Comparison

Save The Dot! vs The Dot

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

Head to head
About

Save The Dot!

Features
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One dot. A screen full of moving squares. How long can you survive? Keep the dot away from every square in Save The Dot!, a quick arcade game where every second counts. Start a round, find a gap and chase your best survival time. CLASSIC Play an endless survival round. Squares arrive faster as time passes, and new enemy patterns keep you moving. Your best time stays on your device. DAILY CHALLENGE Try a new challenge each UTC day. The same date uses the same arena and enemy sequence across devices. Practice your route and beat your daily record. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a dot color, turn sound on or off and pause whenever you need a break. Clear menus, a subtle arena grid and a bright outlined dot keep the action easy to follow. The app supports English and Danish. FREE PLAY AND SAVETHEDOT PRO Start up to three games per UTC day on each device, shared across all game modes. Violet and Ocean are included. The allowance resets at 00:00 UTC; replaying or restarting uses a game, while resuming a paused round does not. SaveTheDot Pro is an optional, permanent one-time in-app purchase. It removes the daily game limit and unlocks all five colors: Violet, Ocean, Sunset, Mint and Gold. There is no subscription. You can restore the purchase from the Pro screen using your Apple Account. Pro does not change the difficulty or reset your records. GAME CENTER Sign in when you choose to compare solo survival times and earn achievements. You can play solo without Game Center or an app account. Solo gameplay works offline; purchases, online rankings and delivered support messages require a connection. PLAY ON IPHONE AND IPAD Tap or drag to move the dot. Turn haptics on or off in Settings. Send feedback from Help & information, or report a bug with context from the pause and result screens. No account is required.

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The Dot

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Hyper Casual Endless Runner. Swipe to move the DOT. ใ‚นใƒฏใ‚คใƒ—ใง็‚นใ‚’็งปๅ‹•ใ•ใ›ใ‚‹ใ€‚

Screenshots

Save The Dot!3 screens
The Dot1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Dot at daily against Save The Dot!'s every 28 months. The Dot also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Save The Dot! ships an update every 28 months, The Dot daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Save The Dot! versus The Dot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSave The Dot!The Dot
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV โ€” betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB50 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperEmil StarupRikuto Komatsu

In-app purchases

None

Save The Dot!

No in-app purchases

None

The Dot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Save The Dot! free?
Save The Dot! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Dot free?
The Dot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Save The Dot! or The Dot have ads?
Neither Save The Dot! nor The Dot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Save The Dot! or The Dot?
Save The Dot! ships an update every 28 months, and The Dot daily. Most recently, Save The Dot! was updated on October 24, 2026 and The Dot on October 12, 2026.

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