Comparison

Connect The Dots with Animals vs Join The Dots

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

Head to head
About

Connect The Dots with Animals

This game helps children learn numbers and letters by connecting dots to draw cute animals. It offers multiple modes for learning counting and alphabetical order, with puzzles that can be replayed.

Highlights
  • Draw animals by connecting dots
  • Learn numbers 1-20+
  • Learn alphabetical order
  • 30 Dot-to-Dot puzzle scenes
  • Hint system for assistance
  • Puzzles change over time
Features
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All-new Connect the dots game for kids. Your children can draw very cute animals by numbers and letters! This is number and alphabet learning in a FUN way!! “Great way to teach counting. 3 year old grandson loves it." ▷ Kids can draw cute animals and learn counting from 1 to 20 and more.... ▷ The ABC game mode teaches alphabetical order skills ▷ 30 Dot-to-Dot puzzle scenes ▷ Learning numbers and letters ▷ Puzzles are solved by drawing on the numbers/letters in the right order! ▷ A hint helps the children to solve the puzzles (can be disabled) ▷ Puzzles changes with time, so they can be played more then once ▷ Kids can celebrate their success with "Princess dust" ▷ Encourages number/letter order recognition and problem solving skills ▷ Easy to use and control

About

Join The Dots

Connect the dots to reveal hidden pictures and guess the object. This game helps children learn to read and count while discovering various objects. It offers an engaging way to practice numbers and is suitable for travel.

Highlights
  • Connect dots to reveal pictures
  • Learn to read and count
  • Object recognition
  • Audio pronunciation in multiple languages
  • Free Style mode for custom levels
  • Progressive difficulty
Features
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Connect the dots between them to reveal a picture and guess the object behind! For children from 3 years, this classic children's games is perfect to learn to read and count while discovering a multitude of objects. This is probably the best educational teaching method for learning the numbers. It is also a very good pass time when traveling!     • The numbers and names of objects are read aloud     • Voices are available in French, English and Spanish     • The game works perfectly on iPad, iPhone and iPod     • It supports all orientations (portrait or landscape)     • Mode "Free Style" to create their own dot to dot level     • The difficulty is progressive with 75 objects be to discovered (from 10 to 75 points) Try it, it's free. If you're not satisfied, you will be refunded;) • • • • • "The best game of its kind." For any problem, question or suggestion, please contact us: contact@vision-apps.com The Vision-Apps Team

Screenshots

Connect The Dots with Animals4 screens
Join The Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Join The Dots at weekly against Connect The Dots with Animals's every 3 months. Join The Dots also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 14). Connect The Dots with Animals's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and ratings volume (25 vs 7). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Connect The Dots with Animals sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Join The Dots sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Connect The Dots with Animals holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Connect The Dots with Animals's written reviews are positive against 57% of Join The Dots's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Connect The Dots with Animals ships an update every 3 months, Join The Dots weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Connect The Dots with Animals versus Join The Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConnect The Dots with AnimalsJoin The Dots
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (25 ratings) — better4.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews56.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS148.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeinrich TillackClement Marty

Customer experience

Connect The Dots with Animals

All ratings25 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Join The Dots

All ratings7 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive56.7%
Neutral10.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Connect The Dots with Animals

One-time3
  • Unicorn Puzzle Set #1$1.99
  • Panda Puzzle Set #1$2.99
  • Unlock all puzzles$4.99
1 purchases

Join The Dots

One-time1
  • Full Package$0.99

Questions

Is Connect The Dots with Animals free?
Connect The Dots with Animals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Join The Dots free?
Join The Dots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Connect The Dots with Animals or Join The Dots?
Connect The Dots with Animals is rated higher. Connect The Dots with Animals averages 4.5 out of 5 from 25 ratings, while Join The Dots averages 4.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Connect The Dots with Animals or Join The Dots have ads?
Neither Connect The Dots with Animals nor Join The Dots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Connect The Dots with Animals or Join The Dots?
Connect The Dots with Animals ships an update every 3 months, and Join The Dots weekly. Most recently, Connect The Dots with Animals was updated on November 1, 2026 and Join The Dots on November 7, 2026.

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