Dial vs Cornered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dial
Experience the role of a 911 dispatcher, responding to emergencies by dispatching the correct emergency vehicles. Upgrade your station, recruit more staff, and acquire new vehicles to tackle increasingly challenging missions and grow your player level.
- Simulate 911 dispatcher role
- Dispatch emergency vehicles
- Upgrade station and buildings
- Recruit more staff
- Acquire new vehicles
- Earn money and experience
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Slip into the shoes of a 911 dispatcher and save your cities population by sending out the relevant emergency vehicles for the mission you receive. Your first stations will come with staffing and one (1) unit. If you improve your building, you can buy more vehicles and recruit more staff. Having more vehicles will advance your missions to bigger and better ones. Having more buildings will give you more possible missions to receive. Successful missions earn you money and experience points. This allows you to invest in new equipment (buildings, cars, trucks, etc …) and grow your player level. Good luck!!! Join us: Discord Facebook https://discord.gg/xUGuUBNtrK https://www.facebook.com/people/Dial-911-Simulator/61567716984725/?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Cornered
Experience a nostalgic, minimalist game where you predict if a bouncing logo will hit the corner of the screen. Simply tap your answer and feel the anticipation and satisfaction of the outcome. It's a simple, calming experience with no complex mechanics.
- Minimalist gameplay
- Nostalgic feel
- Simple tap controls
- Satisfying outcomes
- Relaxing experience
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You’ve seen this before. A logo drifting across the screen. No purpose. No rush. Just bouncing… endlessly. Back then, you’d sit and watch, waiting for that impossible moment — the perfect corner hit. Corner? brings that feeling back. Nothing to learn. Nothing to master. Just a quiet question and a familiar motion that lives somewhere in your memory. Will it touch the corner this time? Or will it slip past again? Tap your answer. Feel the wait. Feel the click when it finally happens. Some things never needed a reason to be satisfying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cornered at 4.3 against Dial's 3.3. Cornered also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 43%) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). Dial's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (23 vs 6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Dial sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Cornered sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cornered holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Dial's written reviews are positive against 80% of Cornered's.
Dial ships an update every 4 months, Cornered every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dial | Cornered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (23 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.5% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 109 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Shelton | Devanshu Chaudhary |
Customer experience
Dial
Cornered
Bugs and requests
Dial
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to start missions or receive calls
- Frequent app crashes and freezes
- Map not loading properly or zooming incorrectly
- In-app purchases not working as intended
Requested features
6 requests- Customizable response radius and station locations
- Ability to assign personnel to specific vehicles
- More varied call types and emergency scenarios
- Faster vehicle speeds and response times
- Improved alliance and multiplayer functionality
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- Expanded vehicle and equipment options
Cornered
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Dial
- double missions for 1h$0.99
- double mission, experience and coin for 1h$1.99
- 100 notes$1.99
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- double mission, experience and coin for 3h$4.99
- 500 notes$7.99
- double mission, experience and coin for 24h$9.99
- 1000 notes$14.99
- 2500 notes$34.99
- 5000 notes$59.99
- 10000 notes$99.99
Cornered
- Remove Ads$24.99
