Cat Pixels vs Canal Builder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Pixels
Embark on a tangled adventure with playful cats across five unique locations. Encounter new heroes and challenges in each setting, from a yard with a bird to a home with a robot vacuum. Explore night levels and winter tales in this charming game.
- Five distinct game locations
- New hero encounters in each area
- Interactive environmental elements
- Progressive level design
- Charming narrative
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A tangled story about little brawlers who can't be left alone even for a minute. A game in which you can play in 5 different locations. On each of them you will find a new hero who will interfere by disturbing the cats. At first you will find brawlers in the yard, they will be very playful with the bird. When playing at home, our cats are not afraid of the robot vacuum cleaner, but they really like to ride it. Cats will meet a turtle in the sandbox. What will happen next... night levels, winter fairy tale and new heroes. A game that is pleasant to play both on the road and at home.
Canal Builder
Build and manage a profitable canal business by hiring diggers and trucks to excavate waterways. Watch your revenue grow as ships navigate your canals, generating wealth. This idle simulation game lets you upgrade your operations and become a rich canal tycoon.
- Hire diggers and trucks
- Upgrade operations
- Build canals
- Facilitate ship traffic
- Earn revenue
- Idle simulation gameplay
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This is a collection of construction, canal, mining as one of the simulation business game. Here you just need to click to upgrade, and you can wait for the revenue to come. You can help open up the canal by hiring more digging trucks. With a canal way, you can get ships through and make a lot of money. Hearing this, you must be impatient, then download this game to run your own canal！
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cat Pixels at 100% against Canal Builder's 23%. Cat Pixels also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). Canal Builder's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.7 vs 3.0).
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Canal Builder is free to download; Cat Pixels costs $0.99 up front. Canal Builder sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Cat Pixels asks for nothing beyond the download.
Canal Builder holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canal Builder has 524 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Cat Pixels's written reviews are positive against 23% of Canal Builder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cat Pixels ships an update every 15 months, Canal Builder every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cat Pixels | Canal Builder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (524 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 22.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 524 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 218 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oleksii Poliakov | Xiamen Yiniao Game Technology Co.,Ltd. |
Customer experience
Cat Pixels
Canal Builder
In-app purchases
Cat Pixels
No in-app purchases
Canal Builder
- DIAMOND1$0.99
- Markering Expert$4.99
- DIAMOND2$4.99
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- General Manager$6.99
- NO MORE ADS$9.99
- DIAMOND3$9.99
- DIAMOND4$19.99
- DIAMOND5$49.99
- DIAMOND6$99.99
Questions
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