Comparison

Build Up!! vs Bat's Life

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

Head to head
About

Build Up!!

Construct your tower as tall as possible by strategically placing building nodes. Collect more nodes as you ascend to reach crucial checkpoints and achieve new heights.

Highlights
  • Build structures high
  • Gather building nodes
  • Reach checkpoints
  • Ascend to new heights
Features
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Build your structure as high as you can! Gather additional building nodes along the way and reach the checkpoints!

About

Bat's Life

Navigate a charming green bat through challenging caves using simple tap controls to achieve the highest score. Experience a whimsical story of love, dreams, and a tournament for a bat's heart.

Highlights
  • Simple tap-to-fly controls
  • High score chasing gameplay
  • Adorable bat character
  • Engaging narrative
  • Challenging cave navigation
Features
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Use echolocation to navigate an adorable green bat to the highest score! Just tap to fly, it is as simple as that! LORE: Flappy was not like the other bats. For starters, he was neon green. Though bats are not disposed to judge a book by its cover, bats are by and large are simple folk. They fly during the night and sleep during the day. Flappy wasn't strange for the radioactive pallor of his skin in the moonlight. Flappy was strange because he didn't sleep, he dreamed. He dreamed to hear the world, and to flap in un-flapped lands, and ... most of all ... to find love. And one day, Flappy's dream came true when he met Flappina. It was love at first sound. Flappina and Flappy were happy. Until Flappina's father, the Cave King (largely a figurehead), declared there to be a tournament for his daughter's wing in holy batrimony. Flappy and Flappina were devastated. Fortunately Flappina was a renowned bat-strophysicist with a hobby for ancient bat-botany. So Flappina devised a plan, while Flappy spent all hours of the night flying the abyssal caves, she read the sacred texts and current scientific literature. On the dusk of the tournament, she met Flappy in secret. "My love, my heart is heavy, I cannot possibly beat the noblest nights of the bat-dom" he said. "There is a way my love," she said, "Following the lost secrets of the sages and the best understanding of modern bat-strophysics, I have crafted a potion sure to make you the greatest flapper of all." "How does it work? Will it hurt? Is it vegan?" asked Flappy skeptically. "It is vegan." responded Flappina reassuringly, "This is the only way for us to be together squeakheart... I love you" Flappy took one last look into his lover's eyes... "I know" ...and he drank the potion. Instantly, he was launched into a vision beyond the bounds of his Euclidian reality. His uncomprehending minds-ear beheld a terrifying being of ineffable size, dimension, and power. In the hand of this being, Flappy perceived a portal to a cave where his body was flapping. Above him a gargantuan strange alien text proclaimed: T A P T O F L A P. In utter cosmic horror, Flappy felt the titanic thumb thunder down towards the portal. And in the moment of impact - he found himself flapping through a cave? Not just any cave! This was the tournament cave! It's all come down to this! He would be the greatest flapper of all time or he would forever lose his love - his dream. He knew what he had to do.

Screenshots

Build Up!!3 screens
Bat's Life1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bat's Life at 100% against Build Up!!'s 34%. Bat's Life also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Build Up!!'s advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 9 months) and ratings volume (16K vs 32). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Build Up!! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bat's Life asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bat's Life holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Build Up!! has 16K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 34% of Build Up!!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Bat's Life's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Build Up!! ships an update fortnightly, Bat's Life every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Build Up!! versus Bat's Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuild Up!!Bat's Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (16K ratings)5.0 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews34.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings16K — better32
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size266 MB98 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVoodooJason Raiti

Customer experience

Build Up!!

All ratings16,019 ratings
Positive87.6%
Neutral5.8%
Negative6.6%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive34.1%
Neutral16.2%
Negative49.7%

Bat's Life

All ratings29 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Build Up!!

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Rivet counter malfunction
  • Levels regenerating incorrectly
  • Tower physics issues

Requested features

3 requests
  • More level variety
  • Ability to create custom maps
  • Removal of perfect triangle requirement

Bat's Life

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Build Up!!

One-time1
  • Remove Ads.$2.99
None

Bat's Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Build Up!! free?
Build Up!! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bat's Life free?
Bat's Life is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Build Up!! or Bat's Life?
Bat's Life is rated higher. Build Up!! averages 4.5 out of 5 from 16K ratings, while Bat's Life averages 5.0 from 32 ratings.
Do Build Up!! or Bat's Life have ads?
Both Build Up!! and Bat's Life show ads.
Which is updated more often, Build Up!! or Bat's Life?
Build Up!! ships an update fortnightly, and Bat's Life every 9 months. Most recently, Build Up!! was updated on November 7, 2026 and Bat's Life on November 3, 2026.

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