Comparison

Tile Swap vs Hexagon Invader

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

Head to head
About

Tile Swap

Features
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Challenge your reflexes as well as your friends in Tile Swap, the color matching tile-tapper for iPhone and iPad. Tile Swap packs in three game modes: โ€•โ€•โ€•โ€• Time, where you must race against the clock to score as high as possible in 20 seconds. Survive, get as high a score as possible without losing three lives. A life is lost for not hitting a tile in time or tapping the wrong tile color. Zen, an endless tapping experience. Pass the time by simply tapping the corresponding colored tiles without any time limits or lives. โ€•โ€•โ€•โ€• Tile Swap also includes Game Center leaderboards functionality, allowing you to compete against your friends to get the highest score on the leaderboards. โ€•โ€•โ€•โ€• Please Note: Tile Swap is ad supported but includes a microtransaction to remove ads permanently.

About

Hexagon Invader

Features
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Hexagon Invader is a simple tap-tap game for everyone and good for keeping capability in rapid-reaction. - Four game difficulties for any kind of players - Support color mode(GREEN/YELLOW/RED/WHITE) and gray mode (colors marked as '2', '1', 'o', WHITE) Initial map has 61 hexagons, one is GREEN(or marked '2'), others are WHITE (no mark). Player only need to tap on those GREEN(2)/YELLOW(1)/RED(o) hexagons. While playing the game, the color of hexagons will keep changing randomly as time goes by. Player must be very concentrated and tap quickly to win the game. The rules: 1. Tap on GREEN, the hexagon changed to YELLOW. 2. Tap on YELLOW, the hexagon changed to RED, meanwhile the neighbors(WHITE) of the YELLOW changed to GREEN simultaneously. *This is the only way to change WHITE to GREEN.* The GREEN/YELLOW/RED hexagon will change back to WHITE/GREEN/YELLOW automatically and randomly. 3. Four difficulties: easy: game time is 90 seconds, one hexagon changed back per second medium: game time is 180 seconds, two hexagons changed back per second hard: game time is 270 seconds, three hexagons changed back per second impossible: game time is 360 seconds, four hexagons changed back per second 3. The goal of game is to tap on all hexagons to change all of them to RED before run out of game time. 4. Player lose the game when: 4.1 Run out of game time. or 4.2 All hexagons have been changed back to WHITE. That's all. Let's tap-tap. :-)

Screenshots

Tile Swap3 screens
Hexagon Invader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Tile Swap at Free against Hexagon Invader's $0.99. Tile Swap also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 40 months). Hexagon Invader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Tile Swap is free to download; Hexagon Invader costs $0.99 up front. Tile Swap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hexagon Invader asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tile Swap ships an update every 2 months, Hexagon Invader every 40 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences ยท 2 level
Tile Swap versus Hexagon Invader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTile SwapHexagon Invader
PriceFree โ€” better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 2 months โ€” betterEvery 40 months
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
Best chart rankโ€”#199 โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better14.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size129 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAnthony RaudinoCHIEN-HUNG CHEN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tile Swap

One-time1
  • Remove All Ads$0.99
None

Hexagon Invader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tile Swap free?
Tile Swap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hexagon Invader free?
Hexagon Invader costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tile Swap or Hexagon Invader have ads?
Tile Swap shows ads; Hexagon Invader does not.
Which is updated more often, Tile Swap or Hexagon Invader?
Tile Swap ships an update every 2 months, and Hexagon Invader every 40 months. Most recently, Tile Swap was updated on October 26, 2026 and Hexagon Invader on June 11, 2026.

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