Comparison

Vroom vs ThinkPlayful

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

Head to head
About

Vroom

This app offers science-backed early learning activities for children aged 0-5. It provides over 1000 fun, short activities designed to build essential life skills and prepare children for school and future success. The app focuses on turning everyday interactions into valuable learning moments.

Highlights
  • 1000+ fast and fun activities
  • Science-backed Vroom Tips
  • Brain Building Basics focus
  • Searchable tips by setting/skill
  • Daily age-appropriate tips
  • App reminders
  • Available in English and Spanish
Features
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Science-backed early learning for children from birth to age 5. Access 1000+ fast and fun activities! Vroom Tips add science-backed early learning moments to mealtime, bathtime, bedtime or anytime. By helping your child learn now, you get them ready for school, friends and life. The Vroom Brain Building Basics—Look, Follow, Chat, Take Turns and Stretch—turn interactions that happen during shared time into brain building moments. Your child is born ready to learn—and you have what it takes to help them! How it works: - Every day, we feature a Vroom Tip for your child’s age range, ready when you open the app. - There’s brain science behind every Vroom Tip – we share the why behind what your child is learning. - Explore tips on the go and find ones that are just right for your child. Search tips by setting, Brain Building Basics and other skill areas. - Set an app reminder to receive a nudge to match your daily routine. - Vroom App is available in English and Spanish. This app will launch in your phone’s primary language. - With each short activity, you teach your child the life skills that help them thrive. Vroom Tips give families easy ways to promote learning and bond throughout the day, providing children with a strong base for lifelong learning during their first five years. Learn more at vroom.org Follow us: joinvroom on Twitter Like us: joinvroom on Facebook

About

ThinkPlayful

This app offers guided play activities for families to build early math and STEM skills in young children. It focuses on critical thinking and problem-solving through engaging on- and off-screen experiences, promoting kindergarten readiness.

Highlights
  • Guided play activities
  • Early math and STEM foundations
  • Critical thinking development
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Family engagement
  • Kindergarten readiness
Features
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ThinkPlayful is an intelligent learning app that engages, encourages, and empowers families as they help their young children gain essential early learning skills. Its innovative guided play approach offers activities that the adult and child do together both on- and off-screen. An early math and STEM foundations solution for parents and other caregivers, ThinkPlayful develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills right from the start! Fun math and science early learning activities support family engagement and kindergarten readiness.

Screenshots

Vroom4 screens
ThinkPlayful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ThinkPlayful at 5.0 against Vroom's 3.9. ThinkPlayful also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Vroom's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 7). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ThinkPlayful holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vroom has 89 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Vroom's written reviews are positive against 100% of ThinkPlayful's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vroom ships an update every 6 weeks, ThinkPlayful every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Vroom versus ThinkPlayful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVroomThinkPlayful
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (89 ratings)5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings89 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB147 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVroomMathBRIX LLC

Customer experience

Vroom

All ratings89 ratings
Positive69.7%
Neutral7.9%
Negative22.5%
Written reviews81 reviews
Positive74.1%
Neutral4.9%
Negative21.0%

ThinkPlayful

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Vroom

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Account creation link not working
  • App freezes, cannot scroll up/down
  • App keeps logging out
  • Login doesn't remember user, requires re-entry of child's info
  • Cannot add child
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  • Location setting incorrect and unchangeable
  • App crashes when sharing
  • Notifications not working
  • App shuts off when sharing badge
  • Login screen errors (email in use, password reset error)
  • Unable to open or use app, error messages
  • Cannot register, email says in use but password reset fails

Requested features

13 requests
  • Ability to mark past activities complete
  • Option to go back to previous days' activities
  • Fix notifications
  • Add categories for developmental delays
  • Include developmental age options
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  • Add more activities for older children
  • Allow marking past vrooms complete
  • Fix sharing crashes
  • Fix social butterfly badge glitch
  • Make login optional
  • Fix location setting
  • Allow adding new child
  • Improve navigation for categories

ThinkPlayful

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Vroom

No in-app purchases

None

ThinkPlayful

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vroom free?
Vroom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ThinkPlayful free?
ThinkPlayful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Vroom or ThinkPlayful?
ThinkPlayful is rated higher. Vroom averages 3.9 out of 5 from 89 ratings, while ThinkPlayful averages 5.0 from 7 ratings.
Do Vroom or ThinkPlayful have ads?
Neither Vroom nor ThinkPlayful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Vroom or ThinkPlayful?
Vroom ships an update every 6 weeks, and ThinkPlayful every 5 weeks. Most recently, Vroom was updated on September 25, 2026 and ThinkPlayful on September 12, 2026.

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