Launchasaurus vs POINPY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Launchasaurus
Engage in a skill-based arcade game where you build and launch custom dinosaurs. Aim for targets while avoiding prehistoric dangers and collect coins to fund museum digs and complete your collection.
- Build custom dinosaurs
- Launch dinosaurs with physics-based gameplay
- Target-based challenges
- Avoid prehistoric dangers
- Collect coins
- Fund museum digs
- Complete museum collection
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A skill-based arcade game! Professor Pickaxe & Dr. Dodo join forces to push the limits of acceptable palaeontology! Build weird dinosaurs & launch them - will they land on target or be eaten by a giant lava dinosaur? Collect coins to fund digs in your search to complete your museum collection!
POINPY
Bounce upwards, dodging enemies and collecting fruit to feed a hungry beast. Unlock new abilities and modes as you climb higher in this vertical action game. Explore randomly generated areas and master one-handed controls.
- Intuitive one-handed controls
- Bounce and flip mechanics
- Collect fruit for beast's juice
- Dodge adorable baddies
- Unlockable puzzle and endless modes
- Randomly generated areas
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Bounce up, dodge adorable baddies and feed the blue beast that's hot on your heels. A vertical climber from the creator of the award-winning Downwell. Keep going higher and higher because new and more challenging areas await. Earn and unlock abilities that will help you jump into your next run with a better shot at reaching the end. FEATURES Juice 'em up: Use intuitive, one-handed controls to bounce, flip around and grab fruit for the beast's juice. Climb & collect: Evade creatures lurking in randomly generated areas. Collect special abilities like the octobub, which sucks in fruit, and the handy snail clock, which stops time while you ready your next jump. Plus many others! Open new modes: Find a not-so-well-hidden area to unlock the tricky puzzle mode. Complete Poinpy to unlock an endless mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: POINPY at 4.9 against Launchasaurus's 4.2. POINPY also leads on review sentiment (95% vs 59%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Launchasaurus's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Launchasaurus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and POINPY sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
POINPY holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 67 and 153 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Launchasaurus's written reviews are positive against 95% of POINPY's.
Launchasaurus ships an update every 3 days, POINPY every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Launchasaurus | POINPY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (67 ratings) | 4.9 (153 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | 95.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 153 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SFB Games | Devolver |
Customer experience
Launchasaurus
POINPY
In-app purchases
Launchasaurus
- Mega Dig$0.99
POINPY
- Standard Tip$1.99
- Generous Tip$4.99
- Super Generous Tip!$9.99
