Seashine vs Bat's Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Seashine
Explore a mysterious, dangerous underworld as a fragile jellyfish. Absorb light to survive longer and evade bizarre creatures lurking in the darkness. Experience an endless, unique survival quest with intuitive touch controls and a dynamic soundtrack.
- Endless underworld exploration
- Unique, unlimited gameplay
- Intuitive touch controls
- Dynamic reactive soundtrack
- Survival against bizarre creatures
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How long will you survive in the abyss? Dive now into the abyss, in an endless quest for survival. You are born as a fragile jellyfish, struggling to maintain a fading light in the darkness of the deep ocean caves. Explore this mysterious underworld and absorb all the light you find on your way to live a few more seconds. But be aware... As poetic as this place seems to be, bizarre creatures and plants lurk in the obscurity, waiting to take a bite of you! Survival of the fittest inside nature's most well kept secret, the depths of the ocean. - Explore a gorgeous and endless underworld full of unknown dangers and strange creatures. - An unlimited experience where each game is unique. You'll never face the same challenge twice. - Intuitive controls specially made for touch devices. - A beautiful dynamic soundtrack reacting to the environment.
Bat's Life
Navigate a charming green bat through challenging caves using simple tap controls to achieve the highest score. Experience a whimsical story of love, dreams, and a tournament for a bat's heart.
- Simple tap-to-fly controls
- High score chasing gameplay
- Adorable bat character
- Engaging narrative
- Challenging cave navigation
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Use echolocation to navigate an adorable green bat to the highest score! Just tap to fly, it is as simple as that! LORE: Flappy was not like the other bats. For starters, he was neon green. Though bats are not disposed to judge a book by its cover, bats are by and large are simple folk. They fly during the night and sleep during the day. Flappy wasn't strange for the radioactive pallor of his skin in the moonlight. Flappy was strange because he didn't sleep, he dreamed. He dreamed to hear the world, and to flap in un-flapped lands, and ... most of all ... to find love. And one day, Flappy's dream came true when he met Flappina. It was love at first sound. Flappina and Flappy were happy. Until Flappina's father, the Cave King (largely a figurehead), declared there to be a tournament for his daughter's wing in holy batrimony. Flappy and Flappina were devastated. Fortunately Flappina was a renowned bat-strophysicist with a hobby for ancient bat-botany. So Flappina devised a plan, while Flappy spent all hours of the night flying the abyssal caves, she read the sacred texts and current scientific literature. On the dusk of the tournament, she met Flappy in secret. "My love, my heart is heavy, I cannot possibly beat the noblest nights of the bat-dom" he said. "There is a way my love," she said, "Following the lost secrets of the sages and the best understanding of modern bat-strophysics, I have crafted a potion sure to make you the greatest flapper of all." "How does it work? Will it hurt? Is it vegan?" asked Flappy skeptically. "It is vegan." responded Flappina reassuringly, "This is the only way for us to be together squeakheart... I love you" Flappy took one last look into his lover's eyes... "I know" ...and he drank the potion. Instantly, he was launched into a vision beyond the bounds of his Euclidian reality. His uncomprehending minds-ear beheld a terrifying being of ineffable size, dimension, and power. In the hand of this being, Flappy perceived a portal to a cave where his body was flapping. Above him a gargantuan strange alien text proclaimed: T A P T O F L A P. In utter cosmic horror, Flappy felt the titanic thumb thunder down towards the portal. And in the moment of impact - he found himself flapping through a cave? Not just any cave! This was the tournament cave! It's all come down to this! He would be the greatest flapper of all time or he would forever lose his love - his dream. He knew what he had to do.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bat's Life at none against Seashine's 6. Bat's Life also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Seashine's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months). On price, review sentiment, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Seashine sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Bat's Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bat's Life holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Seashine has 4.9K ratings behind it against 32, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Seashine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bat's Life's.
Seashine ships an update monthly, Bat's Life every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Seashine | Bat's Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.9K ratings) | 5.0 (32 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.9K — better | 32 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 217 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Patrick Ellis | Jason Raiti |
Customer experience
Seashine
Bat's Life
Bugs and requests
Seashine
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes
- Disappearing collectibles or progress loss
- Inconsistent enemy spawn patterns
Requested features
5 requests- Peaceful exploration mode without enemies
- More diverse environments and creatures
- Ability to play as other sea creatures
- Multiplayer or co-op gameplay
- Improved tutorial and onboarding
Bat's Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Seashine
- 40 Stars$0.49
- 100 Stars$0.99
- 200 Stars$1.89
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- 400 Stars$2.99
- Star Doubler$3.99
- 800 Stars$4.99
Bat's Life
No in-app purchases









