Comparison

Anyway vs TL Learning

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

Head to head
About

Anyway

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Your kid picks the path. You do the voices. Anyway is an interactive storybook app for kids aged 6 to 12. You read the story out loud, and at every crossroad your child decides what happens next. Help the stranger, or keep walking? Take the tunnel, or the long way over the ridge? The story bends around whatever they choose, and it ends somewhere different depending on how they got there. Read the same story twice and you will not get the same book. Built for reading together, not instead of you Most kids' apps are designed to hold a child's attention while the adult does something else. This one isn't. Anyway assumes a kid in your lap and a parent doing the reading, because that's the part that actually builds vocabulary and reading comprehension. The choosing is what keeps a five year old from wandering off halfway through chapter one. Choices with consequences attached Every branch leads somewhere real. If your child talks their way past the gate instead of sneaking, the rest of the story remembers it. Kids figure out cause and effect much faster when they're the one who caused it, and the safest place to learn that a shortcut can backfire is inside a story about a floating village. Written for the age it says on the box Stories are grouped by age band, 6-8 through 10-12, and the language actually changes with them. Sentence length, vocabulary, how many decisions a story asks for, how much moral grey it's willing to sit in. A story for a six year old and a story for an eleven year old are different pieces of writing here, not the same one with harder words swapped in. You get to see how they think This is the part parents tend to bring up. Watching which path your child picks, and hearing why, tells you a surprising amount about how they weigh risk, whether they default to helping, what they do when there's no obviously right answer. The best conversations usually happen right after the story ends. "Why did you go back for her?" No ads, no autoplay, nothing waiting to grab them Every story is written and curated for this app. There are no ads, no video, no infinite feed, nothing that starts playing on its own when the last page ends. When the story's done, it's done, and you can put the tablet down. Bedtime stories, car rides, quiet Sunday mornings, or a kid reading on their own once they're old enough.

About

TL Learning

Features
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TL Learning brings Tinker Labs digital lessons to iPhone and iPad. Students can open licensed and demo lesson content using a PIN or QR code, move through interactive activities, and continue learning on a layout that automatically fits the current screen size. The app includes Tinker World Plus demo lessons for review.

Screenshots

Anyway4 screens
TL Learning1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TL Learning at 3 against Anyway's 1. TL Learning also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Anyway ships an update every 4 days, TL Learning every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Anyway versus TL Learning: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAnywayTL Learning
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS18.615.1 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size82 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStefano KlibaStanislav Despotovic

In-app purchases

None

Anyway

No in-app purchases

None

TL Learning

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Anyway free?
Anyway is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TL Learning free?
TL Learning is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Anyway or TL Learning have ads?
Neither Anyway nor TL Learning shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Anyway or TL Learning?
Anyway ships an update every 4 days, and TL Learning every 3 days. Most recently, Anyway was updated on October 15, 2026 and TL Learning on October 17, 2026.

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