Bird Bed & Breakfast vs Nova Swing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bird Bed & Breakfast
Design and manage a virtual bird bed and breakfast. Grow food, craft decorations, and care for diverse bird species. Unlock new rooms and enjoy AR features with your feathered friends.
- Design virtual bed and breakfast tree
- Grow garden and craft decorations
- Care for diverse bird species
- Unlock new rooms and attract birds
- Augmented Reality (AR) mode
- Collect real bird species information
- Play mini bird games
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Welcome to BirdBnB! Care for cute birds as they visit your very own Bed and Breakfast! Get crafting, design your bed and breakfast tree, grow food in your garden, care for cute guests and earn 5 star ratings. As your rating goes up, you unlock more rooms and attract more cute birds from all over the world. For some extra fun, switch into AR mode (Augmented Reality) and see your virtual pet friends appear in and around your own home! Bird BnB is the only game where the birds are more than just virtual pets...every one is based on a real species, with accurate wing patterns and bird songs! If you love bird games, cute games, caring for virtual pets or playing in AR / Augmented Reality, you will love Bird BnB. Highlights! ● Build your own Bed and Breakfast in a peaceful tree environment. Choose from all kinds of theming and colours for your tree and garden - change the leaves and bark between seasons and themes! ● Grow a garden around your tree to make breakfast for your guests and use your design skills to decorate your tree with what they need - working your way towards that elusive 5 star rating. ● Practice your garden design by choosing which plants to grow around your tree - purple berries? White fairy mushrooms? You’ll want your tree and garden to look it’s best, but you also need to grow the right garden food to feed your guests! ● The higher your rating, the more types of birds will fly in for you to care for and collect in your hotel visitors book! Collect visitor book entries from Lovebirds, Parrots, Robins and more. ● Play fun mini bird games in between caring for bird guests! The mini-games are full of cute games like cleaning nests and other garden games. ● Meet V.I.B.s (very important birds) with unique names and funny backstories. People who love cute animal games will love the backstories of these characters! ● If you want to experience a magical moment in augmented reality / AR with your friends, switch to AR and see your birds hopping around right in front of you, wherever you may be! Can you take a photo of your virtual pet with one of your real-life pets? Bird BnB is FREE TO PLAY, with optional in-game items for purchase. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Bird BnB will prompt you to allow access to your photos, media, and files. This is to use the in-game snapshot feature to save virtual pet images to your device, or share them with your friends if they like bird games too! The Runaway Play team sincerely hope that you will love this game as much as we do. If you run into any issues while playing or you have any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at support@runaway.zendesk.com.
Nova Swing
Tap to launch a ship into orbit around planets, chaining perfect captures to build momentum and achieve high scores. Navigate challenging space environments with moving celestial bodies and unique hazards. Unlock new ships and visual themes as you progress through different zones.
- One-tap orbital launches
- Chain perfect captures for score bonuses
- Navigate moving planets and hazards
- Unlockable ships and visual themes
- In-game soundtrack player
- Game Center integration
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One tap. A perfect orbit. One more try. Launch into Nova Swing, a space arcade game where timing turns a tiny ship into a streak of starlight. Swing around a planet, choose your moment, and tap to launch toward the next orbit. Catch it cleanly, build your Flow, and see how far your next run can take you. FIND YOUR FLOW Chain perfect captures for growing score bonuses. Thread the gap between a flawless landing and a close call, then chase a new personal best with an instant restart. BEND YOUR ROUTE THROUGH SPACE Choose safer paths or take on riskier routes for bigger rewards. Navigate moving planets, binary systems, asteroids, crossing meteors, and black holes as five zones bring tighter captures and faster flight. MAKE THE EXTRAORDINARY JUMP Ride slingshot planets into a burst of speed. Travel through wormholes. Time your arrival through the reinforced arc of a fragile crystalline world. Charge your Warp Drive and hold to surge across multiple planets. BUILD A FLIGHT THAT FEELS LIKE YOURS Choose from four ships, each with its own signature starter, and earn ship mastery through play. Discover four visual themes: Neon Frontier, Clockwork Aether, Pixel Pulse, and Classic Vector. Collect credits during your runs to unlock additional ships and themes permanently. GIVE EVERY RUN A PURPOSE Pick a run objective, pursue milestones, and track your captures, streaks, near misses, distance, and warp passes. Save a ghost run and race it to see where you can improve. Take your scores and achievements to Game Center. Made for iPhone and iPad, with luminous space scenery, responsive haptics on supported devices, and an in-game soundtrack player. Your next great run starts with one tap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nova Swing at 5.0 against Bird Bed & Breakfast's 4.1. Nova Swing also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). Bird Bed & Breakfast's advantage is ratings volume (308 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Bird Bed & Breakfast sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Nova Swing sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nova Swing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bird Bed & Breakfast has 308 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bird Bed & Breakfast ships an update every 6 weeks, Nova Swing every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bird Bed & Breakfast | Nova Swing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (308 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 308 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 299 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Runaway Play Ltd | Fernando Bunn |
Customer experience
Bird Bed & Breakfast
Nova Swing
Bugs and requests
Bird Bed & Breakfast
Reported bugs
4 issues- AR functionality not working for some devices
- Ads not providing expected rewards
- Saved progress being lost or reset unexpectedly
- Certain birds getting stuck and unable to check out
Requested features
5 requests- Add more bird species and varieties
- Implement a night mode or seasonal changes
- Allow players to customize the tree and environment more
- Improve the mini-game mechanics and add more variety
- Implement a notification system to alert players of bird needs
Nova Swing
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bird Bed & Breakfast
- 50 Birdbucks$1.99
- 100 Birdbucks$1.99
- Starter Pack 05$1.99
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- Starter Pack 01$4.99
- 130 Birdbucks$4.99
- Customization Pack 01$4.99
- 260 Birdbucks$4.99
- Booster Pack 01$4.99
- Starter Pack 02$9.99
- 275 Birdbucks$9.99
Nova Swing
- Pocket pack$0.99
- Flight Pack$2.99
- Expedition Pack$5.99
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- Fleet Pack$12.99
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