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‘Flappy Bird’ to soar onto App Store after decade-long hiatus

“Flappy Bird” fans have spent more than ten years trying to bring it back to mobile phones — and now the eponymous hero will return in 2024.

Three game scenes with animated birds navigating through obstacles: desert with cacti, daylight city with checked pipes, and night cityscape with green pipes.
‘Flappy Bird’ to return to iPhone in 2024

Flappy Bird was a wildly popular game that first hit the Apple App Store in the first half of 2013. It didn’t take long for the challenging arcade game to become the number one downloaded free game for iPhone. At its height, it earned more than $50,000 daily from in-app advertisements and sales.

In January 2014, Flappy Bird flew on the Google Play store. However, it wouldn’t stay there long.

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