Windosill vs balloon paperApp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Windosill
Explore a toy-like dream world filled with ten interactive vistas. This app combines puzzle elements, a physics sandbox, and a living picture book, encouraging playful discovery. It's designed for a single, immersive experience suitable for both children and adults.
- Ten mysterious vistas
- Animated, interactive world
- Puzzle game elements
- Physics toy box
- Living picture-book experience
- Playful investigation
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Explore a dream-like world of ten mysterious vistas in this touchscreen classic. Equal parts puzzle game, physics toy box, and living picture-book, Windosill's animated, interactive world is meticulously constructed to reward playful investigation. Designed to be experienced in a single sitting (anywhere between 20 minutes and 2 hours), Windosill is suitable for curious children and imaginative adults alike.
balloon paperApp
Experience a unique blend of a physical book and an interactive app. Pilot a virtual hot air balloon, controlling its ascent and descent with your fingers to navigate changing landscapes, interact with characters, and explore the skies. Enjoy two distinct gameplay modes for immersive fun.
- Physical book and app integration
- Virtual hot air balloon piloting
- Finger-controlled wind direction
- Interactive world exploration
- Two gameplay modes
- Pop-up paper hot air balloon
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Balloon paperApp is a new type of game combining both a book and an iPad® or an iPhone®. With this paper video game you get both a regular book and a pop-up paper hot air balloon to lay on top of your iPad screen. You are the hot air balloon pilot, and you will discover an ever changing world as you fly with the wind. With your fingers, you can control the wind's direction to have your Balloon lift up or go down, to land on the ground, fly through the clouds, hit tags on the ground and pass close to birds and other characters. Two types of Gameplay are possible: • In the classical Game, you pilot a virtual hot air balloon with your fingers. • In another game version, you lay the hot air balloon pop-up on top of your iPad screen, and will be able to see your balloon magically take off and drift gracefully over the land. This is the first book of the paperApp* collection by les éditions volumiques. * Game combining a book and an interactive App
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Windosill at 90% against balloon paperApp's 0%. Windosill also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 34 months) and ratings volume (66 vs 1). balloon paperApp's advantage is price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, 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
balloon paperApp is free to download; Windosill costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
balloon paperApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Windosill has 66 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Windosill's written reviews are positive against 0% of balloon paperApp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Windosill ships an update every 2 months, balloon paperApp every 34 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Windosill | balloon paperApp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (66 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 66 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 34 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vectorpark | les éditions volumiques |
Customer experience
Windosill
balloon paperApp
Bugs and requests
Windosill
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on iOS 8
- Graphical glitches on newer devices
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and content
- Additional puzzles and challenges
- Longer gameplay experience
balloon paperApp
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Windosill
No in-app purchases
balloon paperApp
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Windosill free?
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