hocus. vs Drop Flip
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
Drop Flip
Engage in a physics-based puzzle game where you manipulate objects to guide a ball into a bucket. With 128 levels of increasing difficulty, enjoy colorful visuals and catchy audio. It's designed for everyone, offering both physics and timing challenges.
- Object manipulation
- Physics-based puzzles
- Timing-based puzzles
- 128 fun levels
- Minimalistic visuals
- Game Center integration
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Drop Flip is a delightful game chock-full of silly physics contraptions! Move, flip and manipulate obstacles of every shape and size as you accomplish the not-so-simple task of dropping a ball into a bucket. - 128 crazy fun levels ranging from easy to near-impossible - Complex gameplay wrapped in colorful, minimalistic visuals - Joyful music with catchy sound effects - Game Center leaderboards and achievements - Attempt to get a “Ball-in-One” or “Ball-in-Two” - Synchronize progress across devices via iCloud - Made for absolutely everyone! Please note - there are both physics-based and timing-based puzzles, and everything in between! This is part of the design. Rest assured, every level is 100% solvable - and quite fun!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Drop Flip at Free against hocus.'s $1.99. Drop Flip also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (9.9K vs 234). hocus.'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#43 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads and device support 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
Drop Flip is free to download; hocus. costs $1.99 up front. Drop Flip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. hocus. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Drop Flip holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drop Flip has 9.9K ratings behind it against 234, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 87% and 87% positive.
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Drop Flip every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | hocus. | Drop Flip |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 4.6 (9.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 87.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 234 | 9.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #43 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | BorderLeap |
Customer experience
hocus.
Drop Flip
Bugs and requests
hocus.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Drop Flip
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes or freezes
- Inconsistent ball behavior
- Restart button not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and challenges
- Ability to replay completed levels
- Improved restart/reset functionality
- Customization options (e.g., themes)
In-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
Drop Flip
- Unlock Game + 8 Bonus Levels$2.99
