Comparison

Glides vs Pixel Pigeon

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

Head to head
About

Glides

Navigate through challenging ring formations and asteroid fields in space. Achieve high scores by entering frenzy mode through perfect gliding. Unlock new planes, trails, and backgrounds as you improve your skills.

Highlights
  • Navigate space rings
  • Avoid asteroid fields
  • Enter frenzy mode
  • Earn high points and rings
  • Unlock new planes
  • Unlock new trails
  • Unlock new backgrounds
Features
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Don't let the calmness of gliding through rings in space fool you! Challenging ring formations and asteroid fields await those who can reach far. Earn high points and valuable rings by entering frenzy mode. This can be done by gliding perfectly through ring formations consecutively. Unlock new Planes, Trails and beautiful Backgrounds as you master the skills!

About

Pixel Pigeon

Engage in a unique stealth adventure as a clever pigeon. Sneak, steal, and outwit your surroundings in diverse global locations. Enjoy a complete offline experience with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay
  • Offline play
  • Diverse global locations
  • Customization options
  • Mini-games and challenges
  • Shareable progress
Features
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You are a pigeon. Everybody on the street would rather you were somewhere else. Pixel Pigeon is a stealth game about a small grey bird with a plan. Case a place from the wires above it. Watch a shopkeeper's back, count the seconds a cat keeps its eyes shut, then drop in, take what you came for, and be three roofs away before anyone works out where the noise came from. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Download it once and the whole game sits on your phone. Every city, every level, every crumb. It plays exactly the same in a plane seat, in a tunnel, on the tube, in a queue at the airport, with the phone in airplane mode and nothing at all in the bars. Nothing to stream, nothing to sign into, no account to make. Open it and it is there. WHERE YOU WORK A city rooftop at dusk. A Bangkok weekend market at full volume. A cliff above the sea, an Irish bog, the great stones of the Pyramids, a neon backstreet in Hong Kong, a night train running dark. Every place has its own crowd, its own weather and its own way of catching you. WHAT YOU DO Read a street before you cross it, then take your moment Slip past cats, work a crowd, mind the wires, ride the wind Peck, poop, topple, and generally make yourself the problem Take the day's jobs, one of which names the exact piece of mischief it wants Keep a case file of what you have pulled off in every place Get booked: pull your pigeon's mugshot and charge sheet, then share it Kit out your bird and make the nest your own Play the golf tour through Venice, the Pyramids and Bangkok THE STREET ANSWERS BACK Lamps, statues, market stalls, temple bowls: touch almost anything and something has a word to say about it. Knock one thing over and the street notices. Keep going and it starts looking for you. Some of the faces turn up again in the next city, and they remember you. BUY IT ONCE Start free. One purchase opens the rest of the game and it stays yours. No subscriptions, no ads, no timers counting down while you wait, nothing that needs a connection. A wry little story about making it through, one feather at a time. Privacy Policy: https://dro1d.org/pixelpigeon.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Glides4 screens
Pixel Pigeon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Glides at 47% against Pixel Pigeon's 0%. Glides also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Glides sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Pixel Pigeon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glides ships an update every 2 weeks, Pixel Pigeon every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Glides versus Pixel Pigeon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlidesPixel Pigeon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (563 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews47.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings563 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size108 MB28 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperKiseki GamesDRO1D LABS LIMITED

Customer experience

Glides

All ratings564 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral6.0%
Negative11.2%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive47.1%
Neutral9.8%
Negative43.1%

Pixel Pigeon

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Glides

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Arrow controls malfunction unexpectedly
  • App crashes or doesn't work properly
  • Ring collision detection too strict
  • Frame rate issues on high-end devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • In-game currency/monetization system
  • Game continuation/updates
  • Banner ads instead of full-screen ads
  • Optional ad rewards system
  • Improved touch control sensitivity

Pixel Pigeon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Glides

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Rocket$1.99
1 purchases

Pixel Pigeon

One-time1
  • Pixel Pigeon Lifetime Access$3.99

Questions

Is Glides free?
Glides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Pigeon free?
Pixel Pigeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glides or Pixel Pigeon have ads?
Neither Glides nor Pixel Pigeon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Glides or Pixel Pigeon?
Glides ships an update every 2 weeks, and Pixel Pigeon every 6 days. Most recently, Glides was updated on October 20, 2026 and Pixel Pigeon on October 21, 2026.

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