Blocked vs Brick Art Instructor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blocked
Transform your photos or drawings into unique mosaic art using toy blocks or tiles. Customize block size, color palettes, and even generate a list for ordering physical pieces online. Save or share your personalized creations.
- Create mosaics from photos or drawings
- Customize block size and color groups
- Filter source images
- Omit specific colors
- Generate brick order lists for online purchase
- Save and share creations
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Create a mosaic out of toy blocks or tiles. Create a gift of a personalized work of art. Blocked generates mosaics using images from the Photo Library or from whatever you dream up and draw. Blocked allows for fine tuning of mosaics: filter the source source image, change the block size, select particular color groups, and omit colors from a mosaic. Commonly found color collections of bricks that can be purchased online are available by default. Generate a brick order list to automate online ordering of mosaic pieces on the lego.com website. Additional colors from photos can be added and grouped. Mosaics can be saved locally or shared with the public.
Brick Art Instructor
Create brick mosaic art from your own photos or provided samples. The app guides you through the building process, making it easy to transform images into unique brick artworks.
- Build brick mosaic art
- Use own pictures
- Select artwork parts
- Follow building instructions
- Includes sample pictures
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The Brick Art Instructor allows you to build your favourite picture in brick mosaic style. Choose your own picture or start with one of the samples, select which part you want to make an artwork from and use the instructions to start building.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brick Art Instructor at Free against Blocked's $2.99. Brick Art Instructor also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Blocked's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and chart position (#198 vs unranked). On 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
Brick Art Instructor is free to download; Blocked costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Blocked holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Blocked ships an update weekly, Brick Art Instructor every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blocked | Brick Art Instructor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #198 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eugene Liu | Tobias Pott |
Customer experience
Blocked
Brick Art Instructor
In-app purchases
Blocked
No in-app purchases
Brick Art Instructor
No in-app purchases
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