Catch the Moles vs Buoy Boy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Catch the Moles
Test your reflexes by tapping red moles as they appear, but avoid hitting the grey ones. The game speeds up, challenging your rhythm and accuracy. Compete for a spot on the global leaderboard with your high scores.
- Fast-paced gameplay
- Increasing difficulty
- Develop reflexes
- Fun graphics and animations
- Global leaderboard
- Score recording
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Increase your reflexes by catching the red Moles with your finger! Beware, it goes faster and faster! You must keep rythm ever increasing. The best score and the last score are recorded. The grey Moles are your friends! Don't hit them! Share your score online and try to stay in the world ranking. If you agree, your location is automatically detected to display the flag of your country in the international scores table. ••• Game Features ••• • Very fun Graphics and Animations • Develop your reflexes • The difficulty ever increases
Buoy Boy
Embark on an endless ocean adventure to help a character become human again by collecting treasures. Enjoy intuitive tap and tilt controls, power-ups, and vibrant underwater themes with Caribbean music.
- Endless floater gameplay
- Tap & Tilt controls
- Collect treasure
- Power-ups
- Caribbean music
- Underwater themes
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The endless floater adventure of Buoy Boy is here! Help him become a real boy again and collect all the treasure in the ocean. In your adventure you will have all this amazing features: - First endless floater - Lungs full of air - Tap & Tilt control - Very funny - Caribbean music - Power Ups - Different beautiful underwater themes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Buoy Boy at 5.0 against Catch the Moles's 4.5. Buoy Boy also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 23 months). Catch the Moles's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Buoy Boy sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Catch the Moles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Buoy Boy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Catch the Moles's written reviews are positive against 67% of Buoy Boy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Catch the Moles ships an update every 23 months, Buoy Boy every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Catch the Moles | Buoy Boy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 463 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dream-Up | Headup GmbH |
Customer experience
Catch the Moles
Buoy Boy
In-app purchases
Catch the Moles
No in-app purchases
Buoy Boy
- 200 Coins$0.99
- 1000 Coins$2.99
- 2000 coins$4.99
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- 10000 coins$9.99
- 30000 coins$19.99
- 100000 coins$49.99
- 300000 coins$99.99
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