Comparison

ZOO.kids vs Ad

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

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About

ZOO.kids

Features
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A completely free and safe app for children - no ads, no banners, no login, no data collection, and fully offline. This is a calm and friendly game that works without internet access. It doesn’t require creating an account or logging in, giving parents peace of mind while remaining simple and easy to use. In the app, children will discover adorable animals, the sounds they make, and beautiful, fairy-tale-style nature illustrations. The child’s task is to choose - and sometimes even catch - the animal that best matches the environment shown on the screen. The game is designed to be light, calm, and comfortable. Every attempt is part of a natural process of discovering the world and learning through play. Correct answers are rewarded with pleasant animations, gentle sounds, and the opportunity to collect animal stickers, encouraging continued play. The game features soft marimba sounds that create a relaxing and enjoyable atmosphere, making it a pleasant experience. Varied illustrations, colorful graphics, and changing fairy-tale scenery ensure that each play session feels fresh, engaging, and interesting. Main features: • completely free • no ads or banners • works offline • no login or account required • no data collection • safe and calm to use • adorable animal illustrations • real animal sounds • collectable animal stickers • beautiful, fairy-tale landscapes • gentle marimba sounds • simple and intuitive controls • perfect for travel This is a warm, safe, and friendly app that combines fun with developing observation and matching skills. Colorful illustrations, soothing marimba sounds, and a fairy-tale style encourage children to explore the world of animals and environments at their own pace.

About

Ad

This app offers a curated collection of fun games designed for children, completely free of ads, tracking, and internet requirements. It features a variety of engaging titles, including a city-swallowing hole game and an arcade pack with coloring, space shooting, and snake games. Parents appreciate the ad-free, private, and offline experience.

Highlights
  • No ads or tracking
  • Offline play
  • Multiple game modes
  • Coloring and drawing pad
  • Space shooter with power-ups
  • Snake game with leaderboards
  • One-time purchase for arcade pack
Features
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Ad-Free Games is an ever expanding library of games in one app, made for kids with absolutely NO ads, NO tracking, and NO internet required. Pick a tile on the main menu: HOLE (free) — You are a hole. Swallow a living 3D world — a night city, a forest full of animals, or a snowfield — and gulp down rival holes. Four modes, including Infinite. ARCADE PACK (one-time purchase, shared with your family) • TOWER STACK (NEW) — tap to drop the sliding block and build as high as you can. Overhangs get sliced off; land it dead centre for a Perfect. Chill and Normal modes. • POCKET PET — adopt a pixel-art pal: a puppy, kitten, bunny, turtle, dragon or fox. Feed it, give it a bubble bath, play Bounce and Peekaboo for coins, and spend them on toys, homes and garden decor. Your pal naps while you're away and is happy to see you when you come back. • GEM SWAP — a match-3 with a hundred levels. Swap gems to line up three; four makes a blaster, five a rainbow gem, an L a bomb. Score targets, colours to collect and ice to melt, three stars each, plus a Zen mode with no moves and no clock. • ROAD HOP — tap to hop, swipe to dodge. Cross roads, railways and rivers in a bright 3D world, and spend the coins you pick up on thirteen characters, from a frog to a penguin. Chill mode for little ones, Normal for the brave. • BLOCK BURST — drag pieces onto the board and fill rows or columns to burst them. Classic mode is endless and autosaves; Levels mode has a hundred boards of gem blocks to clear, three stars each. • MANCALA — the classic stone-sowing game with glowing glass gems. Land your last stone in your store for another turn, capture across the board, and outsmart the computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone to a friend. • STACK SMASH — a carnival knock-down. Fire the cannon and topple every tower of cans before your balls run out. Earn coins for boosters as you climb. Nothing to buy with money, ever. • TINY TOWN — your own pocket farm. Sweep a sickle across ripe fields, drag seeds to sow whole rows, bake bread, milk the cow and deliver orders to level up. Crops keep growing while you're away. • FRUIT MERGE — Drop glowing fruit into the well and match two of a kind to grow the next one. Merge all the way up to the melon to win. Three difficulties. • COLORING — A coloring book and drawing pad: 55 pages in 9 themes, crayons, markers, a paint bucket, stickers, and your own photos turned into coloring pages. • SPACE SHOOTER — Drag to fly, fire automatically, grab power-ups, and unlock new ships in the hangar with the coins you earn. • SNAKE — Slither around a bright arena, eat orbs to grow, slice smaller snakes, and climb the leaderboard. Three difficulties, eight colors. • CONNECT 4 — drop glowing discs and line up four against a computer that plans ahead, or two players on one device. • TIC TAC TOE — three in a row on a neon board. Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone in 2 player mode! • NEW GAMES — any new games we add to the library will automatically be included if you already purchased the Arcade Pack. WHY PARENTS LOVE IT • No ads. No pop-ups. No "watch a video to continue." Ever! • No tracking, no analytics, no accounts, no sign-ups. • Works fully offline and private. • One optional purchase through Apple, with Ask to Buy for kids' accounts. No subscriptions, no coins. • One sound switch for the whole app, for quiet time. Made by a parent who was tired of their kid getting blasted with ads. TEN calm, fun, ad-free games. That's it.

Screenshots

ZOO.kids4 screens
Ad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ZOO.kids at 15.1 against Ad's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ZOO.kids versus Ad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZOO.kidsAd
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.4 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—11 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size286 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSara DonczewskaOne Light Media LLC

In-app purchases

None

ZOO.kids

No in-app purchases

None

Ad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ZOO.kids free?
ZOO.kids is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ad free?
Ad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ZOO.kids or Ad have ads?
Neither ZOO.kids nor Ad shows ads.

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