Pixel Bowling vs Earcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Bowling
Experience retro-style bowling with intuitive swipe controls and realistic pin physics. Compete in a career mode with multiple tournaments and locations, or enjoy daily challenges and quick play. Unlock new balls and track your stats in this ad-free, no-nonsense game.
- Retro pixel art style
- Intuitive swipe controls
- Realistic pin physics
- Career mode with 15 tournaments
- Daily Bowl challenges
- Unlockable bowling balls
- Detailed stat tracking
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Step up to the lane. Pixel Bowling is a retro-styled bowling game with simple swipe controls, satisfying pin physics, and a whole lot to keep you coming back. Aim your shot, set your power, swipe in the direction you want the ball to go. Every roll feels different — every spare feels earned. Career Mode takes you from small-town leagues to the national stage across 15 tournaments and 5 Locations. Win matches, climb the ranks, and unlock new balls along the way. Daily Bowl gives you one game per day. Track your streak, chase your best, and see how you stack up on the Game Center leaderboard. Quick Play is always there when you just want to bowl. Earn achievements, complete weekly challenges, and build your ball collection as you go. Track your stats — strikes, spares, averages, and everything in between. Pixel art. Retro fonts. No ads. No nonsense. Just bowling.
Earcade
Experience a collection of audio-based games designed for blind and low-vision players. Navigate mazes, drive through traffic, and explore the ocean using only sound and vibration cues. Fully compatible with VoiceOver, these games offer immersive gameplay without visual elements.
- Audio-based gameplay
- VoiceOver compatibility
- Sound and vibration cues
- Multiple game genres
- Designed for accessibility
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Earcade is an arcade you play with your ears, not your eyes. Every game was designed for blind and low-vision players and is fully compatible with VoiceOver: none of them ask you to look at the screen, and all of them are played by following sound and vibration. PLAY WITH HEADPHONES Most games rely on directional sound. Is the car coming from your left, is the enemy jet straight ahead, which ear is the signal clearing up in? Headphones make the direction unmistakable. THE GAMES Maze Escape You are a cat lost in a dark maze, and the bell on your collar chimes with every step. Swipe to move step by step. If you lose your way, press and hold the screen — the cat waiting at the exit meows from the direction you need to go. Traffic Monster You are driving the wrong way and cars are coming straight at you on a three-lane road. Whichever side the engine sound comes from, that lane is taken; swipe left or right to slip into the empty one. Hunter Fish You are a small, hungry fish in a dark ocean: eat or be eaten. Drag your finger and your fish follows. Start with the smallest ones; as you eat you grow, and the mid-sized and then the big ones become fair game. If the tension sound rises, a fish you cannot eat is closing in — get away. Eat them all and the ocean is yours. Back To The Sky The ground is far below and you are climbing from cloud to cloud. The cloud above you hums as it swings left and right; the moment the sound is equal in both ears, tap the screen and your star jumps and grabs on. If the phone starts to vibrate, the cloud you are standing on is breaking apart — jump again before you fall. Piano Play freely, repeat the notes you hear, or learn a song from start to finish. Notes flow as you move your finger across the screen. Pong A ball bounces from wall to wall in a dark arena and you are the last line of defence. Move your finger across the bottom half of the screen and the paddle follows. Track the ball by sound: whichever ear it rings in, that is where it is. Miss it and the game is over. Signal Hunter Midnight at the front, and you are the soldier at the radio. The enemy's messages are buried in static. Slide the two edge bars to hunt for the frequency: the closer you get, the quieter the crackle in that ear becomes, and it falls silent when you lock on. Cannonball on Deck Gold coins are scattered across a pirate ship's deck, with bottomless holes between them. Hold the phone flat and tilt it gently; the cannonball rolls that way. Press and hold the screen and the nearest coin rings out its position, while the holes hum. Collect them all without falling in. Air Combat You are in enemy airspace and you are all that is left of your squadron; jets keep coming in waves. Hold the phone upright and tilt it left and right to steer. When the enemy's engine sounds equal in both ears it is straight ahead — tap to fire. ACCESSIBILITY • Full VoiceOver support: in-game gestures keep working while VoiceOver is on • Built-in Accessibility Mode: the app's own voice, with adjustable speech rate • Critical information is carried by haptics as well • Turkish and English • Open any game straight from a Siri shortcut DARK MODE Some games have a dark mode: the screen goes completely black and sound is all you get. A real test for sighted players too.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Earcade at Free against Pixel Bowling's $1.99. Earcade also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). Pixel Bowling's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (69 vs 3). On ads, 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
Earcade is free to download; Pixel Bowling costs $1.99 up front. Earcade sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Pixel Bowling asks for nothing beyond the download.
Earcade holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Bowling has 69 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Pixel Bowling's written reviews are positive against 100% of Earcade's.
Pixel Bowling ships an update every 3 weeks, Earcade every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Bowling | Earcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (69 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 69 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #133 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | adam rogan | Murat YOLALAN |
Customer experience
Pixel Bowling
Earcade
In-app purchases
Pixel Bowling
No in-app purchases
Earcade
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$3.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Giant Tip$19.99









