Babtun's Ayo vs Hello, Yoshi!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Babtun's Ayo
Experience a traditional African board game digitally. Play with friends online, challenge the computer at various skill levels, and track your progress on the leaderboard. Learn the game easily with built-in demos.
- Online multiplayer with friends and family
- Play against AI at multiple difficulty levels
- Global leaderboard for competitive play
- Cross-device progress syncing (iPhone, iPad, Mac)
- In-app learning demos
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Babtun's Ayo is an engaging easy-to-learn digital version of a traditional African board game. Ayo (pronounced 'ah-yo') is its Yoruba name; other names include Awalé, Mancala and Oware. No matter its name, the game is engaging and fun to play. Many people use it to while away time when bored. This app gives you more ways of enjoying the game than a physical board could. You can: - keep in touch with family and friends by inviting them to play online; - play as many people as you like at the same time, wherever they may be in the world; - improve your mastery of the game by playing the computer, as a beginner (level 1), a master (level 4) or someone in-between; - see your placing on the leaderboard whenever you win or lose an online game; - play a turn on your iPhone, iPad or Mac then continue on the others, via iCloud. Learning to play the game is easy. Watch the two demos in this app and you will pick it up just like that. Why don't you try it out and see?
Hello, Yoshi!
Engage with Yoshi's expressive face through interactive play, making silly faces and triggering various reactions. Discover hidden items and characters, and enjoy a built-in screen time management feature.
- Interactive face manipulation
- Trigger various expressions
- Add items and enemies
- Peekaboo mini-game
- Built-in screen time breaks
- Offline play
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"Hello, Yoshi!" Are you ready to play? With this free application from the little-kid-friendly My Mario brand, you and your kiddo can play with Yoshi's face and delight in all his various expressions. ■Make Silly Faces Team up with your kiddo to see how silly Yoshi can get when you pull and stretch his face or take turns poking and spinning him around. Tap on the ? Block in the top-left corner of the screen and select an icon to make items—like a Super Mushroom, a Super Star, or pipes—and even enemies appear alongside Yoshi. ■Peekaboo! Invite Yoshi to play peekaboo by tapping on the leftmost icon in the ? Block menu. Boo may even make a guest appearance! ■Built-In Breaks Good night, Yoshi! Yoshi gets tuckered out after playing for a while and will fall fast asleep. At that point no amount of poking can wake him up! This is a great opportunity to take a break and help parents limit their child's screen time. If you want to keep the fun going, you can turn off this feature by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts. ■Play Offline There's no need to be connected to the internet to play this application. After you download it, you're good to go! Operation is not guaranteed for all devices that meet the operating conditions. It may not work properly depending on the device's performance and specifications, device-specific application usage conditions, etc. Please be sure to read the Health and Safety information provided in the application settings before you start playing. Settings can be accessed by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts to access the menu. ©Nintendo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hello, Yoshi! at Free against Babtun's Ayo's $0.99. Hello, Yoshi! also leads on ratings volume (82 vs 3). Babtun's Ayo's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 15.0). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Hello, Yoshi! is free to download; Babtun's Ayo costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Babtun's Ayo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello, Yoshi! has 82 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Babtun's Ayo's written reviews are positive against 97% of Hello, Yoshi!'s.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Babtun's Ayo | Hello, Yoshi! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.8 (82 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 96.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 82 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Babatunde Abdul | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Babtun's Ayo
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In-app purchases
Babtun's Ayo
No in-app purchases
Hello, Yoshi!
No in-app purchases
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