Comparison

Saving with Piggy vs Impulse Control!

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

Head to head
About

Saving with Piggy

An educational game designed to teach young children aged 2-5 about U.S. coins and the concept of saving money. Players feed a virtual piggy bank with different coins, learning their appearance, value, and how to save.

Highlights
  • Learn coin appearance (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters)
  • Understand relative coin value
  • Learn monetary value of each coin
  • Teaches the process of saving money
  • Four levels of play
  • Endless mode for reinforcement
Features
Read full description

Give your child a jump start on their financial literacy! Saving with Piggy is a educational game that helps young children (age 2 to 5) learn about coins by feeding piggy (aka, putting coins in the piggy bank). The game features Piggy, a lovable animated piggy bank that needs help saving coins. Through four levels of play, your child can: * learn the visually appearance of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. * learn the relative value of the coins (which is worth more or less). * learn the monetary value of each coin (i.e., a quarter is worth 25 cents). * learn the process of saving money. Once your child masters the four levels of the game, challenge them to play the endless mode and save as much money as possible to help reinforce the concepts learned in the game. The game is 100% free-to-play (with no in-app purchases). The game is developed by the Games for Entertainment and Learning (GEL) Lab at Michigan State University and supported by the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union.

About

Impulse Control!

Engage in a physics-based destruction game where you launch projectiles to demolish realistic structures. Discover your personality type by answering questions and progress through levels to defeat enemies and unlock your profile.

Highlights
  • Realistic building destruction physics
  • Projectile launching gameplay
  • Unlockable personality profile
  • Over 25 levels
  • Defeat enemies
  • Structural engineer-designed structures
Features
Read full description

Impulse Control is a projectile launching game that features realistic building destruction and assigns you a personality type at the end. Meet the warden of Polar Labs and his sidekick, Marlin. Journey through the 4 elements, answering questions about yourself. Enjoy destroying a structure that is connected like a real building - not just a pile of blocks. Impulse Control calls on you to collapse 3 unique structure types developed by a structural engineer. Find out which of the 4 elements describes you the best. Defeat the meanies in over 25 levels and accumulate points to unlock your unique personality profile. Knock down the unique structures in each level with well-placed shots, harmonic resonance, or brute force to create havoc and squash the meanies. This game is not intended to treat any disorders. Impulse control is something we can all practice. "For every minute we remain angry, we give up 60 seconds of peace of mind" so don't be a meanie, give impulse control a try.

Screenshots

Saving with Piggy4 screens
Impulse Control!2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Saving with Piggy at 100% against Impulse Control!'s 0%. Saving with Piggy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Impulse Control!'s advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 46 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Saving with Piggy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Saving with Piggy's written reviews are positive against 0% of Impulse Control!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Saving with Piggy ships an update every 46 months, Impulse Control! every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Saving with Piggy versus Impulse Control!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSaving with PiggyImpulse Control!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 46 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size140 MB130 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperBrian WinnImpulse Control

Customer experience

Saving with Piggy

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Impulse Control!

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Saving with Piggy

No in-app purchases

None

Impulse Control!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Saving with Piggy free?
Saving with Piggy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Impulse Control! free?
Impulse Control! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Saving with Piggy or Impulse Control!?
Saving with Piggy is rated higher. Saving with Piggy averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Impulse Control! averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Saving with Piggy or Impulse Control! have ads?
Impulse Control! shows ads; Saving with Piggy does not.
Which is updated more often, Saving with Piggy or Impulse Control!?
Saving with Piggy ships an update every 46 months, and Impulse Control! every 6 weeks. Most recently, Saving with Piggy was updated on September 25, 2026 and Impulse Control! on June 1, 2026.

Other comparisons