Comparison

Monster Box vs Tinybop Labs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monster Box

Engage in strategic battles against waves of monsters. Upgrade your stickman characters with gold and jewels to enhance their power and defeat increasingly formidable foes. Enjoy a simple yet engaging combat experience.

Highlights
  • Monster battles
  • Stickman upgrades
  • Gold and jewel currency
  • Strategic combat
  • Monster evolution
Features
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Monster overflowing and Battle of Stickman! Stickman after upgrade in gold and jewel, please earnestly defeat a lot of monsters. By upgrade the monster, enjoy fight against powerful monsters.

About

Tinybop Labs

Immerse yourself in exciting AR games that transform your surroundings into interactive playgrounds. Compete with friends in challenges like sinking boats, battling super-pandas, or matching colors in your real-world environment.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality gameplay
  • Multiplayer battles
  • Color matching challenges
  • Character and skin customization
  • Power-ups and special abilities
  • Offline and online play
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Sink boats in your bedroom, build and battle super-pandas in the kitchen, and test your color-matching skills with friends. Tinybop Labs is an AR Playground where you can immerse yourself in exciting and interactive games. Discover free games that will transform your surroundings into thrilling battlegrounds. J **Chomp Chomp: Snakes in AR Compete against your friends to grow the longest snake while navigating challenging real-world obstacles, Hunt for delicious flowers to chomp on and boost your score. But beware! Enemy drones and cunning opponents might steal your hard-earned skins. Play solo or with friends for a strategic showdown. Features -Choose your character and skin - Eat flowers to grow your creature - Killer drones - Flowers help you grow, add to your skin DNA, and grant new powers and abilities - Purchase up new types of creatures How to Play -Lock into a world using an anchor card or by scanning the floor -Eat flowers to grow -Avoid poison plants -Beware of drones -Chomp your enemies to slow their progress -Eating special flowers will change your DNA and give you access to new skins -Eating special flowers will make you invisible to your enemies for a time -Teleporting will allow your creature to come back to you **Bumper Boat Sumo: Clear the circle or get sunk Try to survive as your friends try to sink you, because you’re a boat! Parachute into the real world and face off in a sumo ring. It's a battle of skill and strategy. Push or be pushed. Bump or be bumped. Sink or be sunk. Play solo and overcome increasingly difficult challenges or compete with friends to see who will reign supreme. Features: -Clear the sumo ring of opponents and buoys -Utilize power-ups for speed boosts and tactical advantages -Special powers like invisibility and gigantism -Push opponents out of the ring to earn more points How to Play - Lock into a world by scanning the floor or using an anchor card - Clear the sumo ring of buoys and opponents - Use powerups to accelerate through the water - Open treasure chests to discover new powers - The more characters you push from the ring, the more points you win **Color Battle: Match the colors in your world Compete to find colors in your environment. How many can you find? Get ready for a vibrant challenge! Features - Try to match colors in your world How to Play -Match the color shown by finding something with that color in your environment -Skip colors you can't find -Add a friend to double the fun - Find as many colors as you can in the time allotted Privacy Policy We take privacy seriously. We do not collect or share personal information without explicit consent. We do not have any third-party advertising. When the camera, lidar (TrueDepth), microphone, and other services produce data that could identify you are used within an app, your information is neither collected nor distributed outside of the app to Tinybop or other parties. Read our complete privacy policy at tinybop.com. Tinybop, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based studio of designers, engineers, and artists. We make toys for tomorrow. We’re all over the internet. Visit us: www.tinybop.com Follow us: twitter.com/tinybop Like us: facebook.com/tinybop Peek behind the scenes: instagram.com/tinybop We love hearing your stories! If you have ideas, or something isn’t working as you expect it to, please contact us: hi@tinybop.com. Psst! It's not Tiny Bop, or Tiny Bob, or Tiny Pop. It's Tinybop. :)

Screenshots

Monster Box4 screens
Tinybop Labs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monster Box at none against Tinybop Labs's 9. Monster Box also leads on ratings volume (212 vs 16). Tinybop Labs's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tinybop Labs sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Monster Box asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tinybop Labs holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Monster Box has 212 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Monster Box's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tinybop Labs's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, Tinybop Labs fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Monster Box versus Tinybop Labs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonster BoxTinybop Labs
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (212 ratings)4.8 (16 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings212 — better16
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB233 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDAN-BALLTinybop Inc.

Customer experience

Monster Box

All ratings212 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral5.2%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.2%
Negative7.8%

Tinybop Labs

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Monster Box

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Stick figures drift to the right when revived repeatedly
  • Game crashes for no apparent reason
  • Certain medals are unobtainable (Ohagi medal)
  • iPhone X notch cuts off progress bar
  • Game data loss when too many monsters spawn
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  • Occasional freezing on newer high-definition phones

Requested features

15 requests
  • More character classes (especially from Stick Ranger)
  • Landscape/horizontal mode support
  • Zoom feature to see action better
  • Cloud save and cross-device progress transfer
  • Sandbox mode with infinite monsters
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  • More monsters and enemy variety
  • Reset progress button
  • Backup/save functionality
  • Steam port
  • Terrain and environment elements
  • More upgrade options
  • Idle mode that doesn't end at monster cap
  • Ad-free premium version
  • Larger UI scaling option
  • Landscape orientation support

Tinybop Labs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Monster Box

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Tinybop Labs

One-time9
  • Sharknado$0.99
  • Pandozer$0.99
  • Caterday$0.99
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  • Dragonzee$0.99
  • Bugaboo$0.99
  • Mr. Beeps$0.99
  • Santa$0.99
  • Snowcone$0.99
  • Orion$0.99

Questions

Is Monster Box free?
Monster Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tinybop Labs free?
Tinybop Labs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Monster Box or Tinybop Labs?
Tinybop Labs is rated higher. Monster Box averages 4.5 out of 5 from 212 ratings, while Tinybop Labs averages 4.8 from 16 ratings.
Do Monster Box or Tinybop Labs have ads?
Monster Box shows ads; Tinybop Labs does not.
Which is updated more often, Monster Box or Tinybop Labs?
Monster Box ships an update every 3 months, and Tinybop Labs fortnightly. Most recently, Monster Box was updated on October 21, 2026 and Tinybop Labs on October 24, 2026.

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