Body Boggle vs NumBots
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.
NumBots
This platform helps children master mental addition and subtraction, moving them from counting to calculating. It focuses on building understanding, recall, and fluency in these core math skills. Designed for early learners, it offers an engaging way to achieve mathematical proficiency.
- Master mental addition
- Master mental subtraction
- Build understanding
- Develop recall
- Achieve fluency
- Transition from counting to calculating
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Addition & Subtraction. Solved. From the innovators who bring you Times Tables Rock Stars, comes a highly engaging platform for learning to add and subtract… NumBots! NumBots is all about every child achieving the “triple win” of understanding, recall and fluency in mental addition and subtraction, so that they move from counting to calculating. Suitable from Year 1 (UK) or Kindergarten (US) upwards. Younger players will be able to access the early stages from a mathematical point of view but will find it increasingly harder to reach the level of fluency required to make continued progress.
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Verdict
Body Boggle and NumBots both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Body Boggle's written reviews are positive against 66% of NumBots's. Body Boggle also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). NumBots's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (304 vs 4). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Body Boggle against 4.7 for NumBots. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NumBots has 304 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Body Boggle's written reviews are positive against 66% of NumBots's.
Body Boggle ships an update every 27 months, NumBots every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Body Boggle | NumBots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | 4.7 (304 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 304 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Busy Things Limited | Maths Circle Ltd |
Customer experience
Body Boggle
NumBots
Bugs and requests
Body Boggle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NumBots
Reported bugs
5 issues- Coins and stars not tracking correctly
- Login issues across devices
- Keyboard not showing up on tablets
- Levels randomly locked or missing
- App crashing and freezing
Requested features
5 requests- More advanced levels and content
- Ability to skip to appropriate level
- Less emphasis on speed, more on accuracy
- Family account support
- Improved login and persistence
In-app purchases
Body Boggle
No in-app purchases
NumBots
No in-app purchases
