Mimelet vs Daily Dadish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mimelet
Embark on a charming platform adventure where you leap onto enemies to absorb their unique abilities. Use these stolen powers to navigate through challenging puzzles and overcome obstacles in a whimsical world.
- Steal enemy powers
- Platform adventure gameplay
- Challenging puzzles
- Cute graphics
- SNES inspired music
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Travel with Mimelet through a wonderful adventure! Jump on top of enemies to steal their powers and overcome any obstacles along the way. Mimelet is a wholesome platform adventure game featuring a simple and fun game mechanic and challenging puzzles. Features: • Wholesome gameplay • Simple and fun mechanics • Cute graphics • Challenging puzzles • SNES inspired music
Daily Dadish
Embark on a year-long retro platforming adventure with a new handcrafted level released daily. Challenge yourself with unique daily levels, overcome foes, unlock characters, and help a father find his missing children. Enjoy a fun soundtrack and humorous dialogue.
- Daily handcrafted levels
- Over 365 levels
- Unlockable characters
- Time-based challenges
- Character collection
- Retro platforming gameplay
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It’s an adventure that lasts a whole year! Daily Dadish is a retro platformer that features over 365 handcrafted levels - one for every day of the year! Each level is only playable for one day, so beat them while you can. Face challenging foes, unlock cool characters, and help reunite Dadish with his missing kids all over again! • A retro platformer with a different level every day • Over 365 handcrafted levels • 10 playable characters to unlock • Can you beat the clock? Complete levels quickly to earn medals and stars • Rescue your children, and also a screechy possum • Dialog that is reasonably funny • A rockin’ soundtrack featuring remixes of classic Dadish tunes • Experience the joys of fatherhood, every day!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daily Dadish at 4.4 against Mimelet's 3.9. Daily Dadish also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (508 vs 94). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Mimelet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Daily Dadish sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Daily Dadish holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Dadish has 508 ratings behind it against 94, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Mimelet's written reviews are positive against 82% of Daily Dadish's.
Mimelet ships an update every 10 months, Daily Dadish every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mimelet | Daily Dadish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (94 ratings) | 4.4 (508 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.9% of reviews | 82.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 94 | 508 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 155 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Gionathan Pesaresi | Thomas Young |
Customer experience
Mimelet
Daily Dadish
User reviews
Mimelet
From 94 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💖 Nostalgic childhood game
- 🤩 Cute art style and graphics
- 🎮 Fun and simple gameplay
- 💡 Interesting concept and mechanics
- 👍 Good for short bursts of play
Room to improve
- 💸 Aggressive monetization/paywall
- ⏳ Too short, needs more levels
- 😠 Deceptive free-to-play model
- 🐌 Slow animations and lag
- 🤔 Controls can be wonky/frustrating
Daily Dadish
From 508 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Pretty good game
- 🚀 Decent challenge
- 👍 Like the daily levels and achievements
- 👍 Funny dialogues
- 👍 Cute characters and visuals
Room to improve
- 🐛 Some levels are too difficult
- 🔍 Lack of variety in levels
- 📢 Too many ads
- 🔍 Repetitive after unlocking all characters
- 🐛 Occasional glitches and bugs
Bugs and requests
Mimelet
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes at level 8
- Special offer pop-up prevents progress
- Level 14 bug (falling offscreen)
- Game breaking bug at level 9 (shows sky/blocks)
- Bug when holding movement button and changing direction inside yellow block
Requested features
8 requests- More levels
- Controller support
- Option to change music/sound volume
- Option to change button layout and size
- Progress bar for collected fruits
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- Way to see current level
- Add more powers
- Mimelet 2
Daily Dadish
Reported bugs
4 issues- Levels repeating instead of new ones
- Timer disappearing
- Infinite loading screen soft-lock
- Issues with the first level on certain days
Requested features
5 requests- Allow playing past missed levels
- Add a level creator
- Introduce more characters and costumes
- Implement a leaderboard system
- Add a calendar to track progress
In-app purchases
Mimelet
- Premium$1.99
Daily Dadish
- Remove Ads$6.99
Questions
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