Pirate Bubbles vs Dunk and Clone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pirate Bubbles
Embark on a magical pirate adventure to rescue trapped Macaws. Match colorful bubbles, utilize special boosters, and unleash powerful explosions to clear challenging levels. This free-to-play game offers endless fun with loads of levels and engaging gameplay.
- Match 3 bubbles to pop
- Special booster bubbles
- Rescue trapped Macaws
- Magic lantern power-ups
- Loads of challenging levels
- Playable on iPhone and iPad
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Pirate Bubbles: Macaw Rescue - A bubble shooting game like you've never played before. With new, exciting challenges, and specialized bubbles to keep you engaged and always looking to play more and more. Match colors, use boosts, use lantern bubbles to generate bomb bubbles, and unleash the Macaws! Ella the Pirate is in search of all her Macaw friends, they are cute birds that have gotten trapped inside the magical bubbles. Ella has the ability to use her magic chest to generate bubbles of her own and shoot them at the bubbles that may or may not contain her Macaw friends. Match bubbles, make explosions and rescue her Macaw friends! Pirate Bubbles is 100% free and has no pay-to-play aspect of any sort inside the game. We do not believe in charging our customers for such a beautiful, engaging game! Pirate Bubbles Features: • Match 3 alike bubbles to pop them in this magical pirate story • Magic lanterns that can add special features to your bubbles • Release the Macaws, and free Ella's friends • Pirate Booster Bubbles to help pass tricky levels • Loads, and loads of levels! Seemingly never ending gameplay! • Free, and easy to jump in and play. Very hard to beat all the levels, but you can try! • Available to play on both iPhone and iPad devices Enjoy yourself and play risk and worry free in this epic pirate bubble shooter game!
Dunk and Clone
Aim and shoot basketballs, chaining your shots to clone more balls. Pick the right hoop to maximize cloning and achieve a high score. It's a free game with ads.
- Swipe to aim direction
- Pick the right hoop
- Perform maximum cloning
- Clone many balls
- Achieve high scores
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How to Play: - Swipe left and right to chain aim direction. - Pick the right hoop to perform maximum cloning. - Clone as many balls as you can to get a high score.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dunk and Clone at 4.7 against Pirate Bubbles's 4.0. Dunk and Clone also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (139 vs 5). Pirate Bubbles's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dunk and Clone holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dunk and Clone has 139 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pirate Bubbles ships an update every 5 weeks, Dunk and Clone every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pirate Bubbles | Dunk and Clone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (139 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 139 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intellimax, Inc. | Rocketship Studios LLP |
Customer experience
Pirate Bubbles
Dunk and Clone
In-app purchases
Pirate Bubbles
No in-app purchases
Dunk and Clone
No in-app purchases
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