Map Monsters vs Bubble Bump!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Map Monsters
Explore a virtual world mirroring your own, capturing diverse monsters using unique tools. Engage in battles, climb leaderboards, and discover rare creatures in various locations. Enjoy rich gameplay from a single spot or by navigating the map.
- Capture diverse monster species
- Navigate with joystick and teleport
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Upgrade equipment and complete missions
- Lure monsters with items
- Develop gold mines for daily earnings
- Create mileposts for travel
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There is a lot of hype around an app that allows people to walk around, find monsters, battle, and collect prizes. We get it and think that's great, but it was not the first and won't be the last. Since 2013, more than 500,000 people have downloaded this app, collected millions of Monsters within the app, have risen in a global leaderboard, and have chatted with others playing the game, out finding monsters in their nearby surroundings. There are definitely more monsters in the cities, but there are rare monsters in the suburbs, in parks, near ponds, and you will be rewarded by searching and discovering where these baddies hang out. In a world that you can enter, go through a quick tutorial, and be out monster hunting in minutes, whether you are 5 years old or 85 years old, you can get the best from anarobic exercise as you walk around and swipe to capture monsters. This is a different application, using a different version of alternate reality. Streets are labeled, something that people seem to be asking for in other games. Once you arrive at a spot, you can navigate using a joystick! This is ideal for those of us who find it annoying to have to walk around and have people know that you are monster hunting vs. watching captivating videos or video chatting. ********************************************************** THIS WAS AND IS THE FIRST-EVER LOCATION-BASED GAME TO OFFER RICH GAMEPLAY FROM A SINGLE LOCATION! ********************************************************** You get lots of great features: - Earn Navigation and Teleport features by visiting stores in the game! - The fictional world you enter mirrors our own, street names and notifications - Communicate with other monster hunters and beat them by rising in the leaderboard - There are dozens of monster species - Capture monsters, clear monster patches, and get stamps & prizes that you can show off to friends - Upgrade your equipment by completing missions! - Use Snacks, Bombs, and whistles to lure monsters towards you - Develop gold mines that enable you to earn gold daily - Create mileposts so you can travel between spots without having to hop in a car, take a bus, or ride a bike. - Build road networks and earn in-app prizes - 25 levels, multiple missions, daily challenges, and a mixture of rewards - Enjoy whether you are young, anti-social, fun at parties, or just want to brag about how you knew about all the crazy fun years before everybody else! - Are you really still reading this? Map Monsters requires an internet connection to play (3G, 4G, LTE, 5G, or WiFi), as well as access to your location. Works great on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad! Even works on your friends and parents' iPhones, iPod Touch, and iPads. What are you waiting for? Be cool when you get back to school, tell everyone that you are different, chart your own course, and that other game is so last summer... Visit www.sirqul.com for more info! Install Map Monsters today.
Bubble Bump!
Engage in a vibrant bubble-popping adventure where connecting more bubbles grants you increased power. Experience a unique gameplay mechanic influenced by gravity, offering a challenging yet relaxing experience.
- Connect bubbles for power-ups
- Gravity-influenced gameplay
- Match-3 bubble popping
- Relaxing color matching
- Challenging puzzle mechanics
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A challenging bubble popper game about connecting the pops in the condition of gravity push. A magical kingdom of popping colors. The more bubbles you connect, the stronger power you get. Bubble Bump is a bubble popper game where players connect 3 easy to make a bubble whirl and break the bubble. It is a new bubble shooting which combines the classic bubble shooting with the bubble hit game. By popping colors, players will make the match boost into the power pop bubbles. In the condition of fun gravity, it will go crazy and is not an easy connect at all. Try to make it an idle gravity condition, then break bubbles will be easier to become a power pop bubbles. Bubble Bump is a break bubbles game which is also the best bubble shooter of the free bubble hit games now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bubble Bump! at 4.3 against Map Monsters's 3.0. Bubble Bump! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 weeks). Map Monsters's advantage is review sentiment (51% vs 33%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Map Monsters sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bubble Bump! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bubble Bump! holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 16 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Map Monsters's written reviews are positive against 33% of Bubble Bump!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Map Monsters ships an update every 5 weeks, Bubble Bump! every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Map Monsters | Bubble Bump! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 16 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 300 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Sirqul, Inc. | BAP |
Customer experience
Map Monsters
Bubble Bump!
Bugs and requests
Map Monsters
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot sign up due to existing username
- No monsters appear
- Cannot register device
- Crashes when logging in
- App does not work
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- Cannot open the app
- Icon not found
- Game keeps crashing
- 3D graphics are not good
- Monsters are not common
Requested features
8 requests- Fix registration issues
- Add more monsters
- Improve monster spawn rates
- Allow fast traveling
- Make monsters more common
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- Improve 3D detail
- Reduce environmental repetition
- Add more monsters to hunt
Bubble Bump!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Map Monsters
- Stack of Coins$0.99
- Pouch of Coins$4.99
- Pouch of Diamonds$4.99
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- Bag of Diamonds$9.99
- Barrel of Coins$19.99
- Barrel of Diamonds$19.99
- Chest of Coins$49.99
- Chest of Diamonds$49.99
- Safe of Coins$99.99
- Safe of Diamonds$99.99
Bubble Bump!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Map Monsters free?
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