Comparison

Flappy 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

Flappy

Guide a character through treacherous caverns, tapping to navigate between crystal pillars and avoid falling rocks. Collect gems to purchase continues and boost your score. Compete with friends and players worldwide via Game Center integration.

Highlights
  • Tap-based gameplay
  • Crystal Caverns navigation
  • Falling rock avoidance
  • Gem collection
  • Shop for continues
  • Game Center integration
  • High score challenges
Features
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Welcome to Flappy-Bat! Help our friend fly through the Crystal Caverns and rack up the points as you pass between the treacherous crystal pillars. Also, watch for falling rocks as they may knock you off your path.  Collect gems along the way, but be warned...not all are easy to reach! Trade them in at the Shop for Continue Stars and prolong the fun to further increase your score! With Game Center integration, you can see how you stack up against all players around the world! You can even challenge your friends directly to see who can get the highest score!  With super easy gameplay, this game is fun for all ages! If you can tap it, you can start your climb up the leaderboard charts. Give Flappy-Bat a try today!!!

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

Flappy4 screens
Bat's Life1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bat's Life at none against Flappy's 5. Bat's Life also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 8). Flappy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and monetization model 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. Flappy sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Bat's Life asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Flappy against 5.0 for Bat's Life. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 32 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Flappy versus Bat's Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlappyBat's Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (8 ratings)5.0 (32 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings832 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames SeegerJason Raiti

Customer experience

Flappy

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bat's Life

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

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Flappy

One-time5
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Buy 100 Gems$1.99
  • Buy 300 Gems$3.99
Show 2 more
  • Buy 1100 Gems$9.99
  • Buy 2500 Gems$19.99
None

Bat's Life

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flappy free?
Flappy 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, Flappy or Bat's Life?
Bat's Life is rated higher. Flappy averages 4.9 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Bat's Life averages 5.0 from 32 ratings.
Do Flappy or Bat's Life have ads?
Bat's Life shows ads; Flappy does not.

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