Comparison

Sky Fury vs SplitBounce

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

Head to head
About

Sky Fury

Engage in a vertical arcade shooter experience with intuitive one-thumb controls. Fly a P-38 Lightning through 25 stages, battling bosses and completing strike missions. Upgrade your aircraft and aim for high scores and medals.

Highlights
  • One-thumb flight controls
  • 25 stages across five acts
  • Eight aircraft bosses
  • Weapon and aircraft upgrades
  • Strike missions
  • Medal system for difficulty levels
  • Game Center integration
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one thumb flies and fires. sky fury: pacific war is a vertical arcade shooter for iphone and ipad. fly a p-38 lightning through 25 stages in five acts, with eight aircraft bosses and five strike missions. the art is painterly, and the soundtrack's five act songs take turns, one per stage. fly by instinct • drag to fly. your guns fire while your finger is on the screen. • collect weapon upgrades through six tiers, plus bombs and shields. • enemy rounds are outlined, streaked and coloured by kind, and enemy aircraft flash as they shoot. • a round that crosses your plane without hitting its middle is a graze, worth 50 points. • on strike missions, destroy a set number of targets before they scroll past. your hangar after every stage, win or lose, your score earns supply. the first stage clear of each day earns double. spend it in the hangar, where your own p-38 stands as a 3d model carrying the weapon tier, bomb racks and armor plate you have fitted. tap a station and the camera moves to show what its next rank adds: • armament: a weapon floor your gun never drops below, even after a lost life. • bomb racks: carry up to 5 bombs; at rank 2 every life refills them to 3. • airframe: armor plate that takes the first hit of every stage, then a sixth life. • salvage: weapon upgrades in 25% fewer kills, then a lost life keeps up to one tier above the floor. • magnet: pulls pickups in from a third of the screen's width, then every pickup except rescues from anywhere on screen. • requisition: 15% more supply, then 30%. supply is earned in flight only, and nothing in the hangar is for sale. every stage keeps its own weapon cap, and no upgrade lifts you past it. lifetime supply promotes your pilot, from second lieutenant to colonel. what a game over costs • cadet: lose your last life and you retry the stage with full lives. • ace: lose your last life in act i and you retry the stage with full lives, or switch to cadet. from act ii on, the act starts again from its first stage. • legendary: lose your last life and the campaign starts again from stage 1. • no continue comes from an ad or a purchase. • each stage has three medals per difficulty: clear, no-death and no-hit. strike missions add a fourth: mission perfect. • clear a stage on cadet and it opens on ace. clear it on ace and it opens on legendary. • signed in to game center, the results of a campaign stage clear can show where you stand on that stage's board, such as #3 of 9 pilots or top 8% of pilots, and your rank among friends. • weekly sortie: signed in to game center, every stage you clear, in the campaign or a sortie, puts its stage score on a board that starts over each week. your best of the week counts, on any difficulty. sorties • clear act i on any difficulty and the sortie board opens: all 25 stages in a grid, with your medals and best stage score on each for the difficulty you fly. • a sortie is one stage flown on its own, with its own results card. it earns supply and medals, and your campaign run is left untouched. ads and purchase • all 25 stages are free. • from the second act on, an ad plays between stages, never straight after a boss. there are no rewarded videos. • remove ads is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. it turns the ads off. it is the only in-app purchase, and it adds no stages or upgrades. set in the pacific theater from 1942 to 1945, the campaign ends with a fictionalized escort of the enola gay over hiroshima. learn the patterns. find your opening.

About

SplitBounce

Engage in rapid, vibrant arcade shooting with a focus on portrait gameplay. Enemies split and dodge incoming fire as you collect coins to enhance your loadout across numerous levels and worlds.

Highlights
  • 120 levels across 6 themed worlds
  • Fast portrait arcade gameplay
  • Upgradeable weapons and gear
  • Perks and power-ups
  • Score chasing and progressive difficulty
  • Multiple characters with unique strengths
Features
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SplitBounce is a fast, colorful arcade shooter built for quick portrait sessions. Pop and split enemies, dodge incoming fire, collect coins and build a stronger loadout as the challenge increases across 120 levels and six distinct worlds. FEATURES • 120 levels across 6 themed worlds • Fast portrait arcade gameplay • Smarter enemies, turrets and varied attack patterns • 4 characters with different strengths • Upgradeable weapons and side-support gear • Perks including drones, extra shots, shields, overclock, coin magnet and time effects • Coins, score chasing and progressive difficulty • English and Turkish language support Easy to start, increasingly demanding to master. Pick your character, improve your gear and see how far you can push your run in SplitBounce.

Screenshots

Sky Fury4 screens
SplitBounce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: SplitBounce at none against Sky Fury's shown. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Sky Fury sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SplitBounce sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sky Fury against 5.0 for SplitBounce. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Sky Fury versus SplitBounce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSky FurySplitBounce
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size282 MB30 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAksial TechnologiesAHMET SERHAT UGURLU

Customer experience

Sky Fury

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

SplitBounce

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

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sky Fury

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
1 purchases

SplitBounce

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$2.99

Questions

Is Sky Fury free?
Sky Fury is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SplitBounce free?
SplitBounce is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sky Fury or SplitBounce?
Sky Fury and SplitBounce are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Sky Fury or SplitBounce have ads?
Sky Fury shows ads; SplitBounce does not.
Which is updated more often, Sky Fury or SplitBounce?
Sky Fury ships an update every 2 weeks, and SplitBounce every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sky Fury was updated on November 6, 2026 and SplitBounce on October 31, 2026.

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