Comparison

Friendly Shapes vs Toddler ABC Learning Games

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Friendly Shapes

This interactive storybook app teaches young children about shapes and music through a festive Christmas adventure. Kids can engage with characters, build toys, and play mini-games, all within a winter wonderland setting.

Highlights
  • Teaches multiple shapes and instruments
  • Interactive Christmas storybook
  • Jigsaw puzzles and coloring pages
  • Memory and placement games
  • Counting and find-the-item activities
  • Read-to-me and read-it-myself modes
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Our Super Popular Friendly Shapes Do Christmas This Year! Back by Demand and Downloaded more than 200,000 times! ~~> This Cute & Clever Christmas Tale Teaches Kids Multiple Shapes ~~> Gorgeous HD illustrations Makes Shapes Come Alive in a Winter Wonderland ~~> Happy, Cheerful Shapes Make Learning Fun in this Adorable & Smart Christmas Story! Kids Learn Music and Instruments through the Friendly Shape Symphony! Meet Oval, Heart, Triangle, Rectangle & Square in this clever Christmas Tale that teaches young children all about shapes. From toddlers to kindergartners - children will LOVE this smart and fun storybook app. In this sweet Christmas story, young kids will learn their shapes as they build a snowman, make snow angels and join Santa’s elves to make toys in his workshop. The Friendly Christmas shapes make music too! Build instruments with the friendly shapes and listen to the shapes as they play music and perform: play with the shapes and build a guitar, a piano, a bell and more! Join Santa on his sleigh as he gets ready to deliver presents on Christmas Eve. The Friendly Christmas interactive story app shares a wonderful Christmas story in a brilliant and compelling way young children will adore. What's inside: > Interact with several shapes including: triangle, oval, heart, rectangle, square, star > Built toys from basic shapes and watch them come alive! > Decorate a Christmas tree, take a ride with Santa and his sleigh, build a snowman > Jigsaw puzzles - Awesome puzzles enhance the story and promote critical thinking skills > Paint-a-Picture - Dozens of coloring pages and paints > Get crafty with your kids and show their masterpieces with friends! > Counting - 1 to 10 counting game is cool and fun > Memory Match - Fire up your child’s memory skills with this smart activity! > Placement Puzzle - Place a character in their puzzle piece > Find the Item - Critical thinking skills and memory come together in this activity > Memorize and Place - A great memory game that relates to the story and sharpens retention > Gorgeous Animations on each page > Deliver presents with Santa Features: > “Play” - Automatically reads each page of the story to you > “Read it Myself” - Allows you to control the reading yourself > “Auto Play” - Automatically reads the entire story to you > Enjoy tons of fun interactions on each page ABOUT TabTale With over 1.5 billion downloads and growing, TabTale has established itself as the creator of pioneering virtual adventures that kids and parents love. TabTale’s apps spark children’s imaginations and inspire them to think creatively while having fun! Visit us: http://www.tabtale.com/ Like us: http://www.facebook.com/TabTale Follow us:@TabTale Watch us: http://www.youtube.com/Tabtale CONTACT US Let us know what you think! Questions? Suggestions? Technical Support? Contact us 24/7 at: WeCare@TabTale.com. FOR PARENTS The app is free to play but certain in-game items may require payment. You may restrict in-app purchases by disabling them on this device. The app may include advertising for TabTale and certain third parties which will redirect users to our sites, apps or third-party sites. Your privacy matters. The app may enable collection of limited user data by TabTale or its carefully selected providers (e.g. ad networks and analytics) for limited purposes described in our Privacy Policy (e.g. respond to support queries; enable, analyze and improve the app’s features and services; serve contextual ads and measure their performance). For more information (notably on the providers), please read our Privacy Policy: https://tabtale.com/privacy-policy/ . By downloading, updating or using the app you consent (in your personal capacity and for other users of your device) to this collection and use of limited device information for ad display and reporting purposes and you accept our Terms of Use: https://tabtale.com/terms-of-use/.

About

Toddler ABC Learning Games

This app offers a fun, alien-themed adventure for preschoolers to learn letters, numbers, and shapes through tracing and engaging mini-games. It helps develop fine-motor and memory skills, preparing children for kindergarten.

Highlights
  • Tracing uppercase and lowercase letters
  • Tracing numbers 1-100
  • Tracing various shapes
  • 6 educational mini-games
  • Learning colors
  • Developing fine-motor skills
  • Developing memory skills
Features
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***** Developed by an award-winning education studios, 22learn, the creator of the best-selling apps for kids, in cooperation with educational specialists to best prepare your children for success in preschool and kindergarten curriculum. Preschool curriculum in one endearing alien-themed app. Land UFOs, explore extraterrestrial lands, vacuum the space, save the aliens, and much more. This fun-packed preschool educational adventure takes you out of this world to start a journey of learning. Have fun tracing letters, shapes, and numbers with aliens; or play 6 engaging educational mini-games to learn names of shapes, letters, numbers, and colors. ==== FASCINATING TRACING AND LEARNING ADVENTURE FOR PRESCHOOL KIDS PACKED WITH EDUCATIONAL CONTENT TO HELP CHILDREN SUCCEED IN PRESCHOOL CURRICULUM ==== ==== TRACE with ALIENS ==== * Uppercase letters * Lowercase letters * Shapes * Numbers 1-10 * Numbers 10-20 * Numbers 1-100 ==== LEARN in 6 FUN EDUCATIONAL MINI-GAMES ==== * Uppercase letters, lowercase letters, shapes, colors, numbers 1-10, numbers 1-100 * Mini-games include both matching and recognition activities 1. Feed the aliens. -- The cute little alien babies are hungry! Can you drag the flowers with the correct symbol to feed them? 2. Land UFOs. -- The shiny UFOs are coming for a landing. Land the UFOs to their right landing bases. 3. Connect the space dots. -- Connect the dots in an alphabetical or numerical order. Can you guess who is hiding behind the dots? 4. Color the aliens. -- Have fun learning with this special interactive coloring book. Crack the code to color the picture. 5. Vacuum the space. -- Operate our fancy vacuum cleaner to clean up the planet! 6. Match the planets. – Oh, who is it that hides behind the planets? Memorize the pictures and match them to help aliens get back home! ==== EDUCATIONAL CONTENT ==== Teaches: * Uppercase letters * Lowercase letters * Numbers 1-100 * Shapes * Colors * Fine-motor skills * Memory skills ==== FEATURES ==== + Educational, space-themed interactive mini-games + Professional animations, voice-over, and sound effects + Colorful child-friendly design + Developed in cooperation with teachers and parents The aliens and other wacky space creatures are waiting. Time to learn! Prepare your children for success with this fun and quirky app by 22learn!

Screenshots

Friendly Shapes4 screens
Toddler ABC Learning Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Toddler ABC Learning Games at 4.5 against Friendly Shapes's 3.6. Toddler ABC Learning Games also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ratings volume (547 vs 9). Friendly Shapes's advantage is update cadence (every 9 months vs every 18 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Friendly Shapes sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Toddler ABC Learning Games asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Toddler ABC Learning Games holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Toddler ABC Learning Games has 547 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Friendly Shapes's written reviews are positive against 71% of Toddler ABC Learning Games's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Friendly Shapes ships an update every 9 months, Toddler ABC Learning Games every 18 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Friendly Shapes versus Toddler ABC Learning Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFriendly ShapesToddler ABC Learning Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (9 ratings)4.5 (547 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better70.9% of reviews
Number of ratings9547 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKids Games Club by TabTale22LEARN Toddler and Baby Learning Games, LLC

Customer experience

Friendly Shapes

All ratings9 ratings
Positive55.6%
Neutral11.1%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Toddler ABC Learning Games

All ratings547 ratings
Positive86.7%
Neutral6.0%
Negative7.3%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive70.9%
Neutral3.6%
Negative25.5%

Bugs and requests

Friendly Shapes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Toddler ABC Learning Games

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Black screen on app launch
  • Letter tracing unresponsive after completion
  • App freezing and becoming laggy
  • Paid version not recognized after purchase
  • iOS compatibility issues despite meeting version requirements
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  • Buttons becoming unresponsive except home button
  • Sound issues after tracing letters correctly

Requested features

6 requests
  • More free content or extended trial period
  • Better tracing sensitivity for younger children
  • Lowercase letter support in free version
  • Additional mini-games and activities
  • Persistent game state across sessions
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  • Option to disable upgrade prompts during gameplay

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Friendly Shapes

One-time5
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Unlock 12 Jigsaw Puzzles$1.99
  • Unlock 4 Match It Games$1.99
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  • Unlock 12 Coloring Pages$1.99
  • Full Version$3.99
None

Toddler ABC Learning Games

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Friendly Shapes free?
Friendly Shapes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Toddler ABC Learning Games free?
Toddler ABC Learning Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Friendly Shapes or Toddler ABC Learning Games?
Toddler ABC Learning Games is rated higher. Friendly Shapes averages 3.6 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while Toddler ABC Learning Games averages 4.5 from 547 ratings.
Do Friendly Shapes or Toddler ABC Learning Games have ads?
Neither Friendly Shapes nor Toddler ABC Learning Games shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Friendly Shapes or Toddler ABC Learning Games?
Friendly Shapes ships an update every 9 months, and Toddler ABC Learning Games every 18 months. Most recently, Friendly Shapes was updated on October 16, 2026 and Toddler ABC Learning Games on October 17, 2026.

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