Pinchworm vs Fowl Flow
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
Fowl Flow
Guide a duck through waves of debris, dodging obstacles and collecting food to survive. Unlock over 100 unique ducks with special abilities and collect over 50 cards to enhance gameplay and boost your score. Challenge yourself to unlock all achievements for special rewards.
- Dodge debris waves
- Collect food
- Unlock 100+ ducks
- Collect 50+ unique cards
- Card bonuses for survival
- Unlockable achievements
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Play through waves of debris to earn the highest score and keep your favorite duck alive! The further you go the more varied and bigger the debris gets. Can you survive through wave 10? With over 100 ducks(including festive seasonal ducks) to unlock and many with special abilities there's always more to try. Collecting ducks not enough? You can also collect over 50 unique cards. Each card has bonuses that can help your duck survive longer, collect more food or even heal up after a hard fought wave. To find the best combos to increase your score you will have to collect them all! Enjoy challenges? Challenge yourself to unlock all achievements, you might even get a special duck or two if you do!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pinchworm at none against Fowl Flow's shown. Pinchworm also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (190 vs 14). Fowl Flow's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Fowl Flow sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fowl Flow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pinchworm has 190 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Pinchworm's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fowl Flow's.
Pinchworm ships an update every 10 days, Fowl Flow every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pinchworm | Fowl Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (190 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 95 MB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | A Forgettable Tuesday | Plebiant LLC |
Customer experience
Pinchworm
Fowl Flow
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
Fowl Flow
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pinchworm
- Earl with CoinsFree
- Glowy with CoinsFree
- Añejo with CoinsFree
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- Groovy with CoinsFree
- Goldsworth with CoinsFree
- Indy with CoinsFree
- North with CoinsFree
- Panduh with CoinsFree
- W.J. Pennypincher III with CoinsFree
- Onyx with CoinsFree
Fowl Flow
- No Ads$1.99
- 200 Duck Diamonds$1.99
- 2x Experience Gain$4.99
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- 500 Duck Diamonds$4.99
- 1000 + 200 Duck Diamonds$9.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
- 100,000 DuckBucks$19.99
- 2000+500 Duck Diamonds$19.99
- 5000+1000 Duck Diamonds$49.99
- 10000 + 2000 DuckDiamonds$99.99
