FlippyBit vs Break the Balloon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FlippyBit
Tap to guide a floating bit through a dangerous digital cave filled with obstacles. Experience simple, retro-styled gameplay with authentic 8-bit graphics that challenge your reflexes.
- Tap to float gameplay
- Retro 8-bit graphics
- Challenging reflexes
- Digital cave environment
- Simple mechanics
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It's time to flip your bit! Party like it's 1979! Tap to keep your bit floating past the stalactites and stalagmites of a vast digital cave! FlippyBit's simple gameplay, retro-styled graphics, and authentic 8-bit graphics will warm your heart and challenge your reflexes.
Break the Balloon
Become a ghost hero and lead the charge against invading cats. Your mission is to pop all the balloons to drive them away and restore fear to the land. Explore a spooky kingdom and enjoy new ghost updates.
- Pop balloons
- Ghost hero gameplay
- Halloween theme
- Defeat cats
- New ghost updates
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Ghost Town is a perfect kingdom for all kind of fears and horrors until... The Cats came. And they can detect Ghosts, disturb them, hunt them... You, the new Ghost hero in Town, lead us to destroy all Cat's balloons to drop them, bring back fear to the land!!! ------------------------------- ***NEW GHOSTS UPDATED*** Get the game!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Break the Balloon at 92% against FlippyBit's 33%. Break the Balloon also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). FlippyBit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Break the Balloon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. FlippyBit asks for nothing beyond the download.
FlippyBit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Break the Balloon has 1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of FlippyBit's written reviews are positive against 92% of Break the Balloon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
FlippyBit ships an update every 6 weeks, Break the Balloon every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FlippyBit | Break the Balloon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 92.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rebisoft | Gosiha Pte. Ltd |
Customer experience
FlippyBit
Break the Balloon
Bugs and requests
FlippyBit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Break the Balloon
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes on launch
- Unresponsive controls
- Dying in mid-air glitch
Requested features
3 requests- Leaderboards and multiplayer
- More level variety
- Improved performance on older devices
In-app purchases
FlippyBit
No in-app purchases
Break the Balloon
- 1000 SOULS$0.99
- Unlock All Ghost & Remove Ads$0.99
- 3000 SOULS$1.99
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- 9000 SOULS$2.99
Questions
Is FlippyBit free?
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