NumBee vs AlgoForKids
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
NumBee
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NumBee makes preschool math feel like an adventure โ and it's the rare kids' app that keeps its promises to parents: no ads, no subscription, no tracking. One-time purchase, yours forever. Built for ages 3 to 5, NumBee is a complete preschool math curriculum wrapped inside a colorful 7-land world. Your child counts honey for hungry bees, hops a frog across the pond, builds shapes from boulders, weighs candy on a sign-shop scale, helps a royal mathematician solve story problems, learns the daily routine at the clock tower, and pops balloons in the arcade. Every activity teaches a real preschool math skill โ but it just feels like a game. EXPLORE 7 COLORFUL LANDS Counting Meadow โ Count, hop, build honeycomb, and quick-peek subitizing Shape Mountain โ Match, find, and build composed shapes with boulder pieces Pattern Forest โ Continue patterns and find what's hiding in the trail Comparison Candy โ More vs. less, tallest vs. shortest, ribbon races, fair sharing Math Castle โ Story problems, royal addition, treasure-chest tens, position words Clock Tower โ Daily routines, reading the clock, telling time, day vs. night Game Arcade โ Balloon pop, shape catch, daily-routine bubble order WHAT'S INSIDE 27 hand-drawn activities, each with its own friendly Buzzy guide 175+ unique stickers to collect โ every win earns one Numbers 1 to 20, with teen-number practice Counting, shapes, patterns, comparison, addition, position words, measurement, fractions, and time Voice instructions in every activity โ works whether or not your child can read Family Sharing โ every kid in the family plays from a single purchase WHY PARENTS CHOOSE NUMBEE No ads. No tracking. No analytics on your child. One-time purchase. No surprise subscription billing. Plays offline โ no internet needed after install. Family Sharing built in โ siblings, no extra fee. Aligned to U.S. preschool & kindergarten Common Core math standards. MATH SKILLS COVERED K.CC โ Counting & Cardinality (count to 20, compare numbers) K.OA โ Operations & Algebraic Thinking (addition within 10, story problems) K.NBT โ Number & Operations in Base Ten (teen numbers, ten-frames) K.MD โ Measurement & Data (length, weight, classification) K.G โ Geometry (2D shapes, composed shapes, position words) For homeschool parents, NumBee covers the full preschool math curriculum in a single app. FAIR PRICING Seven free activities โ one in every land โ let you try the full breadth of the app before deciding. Unlock all 27 activities with a single one-time purchase. No subscription. No upselling. No "premium" tiers later. Yours forever. ABOUT NUMBEE NumBee is built by an indie developer parent who got tired of subscription edu apps and ad-filled "free" math games. We make the kind of app we'd let our own kids play unsupervised โ and we mean it. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Contact us at mrrmfamily2022@gmail.com
AlgoForKids
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AlgoForKids turns programming into a puzzle a child can hold in their hands. A rabbit wants to reach the carrot. Your child builds the route out of colourful command blocks โ go forward, turn, jump โ then presses play and watches the plan run. When it fails, they see exactly where. When it works, they earn stars for solving it in fewer blocks. No text. No typing. No reading required. WHAT YOUR CHILD LEARNS โข Sequencing โ putting steps in the right order โข Debugging โ finding out why a plan didn't work โข Loops โ repeating a group of steps instead of writing them again โข Functions โ naming a routine once and reusing it โข Efficiency โ the three-star target always rewards the shortest solution 100 HAND-DESIGNED LEVELS Every level was drawn by hand, then checked by a solver to make sure it can be finished, that it is different from every other level, and that the star targets are actually reachable. Difficulty rises gently. No wall, no filler. The first 10 levels are free. One single purchase unlocks the rest โ no subscription. MADE FOR CHILDREN, RESPECTFULLY โข No advertising of any kind โข No data collection, no analytics, no tracking โข No internet connection needed โ plays anywhere โข No external links, no chat, no user content โข The purchase screen sits behind a parental gate FOUR LANGUAGES English, Turkish, German and Spanish. The game follows your device language automatically. Ages 5 to 10. iPhone and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: AlgoForKids at 16.6 against NumBee's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. NumBee sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AlgoForKids sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | NumBee | AlgoForKids |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mohan Agoramoorthy | Ahmet BOZ |
In-app purchases
NumBee
- NumBee Learning Premium$14.99
AlgoForKids
- All Levels$4.99









