Comparison

Super Pipe Bird vs Flap Hero

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

Head to head
About

Super Pipe Bird

Tap the screen to make a small bird flap its wings and fly through a series of pipes. Avoid crashing to achieve the highest score possible in this simple yet challenging arcade game.

Highlights
  • Simple tap controls
  • Crispy gameplay
  • High score challenges
  • Original game mechanics
Features
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Tap to flap and find your way through the pipes. Keep flying, beat your best score, then try again. Play Original for a familiar challenge, or choose Arcade for pipes that move and change the gaps as you fly. Super Pipe Bird keeps it simple with pixel art, one-tap controls and Game Center leaderboards. Play on iPhone or iPad, turn sideways to see more of the course, and choose whether music plays during your run. No ads. Just you, the bird and the next pipe.

About

Flap Hero

Tap to control a bird's flight and navigate through obstacles. Earn bonus points by entering lower pipes and survive two collisions before being grounded. Enjoy a quick and satisfying gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • Tap to flap gameplay
  • Avoid obstacles
  • Enter lower pipes for bonus points
  • Two-hit survival mechanic
  • Quick download and instant play
Features
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Tap to flap and avoid the pipes! Flap Hero is a simple, satisfying "one-button flapper" with some unique twists: • Enter the lower pipe for a 5 point bonus. Gain high scores more quickly! • Keep flying after a single collision. It takes TWO hits to put this bird on the ground! Flap Hero is free, quick to download and opens instantly. You could be playing in less time than it took to read this text!

Screenshots

Super Pipe Bird4 screens
Flap Hero4 screens

Verdict

The call

Super Pipe Bird and Flap Hero both sit at 4.3 stars, but that hides the real split: 77% of Flap Hero's written reviews are positive against 67% of Super Pipe Bird's. Flap Hero also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Super Pipe Bird's advantage is ratings volume (241 vs 35). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Super Pipe Bird against 4.3 for Flap Hero. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Super Pipe Bird has 241 ratings behind it against 35, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Super Pipe Bird's written reviews are positive against 77% of Flap Hero's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Super Pipe Bird versus Flap Hero: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuper Pipe BirdFlap Hero
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (241 ratings)4.3 (35 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews77.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings241 — better35
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElaine RochaArc80 Software Inc.

Customer experience

Super Pipe Bird

All ratings228 ratings
Positive79.8%
Neutral5.7%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral6.7%
Negative26.7%

Flap Hero

All ratings29 ratings
Positive82.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative17.2%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive77.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

None

Super Pipe Bird

No in-app purchases

None

Flap Hero

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Super Pipe Bird free?
Super Pipe Bird is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flap Hero free?
Flap Hero is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Super Pipe Bird or Flap Hero?
Flap Hero is rated higher. Super Pipe Bird averages 4.3 out of 5 from 241 ratings, while Flap Hero averages 4.3 from 35 ratings.
Do Super Pipe Bird or Flap Hero have ads?
Neither Super Pipe Bird nor Flap Hero shows ads.

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