ABC Discovery Road vs Garbage Collection!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ABC Discovery Road
An interactive game designed to make learning the alphabet engaging for young children. Players collect letters using a garbage truck, with options for sequential or free-discovery modes. It features authentic Australian garbage truck sounds and a special parent mode.
- Alphabet letter collection
- Interactive garbage truck gameplay
- Easy and Normal game modes
- Parent Mode for bedtime
- Authentic Australian garbage truck sounds
- Guest appearance from 'Amy's Grace'
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Make learning the alphabet fun with this interactive game featuring an Australian style garbage truck. FEATURES: A fun way to learn by collecting all the letters of the alphabet with a garbage truck. Easy and Normal Modes: Easy Mode allows younger players to enjoy the game by focusing on collecting the letters in sequence. Normal Mode allows players to discover the letters for themselves in any order they wish to collect them. Parent Mode: For when it's time to go to bed and still feel like you have achieved collecting all the letters. Access this from the pause menu during the game. Recorded audio from Australian garbage truck on bin collection day. Guest appearance of Amy and her cat Grace from the game "Amy's Grace". Try and find where Amy and Grace waiting. This game contains Ads.
Garbage Collection!
Navigate a city street, collecting trash while avoiding oncoming traffic. Your goal is to clean up the urban environment by safely depositing collected refuse into a garbage truck. Be vigilant to avoid being hit by cars.
- Collect trash
- Avoid traffic
- Deposit trash in truck
- Clean the city
- Simple controls
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Help cleaning up the city by collecting trash and dropping it in the garbage truck! Careful with incoming traffic and don't get run over by cars!!!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Garbage Collection! at none against ABC Discovery Road's shown. Garbage Collection! also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (29 vs 2). ABC Discovery Road's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ABC Discovery Road holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garbage Collection! has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ABC Discovery Road ships an update every 6 months, Garbage Collection! every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ABC Discovery Road | Garbage Collection! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bware Studios Pty Ltd | Clap Clap Games |
Customer experience
ABC Discovery Road
Garbage Collection!
In-app purchases
ABC Discovery Road
No in-app purchases
Garbage Collection!
No in-app purchases
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