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 perfectly designed incremental that will consume your life for the next few weeks. Warning: once it clicks you will be hooked. Key Features: - Tutorials to get you started. - Game plays itself when it's open. You idle, upgrade and prestige. - 6 layers to discover, and a new game+ feature. - 24 Challenges spread out over 3 layers. - Automate old layers. - Play it for free, no forced ads. Incremental games are games where you collect resources and use them to fuel exponential growth. You often reset your progress for stronger multipliers so you can go even higher. On top of this you will have strategic upgrades, optimization, and challenges that test your understanding of the game. It is progress focused gameplay in its purest form.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: StarBurst Incremental at 83% 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 69) 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 9 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 69, 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 83% of StarBurst Incremental's.
Balls Control ships an update every 8 days, StarBurst Incremental weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Balls Control | StarBurst Incremental |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (36K ratings) | 4.9 (69 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.0% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36K — better | 69 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — 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 | 219 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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- Full package 25% price$2.49
- Full package 50% price$4.99
- Time Bank Time Large$4.99
- Instant ad reward$5.99
- Full package 75% price$7.49
- Full package$9.99
Questions
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