Comparison

School Bus! vs Backhoe!

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

Head to head
About

School Bus!

Embark on a delightful journey as a school bus driver, picking up children and taking them to school. Engage in interactive activities like cleaning and fixing the bus, and enjoy a fun school supply puzzle. This app offers a charming, hands-on experience for young vehicle enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Interactive school bus ride
  • Pick up and drop off children
  • Bus cleaning and maintenance mini-games
  • School supply puzzle
  • Interactive neighborhood elements
  • No ads or in-app purchases
Features
Currently charting
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A fun and cute interactive app for Kids! Ride along on a School Bus as it stops to pick up kids. Find the hidden kids at bus stops and make sure they all get on the bus! Use the side lift to help kids into and out of the bus. When all the kids are picked up its time to drive the School Bus to the school. At the school drop all the kids off. Then go in the school and help with a fun school supply puzzle. Next its time to go to the bus barn. Once at the bus barn vacuum the inside of the School Bus, wash the School Bus, fix the School Bus engine and more! A real treat for those little School Bus 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 School Bus! 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, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s 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 Boat ● Fire Truck ● Fuel Tanker Truck ● Garbage Truck ● Garbage Truck: Brushy Pick Up ● Garbage Truck: Bulky Trash 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

School Bus!4 screens
Backhoe!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: School Bus! at every 2 months against Backhoe!'s every 53 months. School Bus! also leads on chart position (#199 vs unranked) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

School Bus! 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for School Bus! against 4.5 for Backhoe!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

School Bus! ships an update every 2 months, Backhoe! every 53 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
School Bus! versus Backhoe!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSchool Bus!Backhoe!
Price$0.99 — better$1.99
Rating4.4 (8 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 53 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#199 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better10.0
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGood GlueAustin Ivansmith

Customer experience

School Bus!

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Backhoe!

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

In-app purchases

None

School Bus!

No in-app purchases

None

Backhoe!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is School Bus! free?
School Bus! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Backhoe! free?
Backhoe! costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, School Bus! or Backhoe!?
Backhoe! is rated higher. School Bus! averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Backhoe! averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do School Bus! or Backhoe! have ads?
Neither School Bus! nor Backhoe! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, School Bus! or Backhoe!?
School Bus! ships an update every 2 months, and Backhoe! every 53 months. Most recently, School Bus! was updated on November 1, 2026 and Backhoe! on November 2, 2026.

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