Neon Wings vs Noodle Bowl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Neon Wings
Pilot a customizable aircraft, strategically choosing skills to enhance its capabilities. Engage in challenging battles against formidable bosses, aiming to build the ultimate flying machine.
- Skill selection
- Aircraft customization
- Boss battles
- Strategic gameplay
- Plane building
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Carefully select your skills, build the strongest plane and defeat bosses!
Noodle Bowl
Engage with real news through three quick brain games each week. Test your knowledge of headlines, quantitative findings, and scientific claims. Build streaks and challenge friends to keep your progress alive.
- Headline completion game
- Quantitative finding game
- Science vs. fiction game
- Weekly news editions
- Streak building
- Play with friends
- Streak shields
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Three games. Five minutes. Real news. A new edition every week. Noodle Bowl is a weekly brain game built from real news stories! Not a quiz. A workout. THE LEDE — Finish the headline A real wire-service headline with the ending missing. Three possible completions — one is the truth. The real answer is always the surprising one. THE SPREAD — Pick the number A real quantitative finding from this week's news. Four choices. No Googling — just your sense of scale against what actually happened. SCIENCE OR FICTION — Tap the fake Three scientific claims. Two are real, and one is a lie. One tap to pick the fake. The truth is always the weird one, and you'll be repeating it at dinner. BUILD YOUR STREAK Every week you play extends your streak. Miss a week? A streak shield keeps it alive — earned by helping a friend answer a question or by sending a challenge. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Stuck on a question? Generate a help link and see how a friend answers. Finished a game? Challenge a friend to the same question and compare. Either way, someone earns a streak shield. Free to play. No account required to start.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Noodle Bowl at 100% against Neon Wings's 16%. Noodle Bowl also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). Neon Wings's advantage is ratings volume (6.6K vs 3). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neon Wings sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Noodle Bowl asks for nothing beyond the download.
Noodle Bowl holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Neon Wings has 6.6K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Neon Wings's written reviews are positive against 100% of Noodle Bowl's.
Neon Wings ships an update every 6 days, Noodle Bowl weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Neon Wings | Noodle Bowl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6.6K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 15.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6.6K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 554 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Voodoo | Richard Sheng |
Customer experience
Neon Wings
Noodle Bowl
Bugs and requests
Neon Wings
Reported bugs
3 issues- Can't beat first boss on level 280
- Forced to equip module but none available
- Data reset after update
Requested features
2 requests- Unlock level 13 upgrades
- Explain what upgrades/abilities do
Noodle Bowl
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Neon Wings
- Gem Pack 1$0.99
- Super Revive$1.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
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- No Forced Ads$2.99
- Curve Laser Pack$3.99
- Gem Pack 2$4.99
- Drone Bundle #2$9.99
- Premium Pack$14.99
- Gem Pack 3$14.99
- NO RV$24.99
Noodle Bowl
No in-app purchases
