# Squeeze the Orbs: Drop & Merge — Stack the jar before it closes

> Stack the jar before it closes (iPhone/iPad app by Chan Dick.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/squeeze-the-orbs-drop-and-merge/id6810222416 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Chan Dick](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789264556)
- Category: Games, Casual, Puzzle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 25 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-28
- Data updated: 2026-10-29

## What is Squeeze the Orbs?

The jar is closing.

Drop orbs into it and merge them. Two of the same kind touch and become
the next one up. Meanwhile the walls are creeping inward, and they never
stop — every merge shoves them back out again, and the bigger the merge,
the more air you buy.

So there is no line to stay under. There is only the next merge, and how
long you can keep paying for room.

• EIGHT TIERS, from a small spark up to a Lantern.
• THE WALLS ARE THE CLOCK. They close for the whole run. A merge is the
  only thing that pushes them back.
• EACH WALL KEEPS ITS OWN TIME. A merge feeds the wall it happened next
  to, so starve one side and the jar closes lopsided. Every drop is a
  question about where, not just what.
• YOU LOSE BY SPILLING. There is no losing line drawn across the jar. The
  squeeze lifts your pile until a piece comes to rest above the rim. Never
  merge at all and the walls simply meet in the middle instead.
• ORBS DIM AS THEY SIT. A dim orb refunds less air and scores less, so
  nursing a big chain is a gamble rather than a free option. Hardcore mode
  drops the dimming and speeds up the clock instead.
• THE BIGGEST ONE IS WORTH KEEPING. Two Lanterns collapse into a gem, and
  two gems of a kind fuse into a rarer one right there in the jar, for the
  biggest gasp of air in the game. Whatever you are still holding when the
  run ends is the only thing that outlives it.

One thumb, portrait, made for a phone and nothing else.

There are no image files and no sound files inside this app. Every pixel is
drawn and every sound is computed while you play — each impact is
synthesised from the collision that caused it, so the pitch comes from the
size of the orbs, how long it rings depends on how buried in the pile they
are, and no two hits are alike.

Free. No ads. No purchases. No accounts. No energy, no timers between runs,
nothing to wait for and nothing to buy.

It plays entirely offline: there is nothing to download and nothing is
held back in airplane mode. It never asks you for a permission of any
kind. It reports anonymous play statistics — how long a game lasted and
how it went — which you can switch off in Settings.

## Is Squeeze the Orbs safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Squeeze the Orbs.

## Is Squeeze the Orbs legit?

Squeeze the Orbs: Drop & Merge appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Squeeze the Orbs is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-07

• Sound settings are simpler. The separate Sound screen is gone, and everything it held that you might want to change now sits together in Settings: Button sounds, Moment chords and Jar drone.
• The gem bell is back to the sound it was designed around: a clean crystal chime that climbs a little higher with each rarer gem, from Garnet up to Diamond. If you had changed it, it now rings as intended.
• The jar drone, the low hum that rises as the walls close in, now starts switched off for everyone, including anyone it had been left on for. If you liked it, turn it back on under Settings → Jar drone.
• The pause menu is tidier: Resume, Restart and Menu.
• Old settings left behind by the Sound screen are cleared the first time you open this version. Your gems, scores, collection and stats are untouched.
• Small fixes and polish.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-28

No release notes.

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