Impulse One vs Lifebuoy!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impulse One
Pilot a spaceship to rescue stranded employees from a chaotic company. Navigate challenging environments with high gravity, timed conditions, and combat.
- Rescue stranded employees
- Impulse-driven spaceship piloting
- High gravity challenges
- Timed conditions
- Combat with incoming fire
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The soda fountains are on overload. Coffee service has been suspended. A technical state of panic exists. The employees are terrified by arbitrary design decision changes. Rescue stranded employees of the PLBM Games company and return them safely to home in your impulse-driven spaceship. This game is challenging... Can you land the spaceship safely? In high gravity? Under stressful timed conditions? In combat? With real bullets coming back at you?
Lifebuoy!
Guide a lifebuoy to rescue people while skillfully avoiding sharks. This free game features simple swipe controls and addictive gameplay, challenging you to save everyone.
- Rescue people with a lifebuoy
- Avoid sharks
- Simple swipe controls
- Addictive gameplay
- Free to play
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Rescue everyone with your lifebuoy! Avoid the path of all sharks! Be careful not to touch any shark! Lifebuoy! is the exciting new free game you'll want to tell your friends about. Can you save everyone? Simple swipe controls and addictive gameplay!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Impulse One at 100% against Lifebuoy!'s 0%. Impulse One also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.0). Lifebuoy!'s advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Impulse One holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Impulse One's written reviews are positive against 0% of Lifebuoy!'s.
Impulse One ships an update every 11 months, Lifebuoy! monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Impulse One | Lifebuoy! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 9.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 301 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kurt Dekker | Budali Kingsley |
Customer experience
Impulse One
Lifebuoy!
In-app purchases
Impulse One
No in-app purchases
Lifebuoy!
No in-app purchases
