Comparison

The Birders vs Ghostagotchi

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

Head to head
About

The Birders

Embark on a journey of exploration and photography in diverse global locations, capturing images of unique bird species. Return home to adopt, raise, and customize a macaw, engaging in minigames to foster its growth and skills.

Highlights
  • Explore 6 global locations
  • Photograph wild bird species
  • Adopt and raise a baby macaw
  • Customize macaw's room
  • Engage in skill-building minigames
  • Complete ornithological encyclopedia
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Welcome to The Birders: your new life in nature! Get ready for a unique experience that combines exploration, photography, and animal care in a single game. Pack your bags: you've just moved into your new Home, the perfect starting point for every adventure. Explore and Photograph Grab your camera, step outside, and travel across 6 magnificent locations around the world. Each environment (to be unlocked as you progress) hides unique and fascinating species, perfect for your birdwatching sessions. Test your patience: blend in, observe the birds in their natural habitat, take the perfect shot, and complete your ornithological encyclopaedia. Adopt and Raise your Macaw Return Home and cross the threshold of a special room! Now you can adopt a baby Macaw and care for it through every stage of its life: From egg to flight: Stay close from the moment the egg hatches. Feed it, care for it, and ensure it grows strong and healthy into a magnificent adult. Customise its room: Transform its domestic environment. Unlock furniture, decorations, and items to create a tailor-made habitat. Skill minigames: Play with your parrot! Take on fun and interactive minigames, essential to stimulate its growth and improve its skills. Whether you want to relax outdoors capturing the beauty of wild birds in a photo, or you prefer to nurture and raise your very own parrot within your home, The Birders has a whole world to offer you. Download the app now and get ready to move in!

About

Ghostagotchi

Features
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A small ASCII ghost that lives on your phone. Feed it. Play with it. Boop it from your lock screen. It has its own personality — a drifter, a clingy one, a chaotic gremlin, a sensitive poet, or a zen monk — and it floats around its underwater-space world doing its own thing. • 53 tiny ten-second games against your ghost • Evolve from WISP to WRAITH • 50+ glowing skins to collect • GHOST FM — tune the dial through 42 stations of ghostnaps music and watch your ghost react to every song • Home & lock screen widgets — boop without opening the app • Daily streaks and gifts on release days Your ghost never dies. But ignore it too long and it drifts away… one tap calls it back. No accounts. No ads. Free. Made with love in Boston, MA by ghostnaps.

Screenshots

The Birders4 screens
Ghostagotchi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ghostagotchi at none against The Birders's 10. Ghostagotchi also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. The Birders sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Ghostagotchi asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Birders versus Ghostagotchi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe BirdersGhostagotchi
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size712 MB2 MB
Age rating12+12+
Developer2F Game Studio SrlRichard Lathrop

In-app purchases

10 purchases

The Birders

One-time10
  • Little Offer$0.99
  • Handful of Feathers$1.99
  • A Special Limitated Offer!$2.99
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  • Sac of Feathers$3.99
  • Super Special Offer!$3.99
  • Memorable Observations Bundle$3.99
  • Unforgettable Shot$8.99
  • Bag of Feathers$17.99
  • Chest of Feathers$44.99
  • Chest full of Gems$99.99
None

Ghostagotchi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is The Birders free?
The Birders is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ghostagotchi free?
Ghostagotchi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do The Birders or Ghostagotchi have ads?
The Birders shows ads; Ghostagotchi does not.

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