Comparison

Noggin vs OmniTaught

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

Head to head
About

Noggin

This app offers a safe, ad-free environment for children to explore their interests through interactive games and curated videos. It encourages hands-on learning and skill-building in areas like baking, chess, and DIY, turning screen time into active discovery.

Highlights
  • Interactive mini-games
  • Curated video library
  • Hands-on skill building
  • Ad-free environment
  • Safe for all ages
  • Interest-based content categories
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Noggin is back: bigger, brighter, and more hands-on than ever. Whether you’re crafting your town in the game or tuning into your latest obsession on NogginTV, Noggin is made for discovering what you love and actually doing it. From chess matches in castle towers to baking quests and DIY how-tos, Noggin’s game world and curated video library help you get curious, go deep, and build real-world skills through screen time that’s anything but passive. No ads. No paywall. Just ways to engage, explore, and find your thing. Noggin is: - FREE. Watch NogginTV for free. No subscription, no ads. - SAFE. Relax in a walled garden environment, safe for all ages. - INSPIRING. Stream “live” programming designed to spark interests in everything from fashion and music to baking and building. - CURATED. Choose from a video library of best-in-class creator content, curated by our real-life Noggin hosts and categorized by kid interests. - PLAYFUL. Explore new interests and get good at them through hands-on mini games - CHALLENGING. Use new skills to help solve problems in epic game quests - FUN. Bake real recipes in Nogginville where frosting is a food group and play chess with the king of the castle with some help from a wizard Ready for your next thing? Download Noggin for free. With Noggin, you don’t just sit back and swipe— you engage with a world designed to spark curiosity and sustain it. Whether you’re obsessed with interests like baking or chess, or looking for something new, Noggin helps you discover what you love – and actually do it. No pressure, no rules. Just your thing, your way. Download and fire up your Noggin. Castles, cupcakes, and adventures await. About Us: Noggin turns everyday interests into full-blown obsessions. Discover what you love and do it. Learn more at noggin.com. Here are the links to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions: Privacy Policy: https://noggin.com/privacy_policy.html Terms and Conditions: https://noggin.com/terms_of_use.html Have questions or need support? Contact help@noggin.com.

About

OmniTaught

Master new skills and prepare for exams with bite-sized lessons and spaced repetition reviews. Generate custom courses on any topic, and learn offline on any device. Your first week is free.

Highlights
  • Bite-sized lessons (approx. 6 minutes)
  • Spaced repetition review system
  • Custom course generation (Topic Genie)
  • Offline learning capability
  • Cross-device progress syncing
  • In-lesson word definitions
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Learn a skill. Prepare for an exam. Get better at your craft. Courses on any subject. You would be amazed what you could learn in six months with just ten minutes a day. OmniTaught teaches the way memory actually works. A lesson runs about six minutes. A quiz follows while the material is still fresh. Then review comes back on a schedule built around the point where you were about to forget, so the work you already did keeps paying off instead of draining away. WHAT IS INSIDE A growing library of courses, including exam preparation for the NCLEX, the NCE, the EMT exam, real estate licensing, and the Praxis, alongside clinical skills, medical terminology, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, crisis response, and personal finance, plus health and wellness courses on longevity, yoga, meditation, and metabolic psychiatry. THE TOPIC GENIE If the library does not have what you want, name any subject and the Genie builds a real course on it: lessons, quizzes, and review, in the same shape as everything else. Courses other learners have wished for are shared in the Wish Library, so you can pick up a course somebody else asked for. A WORD YOU DO NOT KNOW Double-tap any word in a lesson and its definition appears right there. Keep it, and it joins your review deck alongside everything else you are learning. HOW IT FITS INTO A DAY Ten minutes is a real session. Everything works offline once a course is downloaded, so a commute or a waiting room is study time. Your progress syncs across every device you sign in on, and finished lessons, best scores, and review timing are merged rather than overwritten, so nothing you have earned gets lost when you switch devices. WHO MADE IT OmniTaught is built by Michael C. Shedrick, M.S., PLPC, NCC, a teacher who became a National Certified Counselor. Your first week is free. After that, OmniTaught is a monthly or yearly subscription charged to your Apple ID. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, in your iPhone's Settings under Subscriptions. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ OmniTaught Terms: https://omnitaught.org/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://omnitaught.org/privacy/

Screenshots

Noggin4 screens
OmniTaught4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: OmniTaught at 5.0 against Noggin's 4.0. OmniTaught also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 72%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Noggin's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (61 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. OmniTaught sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Noggin asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

OmniTaught holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Noggin has 61 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Noggin's written reviews are positive against 100% of OmniTaught's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Noggin ships an update every 2 weeks, OmniTaught every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Noggin versus OmniTaught: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNogginOmniTaught
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (61 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings61 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size882 MB138 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperNoggin Holdings, Inc.OmniTaught

Customer experience

Noggin

All ratings49 ratings
Positive79.6%
Neutral10.2%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive72.2%
Neutral16.7%
Negative11.1%

OmniTaught

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Noggin

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Rip-off app with the same name on the App Store

Requested features

3 requests
  • Bring back Moose and Zee
  • Add voice-overs and books
  • Expand the virtual world with more quests and content

OmniTaught

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Noggin

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

OmniTaught

Subscriptions2
  • OmniTaught Monthly$9.991 Month
  • OmniTaught Yearly$79.001 Year
One-time2
  • Extra Genie course$6.99
  • Narration for a Genie course$9.99

Questions

Is Noggin free?
Noggin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is OmniTaught free?
OmniTaught is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Noggin or OmniTaught?
OmniTaught is rated higher. Noggin averages 4.0 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while OmniTaught averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Noggin or OmniTaught have ads?
Neither Noggin nor OmniTaught shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Noggin or OmniTaught?
Noggin ships an update every 2 weeks, and OmniTaught every 5 days. Most recently, Noggin was updated on November 8, 2026 and OmniTaught on October 31, 2026.

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