Comparison

Bug Art vs CotBot City

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
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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

CotBot City

Explore a virtual city on a digital play mat, choosing buildings and vehicles. Engage in mini-games and fun events tailored to your chosen vehicle, with no pressure of winning or losing. Designed for open-ended exploration and learning.

Highlights
  • Virtual car play mat exploration
  • Customizable city buildings
  • Multiple vehicle choices
  • Vehicle-specific mini-games
  • Infinite, no-fail gameplay
  • Child-friendly interface
Features
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*** Winner of the NAPPA award 2016 *** *** Winner of the Family Choice Award 2016 *** *** Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Honor 2016 *** *** Editor's Favorite by AppySmarts 2015 *** *** Editor's Choice Award by Children's Technology Review 2014 *** Drive through the city on your virtual car play mat! In CotBot City you can explore the city on a virtual car play mat. You can select buildings for the city yourself, and then you get to pick a vehicle of your choice - fire truck, ice cream truck, garbage truck, school bus or an ordinary car. There are several mini games and fun events to explore as you drive along, all depending on which vehicle you are driving. Sell ice-cream with the ice-cream van, drive to the city dump with the garbage truck and put the garbage in the right can, or extinguish fires with the fire truck! There are no failures - only fun! Gameplay is infinite, you cannot win, you cannot lose, but you are free to explore the city for as long as you choose. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements inside the app, and it is safe for small children to enjoy. The game is mainly aimed at 3-6 year old children, but can be entertaining for older and younger gamers alike! It contains advanced 3D graphics, and is optimized to run well on older devices, such as an iPad 1. The game was produced and developed in Sweden by parents of three year old twins. www.facebook.com/cotbotgames - 9 different buildings to choose from when populating the city - 7 different vehicles that can be driven around the city - 5 mini-games inside the game, and lots of fun features to discover - Original 3D graphics - Fun sounds and animations - Easy to use child-friendly interface - Infinite game play, no rules or points - Produced by parents of small children - Made in Sweden - No third-party advertising - No in-app purchases "Cotbot City is a fun and pedagogical digital play mat that will help toddlers and young children to learn how to navigate the world in an engaging game-like setting." Ph.D Marita Ljungqvist, Educational Developer at Lund University

Screenshots

Bug Art4 screens
CotBot City4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CotBot City at 5.0 against Bug Art's 4.2. CotBot City also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). Bug Art's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bug Art costs $0.99 and CotBot City $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CotBot City holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bug Art has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bug Art ships an update every 8 months, CotBot City every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bug Art versus CotBot City: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBug ArtCotBot City
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating4.2 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.07.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLittle Bit Studio, LLCDivine Robot

Customer experience

Bug Art

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

CotBot City

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

CotBot City

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Bug Art

No in-app purchases

None

CotBot City

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bug Art free?
Bug Art costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CotBot City free?
CotBot City costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bug Art or CotBot City?
CotBot City is rated higher. Bug Art averages 4.2 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while CotBot City averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bug Art or CotBot City have ads?
Neither Bug Art nor CotBot City shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bug Art or CotBot City?
Bug Art ships an update every 8 months, and CotBot City every 2 months. Most recently, Bug Art was updated on October 22, 2026 and CotBot City on October 17, 2026.

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