Comparison

Puppet Pals 2 vs Space Time Quest

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

Head to head
About

Puppet Pals 2

Unleash creativity by making animated cartoons with interactive puppets. Children and teachers can easily create high-quality animated stories, presentations, and educational content. Share finished projects via email, social media, or direct file transfer.

Highlights
  • Create animated cartoons
  • Interactive puppet show
  • Star in shows with built-in characters
  • Share finished projects easily
  • Engage students in learning
  • Create instructional videos
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• “Puppet Pals is an amazing app that lets you create animated cartoons.” -David Pogue (NewYork Times) Children unlock creativity with this easy to use (but hard to put down) interactive puppet show! Even young children can create high quality cartoons from their imaginations. Kids can even star in the show along side the built-in characters! Teachers: Engage students by allowing them to act out historical events, practice language skills, or deliver a killer book report. The cartoons that kids are making have delighted thousands of teachers and parents around the world - let yours be next to experience this award-winning digital addition to your classroom. The finished projects are easily shared to be watched by others (share via email, Facebook, or simply copy the video file to your computer and distribute how you see fit - Hint: students love to see their work displayed on a classroom blog). • Create short instructional videos (in any learning area) • Storytelling, Reports, Historic Retells • Help reluctant public speakers present to the class • Help foreign language or ESL students practice their fluency & language skills • Brainstorming or storyboarding ideas and presentations Characters chosen from standard curriculum allow kids to fully engage with content - not even realizing they are actually learning valuable lessons that will stay with them for years to come!

About

Space Time Quest

Manage a massive budget and lead a continent-spanning scientific project to build a gravitational wave detector. Optimize subsystems and be the first to discover elusive gravitational waves to win a Nobel Prize.

Highlights
  • Budget management
  • Scientific project simulation
  • Gravitational wave detector construction
  • Subsystem optimization
  • Discovery simulation
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in charge of a budget of 100 million!? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a continent spanning science project, with the aim of making one of the most important discoveries of the last 50 years? In Space Time Quest you use your scientific skills to build the most sensitive gravitational wave detector ever, and use it to listen to the symphony of the Universe as never before! Spread your budget wisely and optimise the different subsystems of an interferometric gravitational wave detector, of the same type as the real detectors, such as LIGO and Virgo. Be the first to detect the elusive gravitational waves, and the Nobel Prize will surely be yours! Space Time Quest can be played in English, Spanish, Catalan, Dutch, German, Chinese, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Hindi and Brazilian Portuguese!

Screenshots

Puppet Pals 24 screens
Space Time Quest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Space Time Quest at 5.0 against Puppet Pals 2's 4.1. Space Time Quest also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Puppet Pals 2's advantage is ratings volume (122 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). On price, 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. Puppet Pals 2 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Space Time Quest asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Space Time Quest holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puppet Pals 2 has 122 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puppet Pals 2 ships an update every 2 months, Space Time Quest every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Puppet Pals 2 versus Space Time Quest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuppet Pals 2Space Time Quest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (122 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings122 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size359 MB161 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPolished Play, LLCLaser Labs

Customer experience

Puppet Pals 2

All ratings122 ratings
Positive76.2%
Neutral7.4%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews216 reviews
Positive63.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative26.4%

Space Time Quest

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Puppet Pals 2

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Saving issues causing loss of progress
  • Freezing and crashing when trying to access certain features
  • Audio and visual glitches during playback
  • Compatibility problems on newer devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add more free characters and backgrounds
  • Implement better saving and autosave functionality
  • Allow for custom character creation and customization
  • Add more diverse themes and settings
  • Improve overall stability and reduce crashes

Space Time Quest

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Puppet Pals 2

One-time10
  • North Pole Pack$0.99
  • Royal Hall Pack$0.99
  • Time & Tech Pack$0.99
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  • Saddle Up Pack$0.99
  • Vroom Vroom Pack$0.99
  • Civil Rights$0.99
  • Ptolemaic$0.99
  • Under The Sea$0.99
  • Custom Heads$1.99
  • All Access Pass$5.99
None

Space Time Quest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Puppet Pals 2 free?
Puppet Pals 2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Space Time Quest free?
Space Time Quest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Puppet Pals 2 or Space Time Quest?
Space Time Quest is rated higher. Puppet Pals 2 averages 4.1 out of 5 from 122 ratings, while Space Time Quest averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Puppet Pals 2 or Space Time Quest have ads?
Neither Puppet Pals 2 nor Space Time Quest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Puppet Pals 2 or Space Time Quest?
Puppet Pals 2 ships an update every 2 months, and Space Time Quest every 4 months. Most recently, Puppet Pals 2 was updated on November 1, 2026 and Space Time Quest on November 3, 2026.

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