Chicken Yard vs WidgetEgg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chicken Yard
Explore an emergent environment where chickens exhibit various behaviors. This app is designed to teach young children fundamental systems thinking concepts through observation and interaction.
- Observe emergent chicken behaviors
- Learn systems thinking fundamentals
- Interactive observable environment
- Designed for young children
- Classroom discussion topics included
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Play with chickens in the chicken yard. You never know what will happen next. Chickens walk around the chicken yard in various states of focus and excitement. Follow them around and see what they do! Purpose: To teach young children fundamentals of systems thinking by exposing them to an observable, emergent environment whose parameters and behaviors are clearly communicated by the interface. Usage: Tap the left and right arrows at the top of the screen to toggle between chickens and observe what each one is up to. For teachers: Chicken Yard is designed to demonstrate the "Systems and System Models" Crosscutting Concept: "Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together." Use and reference the app in conjunction with the following Next Generation Science Standards: K-ESS2-2: Earth's Systems K-ESS3-1: Earth and Human Activity Topic suggestions for classroom discussion: - What do we mean when we refer to an object's "state"? - How is a chicken's state reflected in its attributes? - How a chicken's state is reflected in its behavior? - What elements of the environment do the chickens interact with? (tiles, boundaries) - How do the attributes of the environment affect the states of the chickens?
WidgetEgg
Monitor your Egg, Inc. progress with convenient widgets. See active missions, fueling status, contract stats, and your profile at a glance. Receive launch notifications to avoid missing opportunities.
- View active and fueling missions
- Home screen widgets
- Launch notifications
- Contract stats and goals
- Profile and stats overview
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View your Egg, Inc.¹ stats at a glance! - Check active and fueling missions on home and virtue farms - Get notified when you've forgotten to hit launch - View your contracts' stats and goals - Get an overview of your own profile and stats [1]WidgetEgg is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Auxbrain, Inc. All trademarks, service marks, and logos pertaining to Egg, Inc are the exclusive property of Auxbrain, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: WidgetEgg at 39 against Chicken Yard's 1. Chicken Yard's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chicken Yard against 5.0 for WidgetEgg. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WidgetEgg has 39 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Chicken Yard | WidgetEgg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (39 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 39 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 116 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Third Rail Games LLC | Tyler Smith |
Customer experience
Chicken Yard
WidgetEgg
In-app purchases
Chicken Yard
No in-app purchases
WidgetEgg
No in-app purchases
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