air vs Skate Fish
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
air
Defend against incoming luggage as a frog in this tower defense game. Purchase upgrades for towers and health to progress further. Customize your character with unlockable outfits and hats.
- 70+ unique upgrades
- Ultimate Upgrades for endgame
- 7 unlockable levels
- Character customization (hats, skins)
- Unique achievements
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Play as a Frog, and don't let any luggage through! Buy upgrades in the shop, such as towers and health, to make it as far as you can! Discover secret interactions and interesting synergies, and earn Star Coins to get outfits and hats! Features 70+ unique upgrades, all with interesting synergies! Ultimate Upgrades that add a twist to the endgame 7 unlock-able levels spanning a range of difficulties Tons of hats, skins, and planes to customize your character with A couple of unique achievements for the insane!
Skate Fish
Impress fish with your skateboarding skills to catch them and populate an aquarium. Customize your character and gear while exploring seven unique environments with rad obstacles and different fish species. Master two-finger touch controls to perform tricks and become a skate-fishing legend.
- Two-finger touch skateboarding controls
- Seven unique environments
- Character and gear customization
- Catch various fish species
- Populate a local aquarium
- Socialize with other fishers
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From the makers of BOMBFEST, welcome to a world where the only way to catch dope fish is to impress them! Customize your character, board, and fishing rod, and ride your way through seven chill environments, each with its own species to angle and rad obstacles to skate. Use two-finger touch controls to flip your board, grind ledges, and perform aerials and sick tricks as you become a skate-fishing legend by catching dozens of captious carp, bass, trout and other fish to help populate the local aquarium. Key Features of SkateFish include: -Nostalgic finger-deck skateboarding emulated through two-finger touch controls that allow you to flip, grind, and slide your way to fishdom fame -Seven unique locations, each with its own discerning marine creatures to impress -Customize your deck, tracks, tape and fishing gear and look fly as you cast your fly -Meet up with fellow fishers and get to know them to get the 411 on the hottest fishing tips
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: air at 89% against Skate Fish's 0%. Skate Fish's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 9 months). On ratings volume, ads, 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
Skate Fish is free to download; air costs $4.99 up front. air sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Skate Fish sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Skate Fish holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of air's written reviews are positive against 0% of Skate Fish's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
air ships an update every 9 months, Skate Fish every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | air | Skate Fish |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (19 ratings) | 4.7 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 457 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brendan Roarty | Whitethorn Digital LLC |
Customer experience
air
Skate Fish
In-app purchases
air
- Retry Tokens$0.99
- Star Stack$0.99
- Star Bundle$1.99
Skate Fish
- Galaxy Deck$0.99
- Lime Deck$0.99
- Lemon Deck$0.99
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- Orange Deck$0.99
- Void Deck$0.99
- Starry Deck$0.99
- Lemonade Deck$0.99
- Watermelon Deck$0.99
- Botanical Gradient Griptape$1.99
- BOMBFEST Deck$1.99
- Ad Buyout$7.99
