Trucks vs Wild Symphony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trucks
An interactive digital book for young children to explore various types of trucks. It features tappable words for vocabulary building, animations, movable objects, and the ability to record personal narration. Designed to encourage literacy and make learning fun.
- Interactive truck exploration
- Vocabulary building with tappable words
- Animations and movable objects
- Personalized narration recording
- Parental controls
- Highlighted narration for literacy
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Play with tow trucks, cement trucks, newspaper delivery trucks and many other types of trucks in this exciting book app for new readers! Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and personalize the story with your own narration. Complete with moveable objects and brightly colored illustrations, learning is fun with Byron Barton's "Trucks"! Explore the Story: - ENCOURAGE literacy skills with highlighted narration - LEARN new vocabulary with tappable words and pictures - INTERACT with animations & movable objects on every page! - RECORD your own narration & share it with others - KEEP kids in the story with parental controls Designed for children ages 2-5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We'd Love To Hear From You! - Please share your thoughts in a review! Your experience matters to us. - Need tech support? Contact us at support@omapp.com - Say hello to us on FB! facebook.com/oceanhousemedia Official HarperCollins licensed app: www.harpercollinschildrens.com
Wild Symphony
This augmented reality app transforms a picture book into a musical adventure. Point your device at illustrations to hear corresponding orchestral music, bringing stories to life with a unique soundtrack.
- Augmented reality musical experience
- Plays music from picture book illustrations
- Orchestral music inspired by nature
- Enhances story time
- Features original compositions
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Wild Symphony is an augmented reality experience that takes you on an exciting musical adventure with Maestro Mouse and his symphonic friends! Just download the app and point it at any illustration in the picture book, and you’ll hear the corresponding song. Travel through the trees and across the seas as you listen to orchestral music inspired by big blue whales and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Transform your reading and story time with this AR-based musical accompaniment. A unique picture book experience like none you've ever heard! Wild Symphony is designed for imaginative children of all ages. The app: • Allows readers to listen to the picture book’s musical accompaniment. • Plays audio recordings of orchestral music composed by author Dan Brown • Features beautiful illustrations from artist Susan Batori Bring a fun new dynamic to the picture book with this intuitive AR app that adds an exciting soundtrack and encourages newfound love and appreciation of music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Trucks at 100% against Wild Symphony's 38%. Trucks also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.7) and chart position (#185 vs unranked). Wild Symphony's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases 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
Wild Symphony is free to download; Trucks costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Trucks holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 69 and 120 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Trucks's written reviews are positive against 38% of Wild Symphony's.
Trucks ships an update every 12 months, Wild Symphony every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trucks | Wild Symphony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (69 ratings) — better | 3.7 (120 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 37.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 69 | 120 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #185 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oceanhouse Media | Stellata, LLC |
Customer experience
Trucks
Wild Symphony
Bugs and requests
Trucks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Wild Symphony
Reported bugs
66 issues- App crashes on opening
- Camera function not working
- Songs skip to random tracks
- App gets stuck on specific animal (cheetah)
- App doesn't recognize pages
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- App drains battery excessively
- App makes phone very hot
- App closes immediately upon opening
- No interactive elements
- App doesn't work with iOS 14
- Cannot close app easily
- No way to go back to main menu once music starts
- Secret video plays instead of app features
- Camera feature not working on multiple devices
- Augmented reality not working as promised
- App doesn't work at all
- Music plays but no clues show up
- App doesn't work with iOS 14.2
- App doesn't work with iOS 14.0
- App crashes every time trying to open
- App crashes on iOS14
- Camera feature did not work
- App won't even open, keeps crashing
- Not working with iOS14
- App doesn't work currently
- Augmented Reality isn't working
- Camera does not work
- App is not using my camera
- Not workingT.T
- Lieder springen
- Glitches galore
- Приложение глючит
- The app doesn’t work as advertised
- I want to love the app
- Not work with camera
- Doesn’t work at all
- I don’t think the camera function is working
- Camera does not work
- Musiktierfan
- Augmented reality fehlt
- Немного глючит
- Just needs some fixing
- Doesn’t work on iOS 14.2
- Great music but makes my phone hot
- It doesn’t work. What a shame.
- Didn’t take the time to release a working app
- Die Kamerafunktion fehlt, App stürzt oft ab
- App crashes constantly
- Love the book not the app
- Crazy energy Drain/Runs Hot
- The music is great, book is amazing
- Decepcionante
- App doesn’t work
- Shuts down as soon as it opens
- 2mins on this app, and I regret downloading
- This update helped. Still a little glitchy but better
- Book is great but app Augmented Reality isn’t working
- Not working on iOS 14.0
- Crashes
- Crashes on iOS14
- NEEDS TO BE FIXED. DOES NOT EVEN OPEN.
- Not working with iOS14
- No symphony
- No magic happens
- A disappointment
- Doesn’t work
Requested features
5 requests- Add individual instrument sounds
- More books and interfaces like this
- Fix camera recognition issues
- Add poem for the dragon
- Improve interactivity
In-app purchases
Trucks
No in-app purchases
Wild Symphony
No in-app purchases
Questions
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