Comparison

Build A Squishy vs STARCAST

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

Head to head
About

Build A Squishy

Create and interact with unique virtual squishies. Customize their appearance, explore various textures and sounds, and even open them up to play with the internal slime. Save your creations to a personal collection and trade rare ones with others.

Highlights
  • Create custom squishies
  • Interact with textures and sounds
  • Open squishies to play with slime
  • Collect and arrange squishies
  • Trade rare squishies
  • Send squishies as links
  • Offline play
Features
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Make a squishy, watch it form, then squeeze, poke, stretch and jiggle it as long as you like. Every material has its own calm ASMR sound. No ads. No coins. No tricks. Just squishies. Made by Arden and her dad, in Georgia. Arden plays every version first, and a lot of what's in here started as something she asked for. Make one that's yours. Pick a shape, a color, a finish and what floats inside, from a plain jelly orb to something patterned, pearly or see-through. Play with it. Twenty-seven ways to touch it. Flick it into a flip, slow it down, freeze it solid and crack the ice. Open it up. Cut it open to see what's inside, then let the slime out and play with that too. A gift every week. A new squishy arrives each week, and every player starts with a World Treat: Dubai Chocolate, New York Cheesecake, Manila Ube Halo-Halo, Paris Macaron or Java Klepon. Collect and trade. Fill your shelf, finish sets, find hidden recipes, and trade with a cast of shopkeepers (computer characters, never other players) for the rare ones. Send one to a friend as a link, a card or a short video. The link carries only the recipe. For grown-ups: it works fully offline, with no accounts, no chat and no ads. One optional purchase, Squishy Deluxe, adds more to collect. It sits behind a grown-ups gate, is handled by Apple and never expires. Privacy policy: buildasquishy.com/app-privacy

About

STARCAST

Features
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What will you stream today? In STARCAST, you're the creator. Pick one of 18 characters, decorate your room, choose a title — and you're live! Squeeze squishies, decorate journals, bracelets and pens, and bake cookies while pretend viewers pour in and cheer you on in the chat. ■ The more you talk, the more viewers you get Chat while you stream and your viewer count climbs. Say "so pretty!" and your viewers agree. ■ Subscribe alerts and hearts When your stream gets exciting, hearts float up and "subscribed!" alerts pop in. ■ Seven kinds of streams · Squishy squeeze (ASMR) — three squishies that each feel different · Slime making — mix in glitter, beads and gummy bears · Phone case decorating — bows, gems and bear charms on your case · Journal, bracelet and pen decorating — beads go on the string, stickers on the page · Cookie making ■ Earn coins, decorate your room Every stream earns coins, and doing what a viewer asks earns bonus coins. Spend them to unlock new props and room themes for your stream. ■ My channel Your streams stack up. Over time their views climb and pretend viewers leave comments. Watch them again, give them hearts, and decorate your room to bring in more viewers. ■ Save your stream as a video Save any stream to Photos as a video with your own voice in it — chat, viewer count, hearts and alerts included, just like it looked live. Sending it outside the app requires a grown-up check first. ■ Made for kids, safe for families · No sign-up, no ads, no analytics · No in-app purchases — coins come only from streaming · Your child's information never leaves the device · No typing anywhere — even channel names are made by picking words · All chat and comments are ready-made — no messages from strangers · Word recognition happens on the device only

Screenshots

Build A Squishy4 screens
STARCAST4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: STARCAST at none against Build A Squishy's 1. STARCAST also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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. Build A Squishy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. STARCAST asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Build A Squishy versus STARCAST: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBuild A SquishySTARCAST
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGladio LLCTwo Steps Ahead Co,. Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Build A Squishy

One-time1
  • Squishy Deluxe$6.99
None

STARCAST

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Build A Squishy free?
Build A Squishy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is STARCAST free?
STARCAST is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Build A Squishy or STARCAST have ads?
Neither Build A Squishy nor STARCAST shows ads.

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