Irish Dances vs Beach Ball Runner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Irish Dances
This app serves as a digital notebook for Irish dancers, detailing various set dances, ceili dances, and two-hand dances. It offers abstract and detailed descriptions for each figure, with some including videos. Users can also track their dancing activity on a world map.
- Detailed dance descriptions
- Abstract figure summaries
- Video demonstrations
- World map of dancers
- Database updates
- User feedback integration
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"Irish Dances" replaces the notebook every irish dancer keeps in his or her pocket during ceili. Every dance will be described : set dances, but also next ceili dances and two hand dances. Dances are described with two levels : - an abstract (the main parts) for all the figures, - detailed lines for each figure (the rhythm, who dance, what, how long...). If possible, a video is also available for each figure. Actually, 218 dances are listed, 62 are summarized and 37 dances are detailed. When new dances are published, an indicator appears and you just have to update freely your database (in settings menu). For fun, click on "Just danced it !" (during workshop, ceili or demo) to immediately show where are irish dancers on a world map. If a dance is not yet detailed (or if you find error), please send us a mail. "Irish Dances" will soon provides more functionnalities to help dancers and to share our pleasure to irish dance !
Beach Ball Runner
Guide a beach ball through an endless, increasingly fast-paced obstacle course. Collect coins for points, stars for invincibility, and hearts to stay alive. Compete on the leaderboard and use ads to revive yourself.
- Endless obstacle course gameplay
- Coin collection for scoring
- Invincibility power-ups
- Revive with ads
- Leaderboard for high scores
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Does the beach ever end? Guide the beach ball through the obstacles as it gradually speeds up. Capture coins to score points! Capture stars to be invincible. Capture hearts to stay alive! How far can you go? Enjoy this highly addictive never ending madness. Check the leaderboard to see how you rank! View ads to revive yourself, but careful you only have a certain amount before restarting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Beach Ball Runner at Free against Irish Dances's $2.99. Beach Ball Runner also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Irish Dances's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On rating, in-app purchases 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
Beach Ball Runner is free to download; Irish Dances costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Irish Dances against 4.9 for Beach Ball Runner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Beach Ball Runner has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Irish Dances ships an update every 7 months, Beach Ball Runner every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Irish Dances | Beach Ball Runner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pascal Guillas | App Factorial LLC |
Customer experience
Irish Dances
Beach Ball Runner
In-app purchases
Irish Dances
No in-app purchases
Beach Ball Runner
No in-app purchases
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