Stacks Up vs Platformless
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stacks Up
A simple arcade game where players build towers of cylinders to achieve the highest score. Compete with friends and aim for the top of the leaderboard. Enjoy a straightforward, skill-based challenge.
- Build cylinder towers
- Achieve high scores
- Challenge friends
- Leaderboard competition
- Simple gameplay
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Build up the cylinders as high as you can! Reach the highest score and challenge your friends. - Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanglbtk - Visit my website: http://khangle.me
Platformless
Experience a unique platformer where the challenge lies in navigating an endless, procedurally generated path without any platforms to land on. Master simple one-touch controls to overcome traps and obstacles in this constantly evolving game.
- Platforming without platforms
- Endlessly generated paths
- Procedural level creation
- Simple one-touch controls
- Obstacle and trap navigation
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Ready for the platformer without platforms? Jump your way through an endlessly generated path of traps and obstacles. Remember, there is nothing to land on, so you better keep going! Platformless features: • Platforming without platforms • Procedural level creation • Simple one touch controls
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stacks Up at none against Platformless's 9. Stacks Up also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (33 vs 4). Platformless's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 20 months). On price 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. Platformless sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Stacks Up asks for nothing beyond the download.
Platformless holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stacks Up has 33 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Stacks Up's written reviews are positive against 67% of Platformless's.
Stacks Up ships an update every 20 months, Platformless every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stacks Up | Platformless |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (33 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khang Le | Dominik Ringler |
Customer experience
Stacks Up
Platformless
In-app purchases
Stacks Up
No in-app purchases
Platformless
- Diamonds +20$0.39
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