Connect the Pops! vs Element Battle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Connect the Pops!
A visually appealing puzzle game where you connect numbered bubbles to merge them into higher values. It offers a relaxing yet addictive experience with endless fun and challenging gameplay. Compete with friends to achieve the highest scores and levels.
- Connect and merge numbered bubbles
- Challenging puzzle gameplay
- Beautifully colorful graphics
- High score and level comparison
- Addictive and fun
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Beautifully challenging puzzle game about connecting the pops, the higher the number of the bubble, the better! More relaxing than yoga, addictive and super fun! Check out this beautifully colorful puzzle game. Move your finger over the bubbles and connect them so they merge into higher numbers. This game is full of surprises and endless fun. Compare your highscore and level with your friends, can you reach the top? Oh yeah, it is a lot harder than it looks!
Element Battle
Engage in an epic strategy game where you play as a Mender, a creator tasked with stopping destructive Wreckers. Heal, revive, and strategically destroy to protect the world across eight challenging levels.
- Eight unique levels
- Strategic combat
- Healing mechanics
- Revival abilities
- Destruction for defense
- Mender vs. Wrecker gameplay
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Fight your way through eight different levels in this epic strategy game. Your mission as a Mender is to stop the Wreckers before they destroy everything! Menders are creators nice and peaceful folk. Wreckers are built on destruction all they want to do is destroy, but there is still hope. As Menders you have a positive purpose. As you battle your way to victory you will have to heal, revive, and yes you will even have to destroy to stop the wreckers and their mischievous schemes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Element Battle at none against Connect the Pops!'s 1. Element Battle also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Connect the Pops!'s advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (6.4K vs 3). On price 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. Connect the Pops! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Element Battle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Element Battle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Connect the Pops! has 6.4K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Connect the Pops! ships an update every 3 weeks, Element Battle every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Connect the Pops! | Element Battle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (6.4K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 31.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.4K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 201 MB | 408 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Popcore GmbH | Zacharias Bryant |
Customer experience
Connect the Pops!
Element Battle
Bugs and requests
Connect the Pops!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game progress not saving
- Frequent crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- Worldwide leaderboard
- Reward system for leveling up
- More themes and customization options
Element Battle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Connect the Pops!
- Remove Ads$2.99
Element Battle
No in-app purchases
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