The Bedtime Express vs GULANGYU
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Bedtime Express
Embark on a nightly adventure with animated bedtime stories featuring unique characters and interactive elements. Help passengers on their journey home and tuck them into bed with calming activities. Discover new stories and locations each night for a relaxing end to the day.
- Animated bedtime stories
- Interactive passenger journeys
- Calming narration and illustrations
- Nightly changing stories
- Variety of characters and locations
- Interactive bedtime routines
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"The Bedtime Express by Unit11 is a stunning and delightful app for your kids at bedtime! The perfect app to create a relaxing time and help your kids to go to bed!" 5/5 funeducationalapps.com "This app has delightful illustrations, animation and calming narration. Beautifully done!" 5/5 Reading Buddies Board the "Bedtime Express" for the perfect animated bedtime story. Meet the unusual passengers on their way home at the end of the day and visit them in their homes to say goodnight. Each night, the train stops at different locations and picks up different passengers. One night you could be making Badger a hot chocolate and playing "I-Spy" with the fox family. The next night, you could be helping the Mouse family find their lost tickets and waking a sleeping Polar Bear! Once you have stamped all the passengers' tickets, the train pulls into the last station and you are taken to each of the passengers' homes to put them to bed. To send them off to sleep, you'll need to do things like switching off lights, closing curtains or lighting a log fire. Children will love meeting the adorable characters and helping them on their journey. There are 6 different groups of passengers, from meerkats to polar bears, and 5 different locations to visit, from the city to the arctic. The story is packed with highly detailed illustration and animation and the gentle pace of the story provides a calm atmosphere at bedtime. Climb aboard the Bedtime Express and discover who has boarded the train tonight! www.unit11apps.com | facebook.com/unit11apps
GULANGYU
Embark on a musical adventure to learn about conservation and saving the planet. This interactive story follows a young heroine as she travels the world to understand and combat global warming. Features original songs and beautiful artwork to engage young learners.
- Interactive storybook
- Original songs
- Bilingual (English/Chinese)
- Conservation education
- Climate change awareness
- Beautiful artwork
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Download Gulangyu and join our heroine, Xiao Rui, and her friends Na Na the parrot and Henry the baby dragon on a magical, musical adventure to learn about conservation and save the planet. The eight chapter book tells the story of how children can make a difference in the quest to save the planet through reducing, reusing, and recycling. This is the seventh educational app from the award-winning company Happy Diamond Music Studio. The app aims to teach children ages 4+ about conservation while providing them the tools to make a difference in the real world. The story features six original songs by renowned composer, Shirley Choi. When Xiao Rui discovers that her home, Gulangyu (an island off the coast of southeastern China and a UNESCO Heritage Site) is in danger from a gigantic wave that has been caused by global climate change, she is tasked by Riyanshi, the Earth Fairy to undertake an epic journey to stop the wave and learn how she and other children can stop global warming from destroying the planet. In the 80-minute story, Xiao Rui and her companions travel to the Amazon rainforest, icebergs in Greenland, solar farms floating in the lake that used to be a coal mine, and landfills where scientists perform research where they see the effects of climate change up-close and personal. Featuring beautiful original artwork, music your kids will want to sing along to, and a bilingual story (English and Chinese) - Gulangyu is a great opportunity for parents and teachers to start a conversation with even their youngest learners about their own carbon footprint and how they can impact stopping climate change. Conservation has never been as important as it is now, so download Gulangyu today and help kids understand how they can start saving the planet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GULANGYU at Free against The Bedtime Express's $1.99. GULANGYU also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 11 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). The Bedtime Express's advantage is ratings volume (24 vs 8). On rating, review sentiment, 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
GULANGYU is free to download; The Bedtime Express costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
The Bedtime Express holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of The Bedtime Express's written reviews are positive against 83% of GULANGYU's.
The Bedtime Express ships an update every 11 months, GULANGYU every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Bedtime Express | GULANGYU |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (24 ratings) — better | 4.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.7% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 788 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Unit11 | Siu lui shirley Choi |
Customer experience
The Bedtime Express
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In-app purchases
The Bedtime Express
No in-app purchases
GULANGYU
No in-app purchases
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