Ape UP! vs MotorDex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ape UP!
Tap to ascend a towering obstacle course, bouncing off friendly creatures and avoiding hazards. Grab power-ups to blast through levels and collect coins to customize your character's appearance. This arcade climber offers simple, addictive gameplay with a retro aesthetic.
- Tap to jump gameplay
- Bounce off obstacles
- Collect bananas for power-ups
- Smash through floors
- Customize ape colors
- Pixel art retro style
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How high can your little ape climb today? Tap to jump. Bounce off the friendly green crocs to springboard even higher, and watch out for the toothy brown ones, they bite. Grab a flying banana and go SUPER. The screen lights up, your ape glows, and you blast through floor after floor. GAMEPLAY A simple one tap arcade climber that gets faster, taller, and wilder the higher you go. GO SUPER Bananas are rare. Catch one and your ape rockets up the screen, smashing crocs out of the way like they owe you. Pure joy. DRESS YOUR APE Coins stick around forever. Spend them in the shop on new jumper colors. Blue, green, pink, with more on the way. A loving pixel art comeback of the original Monkey Hop, with new moves, fresh polish, and that same chunky retro charm. Terms of service (EULA) : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
MotorDex
Instantly identify any car from a photo with AI. Track your car spotting, build a virtual garage, and collect vehicles ranked by rarity. Enjoy a retro arcade experience while discovering rare and exotic cars.
- AI car scanner and identifier
- Vehicle spotting tracker
- Virtual car garage builder
- Gamified rarity tiers
- Retro arcade aesthetics
- Cloud sync for collection
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MotorDex turns car spotting into a collecting game. See a car you love on the street, at a car show or in a parking lot, snap a photo, and our AI suggests its make and model. Then it mints into a Catch Card for your garage, with estimated specs, a rarity tier and its own serial number. Wondering "what car is that?" Snap it. MotorDex identifies 2,000+ car models from a photo, from everyday commuters to hypercars. The AI can make mistakes, especially with rare classics and lookalikes, so you can tap WRONG CAR? TRY AGAIN, report a bad match, or request a car that isn't in the dex yet. At heart MotorDex is a retro-arcade collection game. Every model has a rarity tier, from Common to Mythic. Catch a daily driver, or track down Legendary and Mythic supercars to earn XP, level up your Spotter License and take on daily challenges. There's a monthly leaderboard too. Features: AI Car Identifier: Snap a photo, or pick one you took, and the AI suggests the make and model. Your card shows estimated specs like horsepower, 0-60, top speed, original price and market value, plus a short write-up about the car. Car Spotting Tracker: Each catch is logged in your collection, so you can look back at the cars you've found. Build Your Digital Garage: Keep your catches in your own virtual garage. Filter by make, class or rarity, and sort by dex number, name, rarity or date. Gamified Rarity Tiers: Six tiers, Common to Mythic. Each catch is also graded on its own, so the exact trim you catch can outrank the base model. Exotics, muscle cars and rare imports are the finds worth bragging about. Retro Arcade Vibe: Pixel art, nostalgic custom sound design and classic gaming style while you build your automotive library. Spot With Friends: Add friends with a friend code and see their catches in your feed. Report and block are built in. Map Your Spots: Turn on location and your catches are pinned on your own map. Location stays off for players under 16. Spot safely: never use your phone while driving, and respect private property. MotorDex is free to download and play, with no ads inside the app. Your garage holds 100 cards on the free plan. MotorDex Pro (optional) removes the 100-card collection limit and adds batch import, burst mode and an extra AI double-check on tough finds. Subscription options: Pro Monthly or Pro Annual, both auto-renewing. Prices are shown before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. MotorDex is an independent game. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any car manufacturer. Terms of Use (EULA): https://motordexgame.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://motordexgame.com/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MotorDex at weekly against Ape UP!'s every 133 months. MotorDex also leads on ratings volume (822 vs 1). Ape UP!'s advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating and in-app purchases 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. Ape UP! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MotorDex sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Ape UP! against 4.9 for MotorDex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MotorDex has 822 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Ape UP! ships an update every 133 months, MotorDex weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ape UP! | MotorDex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (822 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 87.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 822 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 133 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | — | iPhone — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | omytap | Matteo Farinacci |
In-app purchases
Ape UP!
- Remove Ads$0.99
MotorDex
- MotorDex Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
- MotorDex Pro — Annual$19.991 Year









