Comparison

Flappy VS Bats vs Pocket Robot Runner

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

Head to head
About

Flappy VS Bats

This addictive retro-style game challenges you to defend yourself from bats using bombs. Play quick, endless rounds and compete for high scores on leaderboards. It's an immersive experience perfect for short bursts of fun.

Highlights
  • Easy to learn, difficult to master gameplay
  • Quick, short game sessions
  • Endless gameplay
  • Leaderboards for high scores
  • Challenging friends
  • Amazing sound effects
Features
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Drag a bird around an arena of green pillars and drop bombs on the bats. Your score is how long you survive, to a tenth of a second. Flappy VS Bats first came out in 2017. Version 2.0 rebuilt it from scratch, and 2.1 added support for iPhone Duo. HOW IT PLAYS • Drag anywhere on the arena to fly. The bird follows your finger's movement, so your finger never covers it. • The pillars are walls for you and for the bats. • Fly off one edge and you come back on the opposite edge. Each crossing costs 5 coins. With fewer than 5 coins the edges are walls and the dashed border turns solid red. Bats cross for free. • Tap the bomb button, or double-tap the arena, to drop a bomb. A bomb costs 5 coins and goes off after 1 second, with a countdown on the bomb. Its flames run up to 3 cells along the corridors, stop at pillars and kill the bats they touch. They can kill you too. • You can have up to 2 bombs on the arena at once. • Pick up coins, and shields that absorb one hit from a bat or a flame. FOUR KINDS OF BAT • Hunters follow the corridors toward you. • Wanderers pick their own way. • Blockers hang in one spot and block that corridor for a while. • Sweepers fly straight across after a warning arrow. Touching a bat ends the run unless you have a shield. Bats bump into each other without harm. The longer you last, the more bats come and the faster they fly. COINS New players start with 50 coins. You earn 1 coin for every 2 seconds you survive, 1 for each bat a bomb kills and 1 for each coin you pick up. Coins pay for bombs, edge crossings and birds. Your coin total is on screen during the game. BIRDS Cardinal and Blue Jay cost 150 coins, Parrot and Flamingo 250, Crow and Snowy 400. The Legends Pack adds Golden, Phoenix, Ghost and Robo, each with a trail. You can also watch an ad to fly a Legend for one run. Birds are cosmetic. GAME CENTER • Leaderboards for your longest run, your longest run this week (reset every Monday) and the most bats in one run • 9 achievements MORE • Share a score card from the game over screen • A daily gift of 25 coins • Left-handed bomb button, drag sensitivity, sound and haptics • iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo with iOS 17 or later, landscape only • On iPhone Duo the game runs full screen on both displays and pauses if you open or close the phone during a run • Plays offline and needs no account ADS AND PURCHASES The game is free. An ad is shown at the end of each game (when the bird dies, or when you restart or quit from the pause menu), never during play. There are no banners. You can choose to watch an ad to double the coins from a run, to get 75 coins instead of 25 from the daily gift, or to fly a Legend for one run. • Remove Ads (one-time purchase): no ads after games. The ads you choose to watch stay available. • Legends Pack: the four Legend birds. • Coin packs of 500, 1,500 and 4,000 coins. Bought coins go into the same wallet as the coins you earn. If you played the 2017 version: your coins and Remove Ads carry over, each unused life becomes 25 coins, and your old best time is shown in Settings.

About

Pocket Robot Runner

Train your robot, equip it with weapons, and compete in races against other robots to become the champion. Experience fast-paced robot combat and racing.

Highlights
  • Robot training
  • Weapon customization
  • Competitive racing
  • Robot combat
Features
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Train your robot, equip weapons and be the winner of the race among all the robots !

Screenshots

Flappy VS Bats4 screens
Pocket Robot Runner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flappy VS Bats at 100% against Pocket Robot Runner's 0%. Flappy VS Bats also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). Pocket Robot Runner's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ratings volume (25 vs 3). On price, ads and device support 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. Flappy VS Bats sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Pocket Robot Runner asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flappy VS Bats holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Robot Runner has 25 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Flappy VS Bats's written reviews are positive against 0% of Pocket Robot Runner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flappy VS Bats ships an update every 4 days, Pocket Robot Runner every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Flappy VS Bats versus Pocket Robot Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlappy VS BatsPocket Robot Runner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.8 (25 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings325 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB242 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperAbdelrahman AshrafYso Corp

Customer experience

Flappy VS Bats

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pocket Robot Runner

All ratings25 ratings
Positive64.0%
Neutral12.0%
Negative24.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Flappy VS Bats

One-time7
  • Remove Ads!$4.99
  • 100 Coins!$4.99
  • 3 Lives!$14.99
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  • 10 Lives!$44.99
  • 1200 Coins!$49.99
  • 25 Lives!$99.99
  • 3000 Coins!$99.99
None

Pocket Robot Runner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flappy VS Bats free?
Flappy VS Bats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Robot Runner free?
Pocket Robot Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flappy VS Bats or Pocket Robot Runner?
Flappy VS Bats is rated higher. Flappy VS Bats averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pocket Robot Runner averages 3.8 from 25 ratings.
Do Flappy VS Bats or Pocket Robot Runner have ads?
Both Flappy VS Bats and Pocket Robot Runner show ads.
Which is updated more often, Flappy VS Bats or Pocket Robot Runner?
Flappy VS Bats ships an update every 4 days, and Pocket Robot Runner every 5 months. Most recently, Flappy VS Bats was updated on October 9, 2026 and Pocket Robot Runner on October 17, 2026.

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