Comparison

Save The Dot! vs Blocky Drop!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — 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.

About

Blocky Drop!

A fast-paced stacking game where precise timing is crucial. Tap to drop blocks and build your tower as high as possible. Perfect drops reset the tower, while poor ones increase instability, potentially ending your game.

Highlights
  • One-tap controls
  • Perfect stack resets
  • Endless skill-based gameplay
  • Global and friends leaderboards
  • Fast restarts
  • Minimalist design
Features
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Blocky Drop is a fast, skill-based stacking game where timing is everything. Tap to drop moving blocks and stack them as high as you can. Line up a block perfectly and your tower resets, letting you keep climbing without it getting too tall and falling. Drop a block poorly and the tower becomes less stable and more prone to falling over! One bad drop can end your run. The higher you go, the more intense it becomes. Precision matters. Focus matters. Every tap counts. Features: • Simple one-tap controls • Perfect stack resets for clutch comebacks • Endless skill-based gameplay • Global leaderboards (Top players for all time and from each day, refreshes every 10 min) • Friends leaderboard competition • Clean, minimalist design • Fast restarts for nonstop action Easy to learn in seconds. Hard to master forever. Stack smart. Drop perfectly. Climb higher. Terms of Use: https://blockydrop.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://blockydrop.app/privacy

Screenshots

Save The Dot!3 screens
Blocky Drop!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blocky Drop! at none against Save The Dot!'s 1. Blocky Drop! also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 28 months). Save The Dot!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (4 vs 2). On price and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Save The Dot! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Blocky Drop! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Save The Dot! ships an update every 28 months, Blocky Drop! every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Save The Dot! versus Blocky Drop!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSave The Dot!Blocky Drop!
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 28 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB19 MB
Age rating+412+
DeveloperEmil StarupDylan Morgan

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Save The Dot!

One-time1
  • SaveTheDot Pro$1.99
None

Blocky Drop!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Save The Dot! free?
Save The Dot! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blocky Drop! free?
Blocky Drop! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Save The Dot! or Blocky Drop! have ads?
Blocky Drop! shows ads; Save The Dot! does not.
Which is updated more often, Save The Dot! or Blocky Drop!?
Save The Dot! ships an update every 28 months, and Blocky Drop! every 5 days. Most recently, Save The Dot! was updated on November 2, 2026 and Blocky Drop! on October 31, 2026.

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