Comparison

The Bird Game vs Flying Vector

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

Flying Vector

Features
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A vector-drawn world somewhere between an 80s arcade cabinet and a spacey daydream. No engine: just wind, altitude, and speed, traded for one another. Flying stays calm, gliding, almost meditative — but gates matter: they're what keeps the clock alive, and the terrain sharpens as the flight goes on. Pitching down turns altitude into speed; pulling up does the reverse. Fall below stall speed and lift lets go. To climb back up: thermals and ridge lift — the terrain isn't scenery, it's the resource. Stick centered holds your best glide angle — you settle into it and float, without ever stalling. Flying through gates earns points and flight time. Watch out for pylons — hit one and you're gone. Every craft for the session — silhouette, wingspan, handling — is generated at takeoff. Never the same glider twice. CONTROLS: TOUCH, TILT — OR ANOTHER DEVICE AS A REMOTE Touch stick or tilt steering, your choice — a game controller is picked up automatically if you connect one. This iPhone or iPad can also pilot a session running on a Mac, or on another iPad, remotely: the game plays on the big screen, the controls stay in your hand. SEVEN WORLDS, ONE FLIGHT Plain, City, Canyon, Forest, Cave, Space, Combat. Each one keeps the same unhurried, vector-drawn breathing while introducing its own rule: slaloming between towers, ridge-soaring along a cliff face, a canopy ceiling with the first moving threats, gunfire to open a path between floor and ceiling, a weightless world with no up or down. All of them are endless and procedurally generated — including the ones in the pack. Combat isn't for sale. It's earned: six stars, one per world crossed in a single flight, to unlock it. It's the only world that breaks the calm — a duel, you shoot, and you get shot at. THE PLAIN IS FREE, FOREVER The full game — flight, gates, terrain, generated craft — with nothing to unlock. HORIZONS opens the next five worlds (City, Canyon, Forest, Cave, Space) in one purchase. No subscription, no ads, no in-app currency. iOS and macOS, one purchase for both.

Screenshots

The Bird Game4 screens
Flying Vector3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Flying Vector at none against The Bird Game's shown. The Bird Game's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.7). On price, 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

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 Flying Vector sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Bird Game versus Flying Vector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Bird GameFlying Vector
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (102 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings102 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.7
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB2 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCandlelight Development LLCDIRECT GRAPHIC S.A.S.

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
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  • Golden Ticket$4.99
  • 1000 Gems$5.99
  • 2500 Gems$11.99
1 purchases

Flying Vector

One-time1
  • HORIZONS$4.99

Questions

Is The Bird Game free?
The Bird Game is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flying Vector free?
Flying Vector is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Bird Game or Flying Vector have ads?
The Bird Game shows ads; Flying Vector does not.

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