Doodle Bowling vs Magic Golf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doodle Bowling
Experience arcade-style bowling with realistic physics and a variety of unique, visually striking environments. Master spin to avoid gutters and achieve strikes across dozens of psychedelic lanes.
- Realistic bowling physics
- Spin control for accuracy
- Dozens of psychedelic lanes
- Multiple themed worlds
- Strike challenges
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Ready for some fun arcade bowling? Put some spin on your ball to stay out of the gutter - great bowling physics! Strike your way across dozens of psychedelic lanes! Smash pins in crazy fun worlds of neon lights, retro polygons, voxels, caves, and candy! Your friends and family agree, Doodle Bowling is a hit!
Magic Golf
Experience mini-golf with thousands of unique, player-created levels. Design and share your own courses, customize your character with wacky accessories, and compete in daily tournaments. It's a fun and creative twist on a classic game.
- Thousands of player-created courses
- Create and share your own courses
- Customize character with accessories
- Complete challenging goals
- Compete in daily tournaments
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Mini Golf like you never played before! Thousands of crazy courses are waiting for you. And once you're ready for something else, start creating your own and share them with the world! Don't forget to upgrade your character with tons of wacky accessories. And most importantly, have fun! - PLAY thousands of player created courses - COMPLETE challenging goals on each course - CREATE and SHARE your own courses - CUSTOMIZE your character with awesome acessories - COMPETE with your friends in daily tournaments
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Magic Golf at fortnightly against Doodle Bowling's every 2 months. Magic Golf also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 331). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Doodle Bowling sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Magic Golf sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Magic Golf holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 331 and 1.3K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Doodle Bowling's written reviews are positive against 62% of Magic Golf's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Doodle Bowling ships an update every 2 months, Magic Golf fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doodle Bowling | Magic Golf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (331 ratings) | 4.5 (1.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.2% of reviews — better | 61.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 331 | 1.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 138 MB | 166 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GameResort LLC | Qwiboo Ltd |
Customer experience
Doodle Bowling
Magic Golf
User reviews
Doodle Bowling
From 331 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Unique doodle-style graphics
- 🕹️ Intuitive and responsive controls
- 🔓 No ads or in-app purchases
- 🎯 Satisfying bowling physics and gameplay
- 🔄 Ability to unlock new themes and lanes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and glitches
- 🔍 Lack of clear progression or goals
- 🛑 Ads introduced in later updates
- 🔒 Inability to restore purchased content
- 🔁 Unlocked themes/lanes disappearing after updates
Magic Golf
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Very addicting
- 🚀 Great competitive game
- 👍 Fun, cute, addictive
- 👍 Easily my favorite game on my phone
- 👍 Smooth controls and physics
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy
- 🐛 Occasional crashes
- 🐛 Levels can be impossible to complete
- 🐛 Glitchy physics
- 🔋 Battery draining
Bugs and requests
Doodle Bowling
Reported bugs
4 issues- Strikes not always registering correctly
- Pins resetting mid-frame
- Ads causing the app to crash or redirect to the App Store
- Progress and unlocks not saving properly
Requested features
5 requests- Multiplayer mode (local or online)
- More diverse and customizable bowling environments
- Improved physics and pin behavior
- Leaderboards and achievements
- Ability to preview new lanes before purchase
Magic Golf
Reported bugs
4 issues- Level 73 has a black screen bug
- Level 417 is impossible after update
- Disconnected notification issue
- Inability to progress past level 225
Requested features
6 requests- More level pieces and obstacles
- Ability to browse and play user-created levels
- Option to rate difficulty of user-created levels
- Landscape mode support
- Ability to skip levels
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- More character customization options
In-app purchases
Doodle Bowling
- Remove Ads$3.99
Magic Golf
- Glasses$0.99
- Red Glasses$0.99
- Pirate$0.99
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- Axe$0.99
- Mustache$0.99
- Bowtie$0.99
- Tie$0.99
- Bag of Gems$1.99
- Box of Gems$4.99
- Barrel of Gems$9.99
- Pile of Gems$49.99
Questions
Is Doodle Bowling free?
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