Hopping Pop vs Pocket Detective
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hopping Pop
Embark on an addictive hopping adventure where you control a bouncy ball to shatter objects. Earn experience, level up, and grow your ball to jump higher. Explore vibrant themes and conquer challenging levels with unique objectives.
- Bouncy ball control
- Object shattering gameplay
- Experience and leveling system
- Ball growth mechanics
- Vibrant theme exploration
- Challenging levels with unique objectives
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Get ready for an addictive hopping adventure! Control a bouncy ball on a mission to shatter everything in sight. Break objects to earn experience, level up, and watch your ball grow bigger and jump higher! Explore vibrant new themes as you progress through challenging levels, each with unique objectives. How big can you get?
Pocket Detective
A logic puzzle game where you deduce criminals by analyzing statements and role-based rules. Progress through cases, compete on leaderboards, and play offline.
- Logic puzzle gameplay
- Interrogate suspects
- Role-based deduction
- Multiple game modes
- Offline play
- Detailed statistics
- Game Center integration
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Pocket Detective is a single-player logic game about catching liars. Study the case file, interrogate suspects, test their statements against the rules of their claimed roles, and arrest every criminal. Witnesses tell the truth. Criminals lie while posing as witnesses. Bystanders are not criminals, but they can still disrupt the investigation. Each of 40 roles brings its own information, passive effect, or ability. The answer is on the board. You just have to prove it. • Academy: Learn the rules step by step across more than 30 handcrafted cases. New roles and mechanics are introduced as you progress. • Career: Solve as many cases as possible before your three lives run out. Build your score and compete on the Game Center leaderboard. • Daily Case: Everyone receives the same new investigation each day. • Custom Case: Choose the suspects, criminals, and role sets yourself, or enter a Case Number to replay a known investigation. • Track your record: Review detailed statistics, compare your performance across roles and modes, and earn Game Center achievements. • Play offline: Case generation and gameplay work without an internet connection. Pocket Detective is designed exclusively for iPhone and iPad. Download free and play Academy Tier 1. Complete it to unlock Career, Daily Case, and Custom Case with a starter set of roles. A small one-time Full Game purchase unlocks Academy Tiers 2 through 5, and all 40 roles. There are no subscriptions or consumable purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hopping Pop at none against Pocket Detective's 1. Hopping Pop also leads on ratings volume (15 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Pocket Detective's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating 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. Pocket Detective sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hopping Pop asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hopping Pop against 5.0 for Pocket Detective. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 4 respectively.
| Parameter | Hopping Pop | Pocket Detective |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | — | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Yasir Yazici | Cameron Shemilt |
Customer experience
Hopping Pop
Pocket Detective
In-app purchases
Hopping Pop
No in-app purchases
Pocket Detective
- Full Game$4.99
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