Comparison

Air Drop vs Worldborn

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

Head to head
About

Air Drop

Control a balloon's ascent by tapping the screen to collect coins. Navigate the balloon upwards to gather currency and progress. A simple, one-touch arcade game.

Highlights
  • Tap to control balloon ascent
  • Collect coins
  • Simple one-touch gameplay
  • Arcade style
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Drop the balloon to collect the coins. Tap to make the balloon go back up.

About

Worldborn

Experience a life simulator based on real-world statistics, where your birth country, family, and life events are determined by actual odds. Make choices year by year, track your progress, and compare your life's journey with friends.

Highlights
  • Life simulation based on real statistics
  • Year-by-year life progression
  • Decision-making at turning points
  • Track health, happiness, and relationships
  • Compare lives with friends
  • Multiple language support
Features
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You are born. Where, into which family and with what chances is decided by the same odds that decide it for the four or so babies born on Earth every second. Worldborn is a life simulator built on real statistics. The draw follows UN and World Bank data for 186 countries, so you are far more likely to be born in India or Nigeria than in Iceland. Then you live that one life, year by year, until it ends. HOW IT WORKS • Your birth certificate shows where you landed: country and town, family income, your parents, religion, life expectancy and how many children there die before the age of five. • Every year brings events that fit your country, your age and your family: school or work, friends, first love, a job, moving away, illness, children, old age. • At turning points you decide: keep studying or start earning, stay or leave, take the risk or play it safe. Your choices matter, and so does where you started. • Short facts from real data explain why things happen the way they do in your country. • Follow your health, happiness, knowledge and relationships, your family, the people born in the same second as you, a map of your life year by year, and how many of the 100 people born with you are still alive. • At 6, 18, 35, 55 and 72 the game pauses to ask you a question about this life and your own. When it ends, you see it whole: the last moments, the money and the heirs, your own answers and last words. • Every life you have lived stays on your shelf. Reopen any of them, or share it as a picture. • Watch the years go by at your own pace, up to 64× faster, or stop at every decision. Light and dark themes. PLAY WITH FRIENDS • Be born in the same second as your friends and compare how your lives turn out, stage by stage. • Pass one phone around the table, or play online with a room code. • Share your birth certificate or your life story, and let friends live the same birth their own way. MADE WITH CARE • Death, illness, poverty, violence and alcohol come up as often as they do in real life, but never in graphic detail. One setting leaves out the hardest scenes. • A life takes about 15, 30 or 60 minutes, your choice. The game saves as you go. • 31 languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi and Indonesian. • Free, with no ads, no accounts and no in-app purchases. Your lives are saved on your device, and online rooms are deleted 48 hours after last use. The lives are made up. The odds are not.

Screenshots

Air Drop2 screens
Worldborn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Worldborn at 5.0 against Air Drop's 3.0. Air Drop's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Worldborn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Air Drop has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Air Drop versus Worldborn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAir DropWorldborn
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB24 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJerry ColeIrina Sokolova

Customer experience

Air Drop

All ratings22 ratings
Positive45.5%
Neutral4.5%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Worldborn

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Air Drop

No in-app purchases

None

Worldborn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Air Drop free?
Air Drop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Worldborn free?
Worldborn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Air Drop or Worldborn?
Worldborn is rated higher. Air Drop averages 3.0 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Worldborn averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Air Drop or Worldborn have ads?
Neither Air Drop nor Worldborn shows ads.

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