Tower Math® vs Light & Color by Tinybop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tower Math®
Practice arithmetic through an engaging 3D tower defense game. Solve math problems to build magic towers, free captured numbers, and earn special powers. Track progress and earn medals with multiple player profiles.
- Arithmetic practice (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
- Tower defense gameplay
- 3D graphics
- Multiple player profiles
- Medal system for level completion
- Special power-ups
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- Editor's Choice Award! - Children's Technology Review Tower Math® makes practicing arithmetic fun! Free the numbers with your magic towers in this action packed, 3D game! The numbers have been turned into monsters by an evil wizard! As you add, subtract, multiply and divide, you build towers with magic powers that can free the numbers. You can also use your math skills to earn special powers like the Freeze Ray and Magic Rain. You earn a bronze, silver or gold medal for every successfully completed level. Your game progress and medals are all saved under your player profile. Up to 5 player profiles can be created. HAVE FUN WHILE PRACTICING MATH: ▸ Addition ▸ Subtraction ▸ Multiplication ▸ Division FEATURES: ▸ A full-featured tower defense game ▸ Beautiful 3D graphics ▸ 20 unique scenes ▸ Create up to five player profiles ▸ Earn medals for each level ▸ Fun sound effects and music ▸ iPhone 5 and iPad Retina Display support ▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app Tower Math® is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play. Try it now! PRIVACY DISCLOSURE Tower Math®: - Does not contain 3rd party ads. - Does not contain in-app purchases. - Does not contain integration with social networks. - Does not use 3rd party analytics / data collection tools. - Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via Performance Horizon). For more information on our privacy policy please visit: http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/
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+.
- 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
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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. :)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Light & Color by Tinybop at 4.5 against Tower Math®'s 4.1. Tower Math®'s advantage is chart position (#162 vs unranked) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Tower Math® costs $1.99 and Light & Color by Tinybop $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Light & Color by Tinybop holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Tower Math®'s written reviews are positive against 71% of Light & Color by Tinybop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tower Math® ships an update every 5 months, Light & Color by Tinybop every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tower Math® | Light & Color by Tinybop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (44 ratings) | 4.5 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #162 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 422 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Freecloud Design, Inc. | Tinybop Inc. |
Customer experience
Tower Math®
Light & Color by Tinybop
In-app purchases
Tower Math®
No in-app purchases
Light & Color by Tinybop
No in-app purchases
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