Swirl Down vs Tower Bash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swirl Down
Navigate a ball through an endless helix maze by swirling the structure. Collect diamonds to unlock new balls and avoid red obstacles to achieve the highest score. Enjoy vibrant 3D graphics and global leaderboards in this addictive puzzle-arcade game.
- Infinite gameplay
- Unlockable balls
- Global high scores
- 3D graphics
- Helix maze
- Diamond collection
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Go down as far as you can in this very easy to play, hard to master puzzle-arcade game. You're sure to have a blast seeing how many times you can get the ball to go down. Collect diamonds to use for unlocking other balls to drop down with. Swirl the structure to get the ball through the openings. Don't hit the red obstacles or it's game over. Features: • Infinite gameplay • Easy to play, jump right in • Unlock different balls in the Swirl Down Shop • Best Score tracking • 3D eye candy • Endless Helix maze • Global High Scores - Share and Compare How to Play: • Easily slide your finger to make the structure swirl • As the structure swirls make the ball go through the holes to hit another platform • Collect diamonds to unlock new balls • Avoid the red platforms to continue dropping down
Tower Bash
Tap to control a falling object, smashing through obstacles to achieve a high score. Unlock new themes and power-ups for an enhanced experience. Challenge yourself to beat your best performance.
- One-tap controls
- Perfect Mode with Flaming Sword
- Score multipliers
- Unlockable themes
- High score challenges
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- Simple One tap Control! - Perfect Mode! Flaming Sword + 2x Score! - Different Shapes & Themes! - Can you beat the high score?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Swirl Down at 67% against Tower Bash's 0%. Tower Bash's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Swirl Down sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Tower Bash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tower Bash holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 59 and 126 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Swirl Down's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tower Bash's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Swirl Down ships an update every 10 days, Tower Bash daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swirl Down | Tower Bash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (59 ratings) | 4.5 (126 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 | 126 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 80 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Skilljoy, LLC | Yiyuan Qu |
Customer experience
Swirl Down
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In-app purchases
Swirl Down
- Remove Ads$7.99
Tower Bash
- Remove Ads$2.99
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