# NEON HOLD — Focus and concentration game > Focus and concentration game (iPhone/iPad app by MARKETING BEAR COMPANY LIMITED.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neon-hold/id6798772384 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [MARKETING BEAR COMPANY LIMITED](https://appshunter.io/developer/1475353980) - Category: Games, Entertainment, Action, Casual - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 53 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-08-25 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is NEON HOLD? Most people break inside twenty seconds. Put your thumb on the glowing spot. Keep it there. That is the entire game, and it is harder than it sounds, because every second you hold is a second of unbroken attention and the grid spends all of them trying to take it back. The spot relocates and you have to slide fast. Near perfect decoys appear beside the real thing. GLITCH, a lying neon imp in increasingly desperate disguises, talks you into fatal mistakes. NOVA never lies. Telling those two apart with your run on the line is the whole skill. WHAT YOU GET One thumb, twenty levels, and a difficulty curve that keeps taking things away from you. Twenty atmospheres, each with a sunrise, daytime, sunset and night version, so a long run travels through a whole day. A live global leaderboard, plus a friends board you fill by sharing a code. An announcer with many voices calling your run out loud, and a synthwave soundtrack that builds as the grid heats up. Twenty achievements, plus six limited ones for Halloween 2026, with every requirement shown, so you always know what you are chasing. One free revive every 24 hours, and bonus revives for daily streaks. FAIR BY DESIGN Revives are capped at three per run for everyone, paying or not, so skill decides the leaderboard and money never does. Invite a friend with your code and you both get five revives. Ten rewards a week, and they reset every week. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. There is no sign up, and there is no third party analytics or advertising SDK anywhere in this app. Play on your own and nothing is sent to us at all: every level works with the network off. The global leaderboard is the one thing that sends anything, and it is opt in. Switch it on and it publishes a display name, a country flag and a best time, tied to a random id your phone makes on first launch, never to your Apple ID and never to an advertising identifier. Inviting a friend hands a code to the iOS share sheet, so we never see an address and never touch your contacts. You can erase all of it from inside the game, in one tap. Game Center is optional too. NEON HOLD never signs you in on its own, and you can stop it using Game Center at any time in Settings. Suitable for everyone, 4 and up. How long can you hold on? ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | 3 Revives | $0.99 | one-time | | 10 Revives | $2.49 | one-time | | 25 Revives | $4.99 | one-time | | 60 Revives | $9.99 | one-time | ## Is NEON HOLD safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess NEON HOLD. ## Is NEON HOLD legit? NEON HOLD has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NEON HOLD is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-10-17 The biggest update since launch, and the grid has dressed up for it. HALLOWEEN ON THE GRID Until November 3 the arena, the spot and the sky wear Halloween. GLITCH comes as a pumpkin imp and NOVA carries a lantern, and NOVA still never lies. There is a haunted soundtrack and a new set of sounds to go with it. It switches on by itself. If you would rather hold the line in plain neon, it is one switch in Settings, and after Halloween it stays there as a skin you can turn back on whenever you like. The costumes change what things look like, not how they behave. Every decoy still gives itself away by its shape and its pulse, so a run is exactly as fair in a pumpkin patch as it is on the grid. Six limited Halloween achievements count until November 3. Finish one run and TRICK OR HOLD leaves wisps circling your thumb, yours to keep. There is a jack-o'-lantern app icon too, if you ask for it. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS CHALLENGE A FRIEND sends your time as a link that works for anyone. If they have the latest NEON HOLD, the game opens and your time is waiting on their rail before they even start. Beat a challenge and SEND IT BACK. The game over offers a share card when a run is worth sending: a new record, a friend overtaken, a challenge beaten, or GLITCH talking you off the spot. A KINDER GRID When a run ends, the game shows you what ended it, and RETRY is the first button. Your first few relocations show you where to go and give you a little extra time to get there, so the one rule that kills most new players (slide, don't lift) gets taught instead of just enforced. A phone call or Control Center no longer ends a run: it pauses, and you put your thumb back to carry on. EASIER TO READ, EASIER ON THE EYES Differentiate Without Color marks every decoy and the real spot by shape, not only by hue. Reduce Motion keeps a still marker on the real spot instead of a moving one. A red ring shows the moment your thumb starts to drift. Sound effects, music, the announcer's voice and haptics each have their own switch in Settings. AND Fixes and polish throughout. How long can you hold on? ### 1.3 — 2026-08-30 THE CLIMB The progress rail up the side of the arena carries names now. Everybody whose record sits inside the level you are in is up there waiting, and the bar you are filling is you catching them. Go past somebody and their run is struck through and gone. Friends are marked in lime so you know when the one you just beat is yours, and your own best is gold, so you can see exactly how close you are to beating yourself. ONE PRESS TO PLAY HOLD THE LINE does not open the game any more. It becomes the first spot. Press it and hold, and over two seconds your thumb is read, the button is pulled into it, the menu falls away and the arena resolves around a spot you are already touching. Then the countdown starts. Let go at any point before it lands and you come straight back to the start screen. FRIENDS A request you have already sent stays sent, even after you close the game, so nobody gets asked twice. Notifications about friends now open the friends board instead of the global one. ALSO A first launch with no signal now says the grid has not loaded yet, instead of showing a leaderboard that is not real. ### 1.2 — 2026-08-29 Your record now belongs to your Game Center account instead of to your phone. Reinstall, or change handset, sign in, and your rank, your revives, your streak, your friends and your invite code all come back with you. Revives especially: they are a consumable purchase and the App Store cannot restore those on its own, so we keep the count for you. FRIENDS Tap a name on the grid and send a friend request. They accept in their inbox, and you land on each other's boards. You can also add somebody by their invite code. REACTIONS Friends can send each other one of twenty six reactions, once a day. Ten emoji and sixteen sentences, most of them ridiculous. There is no typing anywhere in it and there never will be. SIX NEW ACHIEVEMENTS Friends at 1, 5 and 15. Reactions at 1, 10 and 50. Every achievement now pays one or two revives, including the ones you have already earned. ALSO IN THIS VERSION A thumb monolith turning over behind the start screen. Your daily streak now follows your account across devices. Your inbox keeps the last thirty days, on every device you play on. Fixed: the same player could appear twice on the global grid. The app is now clear about what stays on this phone if you never sign in. ### 1.1 — 2026-08-26 Small update, mostly manners. NEON HOLD now asks what you make of it, and it picks its moment: only after you beat your own record, only once the fireworks have finished, and never while you are still holding the line. If you would rather say something today, there is a RATE NEON HOLD row in Settings. If the thing you want to say is that something is broken, there is an address in there too, and that one reaches a person. ### 1.0 — 2026-08-25 No release notes. ## Apps similar to NEON HOLD | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Brain Riddle: Tricky Box](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brain-riddle-tricky-box/id6757749388) | 3.6 (14) | Free | Games | | [Block Heads: Duel puzzle games](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/block-heads-duel-puzzle-games/id6449541718) | 4.8 (1,149) | Free | Games | | [Food Hunt: Pixel Puzzle](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/food-hunt-pixel-puzzle/id6769314786) | 4.7 (56,378) | Free | Games | --- *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 2026-11-06.*