Comparison

Dot's Home vs Cat Tapper

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

Head to head
About

Dot's Home

Explore a young Black woman's family history in Detroit through time travel. Make difficult choices that reveal the impact of race, place, and housing systems on your family's journey. This narrative game delves into redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification.

Highlights
  • Single-player narrative game
  • 2D interactive experience
  • Time travel gameplay
  • Explore family history
  • Confront systemic issues
  • Interactive choices
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"Dot's Home" is a single-player, 2D, narrative-driven video game that follows a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home, as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s history where race, place, and home collide in difficult choices. As an interactive experience, "Dot's Home" allows players to see the harmful systems that dictate our relationship to race and place, through the eyes of those that are most impacted. By inserting the player into scenarios where they have to make choices about how and where to live in the midst of redlining, urban renewal, and gentrification, we ask a fundamental question: “How did your family end up where they are today, and how much choice did they really have in that journey?” "Dot's Home" is a production of the Rise-Home Stories project: a creative collaboration between multimedia storytellers and housing and land justice advocates who have come together over the course of three years, to reimagine the past, present, and future of our communities by transforming the stories we tell about them.

About

Cat Tapper

Tap your screen to collect "meows" from a virtual cat. Spend your earnings in the in-game store to boost your collection rate, protect your meows from a rival cat, and level up for new gameplay options.

Highlights
  • Tap to collect meows
  • Increase meow gain
  • Level up gameplay
  • Protect meows from theft
  • In-game store for upgrades
Features
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A silly cat tapping game where you collect as much "meows" as possible by tapping Washington the cat on your screen. Open the "Catnip" in-game store to spend your collected Meows to increase Meows gain, protect from Meows being stolen by George or level up! All items have different effect on meows gain. When you level up you can choose a multiplayer for your next level and so on! - Tap for meows - Increase speed & level - Protect from George the cat stealing - Meow, meow! Increase meows by buying items for Washington, level up and protect your meows from being stolen by George the cat! - NO in-app purchases - NO advertisements - One-time 99 cents!

Screenshots

Dot's Home4 screens
Cat Tapper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dot's Home at 4.6 against Cat Tapper's 4.0. Dot's Home also leads on ratings volume (383 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Cat Tapper's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 77%). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dot's Home holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dot's Home has 383 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 77% of Dot's Home's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cat Tapper's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Dot's Home versus Cat Tapper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDot's HomeCat Tapper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (383 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews77.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings383 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size338 MB169 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRise-Home Stories ProjectStuxhost

Customer experience

Dot's Home

All ratings383 ratings
Positive89.6%
Neutral4.4%
Negative6.0%
Written reviews106 reviews
Positive77.4%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.0%

Cat Tapper

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Dot's Home

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Some players experienced issues with getting stuck or unable to progress
  • Occasional technical glitches reported

Requested features

3 requests
  • Expand the story with more chapters or side stories
  • Add more interactivity and gameplay elements
  • Provide more guidance and flexibility in certain game mechanics

Cat Tapper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Dot's Home

No in-app purchases

None

Cat Tapper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dot's Home free?
Dot's Home is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cat Tapper free?
Cat Tapper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dot's Home or Cat Tapper?
Dot's Home is rated higher. Dot's Home averages 4.6 out of 5 from 383 ratings, while Cat Tapper averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Dot's Home or Cat Tapper have ads?
Neither Dot's Home nor Cat Tapper shows ads.

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