Inventioneers vs SpriteBox Coding
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Inventioneers
Unleash creativity by building unique inventions with the help of tiny characters. Explore real-time physics concepts like air, fire, and magnetism. Share your creations with friends and educators.
- Create custom inventions
- Learn physics concepts
- Use tiny helper characters
- Solve pre-made inventions
- Share creations with friends
- Classroom sharing option
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* FROM THE CREATORS OF PETTSON'S INVENTIONS DELUXE * *** Winner of Parents' Choice Gold Award *** BE CREATIVE! In this game you can create your own crazy, fun inventions! With the help of the Inventioneers, our tiny helpers with unique characteristics, you can invent fun, creative and often quite weird inventions. A lot of inventions are included in the game, the more you solve the more parts you receive for your own inventions! LEARN ABOUT PHYSICS! Inventioneers is an outstanding tool for learning about realtime physics and the science behind different features like air, fire, magnetism and jumping bunnies. What you can do with the tool is virtually endless. SHARE WITH FRIENDS! Invite friends to share their crazy inventions and you can share yours too! If you are a teacher you can set up the whole classroom as a user and share with other classes! ONE TIME FEE TO BUY THE FULL VERSION To make it easier for families to try the game before buying, we have implemented a one time fee to buy the full game. There are no recurring in app purchases or consumables. It is important for us to protect the integrity of the children. Features in the free version: • First chapter with 15 inventions • The first Inventioneer - "Windy" • Create! - A fully working tool to create your own inventions • 50+ different objects to use in the inventions • Share up to 4 inventions with your friends! The full version (purchase: one time fee): • 7 more chapters with a total of 105 new inventions! • 50+ new objects • 18 characters that you can help • 7 more Inventioneers with unique features - "Blaze", "Bunny", "Sporty", "Zappy", "Magneta", "Freezy" and "Maggie" Family Sharing Note! You can't share IAPs with other members in your family. Please download the full version of Inventioneers instead.
SpriteBox Coding
Embark on a coding adventure game that teaches programming from icon-based commands to real Swift syntax. Explore worlds, solve puzzles, and collect items while learning essential coding concepts. Designed for an engaging and progressive learning experience.
- Learn coding from scratch
- Icon coding to Swift syntax
- Adventure game format
- Solve puzzles and collect items
- Covers sequencing, loops, procedures
- 70 puzzles and 500 stars
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SpriteBox Coding is a full-blown adventure game that gets you coding. Learn to code from scratch, starting with icon coding and then slowly advancing to using real Swift syntax. Embark on a journey to find the pieces of your broken rocket. You'll explore different worlds, meet new characters, solve puzzles and unlock cool outfits. SpriteBox Coding covers the following programming concepts: * Sequencing * Parameters * Loops (and Nested Loops) * Procedures * Basic Swift Syntax Comes with 70 puzzles to solve and 500 stars to collect. Are you up to the challenge? Programming: Danny Yaroslavski Art and Design: E.M. Engel Story Animation: James Pearmain Music and SFX: Eduardo Zolhof
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Inventioneers at Free against SpriteBox Coding's $4.99. Inventioneers also leads on ratings volume (317 vs 23). SpriteBox Coding's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). On 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
Inventioneers is free to download; SpriteBox Coding costs $4.99 up front. Inventioneers sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SpriteBox Coding asks for nothing beyond the download.
SpriteBox Coding holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Inventioneers has 317 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Inventioneers's written reviews are positive against 86% of SpriteBox Coding's.
Inventioneers ships an update monthly, SpriteBox Coding every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Inventioneers | SpriteBox Coding |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (317 ratings) | 4.5 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.7% of reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 317 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 189 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Filimundus AB | SpriteBox LLC |
Customer experience
Inventioneers
SpriteBox Coding
Bugs and requests
Inventioneers
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not saving properly
- Crashes when trying to purchase full version
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
4 requests- More free levels and content
- Ability to save custom levels
- Faster download speeds
- Improved level editor tools
SpriteBox Coding
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Inventioneers
- Open up!$0.99
- Full Version$4.99
SpriteBox Coding
No in-app purchases
Questions
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