Jetpack Joyride vs Bike Race
Bike Race is the better choice for users seeking a more polished experience.
While both Jetpack Joyride and Bike Race have nostalgic appeal, Bike Race edges out with fewer complaints about bugs and a more engaging gameplay experience. Jetpack Joyride suffers from numerous issues related to ads and crashes, which detracts from its overall enjoyment.
Head to head
you prefer a classic side-scrolling runner and don't mind ads.
you want a more reliable experience with fewer bugs and better gameplay mechanics.
Evidence note: While both apps have issues with ads and monetization, Jetpack Joyride's recent reviews are more negative, indicating a decline in user satisfaction compared to Bike Race.
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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.
- [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?
- [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.
- [R66] Bike Race Fix your damn servers: Fun game but fix your damn servers. Also in tourney’s there’s sometimes a bot called “rare” that finishes first every race in the tourney in 1 second, which is impossible. Fix that too.
- [R78] Bike Race Fantastic game with HUGE PROBLEM: To start, this is one of my favorite games ever from my childhood. I’ve been playing this game for nearly 16 years and it never gets old. My favorite feature of this game is the tournament section. In the tournament section there are chests you can open to unlock new cool custom bikes one of the coolest ones is the super ghost bike, which is so overpowered and so
- [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.
- [R58] Jetpack Joyride Problem with ads: Game keeps getting stuck on ads. Won’t give an option to return to game. Have to close and reopen just to play one round before having to repeat. Please fix. Game is fun but this sucks.
- [R16] Jetpack Joyride Bugs ruin experience: Game froze trying to watch an ad to get a revive, missed out on 11K+ coins.
- [R52] Jetpack Joyride Deleted my save: Removed all my progress All the microtransactions are bad
- [R93] Bike Race Review: Tourney isn’t working it keeps saying connection error and duals is t on the game to I can’t even finish the tasks that’s the reason for the 3 Starr other than that love the game
- [R15] Jetpack Joyride Disappointed: I used to play this growing up when it first came out. I had unlocked everything in the game. But now you have to pay to get things that were already in the game. U pay for the no add version and it still makes u watch an add to get rewards of bonuses like hello? Didnt i just pay to not see adds in this game?
- [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
- [R67] Bike Race Money grab: They are just praying on your nostalgia of playing this game when you were younger, no bike means your earned it anymore, all pay to win
- [R90] Bike Race ADS: This game is so awesome. It is the most fun bike mobile game out there tbh. The only thing I HATE about this, is the ADSSSSS. EVERY SINGLE TIME I finish a race or anything THERES AN AD. ITS SO ANNOYING. Of course this is to get you to buy the no ad thing but come on this is too much.
- [R22] Jetpack Joyride Game/company ruined from greed: Used to play this in my childhood and I have good memories playing it. I haven’t played a halfbrick game in over 10 years. The first thing I see is “buy a subscription”. Are you kidding me? Like what? Now those memories are tarnished because of greed and trying to squeeze every last cent out of us. Why? Because they know no one will stop them, money matters more tha
- [R60] Jetpack Joyride Been ruined by greed.: I remember when this game first came out, it was fantastic and fun. Now after a few years I re downloaded it and it is now ruined buy the amount of adds and in app purchases! Another game gone down the pan purely to greed by the creators! Such a shame really as this is a great game.
- [R101] Bike Race Good needs fixes: Facebook login works, however it created a new connection rather than using the same old one, so we cannot get our old progress. Please fix it so we can get our old progress. Also make it give a choice if we linked our new Facebook progress to restore our old progress or keep new. Preferably merge 🙏🙏. I cannot link my account to Facebook because of the old connection, so plz fix
- [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