30 Second Life vs BigToo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
30 Second Life
Experience a full life from birth to death in just 30 seconds. Your choices shape your destiny, leading to over a trillion possible outcomes. Discover unique careers and unlock special combos in this highly addictive simulation.
- Full life simulation in 30 seconds
- Choice-driven life paths
- Over 200 life stages
- 90+ unlockable combos
- Trillions of possible lives
- Addictive gameplay
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Live your entire life, from birth to death, in 30 seconds. At every moment, your choices determine where your life will lead. Slack off as a white collar worker, and get laid off. If you work hard as a cat burglar, you'll become a criminal mastermind! Can you find the path to becoming a cyborg? A monk? A tycoon? A messiah? Because life's too long to live just once. + Highly addictive gameplay! + Catchy arcade-style music and sound effects! + More than 200 life stages with unique graphics! + More than 90 unlockable special combos! + Over a trillion possible lives to lead!
BigToo
Experience the classic Cantonese card game, Big Two, with this native iOS app. Enjoy fast-paced gameplay, learn the rules with a guide, and play with friends or random opponents worldwide. Track game history and manage turns easily.
- Step-by-step rules guide
- Invite Game Center friends
- Auto-match with global players
- Turn reminders
- Match history
- Intuitive card dragging
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Discover the excitement of Big Two, a traditional Cantonese card game, with BigToo—a beautifully crafted native iOS application that offers a thrilling, fast-paced gameplay experience that's easy to learn yet challenging to master. Invite your Game Center friends or auto match with random players to suit your occasion. FEATURES: - Rules Guide - Learn how to play Big Two via a step-by-step guide and use as a handy reference - Matches - Create matches by inviting your friends from iMessages or via from Game Center directly - Create and join automatched matches to play with players from all around the world - Match Settings - See when each player played their last turn - Send reminders to players to take their turn - Match History - Tap on the table to see all past player turns - Intuitively drag cards to reorder your player card hand
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BigToo at none against 30 Second Life's 1. 30 Second Life's advantage is ratings volume (128 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. 30 Second Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BigToo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for 30 Second Life against 5.0 for BigToo. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: 30 Second Life has 128 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
30 Second Life ships an update every 3 weeks, BigToo fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 30 Second Life | BigToo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (128 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | +12 | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruce Hill | Justin Wong |
Customer experience
30 Second Life
BigToo
Bugs and requests
30 Second Life
Reported bugs
31 issues- App does not work, just blinks
- Start screen flashes, no actions can be made
- Game is broken
- Doesn't start up anymore
- It's a little buggy, glitches out on combos
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- App is fixed (mentioned by one user)
- Whenever I press play it brings me to the home screen
- This version does not progress past the first screen
- Whenever I touch play nothing happens
- It just flashes to a new screen
- When I press Play it Takes Me To The Home Screen
- Game also won't start
- My game won't start
- The game dose not work
- Full version doesn't give me it, everybody getting it for free
- How do you start the game, can't get out of the lobby
- The game did NOT register that I had bought the full version
- Full version of the game doesn't work
- The in-app purchase that makes the game good doesn't work
- Full game doesn't work
- Bought the full version and nothing changed
- Can't get it to start at all
- The last update said you fixed the issue with it not recognizing the full version being purchased. But it's still having that problem.
- Doesn't work
- Screen goes black and boots me back out to the title screen
- Please make it where I have the full game
- Fix the play button
- Full game purchase does not work
- Doesn't acknowledge the fact I unlocked the full game
- Never gets over the start screen
- When I tap the Play button, nothing happens
Requested features
5 requests- Update game more often
- Add more content
- Get rid of the possible careers bar
- Add more characters (free version)
- Turn off flash and wheel
BigToo
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
30 Second Life
- Unlock Main Game$3.99
BigToo
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is 30 Second Life free?
Is BigToo free?
Which has better reviews, 30 Second Life or BigToo?
Do 30 Second Life or BigToo have ads?
Which is updated more often, 30 Second Life or BigToo?
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