Comparison

DogRun vs Happy Kitty Jump

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

Head to head
About

DogRun

A simple, one-finger control game where players guide a character to run and avoid obstacles. The objective is to navigate through the game by holding to walk and releasing to run, all while dodging bones.

Highlights
  • Simple one-finger controls
  • Hold to walk
  • Release to run
  • Avoid bones obstacle
  • Endless gameplay
Features
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Tap to walk, release to run — and dodge the bones! Bring your own dog into the game! Add photos of their body and face to make them your character, then watch them run. Touch a dragonfly or butterfly to enter Invincible Mode. A cute, casual game you can play with just one finger.

About

Happy Kitty Jump

Guide a hungry kitty across a vertically scrolling platformer. Collect food to maintain health, use power-ups like helmets and magnets, and avoid hazards like spiders and broccoli. Compete for high scores on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Health management with food collection
  • Vertically scrolling platformer gameplay
  • Hazard avoidance (spiders, broccoli)
  • Collectible power-ups (helmets, magnets, rockets)
  • In-game store for extra lives and new kitties
  • Leaderboard competition
Features
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Kitty needs food. Kitty’s health slowly deteriorates unless she collects food. Quickly race and jump your way through a vertically scrolling map full of platforms while avoiding dangerous perils—like spiders and broccoli. Happy Kitty Jump features many interesting and unique mechanics like collecting metal helmets to avoid dangling spiders, quick jumps over crumbling platforms, magnets for collecting hard to reach items, and other fun mechanics that will make you think fast while quickly jumping from platform to platform. With the decreasing health mechanic, there’s no auto-scroll, so you can go as slowly as you like. But if you’re pushing for high scores on the leaderboards, the action can become quite intense and will surely test your reaction time and platformer prowess. Features: * Kitty’s health slowly drains and you need to collect tasty food while jumping across platforms and avoiding dangerous hazards. * Easy-to-use controls. Simply tap on the left-hand and right-hand side of the screen to make your kitty jump to the different platforms. * Interesting mechanics. Use items like metal helmets to protect yourself from dangling spiders and falling bottles of ketchup, or avoid them all together with a rocket ship. * Collect coins—which carry over in between gameplay—that you can use as “extra lives” or to buy new kitties in the game store. * Push yourselves to the limit with a fast-paced, intense play-through and compete with your friends for high scores on the leaderboards.

Screenshots

DogRun4 screens
Happy Kitty Jump4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DogRun at none against Happy Kitty Jump's 5. DogRun also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 11 months). Happy Kitty Jump's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Happy Kitty Jump sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. DogRun asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for DogRun against 4.0 for Happy Kitty Jump. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of DogRun's written reviews are positive against 67% of Happy Kitty Jump's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DogRun ships an update every 2 months, Happy Kitty Jump every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
DogRun versus Happy Kitty Jump: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDogRunHappy Kitty Jump
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 11 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB244 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUN KANAYAMAKAU, Inc

Customer experience

DogRun

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Happy Kitty Jump

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

DogRun

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Happy Kitty Jump

One-time5
  • Handful of Coins$1.99
  • Cup of Coins$4.99
  • Stack of Coins$7.99
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  • Pile of Coins$9.99
  • Mountain of Coins$24.99

Questions

Is DogRun free?
DogRun is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Happy Kitty Jump free?
Happy Kitty Jump is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DogRun or Happy Kitty Jump?
DogRun and Happy Kitty Jump are both rated 4.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do DogRun or Happy Kitty Jump have ads?
DogRun shows ads; Happy Kitty Jump does not.
Which is updated more often, DogRun or Happy Kitty Jump?
DogRun ships an update every 2 months, and Happy Kitty Jump every 11 months. Most recently, DogRun was updated on October 13, 2026 and Happy Kitty Jump on October 14, 2026.

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