis at 4.5 against Cargo's 3.6. Zoombinis also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (600 vs 27). Cargo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (84% vs 67%). On price and ads 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. Zoombinis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cargo asks for nothing beyond the download.
Zoombinis holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zoombinis has 600 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 67% of Zoombinis'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, Zoombinis every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cargo | Zoombinis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (27 ratings) | 4.5 (600 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.1% of reviews — better | 67.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 600 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 631 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Two Lives Left | TERC, Inc. |
Customer experience
Cargo
Zoombinis
User reviews
Cargo
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Epic
- 👍 Tricky logical game
- 👍 Excellent game!
- 👍 Good accessible programming game
- 👍 Genius!
Room to improve
- 🐛 I AM SO MAD AT THE DEVELOPER AND THE GAME!!!!
- 🐛 The game is bad
- 🐛 The update deleted my save!
- 🐛 App Support
- 🐛 Teaches bad programming practices
Zoombinis
From 600 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎉 Nostalgic and fun
- 👍 Faithful to the original game
- 💡 Challenging puzzles for all ages
- 🧠 Teaches logic and problem-solving skills
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs, especially in higher difficulty levels
- 🔇 Missing sound/audio issues
- 🕰️ Limited free play time before requiring purchase
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
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- 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
Zoombinis
Reported bugs
4 issues- Zoombinis disappearing or getting lost between levels
- Mirror Cave puzzles not functioning properly on harder difficulties
- Crashes and freezes, especially on older devices
- Inability to move Zoombinis in certain puzzles
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to adjust difficulty level in journey mode
- Cross-progression between devices
- More Zoombinis games (Mountain Rescue, Island Odyssey)
- French language option
In-app purchases
Cargo
No in-app purchases
Zoombinis
- Full Game$4.99
