Comparison

Peekaboo Planet vs Beat Blocks

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

Head to head
About

Peekaboo Planet

Explore a vibrant natural world, discovering hidden creatures and their habitats. This game offers engaging animations and sounds, encouraging imaginative free-play for young children and their families.

Highlights
  • Discover hidden creatures
  • Explore natural environments
  • Engaging animations and sounds
  • Imaginative free-play
  • Simple touch and swipe controls
  • Multi-touch support
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Get ready for a journey into the natural world, finding creatures along the way! Peekaboo Planet is a game designed for young children and their families. It entertains through lively characters; educates with animals, environments and ecosystems and inspires creativity through imaginative free-play. Explore the beautifully illustrated world; be entertained by interesting and fun animations and listen to all their noises. Find all the hidden creatures and watch their reactions when you do! From a grumpy badger in his sett to a hedgehog curled up amongst fallen leaves, there are animals in every nook and cranny. See if you can find them all! Features include: - Multi-touch control so your child doesn’t need to use a single finger. - Very simple program interface that any child can master. - Simple controls – touch and swipe. - Never-ending scrolling so even the youngest child can move through the landscape. - Lavish and entertaining character animations. - Free play allows child to explore in any way they choose with no beginning or end.

About

Beat Blocks

Create music by arranging physical blocks in front of your device's camera. The app interprets block colors and positions to generate unique beats and melodies. Save and share your musical creations with others.

Highlights
  • Build music with physical blocks
  • Camera-based block detection
  • Adjust tempo, swing, key, and scale
  • Save and share recordings
  • AI-powered music sequencing
  • Multiple musical styles
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BeatBlocks is a playful music-making app that lets you build your own music using Lego bricks and other real-life construction blocks. Choose from a range of musical styles and start building, recording and sharing your beats. BeatBlocks brings the play out of the screen and into the real world to let you get hands-on with music making.  

How to play? BeatBlocks uses the camera on your iPhone or iPad to detect blocks of different type and colour. To make music, simply lay out different patterns of blocks in front of the camera. A repeating 8-beat loop will play and on every loop, when the app sees a brick, it will play a sound: so as you build, you make music. 
To change your loop, just move or scatter the blocks around, try out different colours, and wait for the loop to come around again. The left-to-right position sets the timing of each musical note, the top to bottom position selects which note/pitch to play, and the colour sets the instrument. The app also lets you adjust the tempo, swing, key and scale for your loops.

 Save and share your beats! When you are ready to show-off your compositions to the world, hit the record button to screen grab a video of your performance. When you are finished, simply choose to share or save.

  Try out BeatBlocks for free! The trial version of Beatblocks lets you use a maximum of 5 bricks at a time during music-play. To remove this limitation, upgrade to the full version, where you can earn in-game credits and use these to upgrade your sound pack library!  BeatBlocks was launched at SXSW 2023 representing the UK Immersive Futures Lab, and is winner of the silver medal for use of AI at the 2023 BIMA Awards. Playable Technology’s AI-powered music-sequencing technology has already been star of the show at the “Turn it up” interactive music exhibitions at the London Science Museum and with “BeatBlocks Live” at the National Museum of Scotland during the 2024 Science Festival in Edinburgh. Download BeatBlocks now and let the loops begin!

Screenshots

Peekaboo Planet4 screens
Beat Blocks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Beat Blocks at Free against Peekaboo Planet's $1.99. Peekaboo Planet's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 8). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and device support 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

Beat Blocks is free to download; Peekaboo Planet costs $1.99 up front. Beat Blocks sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Peekaboo Planet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Peekaboo Planet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Peekaboo Planet's written reviews are positive against 75% of Beat Blocks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Peekaboo Planet versus Beat Blocks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPeekaboo PlanetBeat Blocks
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPing CreatesPlayable Tech ltd.

Customer experience

Peekaboo Planet

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Beat Blocks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Peekaboo Planet

No in-app purchases

8 purchases

Beat Blocks

One-time8
  • 1000 Credits$0.99
  • 2x Loop Multiplier$0.99
  • 3000 Credits$1.99
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  • 3x Loop Multiplier$1.99
  • Full Version + 1000 Credits$2.99
  • 6000 Credits$2.99
  • Unlock Everything$6.99
  • Full Version + Everything$14.99

Questions

Is Peekaboo Planet free?
Peekaboo Planet costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beat Blocks free?
Beat Blocks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Peekaboo Planet or Beat Blocks?
Peekaboo Planet is rated higher. Peekaboo Planet averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Beat Blocks averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Peekaboo Planet or Beat Blocks have ads?
Neither Peekaboo Planet nor Beat Blocks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Peekaboo Planet or Beat Blocks?
Peekaboo Planet ships an update every 3 months, and Beat Blocks every 3 months. Most recently, Peekaboo Planet was updated on October 11, 2026 and Beat Blocks on October 20, 2026.

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