Comparison

Lightbot vs Digital Puppet

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

Head to head
About

Lightbot

This game teaches programming logic through engaging puzzles. Players guide a robot using commands to solve levels, fostering an understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals. It's an excellent introduction to coding for kids and puzzle enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Programming logic puzzles
  • Robot guidance with commands
  • Teaches procedures, loops, conditionals
  • 50 levels and 20 challenge stars
  • Multiplayer progress tracking
  • Multiple language support
Features
Currently charting
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Featured by Apple in over 100 countries *Best New Apps and Games* *Best for Learning to Code* *Best in Hot Educational Games* Get kids hooked on coding within minutes! Lightbot is a programming puzzle game- a game whose game mechanics require using programming logic to solve levels. Simply guiding a robot to light up tiles and solve levels using commands, Lightbot cultivates a real understanding of procedures, loops, and conditionals. Educators around the world are choosing to use Lightbot first when introducing their students to programming, coding and Computer Science. Lightbot features 50 levels and 20 challenge stars to collect and is a must-have for puzzle enthusiasts. This version of Lightbot can be played in English, French, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Indonesian, German, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Thai, Hindi, Swedish, Finnish and Hungarian! Just hit the associated flag icon on the main screen to select a language. Lightbot features multiple save slots and separate progress tracking for multiple players. Multiple players can advance at their own pace in their own save slot, and also compete on number of levels finished, number of stars collected and number of overall commands used to complete the game. There are NO in-app purchases in Lightbot.

About

Digital Puppet

A beautiful programming puzzle game where you command a puppet to defeat enemies. Solve 80 stages by inputting commands and aiming for three stars by using the fewest possible moves. It's designed for all ages and features addictive gameplay with great music.

Highlights
  • 80 programming puzzle stages
  • Command a puppet to defeat enemies
  • 3-star rating system for efficiency
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Suitable for all ages
  • Awesome BGM and sound effects
Features
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Digital Puppet is a very simple and beautiful programming puzzle game! Try to operate a puppet the way you want and beat all enemies! The Rules: 1) Input commands for a white puppet (player) to beat all red puppet (enemies) 2) Tap a run button 3) If you can beat all red puppet (enemies), you win (If you achieve the minimum number of commands, you can grab 3 stars) The features: ● 80 beautiful stages ● Everyone (children to adults) can play the game ● highly addictive ● The 3 star rating system ● Awesome BGM and Sound Effects The message from the developer: Can you 3 stars on all stages? Hints: The key point is whether or not you can use JOB wisely. If you can do it, you can use repetitive, looping procedures and solve all stages beautifully with much less number of commands. Ads: 5 retry activate ads.

Screenshots

Lightbot4 screens
Digital Puppet4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Digital Puppet at Free against Lightbot's $2.99. Digital Puppet also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 85%). Lightbot's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#175 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Digital Puppet is free to download; Lightbot costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Lightbot against 4.6 for Digital Puppet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 27 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Lightbot's written reviews are positive against 100% of Digital Puppet's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lightbot ships an update every 2 months, Digital Puppet every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Lightbot versus Digital Puppet: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightbotDigital Puppet
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (38 ratings)4.6 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings38 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
Best chart rank#175 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS5.1.1 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB100 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpriteBox LLCTatsuya Nakano

Customer experience

Lightbot

All ratings38 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive84.7%
Neutral5.1%
Negative10.2%

Digital Puppet

All ratings27 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral7.4%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Lightbot

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • App crashes on open/startup
  • App crashes during gameplay/levels
  • Conditional level 2 bug
  • Play button covers code in Conditional level
  • Not loading due to iOS version
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  • English levels not working on iPod 4th gen
  • Crashing on 4th gen iPod/iPad

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels
  • Puzzle editor/user-created levels
  • Hint system
  • Ability to listen to music while playing
  • Unlockable content/robot customization
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  • More reward for completing challenges
  • More levels to reinforce concepts
  • Solutions page

Digital Puppet

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Lightbot

No in-app purchases

None

Digital Puppet

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightbot free?
Lightbot costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Digital Puppet free?
Digital Puppet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lightbot or Digital Puppet?
Digital Puppet is rated higher. Lightbot averages 4.5 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Digital Puppet averages 4.6 from 27 ratings.
Do Lightbot or Digital Puppet have ads?
Digital Puppet shows ads; Lightbot does not.
Which is updated more often, Lightbot or Digital Puppet?
Lightbot ships an update every 2 months, and Digital Puppet every 10 days. Most recently, Lightbot was updated on October 4, 2026 and Digital Puppet on September 15, 2026.

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