Comparison

Fire Truck vs Backhoe!

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

Head to head
About

Fire Truck

An interactive storybook app for kids, allowing them to ride along with firefighters on a rescue mission. Children can engage with the environment, honk the horn, and help spray water to put out fires.

Highlights
  • Interactive fire truck ride-along
  • Firefighting and pet rescue missions
  • Hook up hoses and spray water
  • Use fire copter to drop water
  • Interactive neighborhood with sounds and actions
  • Honking horn and smiling clouds
Features
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Our most popular app! Perfect for truck loving kids. A fun and cute interactive app for Kids! Ride along on a fire truck with firefighters as they drive to put out fires and rescue pets. Help the firefighters hook up the hoses and spray the water. Use the fire copter to drop water! A real treat for those little fire truck enthusiasts and a great way to encourage curiosity and interaction for all. Touch the driver and he honks the horn. Touch a cloud as it passes by and it smiles and hums. The neighborhood is interactive. When your child touches people, animals, or objects they make sounds and perform actions. Its like a moving story book! A great way to explore the sights and sounds of a Fire Truck! For more fun fire fighting apps please check out our "Fire Tuck: Airport Rescue" and "Fire Boat" apps! As always No ads, No in app purchases, just fun handmade apps for your little truck enthusiast to enjoy! ● Compatible with: iPod Touch 3 & 4 generation, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus & all iPads. ----------------------------------------------- ● Note: NOT Compatible with: First generation iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1st & 2nd generation. ----------------------------------------------- Please check out our other fun vehicle apps for kids: ● Cement Truck ● Crane Truck ● Drill Truck ● Dump Truck ● Fire Truck ● Fire Truck: Airport Rescue ● Fire Boat ● Fuel Tanker Truck ● Garbage Truck ● Garbage Truck: Brushy Pick Up ● Garbage Truck: Dumpster Pick Up ● Garbage Truck: Austin, TX ● Garbage Truck: Phoenix, AZ ● Garbage Truck: Snow Time ● Garbage Boat ● Ice Cream Truck! ● Junk Truck ● Log Truck ● Mail Truck ● Milk Tanker Truck ● Package Delivery Truck! ● Police Truck ● Race Car! ● Recycling Truck ● Railroad Boom Truck ● Road Roller ● Snow Plow Truck ● Street Sweeper ● Tow Truck ● Wood Chipper Truck Also check out our fun matching series: ● Good Match: Trucks! ● Good Match: Bugs! And our other fun apps: ● Ta Da Girls! ● Little Big Pop ABC! ● Monster Music Visit our website for more info: www.goodglue.com

About

Backhoe!

An interactive illustration game designed for young children, featuring a backhoe with simple touch controls. Kids can explore, dig, and drive without any pressure or complex mechanics.

Highlights
  • Interactive backhoe controls
  • Simple touch-to-play mechanics
  • Watercolor illustration style
  • No ads or in-app purchases
  • Score tracking
  • Kid-friendly design
Features
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Backhoe! is a game built specifically for the youngest gamers in our lives. I built this game for my son and daughter who are 4 and 3, respectively. They have a lot of fun playing it and helped shape the game with their extensive playtesting and feedback, and I hope that a young truck lover in your life gets as much enjoyment out of it as they do. The game is fashioned as a sort of "interactive illustration", emulating a look of detailed watercolor truck illustrations in books of the 80s. The idea is to let kids play, touch anywhere on the screen, and not be accidentally booted out away from the fun. It's as easy and fun to use as a playground digger toy (you know, the ones with the two levers kids are always arguing over.) How to play: Touch anywhere on the screen to affect the game; touch the body of the backhoe to change the color of it, or tap the wheels to start and stop driving. Tap the back arm of the backhoe to work the digger scoop; press and hold anywhere on the screen and the bucket will follow your finger. Tap the front of the backhoe to work the loader bucket; press and hold anywhere on the screen and the bucket will follow your finger. Raise it high enough and dump out dirt, and collect more dirt by driving and scooping up dirt piles. Dig and make piles to their maximum size to score points. There is no wrong way to play the game, no way to fail, or convoluted steps too hard for the youngest players to understand. Scores are saved automatically and frequently, so you'll always have a running tally of all the fires you've extinguished. And best of all there are not, and will never be, any ads, in-app purchases, links to other apps, data collected by me, or links to take the player outside of the game. Have fun playing Backhoe! and feel free to contact me with feedback!

Screenshots

Fire Truck4 screens
Backhoe!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Backhoe! at 4.5 against Fire Truck's 3.9. Fire Truck's advantage is update cadence (every 6 months vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (17 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fire Truck costs $0.99 and Backhoe! $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Backhoe! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fire Truck has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fire Truck ships an update every 6 months, Backhoe! every 53 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fire Truck versus Backhoe!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFire TruckBackhoe!
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating3.9 (17 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 months — betterEvery 53 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerrandall coleAustin Ivansmith

Customer experience

Fire Truck

All ratings17 ratings
Positive64.7%
Neutral17.6%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral11.8%
Negative23.5%

Backhoe!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fire Truck

No in-app purchases

None

Backhoe!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fire Truck free?
Fire Truck costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backhoe! free?
Backhoe! costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fire Truck or Backhoe!?
Backhoe! is rated higher. Fire Truck averages 3.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Backhoe! averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Fire Truck or Backhoe! have ads?
Neither Fire Truck nor Backhoe! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fire Truck or Backhoe!?
Fire Truck ships an update every 6 months, and Backhoe! every 53 months. Most recently, Fire Truck was updated on October 24, 2026 and Backhoe! on October 24, 2026.

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