# PictoBlox-Coding, Robots & AI

> Scratch Coding with AI & STEM

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1554839634](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1554839634)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1554839634`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** STEMpedia
- **Category:** Education
- **Rating:** 3.40 / 5 (57 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-11-20
- **First published:** 2021-08-20
- **Size:** 178 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pictoblox-coding-robots-ai/id1554839634)
- **Website:** [https://thestempedia.com/product/pictoblox/](https://thestempedia.com/product/pictoblox/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://thestempedia.com/privacy-policy/](https://thestempedia.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

PictoBlox is a block-based coding app for students that combines Scratch-style blocks with robotics, AI and ML capabilities, enabling fun projects, games, animations, and robot control.

The app emphasizes 21st-century skills, teaches core coding concepts, introduces AI/ML for beginners (face/text recognition, speech, training models), and offers IoT and Bluetooth extensions with boards like Arduino and ESP32 for countless DIY projects.

## Rankings

- #186,733 — Overall

## Review summary

Users enjoy the mobile-friendly Scratch-like coding experience and view PictoBlox as a helpful mobile companion to the desktop app. Recurrent downsides include save failures and stability on mobile, a small drawing/run area with requests for zoom and full-screen, and the perception that the app is a Scratch knock-off. Common feature requests include more extensions and enhanced drawing controls.

### Pros

- Fun and engaging to use for creating projects.
- Scratch-like mobile experience that brings Scratch to mobile and is regarded as improving on Scratch in some aspects.
- Good for programming and projects with many features in development.
- Serves as a useful mobile companion to the desktop PictoBlox software.

### Cons

- Saving progress is buggy on mobile (purple screen, fails to save) and leads to instability.
- Perceived as a Scratch knock-off, with concerns about originality.
- Lack of a zoom/drawing zoom feature makes drawing harder.
- Small code/run/stage window and inconsistent full-screen support on mobile, making navigation harder.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1554839634)