Comparison

POINPY vs Starfall Keep

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

Head to head
About

POINPY

Bounce upwards, dodging enemies and collecting fruit to feed a hungry beast. Unlock new abilities and modes as you climb higher in this vertical action game. Explore randomly generated areas and master one-handed controls.

Highlights
  • Intuitive one-handed controls
  • Bounce and flip mechanics
  • Collect fruit for beast's juice
  • Dodge adorable baddies
  • Unlockable puzzle and endless modes
  • Randomly generated areas
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Bounce up, dodge adorable baddies and feed the blue beast that's hot on your heels. A vertical climber from the creator of the award-winning Downwell. Keep going higher and higher because new and more challenging areas await. Earn and unlock abilities that will help you jump into your next run with a better shot at reaching the end. FEATURES Juice 'em up: Use intuitive, one-handed controls to bounce, flip around and grab fruit for the beast's juice. Climb & collect: Evade creatures lurking in randomly generated areas. Collect special abilities like the octobub, which sucks in fruit, and the handy snail clock, which stops time while you ready your next jump. Plus many others! Open new modes: Find a not-so-well-hidden area to unlock the tricky puzzle mode. Complete Poinpy to unlock an endless mode.

About

Starfall Keep

Features
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Starfall Keep is a cozy spin on the classic tower defense with tons to play. Build your towers, hold the keep, and battle through 100 handcrafted levels packed with monsters, bosses, relics, and upgrades. • FOUR TOWERS, REAL CHOICES — Bolt slows, Pyre burns, Venom poisons, Arc strikes hard. Land two elements on one foe to PRIME it for bonus damage. • THE LONG DESCENT — 70+ battlefields of rising difficulty across spring, desert, winter, and volcanic biomes. Gold and Keep Integrity carry between battles; lose the keep and the run is over. • DRAFT RELICS — choose a run-warping relic after every victory and build around it. • THE ARMORY — bank permanent upgrades between runs. Every descent makes the next one stronger. • AN ENDLESS HORDE — runners, flyers, armored brutes, self-healing beasts, motherships, and the Starfall Dragon waiting at the bottom. • MINT GOLD — raise the treasury tower and bank a dividend every wave. Slow them. Burn them. Hold the line — and drive the dark back down.

Screenshots

POINPY4 screens
Starfall Keep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: POINPY at Free against Starfall Keep's $2.99. POINPY also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). Starfall Keep's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On ads 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

POINPY is free to download; Starfall Keep costs $2.99 up front. POINPY sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Starfall Keep asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, Starfall Keep daily. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
POINPY versus Starfall Keep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPOINPYStarfall Keep
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.9 (153 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings153 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB121 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDevolverMotivation Stack LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

POINPY

One-time3
  • Standard Tip$1.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
  • Super Generous Tip!$9.99
None

Starfall Keep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is POINPY free?
POINPY is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Starfall Keep free?
Starfall Keep costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do POINPY or Starfall Keep have ads?
Neither POINPY nor Starfall Keep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, POINPY or Starfall Keep?
POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, and Starfall Keep daily. Most recently, POINPY was updated on October 13, 2026 and Starfall Keep on September 30, 2026.

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