Comparison

MIXIMAL vs Join the Dots

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

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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

Join the Dots

This educational puzzle game helps young children develop thinking, memory, and attention skills. It features modes for connecting points by numbers or letters, followed by coloring the revealed dinosaur images. The app offers a user-friendly palette for custom color creation and automatically saves progress.

Highlights
  • Connect points by numbers or letters
  • Reveal hidden dinosaur pictures
  • Coloring mode with custom palettes
  • Develops thinking, memory, and attention
  • Three game modes: numbers, letters, coloring
  • Automatic picture saving
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Dinosaurs lived on Earth millions of years ago, long before our ancestors emerged on the face of the planet. These amazing animals boggle our imagination by their variety and size. Some were small like modern lizards, others as huge as a multi-storey building. Some were predators, for example the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Allosaurus, Velociraptor, Spinosaurus, while others were herbivorous - like the Diplodocus, Ankylosaurus and Iguanodon. Some species could fly, some lived in water, but most of them walked on the ancient land. Dinosaurs lived in the Mesozoic era, which is subdivided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Today, archaeologists study the remains of these animals and can only assume how they looked and lived. Features: ◦ Connect points by numbers or letters ◦ When points are connected, you will see the silhouette of a hidden picture ◦ Once all the points have been connected, you can color the picture ◦ Choosing a wrong symbol three times in a row will bring up a tip ◦ Blue, orange, green or pink stars make the game even more exciting ◦ Easy-to-use palette that allows you to put together your own unique set of colors ◦ Colored pictures automatically saved on closing the program Connect points is a learning puzzle for small children. It helps develop thinking, improve memory and attention. The application has three game modes: by numbers, letters and coloring. Game modes with letters and numbers will be useful for kindergarten and pre-K kids. Connecting by numbers will help to easily memorize the order of numbers and learn to count. To do this, you need to consecutively connect circles with numbers starting from 1. As you connect circles in the right order, the silhouette of a hidden picture will become more and more visible. If three points are chosen incorrectly, a tip will pop up. Once all the points are fully connected, the picture will become fully visible and you’ll be able to color it. Those studying the alphabet can choose to connect points by letters. It is important that children know letters as early as possible, since it is essential for learning to read and write. But knowing the order of letters in the alphabet is also very important! This can be achieved by connecting circles with letters in the right sequence. The coloring mode will be especially appreciated by young artists. In this mode, you can proceed to coloring pictures without connecting points. To make the process even more exciting, you can change any predefined color. To do this, press and hold the paint bucket and choose the necessary color from the palette.

Screenshots

MIXIMAL4 screens
Join the Dots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Join the Dots at 4.9 against MIXIMAL's 4.5. Join the Dots also leads on price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). MIXIMAL's advantage is ratings volume (366 vs 11) and device support. On 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 Join the Dots $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Join the Dots holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MIXIMAL has 366 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
MIXIMAL versus Join the Dots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMIXIMALJoin the Dots
Price$4.99$2.99 — better
Rating4.5 (366 ratings)4.9 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings366 — better11
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — better—
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size122 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYATATOYKedronic UAB

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

Join the Dots

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

MIXIMAL

No in-app purchases

None

Join the Dots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MIXIMAL free?
MIXIMAL costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Join the Dots free?
Join the Dots costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MIXIMAL or Join the Dots?
Join the Dots is rated higher. MIXIMAL averages 4.5 out of 5 from 366 ratings, while Join the Dots averages 4.9 from 11 ratings.

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