Birthday Moon vs Dotdotbird
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Birthday Moon
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Birthday Moon - Customize Moons with Birthday Colors Create beautiful moons with your birthday colors and express connections with special people in your life. Key Features โข Color moons with unique birthday colors for all 366 days โข Blend two birthday colors to create special shared moons โข Choose from 6 moon types: full moon, crescent, Saturn, Jupiter, clouds, and freeform โข Apply birthday colors to custom images with freeform feature โข Save high-quality images directly to camera roll โข Display birthday dates on moons with date pins Perfect For Combine birthday colors of lovers, friends, or favorite celebrities to create your one-of-a-kind moon. The beautiful moon images are perfect for phone wallpapers or social media sharing. Premium Features โข Freeform feature for customizing original images โข Ad-free experience for seamless creativity Transform the special meaning of birthdays into stunning lunar art. Express your story through the moon and visualize connections with those who matter most. Discover a new way to celebrate relationships through personalized celestial beauty.
Dotdotbird
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Dotdotbird is a pixel art maker for creating a bird of your own. Choose a bird, add accessories, adjust the colors, and refine individual pixels. Then place it on your Home Screen as a widget or save it for icons and sharing. Start from a ready-made bird such as a cockatiel, budgie, parrot, macaw, cockatoo, or owl. Then add hats, glasses, scarves, and other accessories to give the bird its own style. You can change the bird colors, accessory colors, and background, or touch up single pixels when you want more control. Bring a creation to your Home Screen as a Birds Only or Bird + Clock widget. Small and Medium sizes are supported, and a Medium Birds Only widget can show up to three birds together. Choose 12- or 24-hour time, four clock styles, adaptive colors, and background options. Save multiple widget setups to give different birds and looks their own place. What you can do: - Choose a bird and start editing quickly - Add hats, glasses, neckwear, and other accessories - Change palettes, bird colors, accessory colors, and backgrounds - Save your own colors and reuse them across designs - Draw and erase on a 24x24 pixel canvas - Save designs to Creations and edit them again later - Export PNG images to Photos or share them with other apps - Choose 24x24, 22x22, or 20x20 export areas and scale them up cleanly - Add Birds Only or Bird + Clock widgets to your Home Screen - Use Small and Medium widgets, with up to three birds together on Medium - Customize 12- or 24-hour time, four clock styles, adaptive colors, and backgrounds - Save multiple widget setups for different birds and looks Dotdotbird is designed around choosing and refining instead of drawing everything from scratch. It works well for profile images, chat icons, small stickers, and tiny bird characters. Additional accessories are available as optional paid packs. The free birds, free accessories, and editing tools can still be used to create and export designs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Dotdotbird at none against Birthday Moon's shown. Dotdotbird also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). Birthday Moon's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Birthday Moon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dotdotbird sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Birthday Moon ships an update every 8 months, Dotdotbird every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birthday Moon | Dotdotbird |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryo Tsudukihashi | birnimal APP |
In-app purchases
Birthday Moon
- Buy-As-You-Go Plan$9.99
Dotdotbird
- Music Accessory Pack$0.99
- Party Accessory Pack$0.99
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