Comparison

Tiny Wings vs Echo Bat

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Wings

Guide a bird with tiny wings down rolling hills to achieve flight. Master the terrain, flap to gain altitude, and race against the setting sun. Unlock new birds and upgrade your nest as you explore procedurally generated islands.

Highlights
  • One-tap arcade gameplay
  • Procedurally generated worlds
  • Daily mode with missions
  • Unlockable birds
  • Night mode
  • Nest upgrades
  • Split screen multiplayer (iPad)
Features
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You have always dreamed of flying - but your wings are tiny. Luckily the world is full of beautiful hills. Use the hills as jumps - slide down, flap your wings and fly! At least for a moment - until this annoying gravity brings you back down to earth. But the next hill is waiting for you already. Watch out for the night and fly as fast as you can. Otherwise flying will only be a dream once again. Tiny Wings was chosen as the iPhone Game of the Year in App Store Rewind 2011 in Europe and many other countries.
Thank you Apple and a big thank you to all Tiny Wings fans! Highlights:
 • simple "one button" (ok... maybe "one tap") arcade game about the dream of flying
 • the world is changing every day - so it does in this game! Procedural generated graphics will make "tiny wings" look different every day you play 
• Four game modes 
• Daily mode with new islands and missions every day 
• 240 birds to unlock 
• Night mode: play the game at night
 • upgrade your nest by fulfilling tasks • iPad only: Split screen multiplayer! • Supports Game Center with 30 tricky achievements • Supports iCloud syncronization

About

Echo Bat

Navigate an endless, procedurally generated cave by tilting your device. Use sonar pings to reveal the darkness, defeat enemies, and collect points. Experience unique biomes and challenging boss encounters in this atmospheric adventure.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated endless cave
  • Sonar-based visibility and combat
  • Tilt-to-steer motion controls
  • Unique biomes with distinct atmospheres
  • Challenging boss encounters
  • Hand-tuned synthesized audio
Features
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Echo Bat is an endless cave runner you steer by tilting your phone. You fly a bat through a dark cave, and you only see the walls where your sonar ping lands. Tap to dash and ping, dodge the rocks, and see how far you can fly. Free to play, works offline, no ads. A bat. A cave that goes on forever. A sonar pulse you can fire to light the world. The cave shows itself only where the ping lands, and only for as long as the wave travels. The rest is shadow. ENDLESS CAVERN A procedural cave that never ends. Every run threads new rock, new chambers and new biomes: Abyss blue, Ember orange, Void violet, Verdant green. Each has its own glow and atmosphere. SONAR FLIGHT Pinging the dark is the whole loop. Every tap is a dash AND a sonar wave. Use them to dive-kill stinger enemies, smash crystals for points, and chain combos that stack up to 5x. TILT-TO-STEER Native motion controls calibrated to your hold. After each crash the game resets neutral to your current pose, so you can shift posture between runs without losing the line. BOSS ENCOUNTERS Every few kilometres a luminous cave guardian rises out of the dark. It pulses, fires hostile sonar rings, and only dies if you dash straight into it. Three pips. Two hits. One bat. BUILT TO FEEL - 4 biomes that crossfade as you travel - Coordinated boom on every biome change: flash, shake, ring shockwave, audio sting - Painted parallax backdrops, three variants per biome - Hand-tuned WebAudio synthesis throughout. Every sound is generated, no samples - Universal controls: tilt + tap on phone, arrow keys + space on web FREE TO FLY The endless cave, the daily challenge and the leaderboards are free. No ads. No timers. FULL FLIGHT (optional, one-time) One in-app purchase unlocks Echo Mode (fly in true darkness), Ghost Race (chase your own best run) and eight more bat skins to earn. Buy once, yours for good. How deep can you go?

Screenshots

Tiny Wings4 screens
Echo Bat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Echo Bat at Free against Tiny Wings's $2.99. Echo Bat also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months). Tiny Wings's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 3) and chart position (#7 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Echo Bat is free to download; Tiny Wings costs $2.99 up front. Tiny Wings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Echo Bat asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Echo Bat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Wings has 15K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Tiny Wings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Echo Bat's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Wings ships an update every 4 months, Echo Bat every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Tiny Wings versus Echo Bat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny WingsEcho Bat
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (15K ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews93.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#7 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndreas IlligerCommonwealth Business Systems

Customer experience

Tiny Wings

All ratings14,887 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.2%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews1,958 reviews
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.7%
Negative4.3%

Echo Bat

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tiny Wings

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS devices
  • Coins and progress not saving properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • More islands and levels to explore
  • Ability to customize birds with skins/outfits
  • Online multiplayer racing mode
  • Endless mode or procedurally generated levels

Echo Bat

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiny Wings

One-time1
  • Sun bird$2.99
None

Echo Bat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Wings free?
Tiny Wings costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Echo Bat free?
Echo Bat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tiny Wings or Echo Bat?
Echo Bat is rated higher. Tiny Wings averages 4.8 out of 5 from 15K ratings, while Echo Bat averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Tiny Wings or Echo Bat have ads?
Neither Tiny Wings nor Echo Bat shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Wings or Echo Bat?
Tiny Wings ships an update every 4 months, and Echo Bat every 2 days. Most recently, Tiny Wings was updated on October 13, 2026 and Echo Bat on October 2, 2026.

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