Bug Bonkers has no score to lose and nothing scary: kids just squish bugs, collect stickers and find every bug, sound and giant. Tools get tired with use and rest when you switch to another one.

The tools

🦶 Foot

Tap to stomp. Squishes everything under it, and squashes soft bugs (slugs, caterpillars, spiders, flies, moths) extra hard. Careful: stepping on a bee, wasp or scorpion says "OUCH!" Once in a while (1 in 30) it throws a TANTRUM: a flurry of stomps all around!

🥖 Rolling Pin

Tap and it rolls across the screen. Hold and drag to push it around (it tires after about 8 seconds). Swipe fast to throw it. Everything squished in one drag-and-throw counts as one hit. 1 tap in 30 rolls a MEGA PIN, almost three times as long.

🧹 Vacuum

Press and hold. It revs up for a moment, then sucks in bugs near your finger. It never hurts kittens. Giants are too big to suck up. 1 time in 30 it fires up as a TURBO VAC: twice the reach, extra strong, and free for 8 seconds.

✂️ Scissors

Tap right on one bug: two quick snips (3 dots of damage) cut it in half. Only hits the bug under your finger (or two bugs stacked right on top of each other). 1 snip in 30 is a SNIP STORM: the scissors go wild on up to 10 bugs nearby.

🐟 Fish

Tap for a big wet slap over a wide area, then the fish flops around a few more times. Every 20 slaps, one is a rare Golden Fish: a huge slap and 8 flops.

⚡ Zapper

Tap near bugs: lightning jumps from bug to bug, branching as it goes (15 bugs, 25 in a Sugar Rush). Hold it down to keep zapping, and drag to aim. 1 tap in 30 calls down a THUNDERSTORM: lightning strikes all over the screen.

🥢 Tongs

Tap a bug for a light pinch. Hold on to keep squeezing harder and harder until it POPS (the bug is lifted above your finger so you can watch, and you can carry it around). Pinch a giant to yank off a leg! 1 pinch in 30 is a SUPER SQUEEZE: the bug pops at once and splashes the bugs around it.

🔨 Sledgehammer

Tap for a huge WHOMP: flattens everything under it, cracks the floor, shakes the screen and knocks nearby bugs flying. Slow to recharge. 1 whomp in 30 starts an EARTHQUAKE: the floor shakes and every bug on screen gets bumped.

🐸 Frog

Tap to put a frog down (two at a time). It eats bugs with its tongue for 30 seconds, and after every 3 bugs it jumps somewhere new. It jumps out of the way of giants. It won't eat tough bugs (more than 3 dots), and only eats a cotton candy bug if it's the only bug in reach. After 10 bugs it BURPS (squishing everything nearby). If it eats a cotton candy bug it becomes a Rainbow Frog for a while. Tap the frog to send it away early. Once in a while a FROG PARTY happens: 10 frogs leap in at once! (Having two Rainbow Frogs at the same time always starts one.)

Things that happen

🍭 Sugar Rush

Pink and purple bugs are cotton candy. About 1 bug in 15 is cotton candy. Squish one and every tool charges back up, then for 8 seconds ten times as many bugs pour in, and every tool hits harder. Squish a second one during the rush for DOUBLE SUGAR: even more bugs!

🦣 Giants

Every minute or so a giant bug arrives (9 kinds, one of them flies!). It takes lots of hits and bursts into babies when beaten.

🪣 Big arrivals

A bucket of bugs, a beehive, an anthill, a spider egg sac, a bug parade, or (at night) a swarm of fireflies.

🌙 Night

After a few minutes it gets dark for a little while. Touch the screen to shine a light. Every night a swarm of fireflies drifts in from all sides. Squished fireflies leave a glow for 10 seconds.

🥁 Bug parade

A long double line of ants marches across to a drum beat. Squish as many as you can!

🔥 Combos

Squish bugs one right after another (quicker than a blink apart) to build a COMBO ×N.

🐱 Kittens

Kittens wander through. Don't squish them (they cry, but are never hurt). They run away from a finger and lick up goo.

The buttons at the top

📖 Bug Book

Every bug found (with a fun fact), stickers (with progress toward each), recorded sounds (tap one to hear it again; the ? tells how to unlock it), and Records (best hit, best combo and other personal bests). Stickers come in tiers: common, uncommon, rare, legendary and EPIC (epic ones get a big celebration).

⏸️ Pause

Stops everything (bugs, sounds and music) until you tap "Keep squishing!". The game also pauses by itself when you leave the app.

🎨 Places

Kitchen, Picnic, Garden and Bathroom, each with its own favorite bugs.

🧽 Sponge

Tap, then drag your finger to wipe up the goo. Tap again when done. The bar on the sponge button shows how messy the floor is. Goo dries after a while and gets harder to scrub. In cleanup you can also pick the 🚿 Hose: hold to spray, it washes goo away fast (even dried-on goo) and pushes bugs along. Clean almost all of it and the rest wipes away by itself: SQUEAKY CLEAN, every tool recharges, and the sponge puts itself away.

🎵 Music

Music on or off. Sound effects and voices stay on (turn the phone's volume up).

🎯 Bug Hunt

The card at the top gives a small goal. Finishing one recharges every tool. ↻ picks a different hunt.

For grown-ups

Progress is saved on this device only. This guide opens by pressing and holding the "My Bug Book" title.