Roly vs Hyper Edohaku Ginza
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roly
Tap on rolling creatures to transform them into balls and collect them in cups. Once they escape, catch them again! Explore vibrant mazes with your collected creatures. Designed for young children with a safe, ad-free environment.
- Catch rolling creatures
- Collect creatures in cups
- Play in mazes
- Simple operation for kids
- Catching Mode
- Maze Mode
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Touch the Roly-polys to turn them into balls. Collect them in the cups. When the Roly-polys run out of the cup, catch them again! Can you catch all 20? Collect lots and play with them in the mazes! Features - Simple operation for kids - Catching Mode and Maze Mode - Fun experience of the Roly-poly World at close range For safety play, we use parental gate. Kids will not see: - Third-party advertising - Links to social networks - Personal data request Spoke Co., Ltd. will continue to release apps with communication elements that can be enjoyed by small children and their families.
Hyper Edohaku Ginza
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A new version of Hyper Edohaku, the Edo-Tokyo Museum’s popular interactive phone app, is now available. Take a journey back in time to Ginza during the Meiji period, when Japan experienced rapid Westernization, and discover the birth of modern Japanese culture and customs. In 1868, the Edo period came to an end, bringing to a close more than two and a half centuries of rule by the Tokugawa shoguns. The city formerly known as Edo now became Tokyo and the curtain rose on the Meiji period: the era of Japanese modernization. Japan began to import a wide array of ideas, technologies, values, and culture from the West, quickly developing into a modern nation-state. With this app, experience the rapidly changing city and lives of ordinary people during this time, as told through the story of one family. Find 100 Items from the Museum Collection The tale unfolds around an intersection in the Ginza 4-chome neighborhood of Tokyo. Ginza, which truly came into its own at this time, is thrillingly recreated in 3D, based on a model of its tiled architecture in the Edo-Tokyo Museum collection. The district encapsulated how the city was then an evolving, exciting blend of the new and the old, of Japanese and Western. Hidden in the landscape are 100 items, especially selected from the 360,000 in the museum collection! Travel across Four Phases of the Meiji Period The app divides up the 45 tumultuous years of the Meiji period into four phases. See how things changed for the city and its inhabitants, starting from the first year of Meiji, when the signs of the feudal era remained strong. The app tells the story of a family through the eyes of a boy and girl growing up across these four phases. What Was New in Meiji? Many of the things we taken for granted about Japanese life and society are actually quite recent and only arrived during the Meiji period. From red bean jam pastries to electricity and gas, telephones, railroads and cars, and shoes and hats, the new era ushered in a huge number of innovations to daily life. Many of Japan’s most famous writers and cultural figures, like the novelists Natsume Soseki and Nagai Kafu, also appeared at this time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hyper Edohaku Ginza at none against Roly's 1. Hyper Edohaku Ginza also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. Roly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hyper Edohaku Ginza asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Roly | Hyper Edohaku Ginza |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spoke Inc. | Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture |
In-app purchases
Roly
- New kind of roly-poly$2.99
Hyper Edohaku Ginza
No in-app purchases
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