Comparison

Bouncing Bots vs Star Battle

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

Head to head
About

Bouncing Bots

Engage in a competitive multiplayer puzzle game where you program robots to bounce through dynamic grid challenges. Solve puzzles by calculating the perfect move count and race against opponents or train against a CPU.

Highlights
  • Competitive multiplayer
  • Program bouncing robots
  • Ricochet puzzle gameplay
  • Dynamic grid challenges
  • CPU training mode
Features
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A competitive multiplayer ricochet puzzle game where players program bouncing robots, calculate the perfect move count, and race to solve dynamic grid challenges. Once a solution is found, the clock begins, giving rivals one last chance to out think the board or train against a CPU.

About

Star Battle

Engage in a logic puzzle game with simple rules but challenging gameplay. Place stars without them touching, solve over 2,000 puzzles, and maintain daily streaks. Play offline with no ads.

Highlights
  • Daily logic puzzles
  • Offline play
  • Over 2,000 puzzles
  • Streak tracking
  • Error highlighting
  • Hint system
Features
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Star Battle Free is a simple, addicting daily logic puzzle game. Keep daily, weekly, and monthly streaks, play fully offline, and never see a single ad. Known on LinkedIn as Queens and in the New York Times as Two Not Touch. The rules are simple: 1. Place the required number of stars in every row, every column, and every region. 2. No two stars can touch, not even diagonally. 3. Every puzzle has exactly one solution, solvable by logic alone. No guessing. No counting numbers like Sudoku. No trivia like crosswords. Just clean, satisfying deduction. Why you'll be hooked: - Over 2,000 puzzles from quick 5x5 grids to sprawling 25x25 challenges. - Fresh daily, weekly, and monthly challenges and streaks to keep them going. - A full library to play through at your own pace. Designed to be fun for you: - Play offline on the plane, the subway, or anywhere at all. - Auto-mark the X's around your stars and highlight errors (toggle each on or off) - Toggle colored regions, timers, and the toolbar - Hints for when you're truly stuck Absolutely no ads. Ever.

Screenshots

Bouncing Bots4 screens
Star Battle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bouncing Bots at none against Star Battle's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Star Battle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bouncing Bots 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 Bouncing Bots against 5.0 for Star Battle. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bouncing Bots versus Star Battle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBouncing BotsStar Battle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB55 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperYuval ParkerPeter O'Mara

Customer experience

Bouncing Bots

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Star Battle

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bouncing Bots

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Star Battle

One-time1
  • Star Battle Premium$5.99

Questions

Is Bouncing Bots free?
Bouncing Bots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Star Battle free?
Star Battle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bouncing Bots or Star Battle?
Bouncing Bots and Star Battle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bouncing Bots or Star Battle have ads?
Neither Bouncing Bots nor Star Battle shows ads.

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