Starfall Numbers vs Pocoyo Playset
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Starfall Numbers
This app uses interactive activities and songs to help children learn number recognition and counting skills. It connects numbers to real-world objects and introduces basic math concepts for early learners.
- Number symbol and value recognition
- Counting activities
- Interactive introductions for numbers 0-100
- Coin counting and math expressions
- 15 animated math songs
- Closed captioning for songs
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Explore numbers through the magic of curiosity and the power of motivation: the Starfall way! With this app, your child will learn to recognize number symbols and values by connecting them to real-world objects (such as 1 sun, 5 fingers, and 10 toes). Your child will then apply these concepts with counting activities and songs! Starfall Numbers includes interactive introductions for numbers 0-20, 25, 50, and 100. Counting activities introduce coins, math symbols, and simple expressions while building counting skills from 0 to 100 in entertaining and practical ways. Your child will also enjoy singing along with 15 Starfall math songs! Counting song favorites and calendar concepts are animated playfully, with a closed caption option to display song lyrics. Each activity and song reinforces simple language and basic vocabulary, making this app an excellent choice for pre-readers, emerging readers, and English language learners alike.
Pocoyo Playset
This educational app helps children learn data organization skills through interactive games. Kids will gather, sort, compare, and classify objects, learning key vocabulary for data analysis. It focuses on building foundational math and language skills for early learners.
- Organize data by gathering, sorting, and classifying
- Identify item positions within categories
- Count and compare objects up to 5
- Learn mathematical language for data analysis
- Build oral English fluency
- Interactive games and activities
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Pocoyo Playset Sort it! Is a fun and engaging educational application which helps kids learn to organize data by gathering, sorting, comparing and classifying the objects through playing with the variety of games and activities included. Using the Math Machine videos, children will learn words used to analyze data, such as more, fewer, same, most, least and others. They will then apply their knowledge by sorting, counting and comparing hats and outfits as they sort hats and outfits by size to help Pocoyo and his friends get ready for fun! With the support of this unit children will: • Organize data by gathering, sorting and classifying objects into categories. • Identify the position of the items in the categories. • Count and compare the number of objects in two sets (up to 5 objects) by counting, matching, sorting or subitizing. • Explore, learn and use mathematical language related to data analysis • Build fluency in oral English Enjoy watching your children learn and have fun! Co-created in partnership with Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pocoyo Playset at every 11 days against Starfall Numbers's every 11 months. Pocoyo Playset also leads on rating (3.7 vs 3.3) and price ($1.99 vs $4.99). Starfall Numbers's advantage is ratings volume (36 vs 3) and chart position (#154 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Starfall Numbers costs $4.99 and Pocoyo Playset $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocoyo Playset holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Starfall Numbers has 36 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Starfall Numbers ships an update every 11 months, Pocoyo Playset every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Starfall Numbers | Pocoyo Playset |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (36 ratings) | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 36 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #154 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 143 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Starfall Education Foundation | ANIMAJ INVESTMENT SPV SAS (Apps) |
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Starfall Numbers
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In-app purchases
Starfall Numbers
No in-app purchases
Pocoyo Playset
No in-app purchases
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