Race Car! vs Backhoe!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Race Car!
A cute racing game for children where they can customize their cars, load them onto trailers, and race through various tracks. Players will experience tunnels, hills, and bridges, with pit stops for repairs and refueling.
- Car customization (colors, stripes, numbers)
- Load/unload cars from trailer
- Interactive pit stops
- Race through tunnels, hills, and bridges
- Bump and bounce with other cars
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A fun and cute racing app for kids. Choose your car, then customize the car's colors, stripes and number. Load and unload the race car from it's trailer truck. Get ready to race! Bump and bounce with other cars! Race through tunnels over hills and under bridges! Time for a pitstop... your pit chief will help you fix up your car during pitstops! Change tires with a real power wrench, re-fill gas tank and more! Start your engines! Race Car! A great way to explore the sights and sounds of Race Cars!
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.
- Interactive backhoe controls
- Simple touch-to-play mechanics
- Watercolor illustration style
- No ads or in-app purchases
- Score tracking
- Kid-friendly design
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Backhoe! at 4.5 against Race Car!'s 3.4. Race Car!'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 53 months) and ratings volume (37 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Race Car! costs $0.99 and Backhoe! $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Backhoe! holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Race Car! has 37 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Race Car! ships an update every 3 weeks, Backhoe! every 53 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Race Car! | Backhoe! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.4 (37 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 53 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #135 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | randall cole | Austin Ivansmith |
Customer experience
Race Car!
Backhoe!
In-app purchases
Race Car!
No in-app purchases
Backhoe!
No in-app purchases
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