Comparison

POINPY vs Daykeep Climb

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

Daykeep Climb

Features
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Everyone climbs the same tower today. Same ledges, same gaps, same creeps standing exactly where they are standing for you. Tomorrow it is torn down and a new one goes up, so nobody gets to grind the same tower for a week. There is today's tower, and how high you got on it. Daykeep Climb is a daily pixel platformer. Your climber walks by himself, which means the only decisions are the ones that matter: when to jump, which way to face, and when to throw yourself at something. Tap for a quick hop of about a floor. Hold to charge a jump that clears two. Swipe to turn him around, swipe again the way he is facing and he dashes, straight through anything in the way. Swipe down to drop through the floor you are standing on, which is either a clever shortcut or the start of a long fall. That is the whole control set: a platformer you can play one handed, on a tower nobody has had the chance to practise on. You will still be getting better at it in a month. CLIMB OR RACE - Endless: no summit, no finish line. Just how high can you get before ten hearts run out. - Timed: race to the door at level 100. The clock is part of your score, so hesitation costs you. THE TOWER FIGHTS BACK - Stomp a creep from above and it pops. Walk into one and it costs you a heart, so a crowded ledge is a puzzle, not a wall. - Dash straight through the ones you cannot be bothered to land on. - Fall five floors or more and you feel it. Fall further and you are just losing height you already earned. - Ledges move. Elevators drift. The shaft narrows into a chimney and opens into a hall, and the higher you go the further apart everything gets. STUFF THAT FLOATS IN THE SHAFT Powerups hang in the tower and fire the second you touch them. No shop, no buttons, no saving them for later. - Jetpack: fly straight up, popping every creep you pass. - Shield: three hits swallowed whole. - Double jump, feather fall, coin magnet, gold rush, and a freeze that stops every creep near you dead. EVERYONE IS ON YOUR TOWER - Daily leaderboards for both modes, plus weekly and monthly tables for the regulars. - Beat someone and send them the run. Your link drops them onto that exact tower with your score to chase. - 35 achievements, fresh quests every day, and a streak that pays better the longer you keep it going. - A creep atlas that fills in as you meet them, and you will keep meeting new ones. DRESS THE CLIMB - 18 worlds to reskin the whole tower: candy, neon, pirate, cosmic, haunted and more. Each one comes with its own climber. - Pick a world, pick a character, or set either to random and let the day decide. - Screen filters too, from crisp and vivid to full retro CRT. Pixel art and chiptune, remixed for the day, so no two towers look or sound quite the same. One account follows you between platforms, linked via optional email. Gems come from climbing well. Buy some if you want to, though the leaderboard has never once asked how you got them. Most platformers reward the player with the most hours. This is a platformer where everyone walks in cold. Come back tomorrow: new tower, new creeps, everybody back at floor one.

Screenshots

POINPY4 screens
Daykeep Climb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: POINPY at none against Daykeep Climb's shown. Daykeep Climb's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. POINPY sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Daykeep Climb sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, Daykeep Climb every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
POINPY versus Daykeep Climb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPOINPYDaykeep Climb
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (270 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings270 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size218 MB96 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperDevolver Digital, Inc.Stefanus Jacobus Scheepers

In-app purchases

3 purchases

POINPY

One-time3
  • Standard Tip$1.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
  • Super Generous Tip!$9.99
3 purchases

Daykeep Climb

One-time3
  • Pouch of Gems$0.99
  • Bag of Gems$2.99
  • Chest of Gems$7.99

Questions

Is POINPY free?
POINPY is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daykeep Climb free?
Daykeep Climb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do POINPY or Daykeep Climb have ads?
Daykeep Climb shows ads; POINPY does not.
Which is updated more often, POINPY or Daykeep Climb?
POINPY ships an update every 2 weeks, and Daykeep Climb every 4 days. Most recently, POINPY was updated on October 27, 2026 and Daykeep Climb on October 25, 2026.

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