Comparison

Lanka Five Stones vs Bichinho

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

Head to head
About

Lanka Five Stones

Features
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Lanka Five Stones brings a traditional Sri Lankan five-stone skill game to mobile in a peaceful village setting. Throw one stone into the air, collect the required stones from the ground, and catch the falling stone before it lands. Complete the classic 1+1+1+1, 2+2, 3+1, and four-stone rounds while protecting your three lives. Journey through twelve handcrafted levels. Each level introduces a new stone arrangement and gradually increases the challenge, rewarding timing, accuracy, and smooth control. Features: • Traditional four-round five-stone rules • Twelve handcrafted Journey levels • Simple touch gestures for throwing, collecting, and catching • Unique arrangements that build skill progressively • Distinct natural river stones • A colourful Sri Lankan village setting • Original music, sound effects, and haptic feedback • Offline play with no account required • No advertising or in-app purchases

About

Bichinho

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Feed it. Play with it. Clean up after it. Talk to it. Ignore it, and it gets sick. Ignore that, and it dies. Bichinho is a virtual pet the way they were in the 90s — a tiny creature that keeps living while you're not looking. No pause button. It runs in real time: hungry at lunch, sleepy at bedtime, calling for you at 3 in the afternoon whether your phone is in your hand or in your pocket. NOW IT TALKS Hold the mic and say anything. It listens, thinks, and answers out loud in its own little voice — squeaky as a baby, grumpy if it grew up grumpy. It greets you when you come back, complains when it's hungry, mumbles in its sleep and texts you when it misses you. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence its lines are written fresh on your phone; everywhere else it has hundreds of its own. Nothing is ever sent to a server. IT HATCHES IN A MINUTE Tap the egg to hurry it along. The first hour is the newborn hour: it wants feeding every few minutes, it poops constantly and it never sleeps. Survive that, and things calm down. IT GROWS UP HOW YOU RAISED IT Pingo the baby becomes Bolota the child becomes Zóio the teen. What it grows into after that depends on how well you looked after it — a sun-maned Jubão if you were attentive, a chill Sossegado if you were mostly around, a grumpy Rabugento if you weren't. HAND-PAINTED WORLDS Play on the classic green LCD with pixel art and square-wave beeps, or in the colour world, where every pet, item and world is hand-painted like a storybook. Travel through six eras, from the Stone Age to Space, under a sky that follows the real time of day, with painted nights, weather and visitors, and holidays in every era: Halloween, Christmas, Carnaval, Festa Junina, Easter and more. DRESS IT UP Keep its daily streak to unlock hats, spend era coins on costumes, and pick up outfit packs like Dino, Pirate, Unicorn and Football. Every outfit is painted on every pet. BICHINHO WORLD • Walk together — your real steps are its exercise • Food camera — show it real food and watch it react • Dream diary — every morning, what it dreamed last night • Jokenpô — rock, paper, scissors against your pet ALWAYS WITH YOU It lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen, and Home Screen widgets show how it's doing at a glance. Ask Siri: "Feed Bichinho" or "How is Bichinho?" MADE TO BE LEFT ALONE — A BIT No account, no ads. Set its bedtime to match yours and a night away is fine. A whole day of neglect is not. BICHINHO PRO One purchase, no subscription: keep the colour world after the free days, remember every pet you've raised in the Hall of Past Pets, and keep every dream in the diary. The classic green screen is free forever. Bichinho is what these were called in Brazil: bichinho virtual, the little creature everyone had on their backpack. This one is built from scratch — original creatures, original art, the same rules of care. Every Bichinho is one of a kind. Name it well.

Screenshots

Lanka Five Stones1 screens
Bichinho4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lanka Five Stones at none against Bichinho's 10. Lanka Five Stones also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Bichinho's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bichinho sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Lanka Five Stones asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lanka Five Stones ships an update every 10 days, Bichinho every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Lanka Five Stones versus Bichinho: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLanka Five StonesBichinho
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB157 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperGayan Sukumal Wiharagoda WagageManfred Junior Evald Ferdinand Walter Zedazi

In-app purchases

None

Lanka Five Stones

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Bichinho

One-time10
  • Netherlands Pack$0.99
  • France Pack$0.99
  • Portugal Pack$0.99
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  • Germany Pack$0.99
  • Italy Pack$0.99
  • Japan Pack$0.99
  • Spain Pack$0.99
  • England Pack$0.99
  • USA Pack$0.99
  • All 12 Nations$4.99

Questions

Is Lanka Five Stones free?
Lanka Five Stones is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bichinho free?
Bichinho is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Lanka Five Stones or Bichinho have ads?
Neither Lanka Five Stones nor Bichinho shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lanka Five Stones or Bichinho?
Lanka Five Stones ships an update every 10 days, and Bichinho every 3 days. Most recently, Lanka Five Stones was updated on October 31, 2026 and Bichinho on October 26, 2026.

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