Honk vs Pixel Game Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Honk
Guide a chaotic goose through challenging multiplayer obstacle courses. Build and share your own custom levels with a robust in-game editor. Compete with others to unlock skins and climb the leaderboards.
- Multiplayer arcade gameplay
- Custom level editor
- Shareable player-created levels
- Unlockable skins
- Leaderboards
- In-game object customization
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Easy to learn, viciously hard to master. New player-built levels every day! Honk is a wildly fast multiplayer arcade game where you guide a chaos-prone goose through impossible courses. You can even build and share your own custom created levels with the community! Earn gems to unlock skins and climb the leaderboards. Featuring a full in-game level editor with pipes, bullets, spikes, moving platforms, dozens of customizable objects. If you can dream it, you can build it. Then watch the world rage-quit it.
Pixel Game Lab
Create and play your own pixel-art games. Design characters, build levels with traps and platforms, and then bring them to life in a full game engine. Share your creations or play games made by other kids.
- Pixel art character design
- Animated asset creation
- Level building with terrain and traps
- Full game engine for play
- Co-op multiplayer
- Catalog of community-created games
- Safe sharing and moderation
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Pixel Game Lab is a creative game studio for kids, right on your iPad. Draw your own pixel-art characters, build levels, and turn them into real games you can play and share. Designed by the educators at Game Design Academy and used in elementary school game-design programs. WHAT YOU CAN MAKE - Concept Art: sketch your characters and worlds. - Pixel Art: draw animated heroes, companions, enemies, bosses, tiles, and decorations. - Level Design: build worlds with terrain, traps, doors, keys, moving platforms, and more. - Games: package your art and levels into a real, playable game. PLAY AND SHARE - Play your creations in a full game engine: run, jump, climb, and battle. - Team up in co-op and play a level together with a friend. - Explore a catalog of games made by other kids and creators, free to play. SAFE BY DESIGN - Kids create with a username only. We do not collect a child's real name. - Everything shared is reviewed by our team before it goes public. - Report and block tools are on every public item, and there is no open chat. PLANS Pixel Game Lab is free to start with the Demo plan. Optional subscriptions (Standard, Extended, and Pro) give you more space to create and download characters, levels, and games, plus publishing and community features. Subscriptions are auto-renewing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use: https://pixelgamelab.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pixelgamelab.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Honk at 5.0 against Pixel Game Lab's 4.5. Honk also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Pixel Game Lab's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pixel Game Lab sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Honk asks for nothing beyond the download.
Honk holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Game Lab has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Honk ships an update every 5 months, Pixel Game Lab every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Honk | Pixel Game Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.5 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Kennedy | Game Design Academy LLC |
Customer experience
Honk
Pixel Game Lab
In-app purchases
Honk
No in-app purchases
Pixel Game Lab
- Standard Monthly$1.991 Month
- Extended Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
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- Standard Annual$19.991 Year
- Extended Annual$39.991 Year
- Pro Annual$99.991 Year
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