Build Minis vs PureBeads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Build Minis
Describe your ideas and watch AI build them into playable games, interactive art, or digital toys instantly. Control creations with body and face tracking, then discover, remix, and share them with a vibrant community.
- AI-powered creation from text prompts
- Body and face tracking for interactive control
- Instant discovery and play of community creations
- Remix and share creations easily
- Social community for creators and players
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Turn your ideas into playable experiences in seconds. Minis lets you create games, interactive art, and digital toys just by describing what you want. Type a prompt, and AI builds it for you. No coding, no complexity. CREATE ANYTHING Describe what you want and watch it appear. Puzzle games, music visualizers, interactive stories, art toys, weird experiments. Whatever you can think of. Everything runs right in the app. BODY & FACE TRACKING Make stuff that responds to you. Wave your hand to control a game. Nod to trigger effects. Use your face as a controller. It's kind of wild. DISCOVER & PLAY Scroll through a feed of things other people made. Everything plays instantly. No downloads, no waiting. You'll find games, tools, art, and stuff you didn't know you wanted. REMIX & SHARE See something cool? Remix it and make it yours. Share anything with a link. Anyone can play without downloading the app. SOCIAL Like and comment on things you enjoy. Follow creators you like. It's a community of people making weird, fun, creative stuff. THE BASICS: • Ideas become playable in seconds • No coding needed • Body tracking built in • Share with anyone via link • Free to browse and play Go make something.
PureBeads
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NEW: GREAT ON FOLDABLES (INCLUDING iPHONE DUO) • Unfolded: preview on the left, all settings and the color table on the right — tweak while you watch • Folded: a one-hand-friendly narrow layout with controls on the right edge • Unfolded, choose right-handed or left-handed: controls and settings sit on your side • Before the manual is made, confirm round beads or square color blocks, the brand palette and bead size — sensible defaults, just tap Create • The manual opens full screen, and on big screens shows two pages side by side for easy reading, sharing and printing NEW — PIXEL WIZARD MODE: round beads or square blocks, a color slider from black & white to full color, crisp outlines, swap any color with a tap, and freer cropping! Turn your photo into a bead picture you can build one bead at a time! Bead crafts are simple: put lots of tiny colorful beads on a board, iron them, and they stick together into something you made yourself. But which color goes where? That's the tricky part. PureBeads figures it out for you! HOW TO PLAY — JUST SIX STEPS 1. Pick a photo: one you took, drew or downloaded. 2. Crop it and zoom in or out. Want the background to disappear and keep only the star of the picture? You can do that too. 3. Choose how many beads wide to make it: more beads means more detail, fewer beads means you finish sooner. 4. See how it will look right away, and how big it will be when it's done. 5. Tap once to make your MANUAL: where every cell is and which color code every bead is. It's all written down. 6. Print it, or keep it on a tablet, and follow along! KIDS WILL LOVE • Change something and see the picture change, like magic • Every cell has coordinates, and there's a thicker line every 5 cells, so counting is easy • A heart, a star… try the demos first, no photo needed • Pick your own theme color to make the app yours GROWN-UPS WILL LIKE • The manual says how many beads of each color you need, so you buy just enough • Choose the color codes of different bead brands; the manual also lists similar codes from other brands to help you shop • Your projects are saved automatically, so you can make it again any time • Share or print the manual as a PDF and build together • No account, no photo upload, no ads, no subscription FEATURES • Photos or Files, then crop, zoom and rotate • Cut out: finds the main subject, tap to choose who stays • Resolution from 8 to 100 beads wide; standard 5 mm or mini 2.6 mm beads • Maximum number of colors, so there is less to prepare • Edit any cell by hand, with an eraser • Manual PDF: cover, color table and page-by-page grids with coordinates and codes • Notes: every manual you made is kept here • Chinese, English, Japanese and German; dark, light and your own theme color Turn a photo you love into a little handmade surprise!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PureBeads at daily against Build Minis's every 2 weeks. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Build Minis ships an update every 2 weeks, PureBeads daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Build Minis | PureBeads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gatarn Games Ltd. | Chien Yu Wang |
In-app purchases
Build Minis
No in-app purchases
PureBeads
No in-app purchases









