Tractor Beam vs U.F.Moo!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tractor Beam
Pilot a ship through an asteroid field using only a tractor beam. Slingshot your vessel and use the beam to manipulate asteroids, creating a unique and challenging arcade experience. Enjoy dynamic music or play your own.
- Tractor beam mechanics
- Asteroid field navigation
- Multi-touch gameplay
- Procedurally generated music
- Portrait and landscape modes
- Three difficulty levels
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Your engines are down. Use your tractor beams to move. "Some of the most fun we've had with $0.99 on the iPhone and we still can't put it down" - Slide To Play Tractor beam is a powerfully simple and addictive arcade game inspired by the classics. Unarmed and out of fuel, to survive you must slingshot your ship through an asteroid field using only your tractor beam. But the beam will also send the asteroids on a collision course with your ship, making for a unique challenge as you press onward to earn points. Tractor Beam can be played in either portrait or landscape orientation, and multi-touch gameplay allows for more than one beam and complex strategies. The procedurally generated background music is never the same twice, or choose to listen to your own music from within the iPod application. - Classic arcade look and feel - Multi-touch gameplay - Three levels of difficulty - Dynamic music is created on-the-fly - Allows for music from other applications
U.F.Moo!
This game challenges players to aim UFOs and flick cows upwards. It's part of a collection of retro-style games.
- Flick cows into UFOs
- Retro arcade gameplay
- Part of Cassette Games: Volume 2
- Simple aiming mechanic
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The rumors are true: UFOs love to scoop up cattle and subject them to strange experiments. Dear alien visitors: why not take some fresh beef home as a souvenir? Cassette Games: Volume 2 is here! - Aim for the UFO and flick the cows up!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: U.F.Moo! at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. U.F.Moo! also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). Tractor Beam's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases and device support 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
U.F.Moo! is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tractor Beam holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Tractor Beam's written reviews are positive against 100% of U.F.Moo!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, U.F.Moo! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tractor Beam | U.F.Moo! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Manufacturing Content | Masakazu Yonehara |
Customer experience
Tractor Beam
U.F.Moo!
In-app purchases
Tractor Beam
No in-app purchases
U.F.Moo!
No in-app purchases
