Sircles. vs PULSE1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sircles.
Tap falling circles to destroy them before they reach the bottom. The game speeds up, challenging your reflexes and endurance. How long can you survive the increasing pace?
- Tap to destroy falling circles
- Increasing speed and difficulty
- Simple tap-based gameplay
- Endurance challenge
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Destroy the falling sircles by tapping them before they reach the bottom of the screen. Easy enough right? Be warned, they get faster. And faster.
PULSE1
This one-thumb arcade game challenges you to tap a sweeping pulse as it crosses a shrinking zone. Achieve higher tiers of heat with perfect timing, but one miss ends your run. Compete on global leaderboards and experience satisfying haptic feedback.
- One-finger control
- Short, engaging runs
- Infinitely climbing difficulty
- Mutators for varied gameplay
- Combo multiplier system
- Global leaderboards
- Haptic feedback
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PULSE1 is the one-thumb arcade game you'll open "just for one run" and look up twenty minutes later. A pulse sweeps around a ring. Tap when it crosses the zone. That's it — and that's the trap. Every hit shrinks the zone, reverses the sweep, and pushes your heat higher. Every ten hits the ring SHATTERS and you climb to the next tier — Ember, Kindling, Flicker, Flame, Blaze, Wildfire, Firestorm, Inferno, Meltdown... all the way up to Supernova, and tiers nobody has named yet. One miss ends the run. But PULSE1 always tells you exactly how close you were. 2° away. 3 from your record. You know you had it. You know the next run is the one. FEATURES • One-finger play — playable with your phone flat on a table • Runs of 1–3 minutes — perfect for a queue, an elevator, an excuse • Infinite heat — the difficulty never stops climbing • Mutators — twin pulses, phantom zones, flashpoints and reversals • Solar flares — rare golden zones worth 5x sparks • Combo system — perfect taps stack multipliers up to 5x • Top 100 leaderboards — see how hot the world burned • Haptic feedback on every hit, break, and heartbreak • Free forever — no purchases, no subscriptions, no paywall. Ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PULSE1 at 5.0 against Sircles.'s 4.5. PULSE1 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 53 months). Sircles.'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume 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. Sircles. sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.
PULSE1 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Sircles. ships an update every 53 months, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sircles. | PULSE1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 53 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Divine Anamekwe | Eran Gilad |
Customer experience
Sircles.
PULSE1
In-app purchases
Sircles.
- 200 Gold Coins$0.99
- 1,000 Gold Coins$3.99
- 3,000 Gold Coins$8.99
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- 10,000 Gold Coins$25.99
- 25,000 Gold Coins$54.99
- 100,000 Gold Coins$99.99
PULSE1
No in-app purchases








