Comparison

Busy Bundle vs Squeebles Number Bonds

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

Head to head
About

Busy Bundle

A collection of six educational games designed for preschoolers aged 3-5. Children can engage in activities like rescuing cows, dressing babies, building scenes, solving math problems, and identifying sounds. Parents can customize settings for age and ability.

Highlights
  • Helicopter rescue game
  • Dress-up activities
  • Animated scene creation
  • Math problem solving
  • Sound discrimination practice
  • Shape matching puzzles
  • Adjustable difficulty settings
Features
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Six educational games from Busythings Ltd for very young children aged between 3 to 5. Navigate the helicopter to rescue cows from the trees and place them in the matching baths. At later levels you will need to cage the monster first! Five further games include creating crazy outfits for the baby, making animated street scenes, answering simple sums with a bungee jumping pink man, practising sound discrimination and plugging a hole in the road with the correct shape! Parents can adjust settings to make the games suitable for different ages and abilities.

About

Squeebles Number Bonds

This app helps primary school children aged 5-10 master core mental arithmetic skills through engaging number bond games. It offers a motivating reward system with collectible characters and dragons, alongside detailed progress tracking for parents and teachers.

Highlights
  • Number bonds to 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000
  • Four unique game modes
  • Motivating reward system
  • Progress tracking for parents/teachers
  • Customizable settings per child
  • Offline play
Features
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Squeebles Number Bonds helps primary school children build their core mental arithmetic skills by answering number bonds questions across a variety of game modes. The app features a motivating reward system where Squeebles characters can be won for answering questions correctly, along with dragon eggs that can be hatched to reveal baby dragons (each with their own unique personality), once enough stars have been earned. Why Number Bonds? Number bonds can also be referred to as "number pairs" or "number families". A number bond is a pair of numbers that together make up a round number, such as 6 and 4 making 10; or 8 and 12 making 20. Working towards having an instant familiarity with these much-used number bonds is the basis for going on to work confidently with more complex or challenging maths problems involving larger numbers. This app focuses on number bonds to 10, 20, 50, 100, 1000 and decimals to 1 that, in line with the UK National Curriculum, cover the different number bonds your child will be learning across their primary school years. The app consists of four unique game modes with varying difficulty levels... Balancing Act: Drag numbered eggs onto a seesaw to balance the addition or subtraction questions. Number Smash: Select as many pairs of numbers as you can in the time limit, in an ever-changing grid of colourful sliding blocks. River Crossing: Lay numbered tiles across a river to make a bridge. The first number on each newly laid tile must form a number bond with the last number of the previous tile. Timed Quiz: Answer as many number bond questions as you can within a one or three minute time limit. Reward System: - 28 Squeebles characters to win. - 18 dragon eggs to earn and hatch into baby dragons. - Each dragon egg can be hatched by sprinkling a different number of stars on it. - Stars are earned by answering questions correctly. - Each animated Squeeble and dragon has its own personality and unique stats. - 5 of the dragons within the app were designed by our competition winners. Parent / Teacher Features: - A password-protected parent / teacher area allows adults to track progress and view stats for each child. - All progress is stored on the device, so no internet connection or child passwords are required. - Unlimited child accounts can be set up - Overall stats and daily stats for each game can be viewed on a per-child basis, allowing you to get a clear idea of how each child is progressing over time - Settings can be altered for each child, including the ability to lock certain number bonds, switch on or off the Open Dyslexic font, show or hide the countdown timer, and display text in UK or US English. Child-friendly Features: As with all our apps, Squeebles Number Bonds contains no in-app purchases, no subscription fees, no adverts and no links to the internet of any kind. This is a completely self-contained application. Finally... If you have any suggestions, comments or questions, you can e-mail us on info@keystagefun.co.uk and we will get back to you as soon as we can, usually within 1 working day, often sooner.

Screenshots

Busy Bundle4 screens
Squeebles Number Bonds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Squeebles Number Bonds at monthly against Busy Bundle's every 46 months. Busy Bundle's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Busy Bundle costs $1.99 and Squeebles Number Bonds $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Busy Bundle ships an update every 46 months, Squeebles Number Bonds monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Busy Bundle versus Squeebles Number Bonds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBusy BundleSqueebles Number Bonds
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating—4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 46 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better8.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBusy Things LimitedKeyStageFun

Customer experience

Busy Bundle

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Squeebles Number Bonds

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Busy Bundle

No in-app purchases

None

Squeebles Number Bonds

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Busy Bundle free?
Busy Bundle costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Squeebles Number Bonds free?
Squeebles Number Bonds costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Busy Bundle or Squeebles Number Bonds have ads?
Neither Busy Bundle nor Squeebles Number Bonds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Busy Bundle or Squeebles Number Bonds?
Busy Bundle ships an update every 46 months, and Squeebles Number Bonds monthly. Most recently, Busy Bundle was updated on October 5, 2026 and Squeebles Number Bonds on September 23, 2026.

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