The Bird Game vs Loopwing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- One-finger flock control
- Procedurally generated gameplay
- Growth and survival mechanics
- Hawk evasion
- Daily progression
- Bird facts between flights
- Game Center leaderboards
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | The Bird Game | Loopwing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (102 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Candlelight Development LLC | GravityFish, LLC |
Customer experience
The Bird Game
Loopwing
In-app purchases
The Bird Game
- Flight Pass$5.991 Month
- 100 Gems$0.99
- 250 Gems$1.99
- 500 Gems$3.99
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- Golden Ticket$4.99
- 1000 Gems$5.99
- 2500 Gems$11.99
Loopwing
- Remove Bird Facts$1.99
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