Tickling dog vs Hello, Mario!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tickling dog
Interact with virtual dogs by tickling their fingers and petting their bellies. Watch them react with joy, sounds, and expressions as you play, offering a heartwarming and stress-relieving experience.
- Tickle virtual dog's fingers
- Pet virtual dog's belly
- Dogs react with joy
- Full joy gauge
- Variety of dog voices and expressions
- Heart-healing experience
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"Tickling dog" is firmly clutchy application to heal your heart like a dog! I'll tickle your finger and stroked the belly of cute dogs Happy dog is rising! It is full of joy gauge A lot of voice, facial expressions and cute when you release your finger at random Your heart will be healed.
Hello, Mario!
Engage with Mario's face by pulling, stretching, and poking him to create various expressions. Add iconic items and characters from the Mushroom Kingdom to the scene. Enjoy interactive play with a built-in feature that encourages screen time breaks.
- Manipulate Mario's face
- Add game items and characters
- Play peekaboo with Mario
- Built-in screen time breaks
- Offline play
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"Hello, Mario!" Are you ready to play? With this free application from the little-kid-friendly My Mario brand, you and your kiddo can play with Mario's face and delight in all his various expressions. ■Make Silly Faces Team up with your kiddo to see how silly Mario can get when you pull and stretch his face or take turns poking and spinning him around. Tap on the ? Block in the top-left corner of the screen and select an icon to make items—like a Super Mushroom, a Super Star, or pipes—and even enemies appear alongside Mario. ■Peekaboo! Invite Mario to play peekaboo by tapping on the leftmost icon in the ? Block menu. Boo may even make a guest appearance! ■Built-In Breaks Good night, Mario! Mario gets tuckered out after playing for a while and will fall fast asleep. At that point no amount of poking can wake him up! This is a great opportunity to take a break and help parents limit their child's screen time. If you want to keep the fun going, you can turn off this feature by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts. ■Play Offline There's no need to be connected to the internet to play this application. After you download it, you're good to go! Operation is not guaranteed for all devices that meet the operating conditions. It may not work properly depending on the device's performance and specifications, device-specific application usage conditions, etc. Please be sure to read the Health and Safety information provided in the application settings before you start playing. Settings can be accessed by tapping the gear icon in the top-right corner of the screen when the application starts to access the menu. ©Nintendo
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hello, Mario! at none against Tickling dog's shown. Hello, Mario! also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (326 vs 13). Tickling dog's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Tickling dog against 4.6 for Hello, Mario!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello, Mario! has 326 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Tickling dog's written reviews are positive against 90% of Hello, Mario!'s.
Tickling dog ships an update every 19 months, Hello, Mario! every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tickling dog | Hello, Mario! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (13 ratings) | 4.6 (326 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.6% of reviews | 89.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 | 326 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | inline planning | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Tickling dog
Hello, Mario!
In-app purchases
Tickling dog
No in-app purchases
Hello, Mario!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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