Hungry Birds vs JSL
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hungry Birds
This educational game challenges players to raise offspring by navigating diverse environments, hunting for food, and overcoming obstacles. It teaches about life-history decisions, resource allocation, and personality traits through engaging gameplay.
- Raise offspring
- Hunt for food
- Navigate diverse environments
- Overcome obstacles and enemies
- Learn life-history decisions
- Explore resource allocation
Read full descriptionHide full description
Life is full of choices. In Hungry Birds, players learn about the different choices animals are forced to make every day. The goal of Hungry Birds is to rear as many offspring as you can. But nothing is as simple as it seems. Players take on the role of a bird navigating the wilds to hunt for food for offspring in different environments. As players explore the different locations in hungry birds, they encounter different obstacles and enemies and each environment varies in food availability. Choose whether to continue or give up and use what you have! The game teaches concepts surrounding various life-history decisions ranging from allocation and feeding strategies, to giving up densities and risky and shy personalities.
JSL
This app enhances the living experience for residents at a specific student accommodation facility. It provides access to event calendars, controls for communal entertainment systems, maintenance reporting, and booking of study spaces.
- View event calendars
- Control communal TV and sound systems
- Log maintenance requests
- Book study spaces
- Manage resident accounts
Read full descriptionHide full description
The Journal Student Living app supports residents living at Journal Uni Place - a leading student accommodation facility located in the heart of Melbourne's University precinct, offering apartment and studio-style accommodation designed with students in mind. The Journal app allows students to view the Journal Life calendar of events, control the TV's and sound system in communal spaces, log maintenance reports, book a study space, manage their accounts and much more.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hungry Birds at 100% against JSL's 0%. Hungry Birds also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). JSL's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hungry Birds ships an update every 9 months, JSL every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hungry Birds | JSL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | arludo Pty Ltd | Appetiser Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Hungry Birds
JSL
In-app purchases
Hungry Birds
No in-app purchases
JSL
No in-app purchases
