Comparison

Parkour Challenge vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

Parkour Challenge

Experience a one-tap parkour game focused on precise jumps and quick restarts. Race to 100 hops, unlock cosmetic items, and test your survival skills in increasingly challenging modes.

Highlights
  • One-tap parkour controls
  • Race to 100 hops
  • Unlock hats and climb Hat Ladder
  • Challenge Mode survival
  • Instant restarts
  • Leaderboard competition
Features
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100 Hops: Parkour Challenge is a one-tap rooftop parkour game built around quick runs, precise jumps, and instant restarts. In Classic Mode, race to 100 hops while every clean landing keeps the run alive. Every 100 hops unlocks the next hat tier, so each run becomes a push to earn the next look and protect it on the way back down. Challenge Mode changes the pace. The speed keeps climbing, the margin gets tighter, and every rooftop jump has to land clean if you want to keep the run going. Clear the full 100-hop course and Overtime begins. Platforms shrink, recovery windows disappear, and the game turns into a fast survival test. Why players stick with 100 Hops: - Hold to charge. Release to jump. - One-tap parkour controls built for quick sessions. - Race to 100 hops in Classic Mode. - Survive faster rooftop runs in Challenge Mode. - Unlock hats every 100 hops and climb the Hat Ladder. - Chase cleaner clears, high scores, and leaderboard spots. - Restart instantly and go again. If you like parkour games, precision platformers, and fast arcade challenges, 100 Hops keeps the retry loop tight and every landing meaningful. 100 Hops is ad supported. In-app purchases are available but not required to play. Apple's Standard End User License Agreement (EULA) applies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

Parkour Challenge4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ArcadeOS at none against Parkour Challenge's 6. ArcadeOS also leads on ads (none vs shown). Parkour Challenge's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price 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. Parkour Challenge sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. ArcadeOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Parkour Challenge ships an update every 5 days, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Parkour Challenge versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParkour ChallengeArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReally NiceRetroApps LLC

Customer experience

Parkour Challenge

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcadeOS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Parkour Challenge

One-time6
  • 5 Extra Lives$0.99
  • 20 Extra Lives$2.99
  • Skyline Theme Pack$2.99
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  • Character Skin Pack$2.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • 100 Extra Lives$7.99
None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Parkour Challenge free?
Parkour Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Parkour Challenge or ArcadeOS have ads?
Parkour Challenge shows ads; ArcadeOS does not.
Which is updated more often, Parkour Challenge or ArcadeOS?
Parkour Challenge ships an update every 5 days, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, Parkour Challenge was updated on October 31, 2026 and ArcadeOS on November 6, 2026.

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