Comparison

Number Beam vs Block Blast

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

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About

Number Beam

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NUMBER BEAM - Train Your Math Vision in 30 Seconds! Number Beam is an educational game designed to help children develop number sense and quick math skills through visual recognition. Perfect for elementary school students and fun for the whole family! HOW TO PLAY Look at two groups of objects on the screen and quickly tap the correct one based on the challenge - pick the bigger group or the smaller group! Answer as many as you can in 30 seconds. KEY FEATURES • Simple & Intuitive - No reading required, perfect for young learners • 3 Difficulty Levels - From beginner to advanced challenges • Single Player Mode - Practice at your own pace and beat your best score • 2 Player Mode - Compete head-to-head with friends and family • Achievements - Unlock badges as you improve your skills • Statistics - Track your progress with detailed score history • Multilingual - Available in 10 languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean • Kid-Friendly - Colorful design with fun icons and sound effects DIFFICULTY LEVELS Easy: Numbers 1-5, "bigger" challenges only Normal: Numbers 1-10, random "bigger" or "smaller" challenges Hard: Numbers 1-20, no numbers shown - pure visual counting! EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS - Develops number sense and subitizing skills - Improves visual processing speed - Enhances quick decision-making abilities - Builds math confidence through fun gameplay - Perfect for pre-math and early arithmetic practice PERFECT FOR - Elementary school students (ages 5-9) - Parents looking for educational screen time - Teachers seeking engaging math practice tools - Families wanting fun competitive games together Download Number Beam today and watch math skills improve while having fun! No ads, no in-app purchases, just pure educational entertainment.

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Block Blast

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A block puzzle built so that every piece of information reaches you three ways at once - visual, audio and haptic. Lose any one of those channels and the board is still fully readable, and still fully playable. Eight by eight grid. Three pieces at a time. Fill a row or a column to clear it. THE IDEA • Colour is never the only signal. All seven block colours carry a distinct pattern - dots, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, crosshatch, diagonals, checkerboard, waves - and the pattern is always drawn, never an opt-in extra. • The board can be heard. Every cell has a pitch from its row and a place in space from its column, rendered through a spatial audio environment. Scan by ear and build a map of the board. • Nothing requires dragging. Drag, tap-tap and dwell all drive the same game state, so you can switch between them in the middle of a run. • Mistakes are cheap. Undo is earned as you play, near-misses snap to a legal spot, and Zen mode has no game over at all. BLIND AND LOW VISION Every cell and every tray slot is a labelled VoiceOver element: "Row 3, column 5, red with dots, fits here, clears 2 lines." Piece descriptions lead with size, because size is what decides whether a piece still fits. Audio explore turns the board into a direct-touch surface: drag a finger to hear each cell as you cross it, lift to hear it described, triple-tap to place the piece in hand. This is the mode for playing with Screen Curtain on. Every sound is synthesised on your device as it plays, so the pitch mapping used for navigation stays exact. COLOUR BLIND Seven colours, seven patterns, always drawn. Deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia simulation can be switched on for the whole game rather than a preview swatch, so you can check a palette in the situation you actually play in. Block borders thicken automatically under Increase Contrast, and a block key lists every colour with its pattern name. MOTOR AND SWITCH CONTROL • Drag and drop - the piece floats above your finger and a near-miss snaps to a legal spot. • Sticky drag - tap a piece, every legal landing spot lights up, tap one. • Dwell control - tap a piece, rest on a cell, and it places itself. Works with Switch Control, adjustable from 0.4 to 4 seconds. Plus optional confirm-before-placing, full Reduce Motion support, and a one-tap maximum accessibility preset that sets high contrast, patterns, tap-to-place, spatial audio, haptics and verbose speech together. HAPTICS A looping heartbeat while a piece is in hand, a sharp tick when it crosses a cell where it fits, a dull thud where it does not, and a burst that grows with the number of lines cleared. MAKE IT YOURS • Six themes: Classic, Neon Glow, Pastel Soft, High Contrast, Nature, and Minimal - which paints every block the same white, because pattern carries all the identity a block needs. • Four sound packs: Synthetic, Organic, Retro and Nature. • Four clear effects, three levels of speech detail, and score announcements on or off. TWO MODES Classic keeps score, grows a combo up to five times over, and ends when nothing fits. Zen never ends - when no piece fits, the fullest rows dissolve and play carries on. PRIVACY No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No network calls of any kind. Your settings and your best score stay on your device, and nothing else is ever collected. English and Indonesian throughout, including VoiceOver labels and spoken feedback. Siri knows both: "Start Block Blast" and "Mulai Block Blast". I kept the app's British spelling ("colour") since that's what the UI strings use. If you'd rather match US storefront convention, swap to "color" in the description — the keyword field already uses "colorblind".

Screenshots

Number Beam3 screens
Block Blast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Block Blast at 18.0 against Number Beam's 26.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Number Beam versus Block Blast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumber BeamBlock Blast
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.118.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTAKAYUKI HASHIMOTOMuhammad Fadhil Abidin

In-app purchases

None

Number Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Block Blast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Number Beam free?
Number Beam is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Block Blast free?
Block Blast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Number Beam or Block Blast have ads?
Neither Number Beam nor Block Blast shows ads.

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