Bird Alone vs Before Your Eyes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bird Alone
Nurture a lonely bird through daily conversations, creative activities, and life's big questions. This award-winning app offers a unique companion experience, exploring themes of friendship, growth, and existence.
- Daily conversations and questions
- Creative expression (drawing, poetry, music)
- Nurture a virtual bird companion
- Explore themes of life and existence
- Unlock new content daily
- Experience changing seasons and time
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◆ Apple Design Award Winner 2021 ◆ Become best friends with the loneliest bird in the world. A journey of growth and loss with a best friend. Talk about life, make music, draw pictures and write poetry. Start each day answering your new friend's questions about life, death and the meaning of existence. Guide the bird through daily life as it confronts the same worries as the rest of us. ◆ What's your favourite colour? ◆ Where are all my friends? ◆ Do you ever think about death? What will your best friend ask you today? ◆ Draw a picture for the Art Gallery ◆ Write a poem together for the Book of Poetry ◆ Unlock today's plant for the Musical Garden ◆ Rub its belly Watch each day turn to night Ponder the changing seasons Face the heaviness of growing old with a best friend. Maybe this bird won't be so lonely after all. * Minimum required device: iPhone 6S or similar * Content warning: Bird Alone contains themes and discussion of death. User discretion is advised for those sensitive to this topic.
Before Your Eyes
Experience an emotional first-person adventure where your blinks control the narrative and its outcome. Relive your life's most important memories as you journey into the afterlife, uncovering truths and confronting regrets.
- First-person narrative adventure
- Blink-based interaction mechanic
- Journey through life memories
- Soul's journey to the afterlife
- Fully voice-acted story
- Emotional and relatable themes
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Embark on an emotional first-person adventure where you control the story — and affect the outcome — with your real-life blinks. Dive into a world of memories and experience a soul’s journey into the afterlife as your whole life flashes before your eyes. It all begins after you die. You're aboard the ship of a mysterious man tasked with shepherding souls to the afterlife. To help you pass on, he must learn the story of your life. Then he sends you back to relive your most important moments. The game uses your device's camera to fully immerse you in the story. Control the flow of the narrative with your real-life eyes – blinking through precious memories of family, first love and the birth of an artistic career. Dare to look deeper and delve into your most repressed memories, where a heartbreaking truth awaits. Combining an innovative blink-interaction mechanic with a charming world and fully voice-acted story, Before Your Eyes is a deeply emotional and relatable journey — one that explores the impossible expectations we place on ourselves and the regrets we carry with us.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bird Alone at every 3 weeks against Before Your Eyes's every 14 months. Bird Alone also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 1.1K) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Before Your Eyes's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Bird Alone sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Before Your Eyes sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. 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 Bird Alone against 4.7 for Before Your Eyes. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bird Alone has 11K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Bird Alone's written reviews are positive against 87% of Before Your Eyes's.
Bird Alone ships an update every 3 weeks, Before Your Eyes every 14 months. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Bird Alone | Before Your Eyes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better | 4.7 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | 86.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 14 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 409 MB | 1.3 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | George Batchelor | Netflix, Inc. |
Customer experience
Bird Alone
Before Your Eyes
User reviews
Bird Alone
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💕 Heartwarming and meaningful experience
- 🎨 Beautiful art and design
- 🎶 Relaxing and soothing audio
- 🐦 Adorable and charming bird companion
- 🤗 Provides comfort and emotional support
Room to improve
- 💔 Sad and emotional ending when the bird dies
- 💰 Paid app with a short experience
- 🕰️ Limited daily interactions with the bird
- 🤯 Overwhelming grief for some users
Before Your Eyes
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Engaging gameplay
- 👍 Unique and immersive experience
- 🎨 Beautiful art style
- 💔 Emotionally impactful story
- 🎬 Cinematic presentation
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional technical issues with eye tracking
- ⏱️ Short playtime
- 🤔 Lack of replay value
Bugs and requests
Bird Alone
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes on older devices
- Issues with loading and navigation
Requested features
4 requests- Option to keep the bird alive permanently
- More customization options for the bird
- Expanded daily activities and interactions
- Ability to restart or continue after the bird's passing
Before Your Eyes
Reported bugs
2 issues- Eye tracking not always accurate
- Game freezes or crashes on some devices
Requested features
3 requests- Option to disable eye tracking
- More branching storylines or multiple endings
- Ability to save progress
In-app purchases
Bird Alone
- Cup of Coffee$2.99
- Bird Alone full version$2.99
- New Socks$8.99
Before Your Eyes
- Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month
Questions
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