Comparison

Salad Shark vs Jumping Spikes

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • One-button gameplay
  • Classic, extreme, and lightning survival modes
  • 20 unique missions
  • Unlockable skins
  • 7 challenging achievements
  • Online leaderboards
Features
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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

About

Jumping Spikes

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Salad Shark4 screens
Jumping Spikes3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Salad Shark sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Jumping Spikes asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Salad Shark versus Jumping Spikes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSalad SharkJumping Spikes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB61 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSimon LavigneEmanuel Boros

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Salad Shark

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Cthulhu Skin$0.99
None

Jumping Spikes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Salad Shark free?
Salad Shark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Jumping Spikes free?
Jumping Spikes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Salad Shark or Jumping Spikes have ads?
Salad Shark shows ads; Jumping Spikes does not.
Which is updated more often, Salad Shark or Jumping Spikes?
Salad Shark ships an update every 6 weeks, and Jumping Spikes every 10 days. Most recently, Salad Shark was updated on August 1, 2026 and Jumping Spikes on September 8, 2026.

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