Toppl. vs Hideaways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Toppl.
Engage your spatial reasoning with this perspective puzzle game. Swipe, topple, and rotate pieces to match target shapes across four worlds and 40 challenging levels. Earn stars to unlock new stages in this ad-free, no-in-app-purchase experience.
- Swipe, topple, and rotate pieces
- Match target shapes
- Unlock new stages with stars
- Four challenging worlds
- 40 different levels
- Minimalist design
- Jazzy music
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Toppl. a top down puzzler Swipe, topple, rotate - Toppl is a perspective puzzle game for fans of spatial brain teasers! The goal is to move and rotate the puzzle pieces so that they match the target-shape. For perfect plays you will be rewarded a star with which you can unlock new stages. Toppl will challenge you over the course of four exciting worlds and 40 different levels with varying puzzle mechanics. For fans of demanding puzzle games is Toppl the right choice! In a nutshell: - Playable on all iPhone and iPads with iOS 8.0+ - Four exciting & challenging worlds - 40 different levels - Two minimal designs - Jazzy music - No ads - No in-app-purchases
Hideaways
Explore beautifully crafted worlds and discover human stories in this reimagined spot-the-difference game. Enjoy a calm challenge that exercises attention and memory while immersing yourself in atmospheric music and gentle narratives.
- Beautifully crafted worlds
- Handmade atmospheric music
- Untimed scavenger hunts
- 144 human stories
- Calming gameplay
- Attention and memory exercise
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Hideaways is an immaculate take on spot-the-difference games. It unfolds through beautifully crafted worlds, handmade atmospheric music, untimed scavengers, and 144 human stories — gently woven in, where places carry real feeling and stories are discovered, not told. Both a moment of calm and a quiet challenge, Hideaways invites you to slow your breathing, calm your mind, and wander through aesthetic and auditory pleasures — all while gently exercising attention and memory, and inviting reflection on real-life moments and stories.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toppl. at none against Hideaways's 7. Toppl. also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (72% vs 44%). Hideaways's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 154) and rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, update cadence and device support 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. Hideaways sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Toppl. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hideaways holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hideaways has 2.4K ratings behind it against 154, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Toppl.'s written reviews are positive against 44% of Hideaways's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Toppl. ships an update every 5 weeks, Hideaways monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Toppl. | Hideaways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (154 ratings) | 4.7 (2.4K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better | 44.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 154 | 2.4K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 794 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pascal Monaco | RoadRocks |
Customer experience
Toppl.
Hideaways
Bugs and requests
Toppl.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hideaways
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes during tutorial
- Differences not registering correctly
- Levels not loading properly
- Issues with screen size and layout
Requested features
4 requests- Option to disable background music
- Ability to save progress within a level
- More level variety and increased difficulty
- Cross-device syncing of progress
In-app purchases
Toppl.
No in-app purchases
Hideaways
- TRICKLE(5 hints)$0.99
- BREEZE(10 hints)$1.99
- DUET$1.99
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- FOUNT(20 hints)$2.99
- LUCID LENS$2.99
- DELUGE(50 hints)$4.99
- Grand W.$6.99
