Komodo™ vs Purple Mash Browser
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Komodo™
This app offers personalized math and literacy lessons for children aged 5-11, focusing on building foundational skills. It adapts to each child's pace and includes progress tracking with options for real-life rewards to encourage learning.
- Personalized learning paths
- Mathematics fluency development
- Literacy skills (grammar, spelling, comprehension)
- Progress tracking and reporting
- Real-life reward system
- Adaptive difficulty levels
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For ages 5 to 11, Komodo tailors the learning experience to the needs of each child, adjusting as they go along. Komodo’s focus is on developing mathematics-fluency, the key foundation for future success in mathematics. It includes counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, times tables, division, fractions, decimals, percentages and many more essential topics. •Komodo now includes literacy (English, Language Arts) including grammar, spelling, vocabulary, punctuation, comprehension and much more. •Komodo is not a game – it’s designed to be effective without keeping children at the screen too long. •Komodo reports back on your child's progress as often as you'd like, and allows you to set real-life rewards to motivate them along the way •One of the most important parts of a child's learning is your involvement. Komodo helps you support your child's learning in a way that you'll both find quick, fun and rewarding too. •Komodo's adaptive system allows kids to skip to an appropriate level once they have mastered a topic, so even the most able should find it constantly rewarding and challenging. Komodo is winner of the prestigious BETT Award for Best Home and Family Educational Resource. It is also winner of the Samsung Digital Media Award and the DANI Award.
Purple Mash Browser
This application provides an optimized browsing experience for a popular educational platform. It enhances usability on mobile devices by removing distracting browser elements and offers administrative control over the starting page for easier access to learning resources.
- Optimized browser for educational platform
- Enhanced mobile usability
- Removes distracting browser gestures
- Full-screen learning space
- Customizable home page settings
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The Purple Mash Browser Application allows you to make the most of Purple Mash on your device. - A browser optimised for using Purple Mash on your device (recommended for use on iPads) - Requires an internet connection - Removes the gestures for going to the previous/next page. - Removes the tab bar which gives more space to Purple Mash. - Allows administrators to set the Purple Mash Home Page, Purple Mash Quick Login or Purple Mash Portal for ease of access.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Purple Mash Browser at 5.0 against Komodo™'s 4.6. Komodo™'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (169 vs 5). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Purple Mash Browser holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Komodo™ has 169 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 64% and 63% positive.
Komodo™ ships an update every 3 weeks, Purple Mash Browser every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Komodo™ | Purple Mash Browser |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (169 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.6% of reviews — better | 63.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 169 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Komodomath.com | 2 Simple Limited |
Customer experience
Komodo™
Purple Mash Browser
Bugs and requests
Komodo™
Reported bugs
6 issues- Login issues / No way to sign up
- Screen freezes after saving
- Setup video doesn't play
- App does not remember passwords
- Bug in the rewards section
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- Inconsistent reward system functionality
Requested features
8 requests- Add a 12+ age option for older kids
- Update app for iOS 13 and newer devices
- Improve password memory functionality
- Fix bug in the rewards section
- Provide more variety in exercises
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- Introduce concepts and explain why answers are wrong
- Provide immediate feedback to wrong answers
- Offer a more upfront explanation of subscription costs
Purple Mash Browser
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Komodo™
No in-app purchases
Purple Mash Browser
No in-app purchases
Questions
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