Comparison

MIXIMAL vs Light & Color by Tinybop

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

Head to head
About

MIXIMAL

Create unique, silly animals by mixing parts or syllables. This app offers a tactile and creative experience with handcrafted animations and analog sounds, inspired by classic flipbooks. It's designed for open-ended exploration with no pressure or goals.

Highlights
  • Mix between 11 animals
  • Create new animals using syllables
  • Combine full animals for surprise animations
  • Switch between 8 languages
  • Lively animations and impressive audio
  • No failing, no goals
Features
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Mix animals! Mix syllables! Filled with handcrafted animations and sound. MIXIMAL is an entertaining game based on traditional flipbooks we all know from our childhood. Kids create new silly animals and discover their names. We took this classic concept and constructed wonderful handcrafted animations and sounds to complement it. Each animation is created frame-by-frame to provide a warm and organic aesthetic. The sounds originate from analog sources. Our aim with the app is to offer a highly tactile experience, as we think our kids should play with quality toys. Features: + Mix between 11 animals + Make up new animals using syllables + Combine a full animal for a surprise animation + Switch between 8 languages + Lively animations and impressive audio + No failing, no goal, no wrong or right + Supports all iPads and iPhones with iOS 14 or later + No internet access needed! + No advertisements! Available in 8 languages with full voice acting: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese! Learn more about YATATOY: yatatoy.com Contact us for assistance or to give feedback: https://yatatoy.com/info/ MADE BY YATATOY

About

Light & Color by Tinybop

Explore the science and art of light and color through interactive experiments and AR features. Discover how light works, mix colors, and see the world through different creatures' eyes. Designed for curious kids ages 4+.

Highlights
  • Explore light refraction and reflection
  • Experiment with prisms, mirrors, and lenses
  • Mix paint and light colors
  • Create rainbows
  • Use AR to identify colors
  • See through animal eyes
  • Interactive vocabulary in 40+ languages
Features
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Have you dreamed of entering a rainbow? How about collecting the colors in your room or seeing through the eyes of a bee? Explore the magic of light and color as you learn at the intersection of physics and art.  **2022 Winner of Japan's Digital Ehon Yoichi Sakakihara Prize for outstanding children's media! Discover how light is made, how it moves, and the beauty it creates (hint: colors!). You can mix paint and light, play with prisms and lenses, sort colors, make rainbows, and so much more. Plus — use AR to collect and identify the colors all around you. Light & Color is No.12 in Tinybop’s award-winning Explorer’s Library, a series of apps designed for curious kids ages 4+ to dive into big ideas. Other Explorer’s Library apps include The Human Body, Plants, Simple Machines, The Earth, Weather, Homes, Skyscrapers, Space, Mammals, Coral Reef, and States of Matter. The apps in this series have won Best of the App Store, App Store Editors’ Choice, Parents’ Choice, and Children's Technology Review Editor’s Choice awards. Each Explorer’s Library app teaches kids foundational science. Kids learn by playing, experimenting, observing, asking questions, making guesses, and finding answers. We hope each app inspires conversations between you and your kids and sparks more learning in the world around us. Learn more at tinybop.com. FEATURES + Discover how light bounces, refracts and reflects. + Play with working models of prisms, mirrors, and lenses. + Make rainbows by generating storms. + Experiment with a variety of light sources including candles, incandescent lights, and lasers. + Peek inside a raindrop to learn about how rainbows are created. + Mix paints to create a color wheel (Subtractive RYB mixing). + Explore the science of light by mixing colored lights (Additive RGB light mixing). + Play with color sorting blocks to learn about different color systems. + Collect, capture, match, and name colors in the world around you using AR. + Explore how different creatures perceive the world around them (humans, color-blind humans, nearsighted humans, bees, dogs). + Consider the emotions you connect to different colors. + Interactive text labels in 40+ languages teach vocabulary. + Aligns with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). + Fun for the whole family — play and learn together. + No third-party advertising. + Open-ended activities with no rules. Curiosity and creativity are rewarded. + Original artwork by Jeanelle Mak Petrillo. FREE handbook Our expert-reviewed handbook is full of facts, interaction hints, and discussion questions to support learning in this app, in the classroom, or at home. Download in your app or at: http://tinybop.com/handbooks. Privacy Policy We take your and your child’s privacy very seriously. We do not collect or share personal information about your child, nor do we allow any third-party advertising. When the camera, lidar (TrueDepth), microphone, and other services produce data which could identify you used within an app, your information is neither collected nor distributed outside of the app to Tinybop or other parties. Tinybop does collect anonymous usage data that tells us which parts of the app you visit, how often you visit, and which parts of the app you use the most. This anonymous data is accessible only to Tinybop to help us make better apps and is never bought or sold. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. Tinybop, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow.  We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop Peek behind the scenes: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! If you have ideas, or something isn’t working as you expect it to, please contact us: hi@tinybop.com. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop. :)

Screenshots

MIXIMAL4 screens
Light & Color by Tinybop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: MIXIMAL at 368 against Light & Color by Tinybop's 15. MIXIMAL also leads on review sentiment (87% vs 71%). Light & Color by Tinybop's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On rating, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MIXIMAL costs $4.99 and Light & Color by Tinybop $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for MIXIMAL against 4.5 for Light & Color by Tinybop. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MIXIMAL has 368 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of MIXIMAL's written reviews are positive against 71% of Light & Color by Tinybop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MIXIMAL ships an update every 5 months, Light & Color by Tinybop every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
MIXIMAL versus Light & Color by Tinybop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMIXIMALLight & Color by Tinybop
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.5 (368 ratings)4.5 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews — better71.4% of reviews
Number of ratings368 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB422 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYATATOYTinybop Inc.

Customer experience

MIXIMAL

All ratings366 ratings
Positive86.3%
Neutral6.6%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews52 reviews
Positive86.5%
Neutral7.7%
Negative5.8%

Light & Color by Tinybop

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

MIXIMAL

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App won't load after iOS upgrade
  • Sound does not work
  • Crashing in iOS 13
  • App keeps cutting out

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more animals and sounds
  • Implement a selector for animals
  • Allow screenshots without UI elements
  • More animal combinations

Light & Color by Tinybop

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MIXIMAL

No in-app purchases

None

Light & Color by Tinybop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MIXIMAL free?
MIXIMAL costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Light & Color by Tinybop free?
Light & Color by Tinybop costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MIXIMAL or Light & Color by Tinybop?
Light & Color by Tinybop is rated higher. MIXIMAL averages 4.5 out of 5 from 368 ratings, while Light & Color by Tinybop averages 4.5 from 15 ratings.
Do MIXIMAL or Light & Color by Tinybop have ads?
Neither MIXIMAL nor Light & Color by Tinybop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MIXIMAL or Light & Color by Tinybop?
MIXIMAL ships an update every 5 months, and Light & Color by Tinybop every 8 months. Most recently, MIXIMAL was updated on October 22, 2026 and Light & Color by Tinybop on October 29, 2026.

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