Bird Alone vs Wavy
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.
Wavy
Engage in a lightweight puzzle game with relaxing challenges. Compete on leaderboards and take on puzzles personally. Unlock premium features with a one-time purchase or subscription.
- Lightweight pocket puzzle game
- Competitive leaderboards
- Relaxing challenges
- Unlimited hints (Pro)
- 500+ puzzles (Pro)
- Lifetime purchase option
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An extremely lightweight pocket puzzle game app. It gets exciting when you start competing on leaderboard and start taking puzzles personal. WAVY PRO Wavy Pro unlocks: • 500+ puzzles • Unlimited hints on every puzzle Two ways to buy: • Wavy Pro Lifetime — a one-time purchase. Pay once and it is yours. Not a subscription, nothing to renew, nothing to cancel. • Wavy Pro Monthly — an auto-renewable subscription, billed every month. Prices are shown in your own currency on the purchase screen before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. The monthly subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled. Manage or cancel it in Settings → Apple Account → Subscriptions. The Lifetime purchase is a single payment and does not renew. Already bought? Tap Restore on the Wavy Pro screen, or in Settings → Membership. Terms of Use (EULA): https://thatswiftguy.com/wavy/terms Privacy Policy: https://thatswiftguy.com/wavy/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bird Alone at 4.8 against Wavy's 3.0. Bird Alone also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). Wavy's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Wavy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bird Alone holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bird Alone has 11K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Bird Alone's written reviews are positive against 100% of Wavy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Bird Alone ships an update every 3 weeks, Wavy every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bird Alone | Wavy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 409 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Batchelor | Mohammad Yasir |
Customer experience
Bird Alone
Wavy
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
Wavy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bird Alone
- Cup of Coffee$2.99
- Bird Alone full version$2.99
- New Socks$8.99
Wavy
- Wavy Pro — Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Wavy Pro — Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Wavy Pro Lifetime$14.99
