Comparison

Bug Art vs HEY CLAY®

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

Head to head
About

Bug Art

Unleash creativity by designing animated bugs with various art tools and then race them in fun challenges. Explore vibrant environments, play mini-games, and learn to draw with interactive templates.

Highlights
  • Create animated bugs with paint, glitter, stamps, and stickers
  • Race custom bug creations against AI competitors
  • Interactive bug drawing templates to learn drawing
  • Explore playgrounds with mini-games and characters
  • Intuitive touch and tilt controls
  • Multiple user profiles
Read full description

CREATE Create artwork using paint, glitter, stamps, brushes, stickers, or snap a picture with your camera! Design a bug and transform it into an animated insect with the tap of a finger! Learn to draw using our interactive bug drawing templates. PLAY Use your very own bug creations to race against 13 uniquely designed competitors like “Sparky,” “Kicks,” and “Turbo” in Bug Race. Steer a butterfly, dragonfly, or bee through dandelion gates in the lush gardens of Butterfly Valley. Explore, meet funny characters, and play mini games in our special playgrounds for both ground and airborne bugs. FEATURES: • Designed for ages 4 and up. • Simple and intuitive touch and tilt controls. • Complete painting activity for whatever the mind dreams. • Advanced Bug designer activity (includes a disco floor for testing creations). • 20+ design tools, including camera and bug brushes that you can control! • 10+ backgrounds for fun art design. • 40+ stickers (position, rotate, and scale). • 7 Interactive learn to draw bug designs. • Multiple user profiles • NO In-Apps / NO third party advertising. • Parental Gate Localized for: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. We want and appreciate your feedback! Email: support@littlebitstudio.com Instagram: @littlebitstudio Facebook: @littlebitstudio Twitter: @lilbitstudio

About

HEY CLAY®

This app offers an engaging and educational DIY experience for children to learn clay modeling. It guides users through creating various characters and figures with step-by-step instructions and interactive games, fostering creativity and fine motor skills.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step clay modeling instructions
  • Interactive kid-friendly interface
  • Develops fine motor skills and creativity
  • Original colorful animation
  • Includes 5 fun games
  • Capture and share creations
  • No third-party advertising
Features
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Dive into an exciting and educational DIY world! Do you want to teach your kid clay modeling with fun? HEY CLAY® makes it easy. Start with simple balls and sausage shapes, and your child will soon make unique characters, just like a real sculptor! The App connects inspiring clay animation with hands-on modeling. Colorful and engaging, it takes your children on a fun journey of creative crafting! Your kid will learn to roll and bend the clay into various shapes and figures. With amusing clay sets such as Aliens, Dinos, Monsters, and others, the App makes learning an entertaining discovery on how to easily sculpt each of them. Bigfoot, Doggie, Penguin, Donut, Tyrannosaurus, and many other creatures can materialize from the screen. And most importantly – empower your kids to create fantastic claymates you’ll be proud of! FEATURES: • Learn about clay modeling in an easy and intuitive way • All characters contain step-by-step instructions • Fantastic sets such as Shrek, Cats, Plant Friends, Plant Folks, Dragon Island, Bluey, Vivid Accessories (Bubblegum, Aqua and Beads Sets), Colorini, Nice Ice Cream, Easter Studio, Dog Buddies, Minions, Rainbow Unicorns, Construction Vehicles, Advent Calendar, Poop Oops, Fluffy Pets, Eco Cars, Happy Cars, Cyber Cars, Winter Holidays, Ocean, Forest Animals, Beasts, Aliens, Birds, Dinosaurs, Monsters, Animals, Bugs, Fruit, Veg, Mega Dinos, Sweet Rings, Alien Rings, Flower Rings, Dog Story, and Farm Birds • Helps develop fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, abstract thinking, and creativity • Amazing original colorful animation • Interactive kid-friendly interface with 5 fun games to play • Capture & share your creations with friends • No third-party advertising For best-looking creations, use the original HEY CLAY® air-dry clay: it’s super light, non-sticky, and has bright colors. But the best part is that it allows you to create your own toys: model your favorite characters, wait for the clay to harden, and play with the figures as with real toys! The clay sets are available for purchase through the App. You can also take pictures and share the creations with friends and family easily from the App. Make your clay art gallery to keep your masterpieces! Find HEY CLAY on social networks to see more creative ideas. We’d love to hear your feedback and become friends! Enjoy creative clay modeling with the HEY CLAY® App!

Screenshots

Bug Art4 screens
HEY CLAY®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HEY CLAY® at Free against Bug Art's $0.99. HEY CLAY® also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months). Bug Art's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

HEY CLAY® is free to download; Bug Art costs $0.99 up front. HEY CLAY® sells 17 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Bug Art asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HEY CLAY® holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEY CLAY® has 13K ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Bug Art's written reviews are positive against 58% of HEY CLAY®'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bug Art ships an update every 8 months, HEY CLAY® fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bug Art versus HEY CLAY®: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBug ArtHEY CLAY®
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (23 ratings)4.6 (13K ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews — better57.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2313K — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB265 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLittle Bit Studio, LLCHEY CLAY

Customer experience

Bug Art

All ratings23 ratings
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative30.8%

HEY CLAY®

All ratings13,250 ratings
Positive90.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews668 reviews
Positive57.8%
Neutral8.7%
Negative33.5%

User reviews

Bug Art

From 23 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Creative art and drawing
  • 🤩 Engaging for kids
  • ✨ Visually stunning graphics
  • 👍 Easy to use interface
  • 💰 Worth the price

Room to improve

  • ❌ App no longer works
  • 💸 Waste of money
  • 😞 Disappointing for children
  • ⏳ No developer support
  • 📉 Outdated and incompatible

HEY CLAY®

From 13K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🎨 Fun and creative
  • 💡 Helpful step-by-step instructions
  • 🎉 Enjoyable for kids and adults
  • 🧠 Promotes creativity and imagination

Room to improve

  • 💰 Many features locked behind paywall
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🔇 Sound issues
  • 🕰️ Tutorials move too quickly
  • 🎨 Lack of color mixing guidance

Bugs and requests

Bug Art

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App needs to be updated to be used on a new iPad
  • App does not work after updating to iOS 11
  • App no longer works
  • No audio
  • Download issues

Requested features

12 requests
  • More bugs to paint
  • Go inside the bee hive in playground game
  • Make a home for the bugs
  • Add praying mantis, swallow tail butterfly, grasshopper, snails
  • Add snail racing and hunting games
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  • Add racing snail stickers
  • Add racing clothing for bugs
  • Update for iOS 11
  • Name your bugs
  • Make ladybugs fly in butterfly valley
  • Hide scary insects like cockroaches
  • More bug brushes and colors

HEY CLAY®

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashing on launch
  • Inability to access purchased content
  • Losing progress when app closes
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More free character options
  • Offline mode for instructions
  • Community section to share creations
  • Ability to adjust tutorial speed
  • Color mixing and blending tools

In-app purchases

None

Bug Art

No in-app purchases

17 purchases

HEY CLAY®

Subscriptions1
  • HEY CLAY Monthly Plan$5.991 Month
One-time16
  • Peacock$0.99
  • Penguin$0.99
  • Spider$0.99
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  • Burger$0.99
  • Bigfoot$0.99
  • Horse$0.99
  • Tyrannosaurus$1.99
  • All2 variants$4.99
  • All dinos$4.99
  • All Bugs$4.99
  • All Aliens$4.99
  • All Animals$4.99
  • All Forest Animals$4.99
  • All Beatst$4.99
  • All Dog Story$4.99
  • All Australian Animals$4.99

Questions

Is Bug Art free?
Bug Art costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is HEY CLAY® free?
HEY CLAY® is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bug Art or HEY CLAY®?
HEY CLAY® is rated higher. Bug Art averages 4.2 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while HEY CLAY® averages 4.6 from 13K ratings.
Do Bug Art or HEY CLAY® have ads?
Neither Bug Art nor HEY CLAY® shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bug Art or HEY CLAY®?
Bug Art ships an update every 8 months, and HEY CLAY® fortnightly. Most recently, Bug Art was updated on October 23, 2026 and HEY CLAY® on October 26, 2026.

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