Apex Coloring vs Loomwork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apex Coloring
A gentle play studio for young children featuring a variety of interactive activities. Kids can color 3D objects, cook, care for pets, explore gardens, play mini-games, solve puzzles, and learn basic concepts. It offers offline play and is designed with parental trust in mind.
- 3D Coloring with animated toys
- Cooking and Pet Care simulations
- Interactive Gardens and Mini-Games
- Puzzles and Creative Art Studios
- Learning modules for letters and numbers
- Offline play functionality
- Parental controls and privacy features
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NEW: World of Letters — explore a complete A–Z city, match uppercase and lowercase families, discover letter sounds, build words and sentences, count and compare numbers, and play six original interactive read-aloud stories. 19 activities across six departments. Apex Coloring is a bright, gentle play studio for children ages 3 and up. Little hands bake a pizza, bathe a puppy, grow flowers, spin friendly 3D animals around and paint every side, solve puzzles, make music, and learn letters, numbers, colors and animal words, while a warm voice reads every button and picture aloud. TEN STUDIOS, 75 ACTIVITIES • 3D Coloring: 24 chunky 3D toys that walk, wag and bob while your child paints them. • Little Chef: pizza, cupcakes, smoothies and pancakes. • Pet Pals: adopt and name a pet, then bathe it, feed it, play with it and tuck it in at bedtime. • My Garden: flowers, veggies and bug friends. • Mini Games: a fish tank, a farm, a zoo, a dino park, a marble run and more. • Puzzles, including one made from your own photo. • Paint & Draw, Camera Fun, the Music Studio (xylophone, piano, drums, animal band, song maker) and Learning (letters, tracing, counting, animal words, colors and shapes). NEW: SPEED WORLD Cube animals, cars, boats and planes race at their real speeds. Pick your racer and cheer it on through funny races with banana slips, sleepy racers, sneaky jetpacks and slow-motion finishes. Go on Trips to meet animals, answer easy questions and upgrade your car or horse. Fly to Space: take off, break the sound barrier, ride a rocket to orbit and land with a parachute. Try a Long Run that gets faster and faster, play "What If?" (a snail as fast as a rocket!) and line racers up from slowest to fastest in Speed School. MORE WORLDS TO EXPLORE • Sea Life: color whales and dolphins in 3D, with sea games, puzzles, music and a Sea School. • Lexi Gravity: drop things on the Moon and on Jupiter in the Gravity Lab, and visit the planets. • Dino World: color a T. rex, dig for fossils, solve dino puzzles and learn dino words. • Dance World: dance with Mia and Leo, with funny face lenses, talking toys and a music video studio. MADE FOR PARENTS TO TRUST • No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no chat. • Plays offline. Drawings and progress stay on the device. • The camera games run on the device only: nothing is uploaded, and a video is kept only when your child taps record. • Purchases and settings sit behind a grown-ups-only check. • Captions, read-aloud, text up to 200%, a dark look and reduced motion. Details: https://apexkids.reallexi.io/accessibility.html • Play in English, Arabic, French or Persian. Some activities in every studio and every world can be played without a membership. A pack membership unlocks everything in that world, and the all-packs membership unlocks every world. Memberships are auto-renewable subscriptions, billed by the app store on your device, and can be restored from the settings screen. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://apexkids.reallexi.io/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://apexkids.reallexi.io/privacy.html
Loomwork
Solve logic-based picture puzzles with a calm and fair experience. Every puzzle is solvable by logic alone, with no guessing required. Enjoy a beautiful interface with original pixel art and seasonal content.
- Logic-based puzzles with single solutions
- No ads, lives, or penalty for wrong marks
- Over 280 original pixel art pictures
- Seasonal puzzle packs
- Color nonogram puzzles
- Intuitive touch controls for large grids
- Unlimited hints and undo
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Nonograms the way they should feel: calm, fair and beautiful. EVERY PUZZLE CAN BE SOLVED BY LOGIC Fill the grid from the number clues to reveal a hidden picture. Each Loomwork puzzle has exactly one solution, and a solver checks that it can be reached by line logic alone. No guessing, no 50/50s. NO ADS. NO LIVES. NO NAGS. No banners, no videos, no energy to wait out. A wrong mark never costs you anything. Choose Gentle (a wrong mark shows in soft red at once) or Classic (no checking until the grid is complete, as on paper). PICTURES THAT WEAVE INTO CLOTH Over 280 original pixel pictures, from 5×5 up to 40×40 showpieces, among them a Floating World of Japan, from a lucky cat to the Great Wave. Finish a picture and it weaves into its full-colour textile and joins your Loom gallery. SEASONAL PACKS Seasonal packs arrive through the year, each free to everyone in its season. A new picture comes out each day, with time after the last to finish them all. Weave a whole pack in its season and it becomes a keepsake quilt in your Loom. Pictures you start in season stay yours, and Loomwork Plus keeps every seasonal pack open after its season. PUZZLES WITH COLOURED CLUES In the colour packs, each clue number is coloured like its run. Runs of different colours can touch, and runs of the same colour need a gap, so colour becomes part of the logic. Paint with the puzzle's own threads. The free First Colours pack teaches the rules. BIG PUZZLES THAT FEEL GOOD ON A PHONE - Pinch to zoom and drag with two fingers to pan - Drag to fill a run, locked to its row or column - The row and column under your finger are highlighted - A magnifying lens shows the cells under your finger on big grids - The biggest grids open where their clues can be read, with the whole picture one tap away - Clue numbers cross themselves out as you complete runs, and finished lines cross off their empty cells - Lock finished lines if you like, so a stray tap can't change them - Soft, woven sounds and gentle haptics, each with its own switch ON IPAD TOO Play on iPad in any orientation, in Split View beside another app, in Slide Over or in Stage Manager. On a wide screen the grid takes the full height, with your tools beside it. HELP THAT TEACHES Stuck? A hint finds the next deduction and explains it in plain words, for example which cells a long run must cover. Hints and undo are unlimited (puzzles solved with hints are marked as assisted). ENDLESS AND DAILY - Endless: generated puzzles from 10×10 to 50×50, graded Easy to Expert, so there is always another - Each Endless puzzle is a named textile pattern, such as Herringbone, Tartan or Fair Isle, in one colour or in colour - The Sampler: a swatch book with a place for every Endless look at every grade, filled by the first one you weave - A daily puzzle, the same for everyone, with a streak and a calendar of the pictures you've woven - A daily reminder at a time you choose, if you want one (it's off until you turn it on) - A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with today's puzzle and your streak - iCloud sync keeps your pictures, bests and streak in step across your devices - Times, bests and your solve history in Stats LOOKS THE PART Linen light theme and Indigo Night dark theme, both free, following your phone. Text scales with your system text size. LOOMWORK PLUS (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) Every picture pack and colour pack, every seasonal pack after its season, Endless from 20×20 to 50×50 in one colour and in colour, the Rosewater, Saffron and Graphite themes, your full solve history and the daily archive. The free game includes First Threads, the Garden and Kitchen packs, the First Colours colour pack, each seasonal pack in its season, the daily, Endless up to 15×15 in one colour and in colour, and every control and assist. Loomwork collects no data and works fully offline. iCloud sync keeps your records in your own iCloud account, not with us, and you can turn it off in Settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Loomwork at free against Apex Coloring's freemium. Apex Coloring's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Apex Coloring sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Loomwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Apex Coloring holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Apex Coloring ships an update every 5 days, Loomwork weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Apex Coloring | Loomwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 544 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laleh Emileh | Brendan Pan |
Customer experience
Apex Coloring
Loomwork
In-app purchases
Apex Coloring
- World of Letters Pack Monthly$3.991 Month
- Lexi Gravity Pack$3.991 Month
- Dino World Pack$3.991 Month
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- Dance World Pack$3.991 Month
- Speed World Pack Monthly$3.991 Month
- All Packs$9.991 Month
- Studio Membership$9.991 Month
- World of Letters Pack Yearly$29.991 Year
- Lexi Gravity Pack$29.991 Year
- Dino World Pack$29.991 Year
- Dance World Pack$29.991 Year
- Speed World Pack Yearly$29.991 Year
- Studio Membership$59.991 Year
- All Packs$79.991 Year
Loomwork
- Loomwork Plus$2.99









