Comparison

Symbol Series vs Burning Dot

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Symbol Series

Engage your mind with a unique puzzle game that challenges you to find hidden symbol series. Explore various search modes, adjust difficulty, and compete globally. Offers an endless supply of automatically generated puzzles for continuous play.

Highlights
  • Icon, word, number, and color search
  • Infinite automatically generated puzzles
  • Three difficulty levels
  • Optional timer for speed challenges
  • Global leaderboards and achievements
  • Offline high score tracking
Features
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Search and find all symbol series hidden in the puzzle field. You can choose between icon search, word search, number series search and color search. In this free search game, you can choose between three levels of difficulty. Search with or without a stopwatch and measure your best times with your friends and people from all over the world. All puzzles are automatically generated and offer endless possibilities. This popular game, which is often only available as a word search game, has been completely reinterpreted. Train your concentration or relax during a short round and find all symbol series in the puzzle. Features: * You can search for words, numbers, icons or colors * Infinite puzzles * Leaderboards and Achievements * 3 levels of difficulty * On/Off Timer * Offline high score * Full HD resolution * Relaxing music * Animated background Difficulty levels * Simple: Search right + down * Medium: search right + down + backwards * Difficult: Search in all directions with change of direction * You can unlock the free app and play without advertising and with unlimited hints. Privacy policy - https://asgardsoft.com/?page=impressum#PrivacyPolicy Terms of use - https://asgardsoft.com/?page=impressum#TermsOfUse Product Page - https://asgardsoft.com/?id=g25

About

Burning Dot

This puzzle game challenges you to guide a bomb to a star using physics, block manipulation, and rope cutting. It offers addictive gameplay perfect for short breaks or extended fun at home.

Highlights
  • Physics-based puzzles
  • Block manipulation
  • Rope cutting mechanics
  • Score 'perfect moves'
  • Addictive gameplay
Features
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Unlike anything you see on the App Store, Burning Dot is one of its kind: addicting, fun, cool and so much to do in little time. It's your perfect puzzle game during breaks, at school, at work or simply if you want to have some fun at home. Boredom is no longer an option! :-) You control the Burning Dot. It can slide, move, cut, burn ropes where a bomb is attached and use the laws of physics to bring the bomb to the star. You can also push / move blocks, bricks, boxes and everything you have on hand in each level to bring the bomb to the rotating, shiny star. Score "perfect moves" and improve your "perfect score!" Warning: the lonely Burning Dot needs your help. We'll be adding more levels, cool effects and more challenges to the game if you show some love and support. Share the game to your friends on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, you name it. See how cool it is and if you really like it, tell the world about it! Who knows it may become the next hit! :-) Play now, it's FREE!

Screenshots

Symbol Series4 screens
Burning Dot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Symbol Series at every 3 months against Burning Dot's every 20 months. Burning Dot's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Symbol Series sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Burning Dot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Symbol Series against 5.0 for Burning Dot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Symbol Series ships an update every 3 months, Burning Dot every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Symbol Series versus Burning Dot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSymbol SeriesBurning Dot
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 20 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAsgardSoft GmbHHristo Zhelev

Customer experience

Symbol Series

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Burning Dot

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Symbol Series

One-time1
  • Premium$2.99
1 purchases

Burning Dot

One-time1
  • Remove All Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Symbol Series free?
Symbol Series is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Burning Dot free?
Burning Dot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Symbol Series or Burning Dot?
Symbol Series and Burning Dot are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Symbol Series or Burning Dot have ads?
Both Symbol Series and Burning Dot show ads.
Which is updated more often, Symbol Series or Burning Dot?
Symbol Series ships an update every 3 months, and Burning Dot every 20 months. Most recently, Symbol Series was updated on October 24, 2026 and Burning Dot on October 20, 2026.

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