Saving with Piggy vs Impulse Control!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Realistic building destruction physics
- Projectile launching gameplay
- Unlockable personality profile
- Over 25 levels
- Defeat enemies
- Structural engineer-designed structures
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Saving with Piggy | Impulse Control! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 46 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 130 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brian Winn | Impulse Control |
Customer experience
Saving with Piggy
Impulse Control!
In-app purchases
Saving with Piggy
No in-app purchases
Impulse Control!
No in-app purchases
Questions
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