Body Boggle vs Math Shed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Body Boggle
This app allows young children to create and modify their own unique characters by stretching and manipulating them. It's designed to foster creativity and build self-confidence, featuring engaging animations and sound effects for early learners.
- Character stretching and manipulation
- Create unique creatures
- Modify existing creations
- Develop self-confidence
- Fun animations and sound effects
- Designed for first-time iPad users
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Excellent for very young children using an iPad for the first time. Stretch the characters to create your own crazy creatures! Young learners have the freedom to create and modify their own creations. Great for developing self-confidence. As with all Busy Things apps Body Boggle contains lots of fun animations and sound effects.
Math Shed
Practice essential math skills with this fun and easy-to-use application. It covers a range of topics from number bonds and times tables to addition, subtraction, and decimals, offering multiple gameplay levels for learners of all abilities.
- Number bonds practice
- Times tables drills
- Addition and subtraction
- Decimal and powers of ten
- Counting through zero
- Multiple gameplay levels
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Developed by a team of teachers including maths specialists, Math Shed gives a fun and easy-to-use way to practice math skills. The app includes: - Number bonds - Time tables - Related times tables facts - Powers of ten with and without decimals - Addition and Subtraction up to 4 digit numbers - Counting through zero The app also provides three levels of gameplay with Easy and Medium having more scaffolding to support learners where needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Body Boggle at 4.8 against Math Shed's 4.2. Body Boggle also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 64%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Math Shed's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (69 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Body Boggle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Math Shed has 69 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Body Boggle's written reviews are positive against 64% of Math Shed's.
Body Boggle ships an update every 27 months, Math Shed every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Body Boggle | Math Shed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.2 (69 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 64.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 69 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | Education Shed Ltd |
Customer experience
Body Boggle
Math Shed
Bugs and requests
Body Boggle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Math Shed
Reported bugs
5 issues- Keyboard not working
- Timer continues when paused
- App crashes
- Bugs in latest update (score discrepancies)
- Hard to close the app
Requested features
7 requests- Add an extreme mode
- Option to switch timer on/off
- Add KS2 content
- Add an avatar
- Remove timer for children with anxiety/autism
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- App for Amazon Fire
- Option to restrict store/leaderboards during assignments
In-app purchases
Body Boggle
No in-app purchases
Math Shed
No in-app purchases
