Ferry Play vs tonies
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ferry Play
Experience a unique, site-specific audio play on the Staten Island Ferry. This app uses your surroundings to create an immersive theatrical performance, blending historical narratives with present-day voices. Enjoy a personalized show that adapts to your chosen time and direction of travel.
- Site-specific audio play
- Full sensory experience
- Podplay genre
- Self-scheduled performance
- Interactive narrative
- Dual-act journey
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Ferry Play: An App Play Ride New York City's Staten Island Ferry with nothing more than a set of headphones and this app to experience the site-specific, full sensory experience of a podplay for the Staten Island Ferry. As the ferry sets sail, put your earbuds in place and listen to the recorded production in which every surrounding sight, smell and sound plays a supporting role in the experience. Ghosts from the ferry's past mingle with voices from its present, leaving you to consider you role in the live performance event that is the Big Apple. Ferry Play is a self-scheduled performance: you can ride the ferry late at night, early in the morning, or any time in between - you choose the day and time, which then affects the experience you have. Act 1 takes place on the ride from Manhattan to Staten Island; Act 2 takes place on the ride from Staten Island to Manhattan. Podplays are an emerging genre of theatre that take advantage of mobile technology to create site-specific audio-based theatrical experiences.
tonies
Manage your Toniebox and create custom audio stories. Save recordings even if your phone's memory is full. The app simplifies setup, corrects access rights, and allows manual WLAN entry.
- Create custom audio stories
- Save recordings to phone memory
- Simplified Toniebox setup
- Manual WLAN name entry
- Customer service access
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We are pleased that you are using our tonies app. Our App-Tonies are always hard at work for you. In this update, they have once again worked on improvements. If your mobile phone memory is full during a recording, you can now save your recording until then. We have also optimised some steps in the setup process of the Toniebox: The request for access rights has been corrected. WLAN names (SSIDs) can now also be entered manually. Occasionally, it can happen that the set up process was successful despite the code word "hedgehog". This is now displayed. Do you have questions or feedback? The Tonie customer service is there for you in your profile. Note The use of the Content for text and data mining of (generative) AI systems is expressly reserved in the context specified in clause 13.4 of the Terms of Use and is therefore prohibited.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: tonies at Free against Ferry Play's $1.99. tonies also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 58 months). Ferry Play's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 56%). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
tonies is free to download; Ferry Play costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
tonies holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: tonies has 8.6K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Ferry Play's written reviews are positive against 56% of tonies's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Ferry Play ships an update every 58 months, tonies every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ferry Play | tonies |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (10 ratings) | 4.6 (8.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 56.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 8.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 58 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #116 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joshua Parmenter | tonies GmbH |
Customer experience
Ferry Play
tonies
Bugs and requests
Ferry Play
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
tonies
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes and freezes
- Difficulty connecting to WiFi
- Creative Tonie recording issues
- Inconsistent device performance
Requested features
4 requests- Add remote control and playback options in the app
- Implement a wishlist feature in the app
- Allow streaming of purchased content from the app
- Improve content filtering and curation
In-app purchases
Ferry Play
No in-app purchases
tonies
No in-app purchases
