Comparison

Bamba Burger vs Splingo

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

Head to head
About

Bamba Burger

Children can create their own custom burgers, prepare fries, and serve drinks in a virtual fast-food restaurant. This interactive game allows kids to role-play as either the cook or the customer, assembling meals and ringing up orders.

Highlights
  • Create custom burgers with various ingredients
  • Prepare French fries
  • Dispense drinks with multiple flavors
  • Cook and flip patties
  • Ring up orders on a cash register
  • Role-play as cook or customer
  • Includes a mystery toy with each meal
Features
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Kids create their favorite burger, flip the patty, make French fries and dispense the drinks – just like in a real fast food restaurant! They can choose from lots of funny ingredients to make their happy meal. (Check out Bamba Burger 2, the all new sequel with more fun stuff to do!) "Do you want fries with your Octopus Burger, Mom?" - Vicky, 4-year old Bamba Burger Employee. Kids assemble the meal, ring up the order on a cash register, and finally eat their custom-made burger! There’s lots of creative fun when role-playing either the customer or the cook. Features: - Dozens of buns, ingredients and drinks to choose from: Hamburger patties to Unicorn Juice! - Cook the patty and flip it on the hot pan - Make the type of fries you want – and fry it in the deep fryer - Dispense the drinks – 12 flavors to choose from! - Mystery toy that comes with every meal - Fantastic, beautiful artwork - Kid-focused interface - Great for kids 2+ Bamba Burger is an interactive toy designed for kids. There are no scores, complicated interfaces or stressful time limits. This game is great to play alone or with an adult. *** OTHER GAMES BY BAMBA! *** - Bamba Space Station: Kids pretend they are on the Space Station travelling the galaxy. There's lots to do on board. Craft items, cook food, party in the pool and tons more! Hours of fun and exploring! - Bamba Surprise: Learn new words with a peekaboo game. Kids arrange the letters to form the word. There are over 200 objects to learn and collect. - Bamba Clock: Learn to tell the time with Captain Birdbeard as kids sail the high seas! - Bamba Books – Kids learn to read in a fun, interactive series of books. - Bamba Farm – Kids learn to count on a wacky crazy farm where they have to milk robot cows, bathe donkeys and collect dragon eggs amongst other things! - Bamba Airport: Kids pick the passengers and send them for a holiday! Kids roleplay air stewards, customs officers and more. Lots of hilarious fun! - Bamba BBQ: Set the pit up, fire the briquettes and choose your food! Bamba BBQ gets kids role-playing a BBQ pitmaster! Lots of fun characters, ingredients and reactions! - Bamba Craft: Choose a project, create a masterpiece and display it in a gallery for other kids to see. Bamba Craft gets kids painting and assembling collages in creative and fun ways! Projects and galleries are updated constantly! - Bamba Toys: Kids build a toy from a blueprint, picking parts and accessories before assembling the toy and finally getting to play with it! - Bamba Post Office: Everyone loves presents! Choose, wrap and decorate presents for three funny characters. Deliver them to the jungle or to the moon! - Bamba Pizza: Run a Pizza restaurant and make delicious pizza. Great fun with 26 different ingredients and four kooky characters to play with! - Bamba Ice-Cream: Create and eat fantastic ice-cream concoctions. Can you guess what the mystery topping is this time? ABOUT BAMBA! Bamba is a kid game studio that makes interactive toys for kids. We believe that interactive toys offer a new and exciting way to educate your child. We design interactive toys that are designed to stimulate imagination and creativity.

About

Splingo

Engaging educational games designed by speech and language therapists to help children develop essential communication skills. Features interactive gameplay, bright visuals, and motivating reward systems. Targets various language areas from early words to complex directions.

Highlights
  • Therapist-designed games
  • Targets receptive language
  • Early words development
  • Following directions
  • Interactive gameplay
  • Reward games
  • Language assessment tool
Features
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Speech and Language apps for children Designed by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists, Splingo apps are fun and engaging educational games to help your child develop their speech and language skills. Specially designed by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists to target different areas of language development Fun and interactive gameplay with an emphasis on learning Bright, colorful images and animations In-built reward games to engage and motivate Recommended by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists Splingo games target all these areas of language development – Following Directions/Receptive Language Actions/verbs Pronouns Early Words development Past Tense Categories Adjectives / Describing Words Language Assessment Splingo also includes a professional’s Language Assessment tool designed to assess children’s receptive language skills. As Speech and Language Therapists / Pathologists with over 40 years experience between us we know what it takes to support children’s speech and language development! We’ve designed these Splingo games to be fun and educational by using bright, colorful images and animations. Splingo games can be customized to target specific language skill areas so you can be certain that your child is playing the right games at the right level. We’ve added high-quality, in-built reward games to motivate your child to keep on learning. The games also have an option to select between US voice and UK voice. Children love playing Splingo and parents and professionals tell us it’s an app that children ask for over and over again – they’re having fun whilst they’re learning! Used for over a decade by Speech and Language Therapists all over the world, Splingo is a go-to app for developing children’s language skills. **Frequently listed as a Top 10 Speech and Language App (Speech Sisters; District Speech; Therapy Tree; The Sped Guru; TechBooky**

Screenshots

Bamba Burger4 screens
Splingo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bamba Burger at 78% against Splingo's 35%. Bamba Burger also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.3) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. Bamba Burger sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Splingo sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bamba Burger holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bamba Burger has 164 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Bamba Burger's written reviews are positive against 35% of Splingo's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bamba Burger versus Splingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBamba BurgerSplingo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (164 ratings) — better3.3 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better34.8% of reviews
Number of ratings164 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size208 MB791 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMezmediaSplingo Ltd

Customer experience

Bamba Burger

All ratings164 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative20.1%
Written reviews235 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral4.7%
Negative17.0%

Splingo

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive34.8%
Neutral8.7%
Negative56.5%

Bugs and requests

Bamba Burger

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Black screen on launch for some users
  • Freezing or crashing during gameplay

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free content and unlockable options
  • Ability to remove or change ingredients
  • Additional food types beyond burgers
  • Multiplayer or social features

Splingo

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Bamba Burger

One-time5
  • Birthday Party Pack$0.99
  • Holiday Season Party Pack$0.99
  • Pirate Pack$0.99
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  • Galactic Pack$0.99
  • Mega Burger Pack$1.99
8 purchases

Splingo

One-time8
  • Splingos Language UniverseFree
  • Actions With Splingo$0.99
  • Categories With Splingo$0.99
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  • Describing Words With Splingo$0.99
  • Pronouns With Splingo$0.99
  • Past Tense With Splingo$0.99
  • Early Words With Splingo$0.99
  • Language Assessment$9.99

Questions

Is Bamba Burger free?
Bamba Burger is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Splingo free?
Splingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bamba Burger or Splingo?
Bamba Burger is rated higher. Bamba Burger averages 4.0 out of 5 from 164 ratings, while Splingo averages 3.3 from 7 ratings.
Do Bamba Burger or Splingo have ads?
Splingo shows ads; Bamba Burger does not.
Which is updated more often, Bamba Burger or Splingo?
Bamba Burger ships an update every 2 months, and Splingo every 2 months. Most recently, Bamba Burger was updated on November 6, 2026 and Splingo on November 3, 2026.

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