Balls Control vs StarBurst Incremental
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Balls Control
An idle game where you attract balls based on their color. Enjoy a relaxing experience with no aggressive tapping, featuring powerful bonuses and endless upgrades.
- Attract balls by color
- Free to play
- Chill gameplay
- Powerful bonuses
- Endless colors and upgrades
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Attract balls by their colors! Brand new idle game: - Free to play - No aggressive taps - Chill gameplay - Powerful bonuses - Endless colors & upgrades
StarBurst Incremental
Engage in a fast-paced, space-themed incremental game where you grow your star, trigger powerful bursts, and ascend through multiple prestige layers. Make impactful decisions with new currencies and upgrade trees to achieve cosmic growth.
- Fast-paced incremental gameplay
- Idle progression and automation
- Deep prestige system with multiple layers
- Strategic upgrade paths and choices
- Cloud saves
- Multiple playstyles
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StarBurst Incremental is a space-themed incremental where your star generates hydrogen automatically and you steer it toward cosmic growth. Build up your star, trigger powerful bursts, and climb through multiple prestige layers. Each layer has new currencies, upgrade trees, and impactful decisions that keep you engaged. Key Features: - Fast paced incremental, no long waits. - Game plays itself when it's open: you idle, upgrade and prestige. - Tutorials to get you started. - Multiple playstyles. Play by pressing or play by planning bursts. - Deep prestige system: Core Fusion, StarBurst, Black Hole Reset and Universe Prestige layer. - Automate earlier layers. - Strategic choices. - Some monetisation. - Cloud saves. Deep prestige system: - Core Fusion: Trade in your built-up multipliers for powerful upgrades. - StarBurst: Shatter your star to gain StarBurst multipliers and currency. Spend it in one of 3 upgrade trees. - Black Hole Reset: Get to infinity and gain powerful unlocks, new upgrades and try out challenges. - Universe Prestige: Reset the universe and gain a flexible upgrading system that you control through presets. Strategic choices: - Optimize your playthrough: different prestige orders, new upgrade paths, combining exclusive upgrade lines, or picking the right combination of challenges. Some monetisation: - Time bank that you can fill through achievements, optional ads, or in-app purchases. The game is fully playable without spending. Dive into StarBurst Incremental today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: StarBurst Incremental at 80% against Balls Control's 37%. StarBurst Incremental also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Balls Control's advantage is ratings volume (36K vs 51) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Balls Control sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and StarBurst Incremental sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
StarBurst Incremental holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Balls Control has 36K ratings behind it against 51, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 37% of Balls Control's written reviews are positive against 80% of StarBurst Incremental's.
Balls Control ships an update every 8 days, StarBurst Incremental every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Balls Control | StarBurst Incremental |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (36K ratings) | 4.9 (51 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36K — better | 51 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 205 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SayGames LTD | Yorick Bolster |
Customer experience
Balls Control
StarBurst Incremental
Bugs and requests
Balls Control
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress data being lost or reset
- Inability to collect offline rewards
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
Requested features
3 requests- More upgrades and power-ups
- Additional level variety and challenges
- Ability to customize the game's appearance
StarBurst Incremental
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Balls Control
- No Ads Special Offer$2.99
- No Ads$3.99
StarBurst Incremental
- Unlock all skins$1.99
- Increase max offline time$1.99
- Time Bank Time Small$1.99
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- Time Bank Time Large$4.99
- Instant ad reward$5.99
Questions
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