Phone Tower vs Hello, Mario!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Phone Tower
This game encourages real-life social interaction by linking nearby friends. It alerts players when someone leaves the game or uses their phone, with customizable consequences for rule-breakers.
- Increases real-life social interaction
- Links nearby friends
- Notifies when players exit game
- Notifies when players check phone features
- Customizable consequences for rule-breakers
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We're tired of our friends and family being on their phones all the time in a group setting. We believe people should talk and enjoy each other's company. Phone Tower is a game that increases real life social interaction. It creates a link between you and your nearby friends. It then notifys each player when someone exits the game or checks other phone features. Consequences for losing players are up to you... Have fun!
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 rating: Phone Tower at 5.0 against Hello, Mario!'s 4.6. Phone Tower also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). Hello, Mario!'s advantage is ratings volume (333 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Phone Tower holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hello, Mario! has 333 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Phone Tower's written reviews are positive against 90% of Hello, Mario!'s.
Phone Tower ships an update every 6 months, Hello, Mario! every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Phone Tower | Hello, Mario! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (333 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 333 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 137 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stewart Enterprises | Nintendo Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Phone Tower
Hello, Mario!
In-app purchases
Phone Tower
No in-app purchases
Hello, Mario!
No in-app purchases
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