Salad Shark vs Jumping Spikes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salad Shark
Control a vegetarian shark that must eat fruits and vegetables while avoiding meat thrown by monkeys. Tap the screen to eat and navigate through various game modes and missions.
- One-button gameplay
- Classic, extreme, and lightning survival modes
- 20 unique missions
- Unlockable skins
- 7 challenging achievements
- Online leaderboards
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Monkeys will throw everything at you but you can't eat any meat! Salad Shark is a fun game and is easy to understand. You are a vegetarian shark that can only eat fruits and vegetables (duh!). Monkeys will throw all the food they can get their tiny hands on and you have to TOUCH THE SCREEN to eat. Remember, DON'T EAT MEAT! FEATURES - One button gameplay - Classic, extreme and lightning survival modes - 20 unique missions - Unlockable skins - 7 challenging achievements - Reach for the top with online leaderboards
Jumping Spikes
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The simplest game you'll never put down. Tap to flip direction. Bounce between two walls. Survive the spikes. That's it. That's the whole game. But every wall you hit, fresh spikes appear on the wall you just left. The longer you survive, the harder it gets. The faster you go. The narrower the gaps. Until one mistake — one millisecond of bad timing — sends you straight into the spikes. • ONE TAP. INFINITE DEPTH. No tutorials. No menus. Tap once, you're in. • 60FPS NATIVE ACTION Built in Swift + SpriteKit for buttery smooth gameplay on every iPhone, from SE to Pro Max. • HAPTIC FEEDBACK Every jump, every score, every spike collision — you feel it. • BEAT YOUR BEST Your high score follows you everywhere. Crush it, share it, lose it to your friends. • OFFLINE READY Subway, plane, dead Wi-Fi — Spike Jumper doesn't care. • NO PAYWALLS, NO PRESSURE Free to play. Just one banner ad at the bottom — tap, ignore, your call. — PERFECT FOR — • Killing 30 seconds in line at the coffee shop. • Killing 30 minutes in bed at 2 AM. • That one friend who claims they have "good reflexes." • Anyone who misses arcade games. — A WARNING — Spike Jumper is built to be the kind of game where you tap "Just one more try" thirty times in a row. Open at your own risk. Now jump.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Jumping Spikes at none against Salad Shark's 2. Jumping Spikes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Salad Shark sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Jumping Spikes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Salad Shark ships an update every 6 weeks, Jumping Spikes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salad Shark | Jumping Spikes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Lavigne | Emanuel Boros |
In-app purchases
Salad Shark
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Cthulhu Skin$0.99
Jumping Spikes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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