A lot of Flappy Bird clones have launched since the game exploded then got yanked from mobile app stores.
But no clone has been more successful than Splashy Fish.
Splashy Fish rose to the number one free app spot fifteen hours after it launched. It has held a top position ever since, although today it's battling against another Flappy Bird clone, "Flying Cyrus."
Italy's Massimo Guareschi is the founder of Splashy Fish. He says it took three days to build and his nephews -who were Flappy Bird fans - inspired the game. Guareschi, says 5 - 10 million people play Splashy Fish daily and about 250 million games are played per day. Flappy Bird, by comparison, had about 50 million total downloads just before it was removed and was generating ~ $50,000 per day. It's unclear how many daily active users it had.
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