Comparison

Busy Bundle vs Mastering Memory Pictures

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” 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

Mastering Memory Pictures

This app helps users understand and improve their short-term and working memory through interactive exercises. It encourages metacognitive strategy development, making it a valuable tool for parents, teachers, and therapists to aid individuals with memory challenges.

Highlights
  • Memory strategy development
  • Neuroplasticity enhancement
  • Auditory and visual modes
  • Customizable difficulty
  • Progress tracking insights
  • Parent/teacher modeling tool
Features
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Mastering Memory is more than a Memory Game! It was the first Memory-focused Brain Training on computer used in schools by therapists and teachers back in 1995. Since then it has been used to help 1000s of children, adults and the elderly to understand their strengths and weaknesses in short term and working memory and master metacognitive memory strategies to help peak performance in real life. Neuroplasticity - the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization - is possible. You CAN improve your Memory by specifically thinking about how you remember things, where your focus is when you are best at remembering and what strategies you can employ, especially if you talk about memory with other people and try out the strategies which they find work best for them. No App or computer program can magically claim to improve memory in real life simply by playing it. If you do that it is just a game, which may be fun. Improvements in your memory come through the activities described above, especially if done in discussion with someone else. Parents, teachers and therapists can talk to people experiencing memory problems about HOW they are remembering things and, together, can work out and practise new memory strategies that can be used in real life. This process can be done without any software, but Mastering Memory is a great tool to allow you to do that. The discussion of the different option screens on Mastering Memory is what makes the person understand their own memory patterns. For example Is Auditory or Visual mode easier? How many items is easy to remember? Does how fast they appear make is harder? Do you like to see the written description or is that more confusing? If a parent or carer or tutor can model how THEY remember sequences using Mastering Memory this will help the Brain Training of the person with a memory problem. After all how else will those experiencing problems learn what people with a good memory do silently and automatically inside their heads? Look at masteringmemory.co.uk for a historical look at the computer program that preceded this App. and studies done on its efficacy. It was recommended by Lucid CoPS as a treatment for poor auditory and visual short term working memory, and is still regularly recommended by Educational Psychologists when a child has a poor digit span score, often the pattern found in children with Dyslexia. The author of the original program, a Speech and Language Therapist, has used it with adults with Memory Loss due to a variety of neurological reasons. Neuroplasticity is possible, try for yourself and stay optimistic. Mastering Memory Pictures is suitable for children from 2 years to 11 years old. It includes images of animals, food, transport, sport and other items.

Screenshots

Busy Bundle4 screens
Mastering Memory Pictures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mastering Memory Pictures at every 2 months against Busy Bundle's every 46 months. Busy Bundle's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 12.2). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Busy Bundle costs $1.99 and Mastering Memory Pictures $2.99 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, Mastering Memory Pictures every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Busy Bundle versus Mastering Memory Pictures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBusy BundleMastering Memory Pictures
Price$1.99 โ€” better$2.99
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 46 monthsEvery 2 months โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 โ€” better12.2
Further details โ€” not scored
Size38 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBusy Things LimitedKeith Avery Technology Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Busy Bundle

No in-app purchases

None

Mastering Memory Pictures

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Busy Bundle free?
Busy Bundle costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mastering Memory Pictures free?
Mastering Memory Pictures costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Busy Bundle or Mastering Memory Pictures have ads?
Neither Busy Bundle nor Mastering Memory Pictures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Busy Bundle or Mastering Memory Pictures?
Busy Bundle ships an update every 46 months, and Mastering Memory Pictures every 2 months. Most recently, Busy Bundle was updated on October 5, 2026 and Mastering Memory Pictures on October 7, 2026.

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