Ken's Pub Quiz vs The Jackbox Party Pack 5
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ken's Pub Quiz
Test your knowledge with thousands of multiple-choice questions across various categories. Embark on a Pub Crawl challenge with increasing difficulty, or purchase specialized question packs for more content. Utilize tokens to help you answer tough questions.
- Thousands of quiz questions
- Pub Crawl challenge mode
- Increasing difficulty levels
- Specialized question packs
- Remove Answer tokens
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Ken’s Pub Quiz includes over 3000 questions to test your knowledge of everything! Take part in a Pub Crawl cruising from bar to bar answering multiple choice questions with increasing difficulty. Can you make it to the last bar? Additional and more specialised question packs featuring completely new games and rounds can be purchased through the in-app Quiz Shop taking that total to over 13,500 questions. These currently include: - Movie Quiz (New for 2023!) - The Staying Inn (new for 2020!) - Music Quiz - Christmas Quiz - Sports Quiz Stuck answering a question? Use your Remove Answer tokens to remove an incorrect answer and increase your chances of success. Remove Answer tokens are awarded for completing games, or can be purchased from the in-app Quiz Shop.
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
This collection features five unique party games for local multiplayer fun. Players use their phones or tablets as controllers to engage in trivia, creative writing, drawing, and alien-blasting action. It's designed for group entertainment with a variety of game styles.
- Five distinct party games
- Playable with phones, tablets, or computers
- Local multiplayer focus
- Trivia, lyric writing, drawing, and action games
- No extra controllers needed
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It’s the biggest Party Pack yet with five party-saving new games! 1) The pop-culture trivia mash-up YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: Full Stream (1-8 players). The classic returns, full of wild new surprises. 2) The what-if game Split the Room (3-8 Players). Create strange and divisive hypothetical situations. 3) The lyric-writing game Mad Verse City (3-8 players). Channel your inner MC as a rap battling robot. 4) The competitive drawing game Patently Stupid (3-8 players). Create odd inventions to solve bizarre problems. 5) The deadliest game show in the Crab Nebula, Zeeple Dome (1-6 players)! Fling yourself at bloodthirsty aliens to win millions of Zubabucks! Play using your phones, tablets or computers. No extra controllers needed! NOTE: The Jackbox Party Pack 5 is in English only. NOTE: The game is local multiplayer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ken's Pub Quiz at 71% against The Jackbox Party Pack 5's 25%. Ken's Pub Quiz also leads on price ($0.99 vs $29.99) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 32 months). The Jackbox Party Pack 5's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On ads, monetization model 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
Ken's Pub Quiz costs $0.99 and The Jackbox Party Pack 5 $29.99 up front. Ken's Pub Quiz sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. The Jackbox Party Pack 5 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ken's Pub Quiz ships an update every 5 months, The Jackbox Party Pack 5 every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ken's Pub Quiz | The Jackbox Party Pack 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $29.99 |
| Rating | — | 2.9 (36 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 36 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #135 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 1.6 GB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Oliver Shingler | Jackbox Games, Inc. |
Customer experience
Ken's Pub Quiz
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
In-app purchases
Ken's Pub Quiz
- 20x Remove Answer Tokens$0.99
- Christmas Quiz$0.99
- Sports Quiz$0.99
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- Music Quiz$0.99
- The Staying Inn$0.99
- Movie Quiz$0.99
- TV Quiz$0.99
- 60x Remove Answer Tokens$1.99
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
No in-app purchases
Questions
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