Buoy Boy vs Tako Bubble
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Buoy Boy
Embark on an endless ocean adventure to help a character become human again by collecting treasures. Enjoy intuitive tap and tilt controls, power-ups, and vibrant underwater themes with Caribbean music.
- Endless floater gameplay
- Tap & Tilt controls
- Collect treasure
- Power-ups
- Caribbean music
- Underwater themes
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The endless floater adventure of Buoy Boy is here! Help him become a real boy again and collect all the treasure in the ocean. In your adventure you will have all this amazing features: - First endless floater - Lungs full of air - Tap & Tilt control - Very funny - Caribbean music - Power Ups - Different beautiful underwater themes
Tako Bubble
Help Octopus Tako pop colorful bubbles to recover lost beetle gems. Navigate deep-ocean levels, defeat monsters, and collect all the hidden treasures in this turn-based casual puzzler. Enjoy 60 levels with simple controls and no turn limits.
- Turn-based casual puzzler
- Pop 3 colored bubbles to advance
- Defeat cartoonish creatures
- Collect hidden beetle gems
- 60 timeless levels
- 1-finger swipe control
- 13 achievements
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Octopus Tako's beetle collection was blown away by a magical swirl of bubbles! Could you help it pop all the bubbles and find them back? Tako Bubble is a turn-based casual puzzler; as soon as three glittering colored bubbles are popped, Tako can get to the next level by magic! Please help it crawl through deep-ocean environments, defeat ferocious monsters, pop all the bubbles, and find back the hidden beetle gems! Features: - Simple 1-finger, 4-direction swipe control - 3 glittering, colored bubbles to pop to get past each level, easy! - 10 types of cartoonish creatures, bump them out before you’re surrounded! - 13 achievements: start your career as a secret octopus agent - 31 different pixel beetles waiting for your rescue - 60 timeless levels, no turn limit either: a pure brainpower game 60 brand new levels made exclusively for this mobile version; we hope you enjoy it! Ally & CH, 2018
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Buoy Boy at none against Tako Bubble's shown. Buoy Boy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 9.0). Tako Bubble's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Buoy Boy sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Tako Bubble sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Buoy Boy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tako Bubble has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Buoy Boy ships an update every 3 months, Tako Bubble every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Buoy Boy | Tako Bubble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 463 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Headup GmbH | I Chen Sheng |
Customer experience
Buoy Boy
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In-app purchases
Buoy Boy
- 200 Coins$0.99
- 1000 Coins$2.99
- 2000 coins$4.99
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- 10000 coins$9.99
- 30000 coins$19.99
- 100000 coins$49.99
- 300000 coins$99.99
Tako Bubble
- No Ads$1.99
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