Comparison

Cooped Up vs Orbee

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

Head to head
About

Cooped Up

Navigate a vibrant sanctuary as a new exotic bird, flinging yourself upwards while avoiding obstacles and other quirky birds. Snack on tasty insects along the way and use boosts to ascend further. Compete with friends via Game Center.

Highlights
  • Intuitive twanging fling gameplay
  • Simple pick up and play
  • Game Centre support
  • Collect and eat insects
  • In-game boosts
Features
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You are the latest addition in the exotic bird sanctuary. The other older birds have been Cooped Up a little too long and are a branch short of a perch! Ahhemmm... they is a bit crazy! Fling yourself up up and away but watch out, there's more than just birds that you must avoid. However don't be afraid to snack on the way... ...and don't let the other birds laughing at you get you down! Pick yourself up and twang twang twang again! Features: - Intuitive twanging fling gameplay. - Simple pick up and play for all! - Full game centre support to compete with friends and foes - Eat worms, spiders and flies! Hmmm yummy!!! - Boost you way up like a steam train! Important information This game contains third party advertising which can be removed via a one time IAP. This game contains coins which can be collected within the game for free, bought with real money or via earned via promotions. This game contains cross promotion for other Nitrome games and this is not removed with the IAP for removal of ads.

About

Orbee

Features
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You are a black hole. You are always evaporating. Feed, or fade. Hold anywhere to open a cone of gravity, and aim it at a world. Only what your cone grips gets swallowed — everything else keeps its momentum and slingshots past you. Every meal is a decision. Start as a MICRO hole barely bigger than a moon. Devour enough and you become STELLAR, then SUPERMASSIVE, then a QUASAR, and eventually a SINGULARITY with a galaxy in your throat. THE WHOLE UNIVERSE IS FOOD • 240 procedurally-built galaxies, opening with the real ones — Andromeda, Sombrero, Whirlpool, Pinwheel, the Magellanic Clouds • Dive from deep space into a galaxy, from a galaxy into a star system • Real stellar classes, binary and trinary stars, asteroid belts, ringed gas giants THE CATCH • Hawking evaporation is a clock that never stops, and it gets hungrier the longer you survive • Gas giants are too big until the system starts collapsing — pull one early and it hurts • Antimatter annihilates you, but only if you drag it in yourself • Rival holes hunt the same worlds. One bigger than you will end your run if you touch it • Your gravity runs on a charge meter, so you have to pulse the pull, not hold it WHEN A SYSTEM DIES Devour enough worlds and the stars destabilise — then everything is edible at once and the whole system comes apart in your gravity. Swallow the stars to consume the system. Take 60% of a galaxy and its core opens up. CHASE • Chain combos for stacking meals • Cores, accretion disks and permanent upgrades bought with orbs • Quests, a daily streak, and a Codex logging every galaxy you have devoured • Game Center leaderboard for total mass devoured • Share your run as a card No account. No sign-in. Plays offline. Orbee is our own hand-drawn mascot — every line of code and every pixel of art here is original. Hold. Aim. Devour.

Screenshots

Cooped Up4 screens
Orbee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orbee at none against Cooped Up's 1. Orbee also leads on ads (none vs shown). Cooped Up's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Cooped Up sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Orbee asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cooped Up versus Orbee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooped UpOrbee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (84 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings84 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 17 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB5 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperNitromeJASKARANDEEP JASKARANDEEP SINGH

Bugs and requests

Cooped Up

Reported bugs

13 issues
  • Game crashes on launch or during gameplay
  • Screen flickering and glitching after ads
  • Upside-down screen display
  • Phone freezing or requiring restart
  • Jump mechanics not responding
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  • Achievement notifications not displaying
  • Trophy/score button unresponsive
  • Invincibility frames missing after bug collection
  • Screen rotation causing control issues
  • Frame rate drops during star animations
  • Black screen on startup
  • Incompatibility with iPad devices
  • Pixelated app icon on iPhone 6

Requested features

12 requests
  • Unlockable characters and skins
  • New maps and backgrounds
  • Additional enemy types and difficulty levels
  • In-game currency and upgrade system
  • Customizable bird options
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  • Story mode or narrative elements
  • Different game modes (rush mode, challenge mode)
  • Tutorial for new players
  • Leaderboard functionality improvements
  • Power-ups and special abilities
  • Bird care mechanics (feeding, washing, growing)
  • Mute settings that persist between sessions

Orbee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Cooped Up

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99
None

Orbee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cooped Up free?
Cooped Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbee free?
Orbee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cooped Up or Orbee have ads?
Cooped Up shows ads; Orbee does not.

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