Tiny & Milo vs ClayPals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Animated short stories
- Interactive mini-games
- Skill development (empathy, kindness, focus)
- Designed for ages 3-7
- Ad-free environment
- Parental controls
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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/
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Tiny & Milo ships an update every 9 days, ClayPals weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny & Milo | ClayPals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 415 MB | 136 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Open Mind Studio LLC | Mark Cruz |
Customer experience
Tiny & Milo
ClayPals
In-app purchases
Tiny & Milo
- Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
ClayPals
- All Animals$4.99









