Comparison

Usborne Sticker Pirates vs Phallaina

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

Head to head
About

Usborne Sticker Pirates

Dress up pirates and create exciting scenes with over 200 stickers. This app offers a fun, interactive way to design pirate characters and place them in various adventurous settings, complete with sea shanty music and sound effects.

Highlights
  • Drag and drop stickers to dress pirates
  • Dozens of clothing and accessory options
  • Place pirates in lively scenes
  • Customize pirate appearance and outfits
  • Add animals, food, and plunder to scenes
  • Save and replay created scenes
  • Pinch to resize characters and objects
Features
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A swashbuckling sticker dressing app based on the bestselling Usborne Sticker Dressing books. Dress the pirates and create dramatic scenes with over 200 stickers. Sea shanty music and sound effects included. Not for lily-livered land-lubbers! Reviews for Usborne Sticker Dolly Dressing app: "Guarantee[s] endless fun." - apps4kids "The best dress up app I've seen for younger children..." - The iPhone Mom • Drag and drop the stickers to dress the pirates in dashing outfits • Choose from dozens of stylish shirts, jackets and trousers, and add hats, belts, swords and muskets • Place the pirates in lively scenes including a sea battle, a pirate port and a treasure island • Name each pirate and select his hair, beard and skin tone • Customise the outfits with different colours and patterns • Enliven the scenes with animals, food, plunder and other objects • Save scenes to play again later Additional features • Add up to five pirates to each scene • Pinch to resize the pirates and objects • Sea shanty music and pirate sound effects Keep in touch with Usborne: Visit our website: www.usborne.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/Usborne Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/usbornepublishing

About

Phallaina

Experience a unique digital comic book that blends graphic novel storytelling with animated film elements. This scrolling narrative offers an immersive 90-minute experience with parallax effects and captivating sound design. Explore a world where science and mythology intertwine.

Highlights
  • Scrolling graphic novel format
  • Parallax effects for depth
  • Entrancing sound design
  • 90-minute narrative experience
  • Available in English and French
  • Combines cognitive science and mythology
Features
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A "Scrolling Graphic Novel" for tactile screens. Peabody Award 2017. Halfway between a graphic novel and an animated film, Phallaina is the first "scrolling graphic novel" for tablets and smartphones. Available in English and French, the app delivers 90 minutes of scrollable reading experience. Conceived by Marietta Ren and the Small Bang studio, and accompanied by an entrancing sound design by Côme Jalibert, this horizontal-scrolling, panel-less digital comic book uses parallax effects in order to bring an immersive depth to the narrative. Download the app for free and discover the first two chapters. The story In a world similar to ours, where cities have adapted to the rising waters, Audrey follows a series of clinical trials in order to understand the origins of her hallucinatory fits, which are populated by huge white whales. Thus begins the intimate adventure of her personal transformation, combining cognitive sciences and mythology... and changing the course of her destiny in the process. International recognition Released in January 2016, selected as part of the official competition of the Angoulême International Comic Book festival, as well as the Naples Comicon, Phallaina has also won the Best digital comic award at the 2016 New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles, and has known a great amount of success in numerous festivals such as the Peabody awards and the Webby awards. But our biggest reward are your stars, shares and comments which fill us with joy and gratitude! And for those of you who have not yet taken the plunge, hesitate no longer :) ! Download Phallaina now, and delve right into Audrey's world. © France Télévisions - Small Bang 2016

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Phallaina at Free against Usborne Sticker Pirates's $0.99. Phallaina also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 50%) and ratings volume (17 vs 3). Usborne Sticker Pirates's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0). On rating, update cadence and ads 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

Phallaina is free to download; Usborne Sticker Pirates costs $0.99 up front. Phallaina sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Usborne Sticker Pirates asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Usborne Sticker Pirates against 4.8 for Phallaina. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Phallaina has 17 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Usborne Sticker Pirates's written reviews are positive against 93% of Phallaina's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Usborne Sticker Pirates ships an update every 25 months, Phallaina every 37 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Usborne Sticker Pirates versus Phallaina: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUsborne Sticker PiratesPhallaina
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (3 ratings)4.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings317 — better
Update frequencyEvery 25 months — betterEvery 37 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB318 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperUsborne PublishingSmall Bang

Customer experience

Usborne Sticker Pirates

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral37.5%
Negative12.5%

Phallaina

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%

In-app purchases

None

Usborne Sticker Pirates

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Phallaina

One-time1
  • Full StoryFree

Questions

Is Usborne Sticker Pirates free?
Usborne Sticker Pirates costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Phallaina free?
Phallaina is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Usborne Sticker Pirates or Phallaina?
Phallaina is rated higher. Usborne Sticker Pirates averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Phallaina averages 4.8 from 17 ratings.
Do Usborne Sticker Pirates or Phallaina have ads?
Neither Usborne Sticker Pirates nor Phallaina shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Usborne Sticker Pirates or Phallaina?
Usborne Sticker Pirates ships an update every 25 months, and Phallaina every 37 months. Most recently, Usborne Sticker Pirates was updated on November 1, 2026 and Phallaina on November 2, 2026.

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