Comparison

Tickly Prickly Sampler vs Transformers Rescue Bots

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

Head to head
About

Tickly Prickly Sampler

An interactive picture book for young children featuring wiggly animals and bugs. Children can touch animals to see them move, solve jigsaw puzzles, and enjoy narrated stories with word highlighting.

Highlights
  • Animated animals and bugs
  • Interactive touch-based animations
  • 4-piece jigsaw puzzles
  • Author-read narration with word highlighting
  • Page-turning by swipe or tap
  • Gentle, rhythmic text
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This is a free preview edition of award-winning author Bonny Becker and artist Shari Halpern's interactive picture book Tickly Prickly for children ages 1 to 4. Bonny and Shari have created a book of wiggly animals and bugs to tickle your child. The gentle, rhythmic text, read by the author, appeals to a toddler's ear. The brightly-colored artwork, created with paper, cloth and paint, encourages children to touch. "Did you ever have a bunny nibble from your palm? How did it feel? Whiskery, shivery. Nose a-quivery." Every story page has animals in motion. Touching the animal restarts the motion. Tapping the puzzle piece, children can solve 4-piece jigsaw puzzles based on the current page. Pages can be read by the author with word highlighting, or an adult or older child can read the text to the child. Pages are turned by swiping across the page or by tapping orange arrows. Bonny Becker is author of the best-selling “A Visitor for Bear,” winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award and a selection for Oprah Winfrey’s Children’s Book List. “The Quiet Way Home” was selected for the educational program, Before Five in A Row, based on outstanding children’s books for ages 2-4. In all, Bonny has published 12 books for children. Shari Halpern studied illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and is the illustrator of many books for young readers, including "Hush, Little Baby" and the "I Love" series written by Philemon Sturges. Shari lives in New Jersey with her husband, a puppet maker, and three children.

About

Transformers Rescue Bots

Join the RESCUE BOTS and Cody in an interactive storybook adventure to track down a mysterious Mini-Con. Engage in thrilling races, solve puzzles, and make critical decisions as you explore Griffin Rock. This app is designed to foster teamwork, problem-solving, and early literacy skills in young children.

Highlights
  • Interactive animated scenes
  • Seven unique mission activities
  • Choose your leading Bot
  • Race and hunt for clues
  • Match suspects and collect Energon
  • Sticker pack for iMessage
Features
Currently charting
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GRIFFIN ROCK RESCUE bands together with a few new teammates to track down a mysterious Mini-Con whose arrival in Griffin Rock sparks a thrilling race throughout the town. This interactive storybook app puts you side-by-side with CODY and the RESCUE BOTS team—even BUMBLEBEE is here to help—as they track down this devious visitor. This adventure sparks team spirit, burns a lot of rubber, and raises important questions for, BLURR, our newest RESCUE BOT recruit: What’s more important? The rescue mission or a ‘need for speed?’ • Take control by picking the Bot YOU want leading each mission! • Hunt for clues across Griffin Rock! • Race your fellow Bots to hunt down the rogue Cybertronian! Feel like a member of the team as CODY guides you and GRIFFIN ROCK RESCUE around town, broadcasting updates as you power through seven different activities, racing from one side of the island to the other, dodging laughing gas, matching suspects, and gobbling up Energon cubes! Designed for young RESCUE BOTS fans and emerging readers, this app features: • Interactive, animated scenes that put you in the middle of the scene! • Race, catch, match, and dodge through seven unique missions that propel you through the story! • YOU pick the best Bot for each mission! Bots include: HEATWAVE, CHASE, BUMBLEBEE, BLURR, SIDESWIPE, and QUICKSHADOW. • Sticker pack of over 20 your favorite Transformers Rescue Bots to use with iMessage. Designed to deliver these Learning Goals: Numeracy: • Matching & sorting Early Literacy: • New vocabulary • Expanding early reading skills
 • Increasing reading comprehension Social-Emotional • Teamwork • Problem-solving with a group ABOUT PLAYDATE DIGITAL PlayDate Digital Inc. is a publisher of high-quality, interactive, mobile educational software for children. PlayDate Digital's products nurture children's emerging literacy and creativity skills by turning digital screens into engaging experiences. PlayDate Digital content is built in partnership with some of the world's most trusted global brands for kids. Visit us: playdatedigital.com Like us: facebook.com/playdatedigital Follow us: @playdatedigital Watch all our app trailers: youtube.com/PlayDateDigital1 HAVE QUESTIONS? We'd love to hear from you! Your questions suggestions and comments are always welcome. Contact us 24/7 at info@playdatedigital.com

Screenshots

Tickly Prickly Sampler4 screens
Transformers Rescue Bots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tickly Prickly Sampler at Free against Transformers Rescue Bots's $3.99. Transformers Rescue Bots's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and chart position (#164 vs unranked). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

Tickly Prickly Sampler is free to download; Transformers Rescue Bots costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Transformers Rescue Bots holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tickly Prickly Sampler ships an update every 9 months, Transformers Rescue Bots every 16 months. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Tickly Prickly Sampler versus Transformers Rescue Bots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTickly Prickly SamplerTransformers Rescue Bots
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—35.3% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#164 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB843 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerfishdog.netPlayDate Digital Inc.

Customer experience

Tickly Prickly Sampler

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Transformers Rescue Bots

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive35.3%
Neutral11.8%
Negative52.9%

In-app purchases

None

Tickly Prickly Sampler

No in-app purchases

None

Transformers Rescue Bots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tickly Prickly Sampler free?
Tickly Prickly Sampler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Transformers Rescue Bots free?
Transformers Rescue Bots costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tickly Prickly Sampler or Transformers Rescue Bots?
Transformers Rescue Bots is rated higher. Tickly Prickly Sampler averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Transformers Rescue Bots averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tickly Prickly Sampler or Transformers Rescue Bots have ads?
Neither Tickly Prickly Sampler nor Transformers Rescue Bots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tickly Prickly Sampler or Transformers Rescue Bots?
Tickly Prickly Sampler ships an update every 9 months, and Transformers Rescue Bots every 16 months. Most recently, Tickly Prickly Sampler was updated on November 6, 2026 and Transformers Rescue Bots on November 6, 2026.

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