Comparison

Tiny & Milo vs ClayPals

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

Head to head
About

Tiny & Milo

This app offers animated stories and interactive mini-games designed to help children aged 3-7 develop essential life skills like empathy, focus, and kindness. It provides a calm, ad-free environment with voice prompts and gentle feedback, making screen time a positive learning experience.

Highlights
  • Animated short stories
  • Interactive mini-games
  • Skill development (empathy, kindness, focus)
  • Designed for ages 3-7
  • Ad-free environment
  • Parental controls
Features
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Skills, stories & games for kids New videos and mini-games every month. Helping kids ages 3–7 build empathy, focus, kindness, and confidence — one short story at a time. Open Minded Kids turns screen time into something parents feel good about. Each lesson pairs a short animated story with a matching mini-game, so kids don't just watch — they practice what they learned. 7 developmental skill categories • Critical Thinking & Problem Solving • Curiosity & Imagination • Emotional Skills & Self-Regulation • Helpfulness & Social Cooperation • Honesty & Responsibility • Independence & Confidence • Kindness & Empathy 3 ways to play • Watch — animated short stories with friendly narration • Play — colorful mini-games tied to each skill • Both — watch a story, then play a game that reinforces the lesson Designed for ages 3–7 • Big, kid-friendly tap targets • No reading required • Calm, ad-free environment • Voice prompts and gentle haptic feedback • 11 unique mini-games at launch — balloon pop, color match, memory matching, hidden objects, puzzles, sorting, and more Built for parents • Passcode-protected Parent Settings • Manage your subscription from inside the app • No third-party ads. No social features. No profile creation. • Multilingual narration and on-screen text — more languages added every release Premium Monthly Unlocks every video, every mini-game, and every new release. Auto-renews monthly until cancelled. You can cancel anytime in your Apple ID subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://openmind.kids/privacy Terms of Use: Apple's Standard EULA — https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ClayPals

This app offers a delightful claymation world for toddlers aged 2-4, featuring interactive puzzles with clay animals. Each animal presents two gentle challenges: placing it in its habitat and then reassembling its chunky clay pieces. It's designed for offline play with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Claymation animal puzzles
  • Two-part challenges per animal
  • Offline play functionality
  • No ads or subscriptions
  • Focus on shapes, colors, and sounds
  • Designed for ages 2-4
Features
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One purchase, every animal. Three clay pals are free to keep forever, and a single one-time purchase unlocks all the rest. No ads, no subscriptions, no accounts — and nothing about you or your child is ever collected. That is the entire business model. ClayPals is a little claymation world. Every animal and every scene has the look of soft, squishy modeling clay — dimples, fingerprint charm and all — like a stop-motion film your toddler can reach into. Each pal is two gentle puzzles in one. First your toddler slides the animal home: the puppy into the sunny backyard, the penguin onto the ice, the octopus into the reef. Then the pal splits into big chunky clay pieces to put back together. A wiggle, a satisfying pop, a happy dance — and the scene comes alive. Built for ages 2–4 from the ground up: • 23 clay animals, each with its own hand-sized world — farm, pond, savanna, ocean, night forest and more • Finish a pal and it says its own name out loud, then shows that name spelled on a little clay word card — a few seconds of print, never a quiz • Zero reading required — shapes, colors and sounds carry the whole game; animal words are on by default and switch off in one tap • Big pieces made for little fingers, with generous snapping — no time limits, no wrong answers, no failing • No rotation puzzles, no fiddly bits — just drag, drop, delight • Works completely offline — airplanes, waiting rooms, grandma's house • 3 pals free forever; ONE one-time purchase unlocks every other animal — no coins, no bundles, nothing else to buy, ever • Purchases sit behind a parental gate only a grown-up can pass; Family Sharing and Ask to Buy fully supported • No ads, no notifications, no external links, no social anything • ClayPals never listens: no microphone, no speech recognition, ever • Privacy label: Data Not Collected. The app makes no internet connections of its own ClayPals is made by a tiny independent studio. If something isn't right for your family, email us — a human reads and answers every message.

Screenshots

Tiny & Milo4 screens
ClayPals4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ClayPals at 5.0 against Tiny & Milo's 4.0. Tiny & Milo's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tiny & Milo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ClayPals sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ClayPals holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny & Milo has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny & Milo ships an update every 9 days, ClayPals weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tiny & Milo versus ClayPals: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny & MiloClayPals
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size415 MB136 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOpen Mind Studio LLCMark Cruz

Customer experience

Tiny & Milo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ClayPals

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tiny & Milo

Subscriptions2
  • Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
1 purchases

ClayPals

One-time1
  • All Animals$4.99

Questions

Is Tiny & Milo free?
Tiny & Milo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClayPals free?
ClayPals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tiny & Milo or ClayPals?
ClayPals is rated higher. Tiny & Milo averages 4.0 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while ClayPals averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tiny & Milo or ClayPals have ads?
Neither Tiny & Milo nor ClayPals shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny & Milo or ClayPals?
Tiny & Milo ships an update every 9 days, and ClayPals weekly. Most recently, Tiny & Milo was updated on November 5, 2026 and ClayPals on October 31, 2026.

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