Comparison

Whopping Fire Trucks vs Backyard Apollo AR

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

Head to head
About

Whopping Fire Trucks

This app offers a collection of fire truck videos and photos, along with a memory game, designed for young children and toddlers. It provides engaging content with emergency vehicles and can be enjoyed offline.

Highlights
  • Fire truck videos and photos
  • Emergency vehicle content
  • Fire truck memory game
  • Offline playback
  • Automatic video playback
  • HD quality resolution and sound
Features
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Whopping Fire Trucks is a simple entertainment app for small kids and toddlers, delivering endless fun with fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other noisy and blinking emergency vehicles. The app is 100% free to use forever. Over a million downloads since 2011 – join the group of happy kids now! OOOOooooWEEeeeeeOOOooooo! Does your little one love fire trucks and other emergency vehicles? Whopping Fire Trucks offers tons of videos and photos and an awesome fire truck memory game all in one toddler-sized app for iPhone or iPad. It's made for little fingers (ages 1+) to explore on their own, and works without an internet connection so you can take the fun anywhere! TODDLER VIDEO PLAY - Videos start automatically, no buttons to press - Swipe left or right to move to the next photo or video - 30 free videos and 140+ photos - HD-quality resolution and sound - No internet connection needed! MEMORY GAME —FIRE TRUCKS - Simple to learn, easy to play - Fun sounds whether you guess right or wrong - Learn and play at the same time! -= MORE WHOPPING APPS AVAILABLE =- The entire Whopping Apps collection of video apps was created by a father of three rambunctious toddlers. All content has therefore been thoroughly evaluated, critiqued, banged on, and licked by an entire in-house staff of discerning toddlers with sticky fingers. Your little tike will love it too! ;) Check out the other Whopping Apps including: Whopping Trains, Whopping Diggers 1 & 2, Whopping Planes and more. -= TATTLE ON US =- Please rate and write a review for Whopping Apps if your toddler loves it as much as ours. For questions, concerns, bug reports, or improvements, please write directly to us via the app's Parents Zone or: Email: support@whoppingapps.com Facebook.com/whoppingapps YouTube.com/whoppingapps -= USER COMMENTS =- Love this app! This a super app for kids of any age that love firefighters and fire trucks! It contains tons of great videos and pictures! Must have!!!!! My 2 year old (and myself) could not live without this, and many of the Whopping Apps apps. It is a standby in our house and has been for almost an entire year. That is AMAZING given the attention span of a 2 year (now almost 3) old!!! Amazing toddler app It's app is awesome for the fire truck loving little man in your life...def recommended!!!!!

About

Backyard Apollo AR

Experience a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket in augmented reality. Explore it from all angles, walk around it, and launch it with realistic sounds and visuals. Customize your rocket experience and share snapshots.

Highlights
  • Life-sized rocket model
  • 360-degree viewing
  • Augmented reality placement
  • Realistic launch sequence
  • Authentic mission sounds
  • Customizable rocket experience
  • Snapshot sharing
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Its the model rocket you’ve always wanted! See a life-sized Apollo Saturn V rocket up close from every angle walk under and around it, then blast it off! Authentic mission sounds using 3D positional audio — wear headphones for the coolest effect — combine with realistic high-detail graphics, physically-based rendering, and HDR audio recordings of real rocket launches to make the experience just like being there! You’ll be able to launch your rocket again and again, from anywhere you like. Just tap where you want your rocket to appear. It's that easy! Launch a tiny model on your desktop or a full-sized giant in a field! Backyard Apollo offers ways to customize your experience too, making it even more fun to launch your rockets and take snapshots for your friends. “3…2…1…Houston: we have liftoff”!

Screenshots

Whopping Fire Trucks4 screens
Backyard Apollo AR4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backyard Apollo AR at none against Whopping Fire Trucks's 1. Backyard Apollo AR also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 162). Whopping Fire Trucks's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Whopping Fire Trucks sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Backyard Apollo AR asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backyard Apollo AR holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Backyard Apollo AR has 1.5K ratings behind it against 162, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Whopping Fire Trucks's written reviews are positive against 70% of Backyard Apollo AR's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Whopping Fire Trucks ships an update every 3 months, Backyard Apollo AR every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Whopping Fire Trucks versus Backyard Apollo AR: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhopping Fire TrucksBackyard Apollo AR
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (162 ratings)4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews — better69.6% of reviews
Number of ratings1621.5K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size446 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppsipaja OyWobbleworks LLC

Customer experience

Whopping Fire Trucks

All ratings161 ratings
Positive80.1%
Neutral9.3%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral7.1%
Negative16.7%

Backyard Apollo AR

All ratings1,488 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews69 reviews
Positive69.6%
Neutral4.3%
Negative26.1%

User reviews

Whopping Fire Trucks

From 162 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👶 Highly engaging for toddlers and young children
  • 😊 Kids repeatedly choose this app over others
  • 🎥 Good quality videos and pictures of fire trucks
  • ⏱️ Excellent entertainment for long trips and waiting periods
  • 🎯 Simple and easy for young children to use

Room to improve

  • 📢 Intrusive and excessive advertisements
  • 👆 Ads easily triggered by children's accidental taps
  • 🐛 App crashes frequently
  • ⏳ Slow loading times
  • 🔊 Sound issues and audio problems

Backyard Apollo AR

From 1.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Realistic rocket simulation
  • 👍 Engaging and educational experience
  • 💡 Potential for more rocket models
  • 👍 Free to download

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Camera authorization issues
  • 🔋 High memory and storage usage
  • 🐛 Compatibility problems on older devices

Bugs and requests

Whopping Fire Trucks

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App crashes on startup
  • Continuous crashing when opened
  • Sound not working even when volume is turned up
  • Insufficient storage error despite deleting old version
  • Slow loading times
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  • Difficult content transitions causing frustration

Requested features

9 requests
  • Ad-free paid version option
  • More frequent video updates and new content
  • Police car and bin truck themed apps
  • Auto-advance feature for videos and photos
  • Restrict touch actions to advance/back only
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  • Sound effects for emergency vehicles
  • Firefighting planes and fireboat content
  • Story or narrative element to content
  • Options visible on screen with lights feature

Backyard Apollo AR

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Startup crashes and sensor reset loops
  • Rocket launch sequence freezes
  • Persistent audio issues after app closure

Requested features

3 requests
  • Add more rocket models and launch configurations
  • Implement video recording capability
  • Improve overall stability and performance

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Whopping Fire Trucks

One-time1
  • The Pro Pack$1.99
None

Backyard Apollo AR

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Whopping Fire Trucks free?
Whopping Fire Trucks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Backyard Apollo AR free?
Backyard Apollo AR is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Whopping Fire Trucks or Backyard Apollo AR?
Backyard Apollo AR is rated higher. Whopping Fire Trucks averages 4.3 out of 5 from 162 ratings, while Backyard Apollo AR averages 4.7 from 1.5K ratings.
Do Whopping Fire Trucks or Backyard Apollo AR have ads?
Neither Whopping Fire Trucks nor Backyard Apollo AR shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Whopping Fire Trucks or Backyard Apollo AR?
Whopping Fire Trucks ships an update every 3 months, and Backyard Apollo AR every 7 months. Most recently, Whopping Fire Trucks was updated on November 1, 2026 and Backyard Apollo AR on November 6, 2026.

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