Six Match vs Tower Swap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Six Match
Engage in a unique Match-3 puzzle experience where you must achieve matches within a limited number of turns. This game blends sliding tile mechanics with strategic coin matching, introducing special coins and mechanics for enhanced gameplay. Enjoy bite-sized challenges and a premium, ad-free experience.
- Match-3 with limited turns
- Sliding tile puzzle mechanics
- Special wild-card coins
- Bomb creation
- Card collection for bonus score
- Un-matchable diamond collection
- Coin-cage mechanics
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Enter the Match-3 board as Mr Swap-With-Coins and try to make a match in 6 turns or less. It's like a sliding tile puzzle crossed with a Match-3 game. As the coins keep dropping, so do new mechanics: * Get wild-card-coins from matching 4 or junction-match to create a bomb. * Each match gives you a card, collect matching cards for bonus score. * Lucrative un-matchable diamonds you can only collect at the bottom of the board. * Wrap your mind around coin-cages that push whole lines of coins. * Yet more mechanics, but why spoil it all? Six Match also features: * A puzzle mode with bite sized challenges. * Gamepad support. * Auto-save. * No pay-to-win or timers. Six Match is now a self-contained paid app: Ads, in-app purchases, and social features have been removed to ensure the longevity of this game.
Tower Swap
This match-3 puzzle game combines strategic tower defense with a medieval theme. Match three stones to create towers and defend your castle from incoming dragons. Enjoy instant play with no signup and offline capabilities.
- Match-3 puzzle mechanics
- Tower defense gameplay
- Castle defense against dragons
- Merge stones to build towers
- Offline play available
- Online high score competition
- Portrait mode for one-handed play
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The match-3 Tower Defense game! It's like a match-3 puzzle game but your matches turn into towers! Then dragons fly over the board and you have to defend the castle. Merge three stones to make a tower. - No signup required. Try playing it instantly. - Play offline without internet when logged out. - Play online to compete for high scores against friends. - Portrait mode game. Play one-handed. - Turn based game. Look away any time and you're fine. - A small download, and loads quickly. - Over one million plays! Featuring retro medieval pixel art by Kyle McArthur.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tower Swap at Free against Six Match's $2.99. Tower Swap also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Six Match's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment, ratings volume, device support 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
Tower Swap is free to download; Six Match costs $2.99 up front. Tower Swap sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Six Match asks for nothing beyond the download.
Six Match holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 46 and 76 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Six Match's written reviews are positive against 75% of Tower Swap's.
Six Match ships an update every 3 months, Tower Swap every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Six Match | Tower Swap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (46 ratings) — better | 4.6 (76 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.3% of reviews — better | 75.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 46 | 76 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Aaron Steed | Curtis Robinson |
Customer experience
Six Match
Tower Swap
In-app purchases
Six Match
No in-app purchases
Tower Swap
- Pile of Gold$0.99
- Pile of Gold$1.99
- Barrel of Gold$2.49
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- Barrel of Gold$4.99
- Five Barrels of Gold!$9.99
- Five Barrels Of Gold$19.99
