Comparison

The Bird Game vs Loopwing

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

Head to head
About

The Bird Game

Fly through challenging levels, collecting items and resources. Discover, hatch, and upgrade a variety of birds, each with unique abilities and flight characteristics. Customize your bird's flight with different items and overcome environmental hazards.

Highlights
  • Climb, dive, glide, and dash gameplay
  • Collect items and resources
  • Find, hatch, and upgrade birds
  • Customize bird abilities
  • Infinite levels across diverse environments
  • Avoid weather hazards
Features
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Cimb, dive, glide, dodge, and dash your way to the end of each level as you collect items and resources along the way. Find, hatch, and upgrade different birds, gaining new looks, abilities, and flying qualities! Adjust how your birds fly by swapping out different items. Get seeds to fuel your upgrades from popping clouds, gathering fruit, and flying more distance. Avoid and defeat weather hazards like thunderstorms and tornados. Infinite levels across eight unique environments.

About

Loopwing

Guide a flock of starlings through challenging aerial courses, growing the flock by passing through rings and defending against predators. Experience a unique, procedurally generated gameplay experience that adapts to your touch. Unlock uninterrupted play with a one-time purchase.

Highlights
  • One-finger flock control
  • Procedurally generated gameplay
  • Growth and survival mechanics
  • Hawk evasion
  • Daily progression
  • Bird facts between flights
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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Loopwing is a living murmuration you steer with one finger. A cloud of starlings flocks by the same simple rules real birds follow, so the shapes that ripple out of your touch are never quite the same twice. Sweep the flock through rings of light and it grows. Coil it tight when a hawk dives, because every bird it takes is health you lose. Survive into deep night and dawn brings the next day, endlessly, for as long as the flock holds together. No ads. Between flights the game pauses for one short, true fact about birds instead. A single $1.99 unlock turns them off forever if you would rather fly uninterrupted. Game Center keeps two boards: Top Score and Longest Flight. Your progress rides iCloud, so a new phone picks up right where the flock left off. Built native with SpriteKit and Metal, running at up to 120 Hz on ProMotion displays. Play in portrait or landscape on any iPhone or iPad. On iPhone Duo the sky fills both displays, folded or open.

Screenshots

The Bird Game4 screens
Loopwing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Loopwing at none against The Bird Game's shown. Loopwing also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). The Bird Game's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (102 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Bird Game sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Loopwing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Loopwing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Bird Game has 102 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Bird Game ships an update weekly, Loopwing every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
The Bird Game versus Loopwing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Bird GameLoopwing
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (102 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings102 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCandlelight Development LLCGravityFish, LLC

Customer experience

The Bird Game

All ratings25 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

Loopwing

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

The Bird Game

Subscriptions1
  • Flight Pass$5.991 Month
One-time6
  • 100 Gems$0.99
  • 250 Gems$1.99
  • 500 Gems$3.99
Show 3 more
  • Golden Ticket$4.99
  • 1000 Gems$5.99
  • 2500 Gems$11.99
1 purchases

Loopwing

One-time1
  • Remove Bird Facts$1.99

Questions

Is The Bird Game free?
The Bird Game is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loopwing free?
Loopwing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Bird Game or Loopwing?
Loopwing is rated higher. The Bird Game averages 4.7 out of 5 from 102 ratings, while Loopwing averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do The Bird Game or Loopwing have ads?
The Bird Game shows ads; Loopwing does not.
Which is updated more often, The Bird Game or Loopwing?
The Bird Game ships an update weekly, and Loopwing every 2 months. Most recently, The Bird Game was updated on November 4, 2026 and Loopwing on November 2, 2026.

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