Mouse About vs Snowball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mouse About
Guide a hungry mouse through randomly generated food puzzles against a timer. Eat all the food to advance, but be quick to avoid losing lives. Enjoy endless replayability with unpredictable challenges.
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Timed gameplay
- Collect food to progress
- Multiple lives system
- Fast-paced challenges
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Mouse About is a super fun, fast paced puzzler where all the puzzles are randomly generated, so nothing is ever predictable! Each puzzle is played against a timer, so be quick or you'll lose a life. Help Marv eat lots of yummy food. Solve all the food puzzles by guiding Marv the hungry mouse from one piece of food to another. Eat all the food to progress to the next level. More Discover more amazing Cobra Mobile games at www.cobramobile.com Support Having problems? Visit http://www.cobramobile.com/support/ to see if we can help you.
Snowball
Guide a penguin on a journey to collect snowflakes and build a giant snowball. Navigate treacherous crumbling floors with simple swipe or tilt controls. Enjoy an ad-free and purchase-free gaming experience.
- Collect snowflakes
- Build a snowball
- Crumbling floor mechanic
- Swipe controls
- Tilt controls option
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
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Snowball is easy to play, but hard to master. Play as a penguin trying to collect enough snowflakes to make his very own snowball, but watch out as the floor crumbles below! Simply swipe to move, or enable classic tilt controls via the options menu. The game contains no ads or in-app purchases. Snowball has been available exclusively for iPhone since 2008.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Snowball at Free against Mouse About's $0.99. Mouse About's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 48%) and rating (3.3 vs 2.9). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Snowball is free to download; Mouse About costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mouse About holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 208 and 185 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Mouse About's written reviews are positive against 48% of Snowball's.
Mouse About ships an update every 13 months, Snowball every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mouse About | Snowball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.3 (208 ratings) — better | 2.9 (185 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 48.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 208 — better | 185 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 9 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cobra Mobile Limited | Paul Ewers |
Customer experience
Mouse About
Snowball
Bugs and requests
Mouse About
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes when resuming saved games
- Crashes when searching for app in search function
- Game freezes and closes unexpectedly
- Save game names causing resume failures
- Mouse commits suicide when pausing/unpausing
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- App won't open or run at all
- Crashes on newer iOS versions and iPhone 5+
- Resume function sends mouse off-screen
- Loading screens cause extended delays
- Game crashes when selecting 'New Game' or 'Continue'
Requested features
14 requests- Relaxation/puzzle mode without timer or cat
- Easy, medium, hard difficulty modes
- Ability to retry failed levels
- Time bonuses or more generous time limits
- Pause function that works correctly
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- Ability to listen to own music while playing
- More lives or easier ways to earn lives
- Multiplayer or competitive modes
- Time attack mode
- Community leaderboards
- Additional levels and scenes
- Save game functionality improvements
- Status bar visibility for time and battery
- More variety in food types
Snowball
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mouse About
No in-app purchases
Snowball
No in-app purchases
