# Dropline.life > Dropline.life (iPhone/iPad app by DONNELL SMITH.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/droplinelife/id6792310241 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [DONNELL SMITH](https://appshunter.io/developer/1896611864) - Category: Games, Board, Puzzle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 22 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-03 - Data updated: 2026-09-19 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/droplinelife/id6792310241/reviews.md ## What is Dropline.life? Connect Four, leveled up. Dropline.life turns four-in-a-row into a game with real depth: an ELO rating, a full rank ladder, and opponents that actually make you think. RANKED & CASUAL — Every match moves your rating from Bronze to Grandmaster, or play casual just for fun. Beat sharper opponents to climb. EIGHT WAYS TO PLAY • Classic — the original 7×6, four in a row • Connect 5 — a wide 9×7 board, five in a row • Spin — drop a chip and the whole column spins; you never quite know where it lands • Ghost — only your last moves stay solid, the rest fade, so play from memory • Tic-Tac-Toe, Big Tac Toe, Misère & Ultimate — the mark-making family, from 3×3 to mind-bending DAILY PUZZLES — A fresh solver-verified puzzle every day, plus Practice and a timed Rush mode with its own rating. KEEP YOUR STREAK — Show up each day to build a streak. The simplest reason to come back. MAKE IT YOURS — Unlock boards, pieces, and 21 light and dark themes. GO PRO — An optional subscription removes ads and unlocks every cosmetic. Monthly or annual, with a free trial. Free to play. Climb the ladder. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | connect4 Pro Monthly | $4.99 | per month | | connect4 Pro Yearly | $29.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-16 Winning feels like winning. • Bigger wins hit harder: the celebration, sound and haptics now scale with upsets and win streaks • Chips fall like they were dropped, and ranking up is a real moment • A full 3D coin toss decides the draw rule before ranked games Learn from every game. • After a game, see the move that turned it and whether your opponent had a forced win from there • A free lesson and practice set for everyone, with interactive examples you can play out • New fork lessons and challenges, and a clear explanation of how accuracy is graded Play with confidence. • Online Gomoku and Ultimate now ask you to confirm each move, so a mis-tap never costs you a game • Staging a move no longer shifts the board or the clock, and draw offers stay out of the way • The Gomoku computer defends properly and no longer walks into an early five in a row Cleaner and easier to read. • Game modes are back on two shelves: Connect and Tic-Tac-Toe • The Puzzles tab puts your Journey and today's set first, with streaks and history under Progress • Sharper text on every theme, readable pop-ups on light themes, and colour bars in the move list • Plenty of smaller fixes and polish ### 1.2 — 2026-09-08 connect4.life is now Dropline. Your account, rating, and history carry over untouched. • Every game is free to try. • Quick play drops you straight onto a board • Gomoku and Ultimate work on a phone now. • A optional move list under every board. Tap any move to jump back to it, and the last move played is marked • See the win — the four connecting, now in Spin and Ultimate too • Every mode explains itself — the rules, and the shapes that win, one tap from the board • Puzzles appear instantly. The slowest ones used to take thirteen seconds • Daily works without an account • Rebuilt rank ladder — Gold is where the middle actually is • Game Review can't get stuck, and if it ever fails it gives your free daily review back • The Daylight theme is easier to read, with contrast fixed across headlines, buttons and boards • Clearer forfeit costs, fairer openings, and ads that wait until you're done • Recovers from errors instead of showing a white page, including on first launch • Bug Fixes ### 1.1.9 — 2026-08-15 bug fixes on Ranked Gomoku now uses Renju, the tournament ruleset — squares you can't play are marked, and tapping one explains why. Practise it against the computer too. New: Learn (Pro) — seven lessons on the tactics behind every game. Gomoku now appears at Journey level 12 instead of 81, and each game explains its rules the first time you meet it. Fixed: a winning move in the Journey could be scored as a mistake. ### 1.1.8 — 2026-08-14 Ranked Gomoku now uses Renju, the tournament ruleset — squares you can't play are marked, and tapping one explains why. Practice it against the computer too. New: Learn (Pro) — seven lessons on the tactics behind every game. Gomoku now appears at Journey level 12 instead of 81, and each game explains its rules the first time you meet it. Fixed: a winning move in the Journey could be scored as a mistake. ### 1.1.7 — 2026-08-12 Endless puzzles, and a Journey that's 38 levels longer. ENDLESS PUZZLES — NEW • Puzzles that never run out. No timer, no lives, nothing to fail. • It starts easy: the first ones are "spot the winning move", and it climbs slowly from there. Sit down for two minutes or two hours. THE JOURNEY • 38 new levels — 150 in total, with two new tiers at the top that mix every game together instead of settling into one board. • Fixed ten levels labelled harder than they actually were. A few "mate in 4" puzzles had a winning move sitting in plain sight. • You can play a move you're not sure about now. It lands on the board, you see what it does, and you take it back — instead of the board refusing it and telling you nothing. RANKED • Streaks keep raising the stakes. Three straight wins pays x1.25, and every win after that adds another x0.25, up to x3 on a run of ten. Losing runs cost more the same way. • Ultimate and Gomoku are worth more per game than the quicker boards — they ask more of you, so they move your rating further. YOUR RECURRING MISTAKES — NEW • The app now looks across the positions you got wrong and tells you what they have in common: how many, in which games, and which patterns keep coming back. • Pro reads them with the engine — whether you had a forced win, whether it needed a setup move, whether only one move worked, and whether your move walked into theirs. FIXES • Fixed a bug where a move could take a long time to appear, leaving the board frozen while the clock kept counting. • Notifications now explain themselves before asking permission. • Connect flags new messages and requests straight away, and clears the badge as soon as you've dealt with them. • The message box reaches the edge of the screen. • When no ad is available, that space shows something useful instead of sitting blank. ## Related topics [4animeplay](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/4animeplay) · [diagonal duel](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/diagonal-duel) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-19.*