Super Starfish vs Piffle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Super Starfish
Navigate a cosmic ocean as a space starfish, dodging celestial hazards and collecting exotic plants. Customize your own space aquarium and discover over 30 unique starfish. Compete with friends and share your interstellar discoveries.
- Cosmic swimming gameplay
- Space aquarium customization
- Collect exotic flora
- Over 30 Starfish to collect
- Explore new zones
- Master swimming style
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Swim through the swirling cosmos as an interstellar Starfish! Bring life to your space aquarium by dodging meteors, black holes, quasars and more. Super Starfish uses cutting-edge techniques to deliver amazing visual effects never seen before in mobile games. Be mesmerized by swirling ripples of color as your Starfish soars across the galaxy. Collect exotic flora and customize your very own space aquarium. Watch your Starplants grow as you create a home for your wondrous collection of Starfish. • Simple, intuitive gameplay for everyone. Try it now! • Explore the cosmos and discover mesmerizing new zones! • Master your swimming style and score huge combos! • Customize and grow your very own aquarium in space! • Over 30 colorful Starfish to collect and add to your aquarium. Can you find a super rare Starfish? • Compete with your friends and share your discoveries! Are you ready to become the next Fish Superstar? "My go-to time killer game for the foreseeable future" - TouchArcade. "Super Starfish nails the action as well as the audiovisual fireworks" - PocketGamer "Collecting fish & learning about their real life inspirations really does it for me!" - Texinis
Piffle
Embark on a colorful arcade puzzle adventure with adorable cats. Aim, shoot, and bounce to break blocks, complete hundreds of levels, and craft collectible Piffle balls. Challenge friends and achieve high scores with strategic gameplay.
- Arcade puzzle gameplay
- Hundreds of colorful levels
- Craft collectible Piffle balls
- Strategic block-breaking
- Friend challenges
- Power-up boosts
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Discover Piffle a cute arcade puzzle game full of adorable characters and...cats! Put your cat onesie on, quest through colorful worlds, stop the nefarious Doc Block and craft adorable Piffle balls to collect. How to play? - Swipe or point with your finger to aim - Choose the best possible angle to shoot - Release to bounce around and break all the blocks How to win? - Bounce as many times as possible to make combos and achieve high scores - Collect items, Piffle balls and use power ups to boost your results - Use your strategic wit to beat your friends! Why you’ll love Piffle? Easy! - Play for free in the most endearing and colorful mobile game - Discover fun filled worlds with hundreds of levels to adventure through - Play whenever you want and at your own pace - Challenge your friends at any time Anything else? - Yes! You can craft and collect adorable fluffy Piffle balls
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Verdict
Super Starfish and Piffle are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Super Starfish sells 16 one-off in-app purchases and Piffle sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Super Starfish against 4.8 for Piffle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29K and 22K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Super Starfish's written reviews are positive against 79% of Piffle's.
Super Starfish ships an update every 3 weeks, Piffle monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Super Starfish | Piffle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (29K ratings) | 4.8 (22K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.2% of reviews — better | 79.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29K — better | 22K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 319 MB | 197 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Protostar | HIPSTER WHALE |
Customer experience
Super Starfish
Piffle
User reviews
Super Starfish
From 29K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Beautiful graphics
- 🎨 Stunning visuals and colors
- 🐟 Cute and unique sea creatures
- 🕹️ Simple yet engaging gameplay
- 🌱 Decorative sanctuary customization
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive rock clearing costs
- 🔍 Difficulty obtaining in-game currency
- 🌟 Lack of purpose for star collection
- 🐛 Occasional freezing and crashes
- 🔍 Inconsistent prize machine rewards
Piffle
From 22K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Super fun, strategic gameplay
- 👍 Cute, adorable characters and visuals
- 🚀 Addictive, engaging experience
- 👍 Minimal ads, not overly intrusive
- 👍 Good balance of difficulty and progression
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
- ⏱️ Long wait times for lives to refill
- 💰 Difficulty spikes require use of power-ups
- 💰 Power-ups and bundles are expensive
- 🔀 Unbalanced level difficulty
Bugs and requests
Super Starfish
Reported bugs
2 issues- Notifications showing incorrect prize contents
- Inability to progress quests after completion
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to sell/trade unwanted plants
- Earn shells/moonstones for high scores
- Customization options for fish/sanctuary
- Multiplayer/competitive gameplay modes
- More frequent quests and missions
Piffle
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when rotating screen
- Ads sometimes fail to load properly
- Lives not refilling when app is closed
- Crafting issues causing lost materials
Requested features
5 requests- More frequent level updates
- Ability to resume progress after exiting app
- More free power-ups or ways to earn them
- Option to disable ads or pay a one-time fee
- Improved level balancing and difficulty curve
In-app purchases
Super Starfish
- Small Pile of Moonstones$0.99
- Small Pile of Moonstones$1.99
- Medium Pile of Moonstones2 variants$2.99
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- Starter Bundle$2.99
- Event Moonstones$2.99
- Celestia Bundle$2.99
- FUNGLES PACK$3.99
- Remove Advertising$4.99
- Large Pile of Moonstones2 variants$5.99
- Event Moonstones$5.99
- FUNGLES PACK$6.99
- Extra Large Pile of Moonstones$9.99
- Extra Large Pile of Moonstones$14.99
- Event Moonstones$14.99
- Event Moonstones$24.99
- Event Moonstones$49.99
Piffle
- Rare Shiba Inu$0.99
- Coin Pack$1.99
- Starter Pack$2.99
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- Coin Pack$4.99
- Tip Tap Mallet Kit$4.99
- Freeze Row Kit$4.99
- Mini-Blast Kit of Bombs$4.99
- Super Piffle Ball Crate$4.99
- Surplus Piffle Ball Crate$4.99
- Sharp Shooter's Kit$4.99
- Puppy Parcel$6.99
- Kitten Crate$12.99
