Launchasaurus vs Pictonico!
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!
Pictonico!
Transform your personal photos into unique and humorous minigames. Experience a variety of silly scenarios and challenges based on your own images. Unlock more gameplay by purchasing additional volumes of minigames.
- Photo-to-minigame conversion
- Variety of humorous scenarios
- Unlockable game volumes
- Play with friends' photos
- Offline gameplay supported
- Progressive difficulty levels
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Turn your photos into minigames! Sure, it's kind of silly... But there's no telling what will happen next! ・ Here come your school's sports stars...strutting down the red carpet! ・ Your boss is hungry and needs your help! ・ Try to wash away those embarrassing high-school memories. ・ Son won't quiet down? Zip his mouth! ・ Two old friends reconnect while skydiving! ・ Grandpa dressed like a ballerina? Can't miss this photo op. ・ Mom's angry... But that nose hair must be plucked! ・ Dad's making that face again. Wait, is that a facial mask? ・ Best friend turned final boss?! Evasive maneuvers! ・ That calm, collected teacher was all muscle this whole time? You can try a few minigames for free, or purchase volumes to unlock up to 80 minigames in total, ranging from easy to pretty tricky. Get ready to laugh out loud when you look back at old photos! You can even take photos with friends on the spot and use them right away. *This game is free-to-start. *Purchase of a game volume is required for gameplay, but you can play a demo of some minigames for free. *A constant online connection is not required, but temporary network access may be needed for the following operations, which may incur data charges: ・ First launch ・ Purchasing game volumes *Your photos are not sent to Nintendo. User Agreement: https://pictonico.nintendo.com/app/eula.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pictonico! at 4.6 against Launchasaurus's 4.2. Pictonico! also leads on ratings volume (694 vs 67). Launchasaurus's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.5). On price, review sentiment, 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 Pictonico! sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pictonico! holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pictonico! has 694 ratings behind it against 67, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Launchasaurus's written reviews are positive against 64% of Pictonico!'s.
Launchasaurus ships an update every 3 days, Pictonico! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Launchasaurus | Pictonico! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (67 ratings) | 4.6 (694 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.2% of reviews | 64.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 | 694 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 565 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SFB Games | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Launchasaurus
Pictonico!
In-app purchases
Launchasaurus
- Mega Dig$0.99
Pictonico!
- Volume 2$5.99
- Volume 1$7.99
