Comparison

Tabletopia vs Wingspan

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

Head to head
About

Tabletopia

Play board games digitally with friends or solo. This platform offers a virtual table experience where players manually enforce rules, just like in real life. Explore a growing library of popular board games or create and share your own.

Highlights
  • Play board games digitally
  • Solo, hotseat, and online multiplayer
  • Create and share your own board games
  • Vast library of popular board games
  • Virtual table experience
Features
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Tabletopia is a digital online platform for playing board games just like in real life. There is no AI to enforce the rules. Read the rulebook, choose a seat at the virtual table, and let the game begin! Features: • Solo, Hotseat and Online Multiplayer modes • Create digital versions of your own board games to promote, playtest, and demonstrate them! • 80+ games are already available, such as: Champions of Midgard A hit worker placement game about Viking clans waging war against mythological Norse beasts by Grey Fox Games The Shipwreck Arcana Very clever cooperative deduction game by Meromorph Games Hansa Teutonica One of the best competitive eurogames about creating trade network in medieval Germany by Argentum Verlag Sub Terra Cooperative survival horror board game by Inside the Box Burgle Bros Cooperative stealth game about daring robbery by Fowers Games Tuscany New edition of very popular worker placement game about managing your own winery by Stonemaier Games. Explore our Featured catalog to find even more different games. We are constantly working on adapting more games from our extensive web catalog into mobile format.

About

Wingspan

A relaxing, award-winning strategy card game where you discover and attract birds to build wildlife preserves. Compete with up to five players to create powerful combinations and score points through birds, bonus cards, and goals.

Highlights
  • Discover and attract birds
  • Build wildlife preserves
  • Engine-building strategy
  • Single and multiplayer modes
  • Animated birds with real sounds
  • Multiple scoring methods
Features
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Wingspan is a relaxing, award-winning strategy card game about birds for 1 to 5 players. Each bird you play extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your three habitats. Your goal is to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. You are bird enthusiasts—researchers, bird watchers, ornithologists, and collectors—seeking to discover and attract the best birds to your network of wildlife preserves. Each bird extends a chain of powerful combinations in one of your habitats. Each habitat focuses on a key aspect of the growth of your preserves. In Wingspan up to 5 players compete to build up their nature preserves in a limited number of turns. Each beautiful bird that you add to your preserve makes you better at laying eggs, drawing cards, or gathering food. Many of the 170 unique birds have powers that echo real life: your hawks will hunt, your pelicans will fish, and your geese will form a flock. Features - Relaxing strategy card game where your goal is to discover and attract the best birds. - Single player and multiplayer modes for up to five players. - Based on award winning, competitive, card-driven, engine-building board game. - Hundreds of unique, animated birds with their real life sound recordings. - Multiple ways to accumulate points with birds, bonus cards and end-of-round goals.

Screenshots

Tabletopia4 screens
Wingspan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tabletopia at Free against Wingspan's $9.99. Tabletopia also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 12) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Wingspan's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 2.6) and review sentiment (61% vs 24%). On 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

Tabletopia is free to download; Wingspan costs $9.99 up front. Wingspan sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Tabletopia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wingspan holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wingspan has 13K ratings behind it against 109, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Tabletopia's written reviews are positive against 61% of Wingspan's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tabletopia ships an update every 3 months, Wingspan every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Tabletopia versus Wingspan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabletopiaWingspan
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating2.6 (109 ratings)4.8 (13K ratings) — better
Positive reviews24.5% of reviews61.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10913K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#6 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size123 MB1.0 GB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTableTopia, Inc.Monster Couch

Customer experience

Tabletopia

All ratings104 ratings
Positive35.6%
Neutral13.5%
Negative51.0%
Written reviews139 reviews
Positive24.5%
Neutral12.9%
Negative62.6%

Wingspan

All ratings13,046 ratings
Positive96.1%
Neutral1.3%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews982 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral11.6%
Negative27.4%

User reviews

Tabletopia

From 109 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Good app
  • 🚀 Smooth gameplay
  • 💡 Variety of games
  • 🎮 Great simulator

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes frequently
  • 🔌 Connectivity issues
  • 🤯 Unintuitive controls
  • 💸 Expensive subscription

Wingspan

From 13K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Beautiful gameplay
  • 🎶 Lovely music and sound effects
  • 🕰️ Relaxing and calming experience
  • 📚 Educational bird facts
  • 🕹️ Faithful digital adaptation of the board game

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Small text and icons difficult to read
  • 🕰️ AI opponents take too long to make moves
  • 🔋 High battery consumption
  • 🤯 Frustrating online multiplayer experience

Bugs and requests

Tabletopia

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Infinite update loop
  • Game progress loss
  • Rules crash the app
  • Login and sync problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Offline save state
  • Game filters and search
  • Multilingual support
  • Cross-platform play

Wingspan

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • End-of-game buttons not working
  • Unfinished games not clearing from main menu
  • Inconsistent response when tapping on cards/habitats
  • Incorrect behavior of certain bird abilities
  • Crashes when playing specific card combinations

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ability to reorder cards in hand
  • Option to save/friend usernames for online play
  • Faster AI turns
  • In-game chat function
  • Ability to view opponent's hand size
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  • Option to disable end-of-round animations
  • Leaderboard for online competitions
  • More detailed achievement descriptions

In-app purchases

None

Tabletopia

No in-app purchases

12 purchases

Wingspan

One-time12
  • Seasonal Decorative Pack$4.99
  • Woodland Wonders Pack$4.99
  • Seasonal Decorative Pack 2$4.99
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  • Birds of Continental Europe$5.99
  • Bird Pack: Additional Asian Avians$5.99
  • Bird Pack: British Birds$5.99
  • European Expansion$9.99
  • Oceania Expansion$11.99
  • Asia Expansion$11.99
  • Bird Packs Season Pass$12.99
  • Bird Packs Season Pass$18.99
  • Bird Packs Season Pass$24.99

Questions

Is Tabletopia free?
Tabletopia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wingspan free?
Wingspan costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tabletopia or Wingspan?
Wingspan is rated higher. Tabletopia averages 2.6 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while Wingspan averages 4.8 from 13K ratings.
Do Tabletopia or Wingspan have ads?
Neither Tabletopia nor Wingspan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tabletopia or Wingspan?
Tabletopia ships an update every 3 months, and Wingspan every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tabletopia was updated on October 21, 2026 and Wingspan on November 3, 2026.

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