Their First Puzzles vs Dino Kids Learn
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Their First Puzzles
This app offers a gentle and confidence-building puzzle experience for toddlers and preschoolers. It features five animal worlds with various matching and building activities, designed to be frustration-free and engaging.
- Five animal worlds
- Matching, building, and sorting activities
- No-fail design
- Wordless play
- Offline functionality
- Calm art and sound
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No fails. No ads. No catch. Just their first puzzles. Their First Puzzles is a calm animal puzzle app for toddlers and preschoolers, ages 2–5. Explore five little worlds together, help friendly creatures find their homes, and watch each world fill with life. BRING HOME, BUILD & SORT Match creatures to their shapes or reunite babies with their grown-ups. Build animals piece by piece. Sort who belongs where. Larger Build puzzles in every world add more to discover, with playful animal reactions when the last piece fits. Familiar puzzles stay ready for another go, and sorting layouts change on repeat visits. A GENTLE START A piece that misses simply drifts back. There are no timers, scores, buzzers, red Xs, or losing. If your child pauses, a gentle helping hand shows the way. Play at their pace, with nothing to read to solve a puzzle. FIVE ANIMAL WORLDS Visit Ocean, Forest, Desert, Savanna, and Jungle. Meet friendly animals, enjoy soft sounds, and return to favourite puzzles as often as you like. Simpler puzzles remain alongside the richer Builds, so there is room to start small and grow in confidence. MADE FOR FAMILY LIFE • Designed for ages 2–5, playing alone or with a grown-up • Works fully offline: all worlds, artwork, and sounds are included • No account or sign-in • No ads, in-app purchases, or subscriptions • No tracking or collection of your child's play data • Progress stays on your device • Settings and links sit behind a grown-ups gate COMPLETELY FREE Every world is included. There is nothing to buy and no paywall. We're the family behind Their First Words and Their First Numbers. We made Puzzles as a calm, honest little app we'd want for our own child.
Dino Kids Learn
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Dino Kids is an all-in-one learning app for children from age 3: drawing, coloring, handwriting, phonics, math and times tables, piano, stories, English, Japanese with kanji, Korean and Chinese — free, no ads, no in-app purchases, and it works offline. WHY IT IS FREE Dino Kids is what Digi Dinos Joint Stock Company gives back to the community, not a source of revenue. We want every family to have one more way to teach a child without weighing up the cost, and parents to have more time to play and learn beside them. No subscription, nothing to buy inside, no advertising and no third-party analytics — so no child's data is being sold either. Every lesson is open the first time a child taps it; Digi Dinos carries the cost. THE PARENT'S OWN VOICE • Record your voice for 1,878 sounds and words, for praise, and for stories, so a child hears the voice of home. KOREAN • All 40 Hangul letters, consonants and vowels • Tap a letter to hear its name, then a word — "giyeok … goyangi" (cat). Trace all 40 CHINESE • 39 first characters: 一 to 十 and easy ones such as 人, 口, 日, 山, 水 • Each with pinyin, a spoken reading and an example word; trace in standard Chinese stroke order ENGLISH • ABC cards: hear the letter, then a word — "ay … apple" — with an emoji for pre-readers JAPANESE • 104 hiragana and 46 katakana to hear and trace in stroke order • Kanji in 10 levels, 2,141 characters from grade 1 to the end of high school: meanings, readings, stroke order, quizzes • JLPT vocabulary and grammar, N5–N1: 387 words, 81 patterns VIETNAMESE • 29 letter cards and grade 1 phonics: 40 sounds, 6 tones, 145 rimes, 609 syllables HANDWRITING AND LETTER PRACTICE • 354 characters with stroke order: English and Vietnamese letters, digits, kana, Hangul, Chinese characters. Scored stroke by stroke • Letter practice in all five languages: feed Dino a letter, find the word for a picture, build a word, trace WORD CARDS • 999 picture cards in 26 topics, read aloud in five languages DRAWING AND COLORING • Line art across 16 themes, outlines thick and closed so color stays in • Free drawing: pencil, brush, glitter pen, 34 stamps • Dot-to-dot: 100 guided puzzles • 12 or 36 colors, and paint-style mixing: blue + yellow make green • Finger or Apple Pencil, palm rejection, 30 steps of undo MUSIC — PIANO FROM ZERO • 27 lessons in 6 stages; a wrong key still sounds, and falling notes wait for the child • 94 familiar folk, nursery and classical tunes, origins named STORIES • 500 narrated folk tales in five languages; the line being read lights up MATH • School readiness: numbers, counting, comparing, adding and subtracting within 10, shapes • Thinking math (28 lessons); advanced math: numbers to 100, regrouping • Times tables: equal groups and skip counting first, then each table, chanted aloud in your child's language THINKING AND MEMORY • Mazes and new night mazes lit by Dino's flashlight, 120 each; join-the-numbers, 193-flag flip cards, 100 each PLAYTIME • Lessons earn stickers (72) and a ticket to one of seven games; a Dino companion hatches and grows with the stars PARENTAL CONTROLS • The parental area sits at the top of Settings, behind a multiplication gate • Child profiles, each with its own app language, languages to learn, gallery and progress; a real photo as avatar stays on the device • Parents unlock lessons per child, set how many earn a ticket, and control the microphone • Reading practice is scored on device — the voice never leaves it • Delete your account in the app, at once Five app languages: Vietnamese, English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese. No account needed: every lesson works without one, offline too after the first download. An account only carries data between devices. Touch targets fit a 3-year-old's finger, and a child never scores zero stars — what is not yet done is an outline, not a red X. If it helps in your house, tell another family — that is how something built for the community reaches more children.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dino Kids Learn at daily against Their First Puzzles's every 3 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.
Their First Puzzles ships an update every 3 weeks, Dino Kids Learn daily. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Their First Puzzles | Dino Kids Learn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 164 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Their First Words LLC | DIGI DINOS JOINT STOCK COMPANY |
In-app purchases
Their First Puzzles
No in-app purchases
Dino Kids Learn
No in-app purchases
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