Comparison

Hopping Pop vs Pocket Detective

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Bouncy ball control
  • Object shattering gameplay
  • Experience and leveling system
  • Ball growth mechanics
  • Vibrant theme exploration
  • Challenging levels with unique objectives
Features
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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?

About

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.

Highlights
  • Logic puzzle gameplay
  • Interrogate suspects
  • Role-based deduction
  • Multiple game modes
  • Offline play
  • Detailed statistics
  • Game Center integration
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Hopping Pop4 screens
Pocket Detective4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pocket Detective sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hopping Pop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hopping Pop versus Pocket Detective: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHopping PopPocket Detective
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (15 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings15 — better4
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB83 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperYasir YaziciCameron Shemilt

Customer experience

Hopping Pop

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pocket Detective

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hopping Pop

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Pocket Detective

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Hopping Pop free?
Hopping Pop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pocket Detective free?
Pocket Detective is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hopping Pop or Pocket Detective?
Hopping Pop and Pocket Detective are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 15 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Hopping Pop or Pocket Detective have ads?
Hopping Pop shows ads; Pocket Detective does not.

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