Advent Calendar vs Squiggle Drop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Advent Calendar
Solve a daily physics puzzle to earn a sweet treat. Unlock an endless mode after completing all 24 doors. Share your progress and enjoy festive challenges.
- 24 daily physics puzzles
- Unlockable endless mode
- Collect virtual sweets
- Share with friends
- Festive Christmas theme
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Set off on a magical Christmas journey through five worlds, opening advent calendar doors and discovering a new game at every stop. Drop presents into Santa’s sack, bring Christmas lights to life, help an owl deliver the post and play a tune on the ice piano. With 25 different games, there’s always something new to try along the way. Each game offers 30 levels. Collect stars, earn awards and unlock characters who join the Christmas world as you progress. Return to your favourite levels whenever you like, or see how far you can go in the endless modes. The original candy game is still here too, as a little extra for returning players. Your Christmas journey starts with the first door.
Squiggle Drop
Unleash your creativity to solve physics-based puzzles by drawing a single shape. Explore 100 levels with multiple solutions and build your own city with earned rewards. Regular updates and daily challenges keep the fun going.
- Draw shapes to solve puzzles
- 100 unique levels
- Build and customize a city
- Daily challenges
- Leaderboards and achievements
- Regular content updates
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Use your creativity and imagination to solve charming physics puzzles by drawing a single shape and watching what unfolds! Complete the objectives of 100 puzzles (with more on the way), each with multiple and often surprising solutions. How you draw your solution is up to you! Solve puzzles and earn rewards to build your very own Squiggletown! Unlock buildings, cosmetics and various upgrades as you expand your own personal city. Squiggle Drop Features: - 100 levels - Regular Content Updates - Daily Challenges - Challenging your friends to beat your scores - Leaderboards and Achievements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Squiggle Drop at none against Advent Calendar's shown. Squiggle Drop also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (14K vs 96). Advent Calendar's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 56%). On price 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.
Squiggle Drop holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Squiggle Drop has 14K ratings behind it against 96, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Advent Calendar's written reviews are positive against 56% of Squiggle Drop's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Advent Calendar ships an update every 10 months, Squiggle Drop monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Advent Calendar | Squiggle Drop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (96 ratings) | 4.7 (14K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 56.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 96 | 14K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 675 MB | 289 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Weiss | Noodlecake |
Customer experience
Advent Calendar
Squiggle Drop
Bugs and requests
Advent Calendar
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Squiggle Drop
Reported bugs
3 issues- Achievements resetting or not tracking properly
- Physics issues causing objects to behave unexpectedly
- Drawing inputs not registering correctly
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to skip or replay levels
- Improved precision controls for touch devices
- Clearer level instructions and objectives
In-app purchases
Advent Calendar
No in-app purchases
Squiggle Drop
No in-app purchases
Questions
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