Pinchworm vs TunnelWorm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pinchworm
Embark on a quest to rescue your beloved from an evil bird. Jump, dig, and navigate challenging levels with unique characters. Compete with friends on leaderboards and collect badges in this addictive twitch-rhythm adventure.
- Unlockable characters with unique worlds
- Award badges to collect
- Custom scoreboard for competition
- Addictive twitch-rhythm gameplay
- Rescue your love
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The love of your life has been snatched up by an evil bird! Jump, dig, and inch your way back to get revenge and save your love! • Collect ’em all — 14 unlockable characters each with a unique world and backstory • The struggle is real — 30 easy to near-impossible award badges to collect • Swag it out — climb the custom scoreboard and dominate your friends (and enemies!) while showing off your favorite worms • Love ain’t easy — test your skills with this super addictive twitch-rhythm game to get the highest score and save your love! *** 5/5 Clods *** Dirt Entusiast *** Harrowing tale of love as an arthropod in an world ruled by angry, flappy, and flightless birds *** Wormhole Weekly *** Game of the decayed! *** Gentleworms Quarterly *** We dig it! *** The Compost Tribune
TunnelWorm
Guide a worm through increasingly challenging obstacles. Test your reflexes and endurance as the speed and difficulty escalate. Aim to survive as long as possible and surpass your personal best score.
- Obstacle avoidance
- Increasing speed and difficulty
- High score tracking
- Simple controls
- Addictive gameplay
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Help your worm to pass obstacles carefully. The further you go, faster and harder will be. How long can your worm live? Can you beat your high score?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TunnelWorm at none against Pinchworm's 10. TunnelWorm also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Pinchworm's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (185 vs 5). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pinchworm sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. TunnelWorm asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pinchworm against 4.6 for TunnelWorm. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinchworm has 185 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pinchworm ships an update every 10 days, TunnelWorm every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinchworm | TunnelWorm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (185 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A Forgettable Tuesday | Marek Sokol |
Customer experience
Pinchworm
TunnelWorm
Bugs and requests
Pinchworm
Reported bugs
6 issues- Game crashes on startup or during gameplay
- Unresponsive jump and dig controls
- Incorrect move detection
- App crashes with specific iOS versions
- Persistent crashing issues preventing gameplay
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- Spam/casino redirects in app store
Requested features
10 requests- Jump and dig buttons as separate controls
- Preview of upcoming obstacles
- Mini-games within the app
- More worms to purchase
- Different birds to battle
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- Online scoreboard
- More character options
- Different themes for characters
- Lower winning score threshold (80 instead of 100)
- Additional obstacle types
TunnelWorm
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pinchworm
- Earl with CoinsFree
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TunnelWorm
No in-app purchases
Questions
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