Switch Sides vs Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Switch Sides
A one-tap arcade game where players guide a red circle through challenging loops. Avoid purple obstacles and collect orange items to boost your score. The game offers a progressively difficult experience with relaxing audio and visuals.
- One-tap gameplay
- Obstacle avoidance
- Score collection
- Progressive difficulty
- Relaxing audio and visuals
- GameCentre leaderboards
- Achievements
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In this simple yet competitive one-tap game, you must guide the red circle around the loops by tapping the screen to switch the side it is on! Anything purple must be avoided, and anything orange should be collected to increase score! The game gets progressively harder as new obstacles start to spawn and you speed up. This game will test your ability to react as well adapt to new unexpected hurdles and overcome them while providing a fun experience with relaxing audio and visuals! Compete with your friends on the GameCentre leaderboards and reach new high scores to earn achievements!
Shift
A straightforward puzzle game where players move colored dots onto their matching spots on the board. Navigate through increasingly complex levels with multiple colors and challenging line-based movement mechanics. It's easy to learn but difficult to master.
- Move colored dots to matching spots
- Dots move along connecting lines
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Increasingly complex color puzzles
- Easy to learn, hard to master
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Relax with shift, an easy to play puzzle game. Make your way through the beginner, normal, clever, smart, and genius level brackets! Easy to learn but hard to beat, it's a straightforward puzzle game that can become deceptively tricky as the game goes on. HOW TO PLAY The goal of the game is to move the dots around the board to get them onto their own color. But there's a catch... the dots can only move along the connecting lines on the board. Early levels only have two colors, but later levels have 5 different colors! See if you can make it through all the genius levels.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Switch Sides at 5.0 against Shift's 4.0. Shift's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Switch Sides sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Switch Sides holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shift has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Switch Sides ships an update every 41 months, Shift every 27 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Switch Sides | Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 41 months | Every 27 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ethan Sarif-Kattan | Jackson Perkins |
Customer experience
Switch Sides
Shift
In-app purchases
Switch Sides
- Remove Ads$0.99
Shift
- Ad Free$0.99
