Jetpack Joyride vs Hungry Shark World
Choose Jetpack Joyride for nostalgic gameplay and fun mechanics, but be prepared for ads.
Jetpack Joyride offers a nostalgic experience with engaging gameplay, but users frequently complain about ads and bugs. Hungry Shark World also has a solid fan base but suffers from similar issues, including ad overload and save problems.
Head to head
you enjoy fast-paced, nostalgic gameplay and can tolerate ads.
you prefer a shark-themed game and are okay with some ads.
Evidence note: Both apps have significant complaints about ads and bugs, but Jetpack Joyride has a slightly higher lifetime rating and more positive reviews overall.
Frequently asked
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R5] Jetpack Joyride Nice: Because the game is cool & unlocked all expired crossover vehicles from back to the future until the crossover expires but I still have the vehicles & skins from the back to the future crossover
- [R18] Jetpack Joyride Add more jet packs, gadgets, skins, and power ups: This game has been sitting on my home screen for too many years. Opened it back up to play and to my surprise the game is the same as I left it. Why haven’t they added anything new?
- [R77] Hungry Shark World Best game ever but a few suggestions: This game is super great I played this when I was like 5 or 6 years old, I remember the extinction update which is one of the best updates but the thing is we need to add a little more maps for the regular map this game is really good tho it needs new maps but the game is still good tho but yet needs more maps tho
- [R113] Hungry Shark World havent update new map for 5 years: Old map is boring ,no new maps
- [R7] Jetpack Joyride Game Freezes and Crashes: The game constantly freezes and crashes. When doing the daily SAM, the game will freeze and then when I restart the game. It takes me back to day 1 regardless of what day I was on before it froze. I have half a mind to delete the game because it’s more trouble than what its worth
- [R43] Jetpack Joyride Pause issue: App will randomly pause in the middle of my game, forcing me to restart the app and lose my progress. Will not be playing anymore.
- [R67] Hungry Shark World lost all my progress: i’m playing on a new device and followed the instructions to access my cloud save, and i lost everything. i had many of the best sharks and spent money on this game and now i have none of it. everything was already connected to my game center and everything, i even had several achievements for the game. this is highly disappointing.
- [R81] Hungry Shark World App keeps freezing: Game works then all of a sudden it stops and freezes
- [R16] Jetpack Joyride Bugs ruin experience: Game froze trying to watch an ad to get a revive, missed out on 11K+ coins.
- [R40] Jetpack Joyride Ads: Game was ruined with the ads. I played it as a kid and now it’s just not a fun experience. Theres also a glitch where after you watch the ad the “ad or ad free” buttons are stuck on the screen forcing you to exit the app and go back in. Overall super annoying.
- [R119] Hungry Shark World Lost my progress: Just joined one time and lost everything, i had just purchased the great white and now i’m back to square one ;-;
- [R31] Jetpack Joyride Subscription: You have to pay money to keep playing this game that’s advertised on the store as “free”. this needs to stop from this terrible company
- [R28] Jetpack Joyride pay to play at this point: super fun game that brings me a lot of childhood nostalgia. however, the ad experience is absolutely unbearable unless you want to spend money on the game. i remember so many features that are now locked behind paywalls. a games advertisement experience should never be so obnoxious to the point where people are basically forced to pay, or uninstall. not to mention how
- [R88] Hungry Shark World spend money or it will be Impossible to play: You start the game, all fun, but little by little you start to realize the game is made so you spend money because you won’t be to buy absolutely nothing, literally almost every overpriced and it costs gem like 50 for each map, like 200-500 for an equipments, and you literally get like a gem per hour, and then when you get by the great white you die so
- [R91] Hungry Shark World Missions: Most of the quest are not possible or glitched I really love this game but being forced to resort to using money to get gems to beat a quest that shouldn’t need to be bought is just a scam please fix this issue especially since there is nothing I can do to fix it myself
- [R52] Jetpack Joyride Deleted my save: Removed all my progress All the microtransactions are bad
- [R115] Hungry Shark World Lost all my cloud save data: So… apparently they removed the ability to save your data to the cloud and I lost years worth of data-sharks, pets, vanity… all gone. About 540 days ago as I’m writing this review. For reference, I upgraded my phone and redownloaded this app, and neither this game or Hungry Dragon have cloud save enabled anymore. What a major disappointment.
- [R96] Hungry Shark World Love the game but…: I use to play the game a lot and I had a all of stuff in it, but I just decided to do a cloud save but I lost all what I had, I was literally in like 3% world ranking, pls cud u help me get me my stuff bak
- [R4] Jetpack Joyride Ads: Too many ads. You get a long ad after every run
- [R25] Jetpack Joyride Tooo many ads: Game is good but there’s a 30 sec ad in between each try which makes this game unplayable
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store