Mouse About vs Jailhouse Jack
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.
Jailhouse Jack
Direct your own jailbreak movie, controlling actors and rewinding time to fix mistakes. Experience the thrill of movie making with an innovative timeline feature that makes any error reversible.
- Direct your own jailbreak movie
- Control actors
- Roll back time to undo mistakes
- 70 scenes to direct
- 3-star ranking system
- Game Center support
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Love watching video clips? Love playing games? Now you can do both, SIMULTANEOUSLY! JAILHOUSE JACK is an all-new game innovation from Donut Games, where you get to DIRECT YOUR OWN JAILBREAK MOVIE, direct the actors and even ROLL BACK TIME to undo mistakes. Enjoy all the dynamite exploding fun of real movie making, with one big exception... Any mistake is reversible by a drag on the timeline. Because honestly, time traveling shouldn't be harder than hi-speed scrubbing an online video! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * App Store placements early 2012: ### Top 100 Games USA ### ### Top 100 Games Canada ### ### Top 100 Games Scandinavia ### - "Brilliant, inventive, addictive" - "You'll have a hard time putting your iDevice down" - "Donut Games has done it again" - "iOS Game of the Day" -- MacWorld SE Highlighted in "10 New App Store Games To Watch" by TouchMyApps * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - 70 Scenes to direct and perfect - Donut Games' famous 3-star ranking system: Increased replay value! - Collectors Icon #30 - Game Center support - Universal App (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch support) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Enjoy another Donut Games release!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Jailhouse Jack at 4.3 against Mouse About's 3.3. Jailhouse Jack also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). Mouse About's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (208 vs 9). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Mouse About costs $0.99 and Jailhouse Jack $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Jailhouse Jack holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mouse About has 208 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 83% of Mouse About's written reviews are positive against 84% of Jailhouse Jack's.
Mouse About ships an update every 13 months, Jailhouse Jack every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mouse About | Jailhouse Jack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (208 ratings) | 4.3 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews | 84.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 208 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Cobra Mobile Limited | Donut Games |
Customer experience
Mouse About
Jailhouse Jack
User reviews
Mouse About
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Stunning graphics and visual polish
- 🎵 Excellent music and sound design
- 🎮 Addictive and engaging gameplay
- 👍 Intuitive and responsive controls
- 🧩 Well-designed puzzle mechanics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- ⏱️ Difficulty spikes too quickly
- 😤 Frustrating time pressure mechanics
- 🔄 No ability to retry failed levels
- 🎵 Cannot play own music while gaming
Jailhouse Jack
From 9 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Fun and addictive
- 👍 Clever and unique gameplay
- 👍 Challenging puzzles
- 👍 Rewind feature is useful
Room to improve
- 🐛 Levels can be too difficult to get 3 stars
- 🐛 Some levels get boring after a while
- 🐛 Lack of a skip button for stuck levels
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
Jailhouse Jack
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game shrinking down on iPad Mini
- Incompatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and updates
- Free play mode
- Additional gameplay modes
In-app purchases
Mouse About
No in-app purchases
Jailhouse Jack
No in-app purchases
