Sonic Surfer vs Hello, Yoshi!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sonic Surfer
This unique game uses your ambient noise to control gameplay. Ride sound waves, collect suns, and avoid falling off your board. It adapts to any environment, turning everyday sounds into exciting gameplay.
- Reacts to ambient noise
- Generates waves based on sound level
- Collect suns to stop moonrise
- Unlock 22 characters
- Play with music
- Adaptive gameplay
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This game reacts to your ambient noise! Play ‚Sonic Surfer‘ when you ride the bus, at the park, in a waiting line or at other places where noise in different soundlevels occurs. Surf the waves and don't fall off your board! Can you collect enough suns to stop the moonrise? Loud sounds will create big waves while quiet sound will create small waves. No matter where you play, this game will always match your surroundings. For example, if you play ‚Sonic Surfer on the Bus loud noises will no longer bother you. If a baby is crying, the bus driver is honking or people are talking very loud your game will create bigger waves - you will jump higher and collect more suns. Keep in mind that we need access to your microphone! ACTION PACKED Play Sonic Surfer while you are listening to your favorite music!! DIVERSE Unlock 22 characters! Surf with Jade, Melissa, Eugene and Rainbow the Pony! WINNER - BW Goes Mobil Award 2016 ‚Sonic Surfer‘ won the first price at the category „Waiting line - never bored again“.
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 in-app purchases: Hello, Yoshi! at none against Sonic Surfer's 10. Hello, Yoshi! also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (82 vs 4). Sonic Surfer's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Sonic Surfer sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Hello, Yoshi! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Sonic Surfer against 4.8 for Hello, Yoshi!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello, Yoshi! has 82 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Sonic Surfer's written reviews are positive against 97% of Hello, Yoshi!'s.
Sonic Surfer ships an update every 16 months, Hello, Yoshi! every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sonic Surfer | Hello, Yoshi! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (82 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.1% of reviews | 96.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 82 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 155 MB | 135 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Ferling | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Sonic Surfer
Hello, Yoshi!
In-app purchases
Sonic Surfer
- Acid$0.99
- Alana$0.99
- Bob$0.99
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- Taj$0.99
- Dark One$0.99
- Isabell$0.99
- Doge$0.99
- Aaron$0.99
- Leslie$0.99
- Cereal$0.99
Hello, Yoshi!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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