TeslaTown vs Cubelets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TeslaTown
Explore electricity generation and delivery through interactive structures and informational photos. This app is designed for upper elementary and middle school students to learn about electromagnetism and energy systems.
- Electricity generation and delivery exploration
- Hydroelectric, solar, and wind power examples
- Interactive structures
- Informational photographs
- Electromagnetism topics
- Grades 3-8 curriculum alignment
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Enter Tesla Town and explore electricity generation and delivery. Go into a hydroelectric power plant and see the turbine. Visit a solar powered house or a wind farm. - Designed for upper elementary and middle school students, grades 3-8 - Introduces topics related to electromagnetism - Demonstrates the importance and workings of current and future electricity generation and delivery systems. - Features include interactive structures and informational photographs Developed by power engineering experts and educators from the Office for Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education (MSTE) and from the Information Trust Institute (ITI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ©2018 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved. The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) performs multidisciplinary R&D that addresses the cybersecurity of power grids and oil & gas refinery and pipeline operations. CREDC is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (https://energy.gov), and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (https://www.dhs.gov). Consortium partners include: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory, Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, Oregon State University, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Rutgers University, Tennessee State University, the University of Houston, and Washington State University.
Cubelets
Expand your robot building possibilities with this app for Cubelets robot blocks. Control your creations remotely and explore thousands of building ideas by swapping Cubelet personalities. Updates are also available for your robot blocks.
- Remote control robot constructions
- Personality Swap for Cubelet behavior
- Receive important updates
- Expand building horizons
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Enhance your robot play with the Cubelets app. The official app for Cubelets® robot blocks. The app is not required to enjoy your robot blocks, but is a great way to expand your building horizons. Use the remote control feature to control Cubelets inside of a robot construction. Or check out Personality Swap to change how any Cubelet behaves at the touch of a button! Must own Cubelets robot blocks in order to use this application. To learn more about Cubelets, visit https://www.modrobotics.com. For the latest Cubelets news, follow us on twitter @Cubelets. Cubelets robot blocks: The building blocks of better thinkers ************** Features ************** • Remote control robot constructions • Explore thousands of building possibilities with Personality Swap • Receive important updates about Cubelets
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TeslaTown at 3.5 against Cubelets's 2.9. TeslaTown also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 44%) and iOS requirement (9.3 vs 11.0). Cubelets's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 74 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
TeslaTown holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of TeslaTown's written reviews are positive against 44% of Cubelets's.
TeslaTown ships an update every 74 months, Cubelets every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TeslaTown | Cubelets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (15 ratings) — better | 2.9 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 55.6% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 74 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | University of Illinois | Modular Robotics |
Customer experience
TeslaTown
Cubelets
In-app purchases
TeslaTown
No in-app purchases
Cubelets
No in-app purchases
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