Comparison

Sircles. vs PULSE1

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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?

Highlights
  • Tap to destroy falling circles
  • Increasing speed and difficulty
  • Simple tap-based gameplay
  • Endurance challenge
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • One-finger control
  • Short, engaging runs
  • Infinitely climbing difficulty
  • Mutators for varied gameplay
  • Combo multiplier system
  • Global leaderboards
  • Haptic feedback
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Sircles.4 screens
PULSE14 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sircles. sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sircles. versus PULSE1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSircles.PULSE1
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 53 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDivine AnamekweEran Gilad

Customer experience

Sircles.

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PULSE1

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Sircles.

One-time6
  • 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
None

PULSE1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sircles. free?
Sircles. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PULSE1 free?
PULSE1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sircles. or PULSE1?
PULSE1 is rated higher. Sircles. averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while PULSE1 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sircles. or PULSE1 have ads?
PULSE1 shows ads; Sircles. does not.
Which is updated more often, Sircles. or PULSE1?
Sircles. ships an update every 53 months, and PULSE1 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sircles. was updated on October 3, 2026 and PULSE1 on October 5, 2026.

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