Comparison

Grow Animals vs BarcodeBrawl

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

Head to head
About

Grow Animals

Design and raise your dream pet by combining traits like cute, smart, strong, and lovable. Witness their evolution from a single cell to a fully grown creature, and even merge animals to discover new breeds. Decorate their habitat and care for them.

Highlights
  • Create dozens of unique animals
  • Experiment with trait combinations
  • Witness animal evolution
  • Decorate pet habitats
  • Pamper and play with pets
  • Merge animals to discover new breeds
Features
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Create your ideal pet! Make any pet animal you’ve ever dreamed of, there are dozens to collect! House them in your personal zoo, decorate it to your liking to keep your lovable fur babies happy. What is your ideal pet? Is it Cute? Smart? Strong? Lovable? Some combination of the four, or maybe just two of those traits? Experiment to find out! Science has produced concentrated potions of cute, smart, strong, and love, mix these traits together to create your favorite animal! What kind of animal is all Love but no Cute? What’s the strongest animal? The Smartest? Only you can find out. Start raising new animals starting with a single cell. Whatever mixture of traits you choose will produce a cell of your new animal, clone and merge cells together to slowly grow your pet. Witness the amazing evolution! What will your pet look like in its earliest stages of development? How adorable will it be as a baby? See the greatest miracle of life play out before your very eyes! Bring mythical creatures to life with your wondrous scientific abilities! Create dragons and unicorns. Bring dinosaurs back to life. Raise every breed of dog and cat! Combine fully grown animals together to create new and wonderful new pets. What does merging two kittens together create? You’ll have to try it yourself to know. Main Features: - Create Dozens of Adorable Animals! - Experiment to Discover New Animals to Add to Your Collection! - Decorate Your Pets’ New Home, Create Your Dream Garden! - Pamper, Feed, Bath, and Play with Your New Pets! Your journey of life, discovery, and creation starts now! Visit https://lionstudios.cc/contact-us/ if have any feedback, need help on beating a level or have any awesome ideas you would like to see in the game! From the Studio that brought you Mr. Bullet, Happy Glass, Ink Inc and Love Balls! Follow us to get news and updates on our other Award Winning titles; https://lionstudios.cc/ Facebook.com/LionStudios.cc Instagram.com/LionStudioscc Twitter.com/LionStudiosCC Youtube.com/c/LionStudiosCC

About

BarcodeBrawl

Features
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Scan. Collect. Battle. Brawl. Barcode Brawl turns everyday products into collectible enemies and food-themed battles. Scan a barcode, summon a fighter, and battle your way through a strange world of snacks, sweets, and cute creature chaos. Start by choosing your hero: Pork​Chop, Bulls​Eye, or Milk​Maid. Each character has a different play style, different stats, and a different special advantage in battle. As you win fights, you level up and choose how to grow stronger. Select attack, defense, or health depending on how you want to play. The core idea is simple: scan real barcodes, discover opponents, battle them, and collect them. Every product can become a rival. Food stats help shape the enemy, and scanned items can become part of your history and your pet collection. Your recent wins can even be selected as companions, giving your adventure a collectible creature twist. What you can do in Barcode Brawl: • Scan barcodes to generate enemies • Battle real-world food products • Collect pets from barcode wins and adventure monsters • Choose from three unique starter heroes • Level up after victories and shape your build • Fight through adventure encounters to earn stronger pets • Challenge powerful boss battles • Track battle history • Build a growing collection of monsters and scanned rivals Adventure Mode If you want a break from barcode scanning, jump into Adventure Mode. Face a lineup of cute, food-themed monsters with playful names, punny descriptions, and different strengths. These enemies are designed to feel like collectible creatures you want to fight, beat, and keep. Boss Challenges Take on special boss encounters when you are ready. These fights are tougher, more dramatic, and meant to test whether your build is actually strong enough. Collectible Progression Your journey is more than one fight. Barcode Brawl keeps track of your wins, your pets, your bosses, and your progress over time. Scan stronger items, defeat better monsters, and keep building your roster. Barcode Brawl is great for players who love: monster collecting, funny food games, barcode scanning, creature battlers, casual RPG progression, and quirky mobile challenges. If you have ever looked at a snack and thought, “I could probably fight that,” this game is for you. Scan. Collect. Battle. Brawl.

Screenshots

Grow Animals4 screens
BarcodeBrawl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BarcodeBrawl at none against Grow Animals's 2. BarcodeBrawl also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Grow Animals's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.4). On price 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

Both are free to download. Grow Animals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. BarcodeBrawl asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grow Animals ships an update every 3 weeks, BarcodeBrawl every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Grow Animals versus BarcodeBrawl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrow AnimalsBarcodeBrawl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (45K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews61.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings45K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.4
Further details — not scored
Size334 MB21 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperLion StudiosAnthony Siybauco

Bugs and requests

Grow Animals

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Animals disappearing after merging
  • Freezing and crashing issues
  • Incorrect animal spawning
  • Progress reset problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow users to create their own unique animals
  • Reduce the number of ads and ad breaks
  • Add more content and gameplay variety
  • Fix bugs and glitches

BarcodeBrawl

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Grow Animals

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • All In One Bundle$4.99
None

BarcodeBrawl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grow Animals free?
Grow Animals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BarcodeBrawl free?
BarcodeBrawl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grow Animals or BarcodeBrawl have ads?
Grow Animals shows ads; BarcodeBrawl does not.
Which is updated more often, Grow Animals or BarcodeBrawl?
Grow Animals ships an update every 3 weeks, and BarcodeBrawl every 9 days. Most recently, Grow Animals was updated on October 22, 2026 and BarcodeBrawl on October 4, 2026.

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